Sunday, 28th October 2007
This is what I wanted to say at the meeting in Dubai that I attended with French Account Guy Who Wants To Be Spanish.
I presented a strategy and creative work that everyone in the room loved. Apart from one guy who said “I hate the strategy, but I love the work”. Rather than saying, “Oh shut your shitting face.”, I managed to say “Well, that’s a little like hating the rehearsal process, but loving the performance – so I can live with that.”
We then dived into a long-discussion of whether the mouth or the soul was more central to self-expression (the strategy being based around your mouth as the centre of, and gateway to, self-expression).
Given that:
a) Your soul can’t express itself WITHOUT the mouth.
b) Last time I looked, we were selling toothpaste, rather than soul paste
I declined to join in this conversation, instead, I sat there seething and ready to kill the next pseudo-intellectual bullshit artist who chose to weigh in with would-be-impressive specious drivel…
