Monday Alex and Keturah and I met at Danang to go over the budget for the interior design and the production facility and recording studio. It was a good meeting. They pointed out a number of necessary items I had missed. And gave me some concrete costs on chandeliers and other elements.



Tuesday I met with Marcella and Bonnie Banks. Mostly we looked at mp3s I got from Phil. Bonnie also loaned me a couple more vhs and another book. Earlier I was with Skye. We copied over all the footage thus far shot for the Making Of. I left him with two 500GB drives, one each for him and elise. They can start familiarizing themselves with the footage we have, the stories that might be developing, etcetera.

Skye and I also talked about art and film.

Before that I was with my friend LaTasha, a video artist, musician, writer and performer who is movign back home to NYC. We watched some docu of her performances from last year. She’s super mega-talented. I really want to find a way to get her involved in one of my East Coast projects next year.

I spoke with Amy, as well, and she’s going to help me get the food donated to feed everybody. Ali gave me some advice on that today. I’m also going to see if we can get some of the materials donated for building.

I started the day with our fabulous seamstress, Kathryn. She picked up the lining for the usher/usherette uniforms. They are going to be spectacular. I knocked out an email to Chantal to get her measurements. We have Jack’s (and I got her ticket, too).

Tomorrow I am going to try and hunt down AH and SG, two potential investors. And maybe SL, who is definitely not a potential investor, but is always good for great advice.

Jonny is coming out to SF this weekend and he and I will drive down to LA together Sunday.

Erin is working towards getting the ephemera page up, and getting ads and posters ready.

Ote is also starting the poster for Japanese distribution, which is great.

Finally, Keturah pointed me towards a potential screen printer for the candy boxes. Her art is great, so if she can do it, we’ll be in really good hands.

Last weekend I was in Chicago for Stel’s wedding. It was beautiful to see him and Angela so happy.

I stayed with Phil and Libby (below), and we enjoyed a few brief convos on Disembody. I’ll be back in Chicago in two and a half weeks for their marriage. So, in essence we’ll have three newlyweds on the set. Which is cool.

After Stel’s wedding Phil and Lib and I ate at Healthy Food Lithuanian Restaurant on the South Side. Delicious!

I got in to SF Sunday night and went straight over to Keturah and Alex’s place in Berkeley. We were going to go over the budget for the interior design and the tech needs, but instead I saw a bottle of Jameson’s, and the next thing I knew it was 3am, I was drunk, and we had burned through 4 or 5 episodes of Gossip Girl, and the documentary Models by Ulrich Seidl.

Laurent Cantet’s Entre les murs (The Class), the film my company acquired last week, won Palme d’Or!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But we all know love is a self-destructive monster
Killed under this humid climate
A demon will be chased by that elusive mist
But all this is hidden in the forest of our forgotten memories

How we judge this thing called life so much
Less than I can participate and how ridiculous it functions
To give alibis to fight against your humor

And in the aftermath of the end?
But I’ve left the mysterious nirvana
All I really care is the pleasure of being seen and
Show off the power I possess from him
The loss of the aura is philosophically boring to me

I gave myself to the mix of black and green
As if our eyes were meant to glow
Or as if it had my double in another story, another life



Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)