this morning L.A. experienced a 5.8 earthquake. That’s not big, but it does shake things up.

Skye and I were in the basement, and the swaying was pretty serious.
And the animal fear that pumped into our systems was also pretty serious.
There is a very specific sensation that earthquakes trigger. And we had it in spades. We, along with everyone else in Chinatown, ran outside. Where, however, none of us stayed, because there were no aftershocks to speak of.

I am pleased to say that inside our wall still stood strong, no cracks in the puttied screen. The ceiling and chandelier are solid. The arcades chugged along, as did the webcam. Our installation survived unscathed.

Huzzah!

That makes me sad lol

I know I haven’t been here for the entire project but I am very happy I got to take part in it at all. I have had a lot of fun in this makeshift theater. I am going to miss Jonny and Skye and Lee, and I’m going to miss playing Britney Spears and singing and dancing while we close up the gallery.

I am excited to go home though. I get to start planning my birthday party :] So thats fun.

I guess it is kind of bitter-sweet.

I am excited to see the footage that is going to be put up online, and seeing everyone’s edits…

I want to wish everyone the best of luck with however they choose to continue the disembody project.

I will continue blogging on the disembody site as often as I can until I finish my screenplay.

Once again; I would really like everyone to get in touch with me. I believe I am getting a list of everyone’s emails from Lee sometime before I leave so there is no escaping me *muahahahahaha* lol

This our food supply.  There’s more to the right.  We won’t be able to restock apparently.

The restroom is to the rear of the gallery.  We spent part of our food budget on a Glade Pug-in unit that can’t really be used since there’s not an outlet in the restroom.  Apparently.

Lee sent me off on a break/walk to go find an RCA to BNC adapter.  I didn’t find one.  I didn’t find an electronics store.  I did find this, however:

An abandoned cat sanctuary in an abandoned bank lot.  I could smell the baking, rotting cat shit from the corner across the street.  Every inch of loose dirt was covered in feces.  There were kittens everywhere.  Someone had left them chicken wings coated in that Chinese orange sauce, but they hadn’t eaten them.  The kittens hung out behind the iron fence like lions in a zoo.  Pretty fun.  Super cute.

The editors are on edge about the powertooling next to the editing station and so am I.  I snapped at Carson for shaking some luon around.

Two (Sunday) days ago I drove around SF with lee after renting a truck. I woke up at my friend Jordan’s apartment that day. Lee and I walked from the loin to the truck rental place by CCA, so that would be 7th St. and 16thth St. I think. Lee and I stopped at Carol-Anne’s to get keys. We picked things up from Carson’s studio… and the popcorn maker, calendars from the printers, foam and so on. I don’t know who all to thank for helping us that day. For sure Skye went out of his way to pick things up so that I would not have to drive the big truck trough town too much.

Oh yeah, Christan Einfeldt the producer of Digital Tipping Point interviewed Lee and I on Saturday. It was the first inter view we have given for our project. He kindly captured all the footage from the interview and gave it to Skye on a harddrive the next day!
So that was one stop we didn’t have to make before taking the truck to Oakland to get beautiful hoddies from Alexandria’s studio. She made mine brown and I really like it. I think Terry made the concession stand? It looks awesome! Sky and Lee and I loaded the concession stand into the rental truck, tossed in some spare lumber and away I went down to LA.
Got to LA around midnight. Arther let me in and parked his car behind the truck so as to discourage the many looters living in his neighborhood (he lives in a nice neighborhood, so that was a joke about looters but for real that he parked his car behind the truck). I slept and had nightmares related to driving the truck.

the next day I left the house at the same time as Arthur. He was off to pick up Carson. I was off to the gallery. Parked the truck in front of the gallery as close as I could manage. Skye, Lee, Carson and I worked like leaf-cutter ants unloading the truck. Arthur was videoing us.
Once the truck was empty we headed to home depot to get scaffolding and a bunch of sheise.
We didn’t know how to get to the more reasonable aka less expensive lumber store so I called the place and gave a dim description of where I was, got directions and started driving. Of course since I was getting board and whatever I decided to start driving with out really looking at the map. We were going basically in the opposite direction for a while before we called Arthur with our location/desired destination. Arthur got us going the right way. I decided I would look at the map and that super good before driving anywhere in the future.
Lumber store was awesome. Only about a foot clearance on each side of the truck box … max. We loaded 40 2×6 and 30 sheets of lewon with the help of the lumber yard staff.
On the way back to the gallery I missed a turn and decided to pull into an epty parking lot to turn around. I may or may not have come close to crushing a little white car driving the opposite direction while turning into the parking lot.
Carson, Lee and I unladed the truck.
Alex showed up at the gallery and Skye. Lee and Carson helped them unload. Then we all went to Amy’s to drop things off. She wasn’t home yet so all of us excluding Lee went to go buy refreshments. I learned that the Clamato beer they sell in the store tastes just like the tomatoe seasoning packets that you get with the ramen noodles.
Amy got back while we were having our make shift tailgate party and invited us all in.
Skye and I stayed at Amy’s. The truck was parked outside and needed to be returned by 8:31am the next day a few miles from her place.
We watched a bit of All that Jazz until Amy noticed I was sleeping, Skye was asleep as well. Amy gave me a turkey burger and Skye offered his food as well before the movie. That was really nice of them as I had eaten all my snacks.
So today Amy and I gassed up the truck and returned it to the rental place. And now I’m here with Carson and Alex setting things up.
Carson is building the confession booth and Alex is setting up the basement office.
The others are at the store I think. My eye is a little puffy and I think maybe infected. tty world!