On the 24th...

I can't really recall what we did during the day. Oh yeah, I took some time out to go to some filmmaker events and hang out with other directors. That really is the best part of this, just kicking back with a bunch of people who are the only people who really know what you do and trading stories. It's really nice and establishes a sense of community. Everyone thinks directing is this super sexy Orson Welles thing, but really i's about suffering setbacks, having bad weather fuck up the shoot you've waited years for, dodgy cameras going wrong - and only finding out in post, and other boring shit like that. So...

... it is nice to talk with those who know.

Me and Natasha met a producer, I hung with some of the actors and I tagged along with them for a bit. Here's a picture of Julian midflow, attempting to blag a HD dvd palyer from one of the people at a hospitality suite. As you can see, there is no shame --



And here's a nice picture of Natasha, Jay and Angus. Jay is really good looking, but when you take a picture of him... he just becomes even better looking. All of them are like that, it's just a different world --



Then me and Natasha met with an agent in a big posh hotel that looked like an Alpine retreat. Then we had dinner at... A steakhouse (I had tuna). Then we went to see the new Alan Ball film 'Towelhead' with Valerie and Dave. I'm a huge Alan Ball fan, 6 Feet Under is so good and deep and epic i can't actually describe it. But this film was incredibly odd. I'm not really sure if I understood what it was trying to do. I think he understood what he was trying to do, but I don't know if he did it.

Then after that we went to the WarpX condo to party with the actors before Jay and Rob went home the next day.


Living the dream babay!

After the hottub --



Valerie looking moody in the dark --


And round the corner from the condo, just as we went back home --