Daneeta’s Journal
Early morning: took the streetcar to the bus, and over the river to the Elektrik Zoo HQ in Algiers. Most of ORI’s archive footage is on VHS, and we have an old VCR knocking about. Patrick shoots the footage off the TV screen to use as a low res placeholder in the first cut. We want to make sure that they will want to use this footage before getting it transferred properly.
Lunch with mom and gave her the autographed cook book by Chef Besh that was a perk from the last job. Also, two autographed copies of Amanda Shaw’s new CD (one for mom and one for Ms. Stella).
The rest of the afternoon/evening spent with me writing “Chalmatia!” and Patrick cutting the ORI doc. It’s coming together (both the script and the doc). Syd Field says “know your ending,” so I worked mostly on the ending, and, my God, it was a great writing session.
Walked Howie at midnight (we’re staying at Melissa’s until Monday). The block was alive with a party hosted by the Mexican dudes at the end of the street, so we walked for about an hour just talking about the script, the ORI job, Sweden and our future.
Today was a good day.
