• People are strange

    I cried today. Hard. A lot. The interesting thing for me was that it was very, very easy to call forth the emotions necessary to bring this scene to life…but it was equally hard to let them go, again. When we finished this scene, I wanted to go into my dressing room, and just sob…

  • Dramatic Lighting

    FADE IN: INT. STAGE – FRANKIE’S LOFT — EVENING The crew settles. WIL and MAUREEN take their marks. A BELL RINGS and the crew falls silent. The CAMERAMAN, a serious, artistic Spaniard in his 30s speaks. CAMERAMAN Hold the roll, please. (to the gaffer) Would you please close the doors a bit on the key…

  • Ouch

    I am writing this while I lay on my back in my living room, my iBook sitting atop my chest…because this morning, Anne and I were doing some planting, and I threw out my back. How did I do that? Oh, I was doing something very manly and difficult…I was lifting a half-empty watering can…