LA Baby...

I'm in LA. I've been here for two days I think, two days and a night. It's been fun so far. I'm staying with my friend John Burton, good guy, great artist. So we've had a good chance to catch up over the last couple of warm late nights. John was also kind enough to house Thomas and I at last years Disasterous Moondance Film Festival (Avoid with extreme prejudice. Really bad festival.) SO it's good to be back on better terms.


John, working on his latest project.

LA is burning. I flew in last night and saw the fires to the south, incredible looking. Long rows of fire sweeping across the landscape. Was wuit something to behold. Luckily for me the city isn't on fire, it's way off in the sticks. But it is effecting the city. I walked out of the house yesterday and thought it was overcast, until I realised that it was smoke. I've also had a headache since I got here, it seems most people do, which I guess is from the smoke.


The smoke in the skies above LA.

In other news. I met with my friend Trampas last night. Another good guy, I've know for about ten years now. He's a stunt man here in LA, worked on Pirartes of the Carribean and Iniana Jones, the new one, which he told me about last nignt in a very secretive fashion "We were on this thing, that I can't tell you about, and then something happened, which I can't tell you about and then this guy walks in, who I can't tell you about..." so I think it's going to be great!
Then we went for dinner, past a homeless guy carrying a hammer, which was a little disconcerting and then a film crew shooting CSI NY... welcome to LA!


Tramp.

So we went for some dinner, didn't talk more about Iniana Jones! And caught up, which was nice. FUnny thing, we talked anout His Dark Materials, and of course the up coming film The Golden Compass (Spit... should be Northern Lights... anyway) Anyway, turns out one of his best friends, Mercedes, who he talked about alot a while back, married the Director Chris Weitz... small world. Apparently he's a great guy and extremely intelligent, well learned and very smart, studied at cambridge, which gives me some hope for the film.

So, I'm basically just here to meet friends and reconnect with people I haven't seen in a while. I'm not expecting anything to come of it career wise, but if I meet some new people along the way, then all well and good. I do have a meeting however with the producer of the film Control on Saturday morning, so we'll see what comes of that.
I'm also going to the LA screening of Mia Sarah, so it should be fun to meet with Gustavo, Alvaro and Cesar again. Should be a good night.
Well, that's all for now. More updates soon. Goodbye from Los Angeles.