June 29, 2008
I'm back in New York after two and a half months in New Hampshire doing the Derrick movie. I am psyched! I came back and there was immediately a new Pixar movie and the Lil Wayne album I hadn't really listened to in earnest, and a whole city of food that isn't catering or D'angelo (Northeast staple sandwich place that is actually pretty awesome, but significantly less awesome when you have it almost every day for two months and change). There are friends and parties and every person on the street looks amazing.
I was warned by everyone who knows that immediately after doing a movie you come home and get epically sick. I haven't gotten sick in any easily identifiable way, I more just have this vague trembly-all-over thing and a general feeling of malaise, like the subject of a Radiohead song. It basically feels like I should be wearing an over-sized sweater and scurrying through the streets of a bleak European city-wasteland, but it's summer in New York, so I feel like a shivering sickly weirdo at a 24-hour all-city block party. It's really going to be very nice once I get back in the swing of things.
The movie went really well. We did it! Well, the shooting part of it, anyway. Now there's the whole post-production process. But we are very proud of it so far and cannot wait to show it to people when it's ready.
People were honking car horns and singing songs two blocks from my apartment continuously for, no joke, two hours straight. I wanted to go see what the deal was, but it was pissing rain. So I just stayed inside and pondered when I would stop feeling like a shaky malnourished shut-in, which is a stupid thing to ponder when you have shut yourself in and not fed yourself all day.
But it isn't raining anymore so I'm going to go get a burrito and see a movie.
Speaking of movies: "Wall-E" is an unfair movie. I never had a chance of not liking it. Post-apocalyptic wasteland? Adorable robot? Old musicals? Pixar? Fuck me. It practically put a gun of quality in my face and said "love me" and I had no choice but to comply.
Posted by DC at June 29, 2008 05:28 PM