bird vomit? yeah why not?

So, as Katie was saying, bird spit is actually, well bird spit and definitely a little bird vomit. Yum! Fantastic way to start a post.

We were in a Thai commercial today, Iain and Jen hooked us up through their American friend who is a foreign exchange student in Thailand. He called last Friday letting us know they were at his highschool looking explicitly for foreigners to be in this commercial filmed in Chantaburi. Iain, Jen and I went to be fitted and "interviewed" for the roles. Katie was still in Cambodia at the time.

Unfortunately Jennifer and Iain could not get off work today so Iain called and asked if they wanted another blond "Farang", they immediately said yes.

Surgeon General's Warning: Bird spit, ie, the spit and/or regurgitation of birds bowels into their own nests when secreted (somehow we have no idea) is meant to give you long life, energy and everlasting youth. Bring on the vomit!!

We arrived at 6am for hair and makeup which consisted of no less than 6 lady boy make up artists basically fucking up our hair and face ALL DAY LONG. Katie resemled a stewardess circa 1972:



Katie on her "mark" at the first table in the "Cuban Cafe":


My "husband" and I on our honeymoon as tourists in Cuba:





(By the way, did anyone go to Cuba for their honeymoon in the 1970's??)

I am not kidding when I say they put layer after layer after layer of makeup cake on our faces all day. But who could possibly complain. And hell, we even got paid! 2,000 Baht for the day, which works out to be about $5 an hour since we were there 12 HOURS, but whose complaining, I havnt had a job in 2 months.

The "farangs" in our glory:



We got to hang out with Thai commercial "stars" who are ironically Hungarian and Brazilian, apparently the best way to market your product in Thailand is to have absolutely no one who resembles a Thai in your advert.
Me and the Hungaian/ Thai "Star" (warning: scary large brown catepillar eyebrows I was not born with in this pic):


Katie on her mark in front of the shot with the GLOWLINGLY WHITE movie star in the background:



One of the commercial stars with an extra ( a small "cuban" boy):




Katie with the "star" and Julian, the exchange student from Seattle who got us the job:



The day was exhausting but so fucking cool. We hope to one day post the finished commercial, in the meantime enjoy the scary drag queen video of us:



And here is the already released version of the first commecial in an apparent series thereof: