2006-02-20 10:41 p.m.

congratulations daniel, you're still in the running to becoming america's next top hermit

i'm so excited to be finished shooting tomorrow. this film has been consuming my life. i feel like i've been in a bad mood for three weeks now. when i'm not working on my film, i'm thinking about it. and when i've finally stopped thinking about it i'm too exhausted to do anything else so i just lie around feeling lazy and angry. i watch a lot of america's next top model. don't get me wrong, it's an amazing show, but that's really all i can bring myself to do these days for fun. lie in bed and watch dowloaded tv.

the shoot is going okay so far i guess. friday was bitterly cold and windy (-26 degrees, thankyouverymuch) and that was pretty brutal. the bolex stood up for it and i was grateful. and it will look good, the light was awesome. we did the living room shots too and they looked nice. i'm really pleased with our sets. we have to unload the camera in total darkness, and it's always pretty stressful, and after 8 hours of shooting i must have been pretty tired, cause i forgot to reload the camera. so for the last hour and a half we were shooting with no film in the camera. wasn't so fun when i realized that. luckily my group was pretty chill about it and i didn't have to beg for forgiveness like i thought i might have to. and we reshot those shots today and they went well. the bathroom shots also looked good. and we shot at royal west, that was funny. that also looked great. thank god they hadn't painted over all those turquoise and blue walls and traded their blackboards for whiteboards or smartboards or something.

but working with our actor is getting tiresome. one of them is great, but one of them is a forty-something short, bald, fat jewish man who looks like a turtle and dresses like a hobo. he also burps and farts in public without excusing himself. he also has trouble putting on clothes, and we have to adjust them for him ourselves. but he performs well when we're rolling, thank god. it's his saving grace.

and tomorrow we should be finished shooting entirely. it's not a bad day, we're shooting most of the day at a caf� and we should only be there for a couple of hours. then we have a couple of street shots, but i'm not worried about those. i built a quasi-steadicam (and had a funny trip to the hardware store to buy the materials, but that's another story) and it works pretty well, so i'm excited to try it out. but man, i'm so excited to be finished. i haven't seen my friends in ages. everyone i know is asking if i'm okay, how come they haven't seen me in weeks. i realised that tonight was the first time in at least two weeks that i've sat down to dinner with my family. and god, i need to get out of the house! go to a bar! see a movie! something! not fall asleep to tyra banks' voice! it's fucking spring break and i'm WORKING ALL THE TIME!

i'm going to smoke a lot of pot and drink a lot of beer when it's over and it's going to be awesome.

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