Monday 17 September 2007

Lazy Saturday and Sunday

Up at 5.30. Picked up Nick Quinn and off to Santa Monica. 7am outside ZJ Boarding House where we bumped into Dylan who was taking another punter out for a lesson. 7.30 still no sign of Nick's instructor who explicitly told him to be there for 7! One pissed off Nick. 7.50 had enough. Headed off to Santa Monica beach where Nick stayed in the car and I went off for an hours surfing. Breakfast at a great bookstore/cafe.




Back to the flat for a morning of pottering. Location meeting with Jeff and Sophie. Then helped out the Production Designers for an hour and a half on the sound stage. They are building a 'top-end hotel room' as their first term project. Was fun working with them and managed to meet a few more people



Picked up some food from Trader Joe's. Starting to find places which supply good food and made myself a lovely evening meal. Watched 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' and had an early night. In bed before 10pm - must be getting old.



Fantastic nights sleep - must have needed the rest. Slept in until 8.30. Breakfast in Silverlake. Spent the morning on Skype gassing to Julia, Iain and Carol, Lukas.



Afternoon met up with Sophie and Fanshen Cox whom we have cast for the 'bootcamp' scene. Had a lovely conversation and really enjoyed the opportunity to talk through the script and character in rudimentary terms.

Back home to finish off some AFI paper work - thank you letter to the Sloan Foundation and then upload story boards. Call me crazy and devil may care this w/e! its funny lots of old Rendcombian's coming ut of the woodwork - received an e mail from Adam Pallant who has been reading the blog. Seems a great way to get back in touch with people!



Evening met up with Julio a Swedish/Italian director on the program. We went to see 'Eastern Promise' the new David Cronenberg film - twisted, gruesome affair, very off kilter as all his films are - its funny there is something about his films and yet they still feel slightly like a student piece. Some of the dialogue is clunky and the look is really odd.

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