It’s very gruelling here. We start shooting tomorrow for three days. Anything that can go wrong has and anyone who can get anything wrong has. In short, what should have been an enjoyable, fairly straightforward job has become a journey of epic and biblical proportions. It really is too complicated and boring to go into here. I’ve worked 56 hours since Monday and will have slept a total of 16 hours in three days. Must go and get five more now. More later. This picture was yesterday when we were all in a slightly better mood than today. The man in the picture is the best 1st Assistant Director in Prague. He has worked on more films than I will ever eat hot dinners. A legend and a gem.
pills
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Before I retire – I forgot. There was a ‘welcome bag’ in my room when I arrived. Beside other stuff there was this at the bottom of the bag – a bottle of sinister looking matte orange pills. Ingredients are as follows:
100 mg Vit C
100 mg Green tea
100mg Taurine – how much?
80mg Caffeine – I’m very awake now
20mg Gingko Bilboa – I can’t get to sleep
supper
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Foolishly passed on the ‘packed meal’ that was offered at the gate as basically it looked really un-appealing and I didn’t feel hungry. Then we got on the plane and went nowhere for about 45 mins. Very hot and boring. Finally got to Prague and main mission was to (a) find a trolley and (b) take photo’s of weird looking people – neither of which I managed. Got into a car which had “airbags disabled’ lit up on the dash and with a driver that had three pins in his leg due to attempting a wheelie on a motorcycle at 50mph on Prague’s main drag. Nice. Comedy capers at reception and finally got into afore-mentioned confusing room. Raided the minibar for my supper – half a bottle of Famos Austrian Red Wine and a tub of Pringles. Yuck – but I was too hungry to care. Now I am very tired. I know this job is going to be very hard. More later.
room
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This is my room that I finally fell into about an hour ago. The mirror you can see is actually a sliding door into the bathroom. It’s all a bit confusing – or maybe it’s just me but once you get inside there are another two frosted glass doors – one to the shower and one to the loo. It’s a bit like a hall of mirrors and I keep either walking into doors or pulling them back too hard and making a dreadful clanging noise. Perhaps its just me?….
frequent flyer
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He ate his ‘packed lunch’ and promptly fell asleep. The stewards have nothing to do except walk up and down looking bored and crestfallen if you don’t take their only offer of water as that is the only thing they do have to offer on this flight!
wing
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Finally got on BA 0858 to Prague. Forsook the ‘packed lunch’ they offered me at the gate. Wishing I hadn’t.
my messy desk
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This is my desk at work. For me – it’s messy. I don’t really like it like that and I always clear it away into neat piles before I leave. Looking at it, it made me realise how my brain works – lots of things on the go but arranged into their own separate piles. Am off to Prague today to shoot a Skoda commercial. Blog might be even more scarce than of late but will try to update from there. it’s all feeling rather hectic right now. And in reply to Paulie at the fantastic nevertrustahippy blog – please don’t envy me of my job – it’s not glamorous and really eliminates any chance of family or social life most of the time. A constant battle to maintain the status quo. I couldn’t do anything else though – except cook and grow plants. Now if I could do that and get paid for it then that would be a different story!
Here is a link to probably the best and most well executed resignation speech ever. Robin Cook died today. A huge loss. I felt rather upset when I heard.
Here’s a picture of our friend Adam. He is chronically addicted to cocaine and we are really worried about him. I think he is pretty good proof that the drugs don’t work!
bad wig
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Here is a picture of Eve Pollard looking like me in a bad Eighties wig. My friends fortieth – need I say more.
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