N.Y. Diary 27/10 -060
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Well, this is the first installment of the New York diary I will both be writing and filming during this upcoming week. Enjoy!
Well, the big day before everything I guess. Everything is packed, and the cab leaves at 08:30 tomorrow morning. It feels quite exiting, feels like ages since I last went on a trip so far away. Mostly it’s because our country side house, it really gets much attention and me and my family really like to go there on our weekends and free times. But as said, this time I’m going a bit further away. To New York. To The Big Apple. I managed to grab some movies from my local videostore yesterday, so I have something to keep me entertained and awake during the trip. I bought some kind of swedish comedy show, “Natural Born Killers”, “Schindler’s List” and “Mission Impossible: 3″. I also brought some books, which is probably a miracle, since I’m not much of a reader.
I also brought some homework with me, something about minerals and geology, which I can never really get the hang of why do I even need to learn this? I mean, its probably useful if you want to be some kind of scientist or doctor, but for gods sake, I want to be a movie director!
Enough of that. Well, so whats going on tomorrow? As said earlier, the cab leaves at 08:30, which leaves me with little or no time to do anything in the morning. Dont know when the plane to London leaves (thats right, we gotta fly there first, since we are flying with British Airways dont ask me why). Its not that big of a deal though, since I love walking around at airports, especially if you know youre going to sit in a confined space and suffer from deep vein thrombosis (well, not in my age, but you get the point) for the next 7 hours. I love looking around at all the funky stores available, especially at Heathrow. There are so much to be found there, including a lounge area that you can relax in before take-off. I dont really see the point of those though, since basically the only thing you do on a flight is relax, eat, relax some more, and perhaps watch some movie where all the swearing and violence is cut out.
I bought 5 MiniDV cassettes today for my camcorder (and no, I will not be filming in HD). The salesman in the store was either really nice or pretty stupid when I asked him for a rebate. You see, one single tape costs about 60 kronor, which is about £4. Since I bought 5 of them, I would have to pay 300 kronor (roughly £20) for them. So, naturally I asked for a rebate. The store clerk seemed to really think for a while, when he finally settled for a price of only 150 kronor (£10). Thats half the price!
Anyway, Ill start filming tomorrow, and hopefully this project will prove to be really interesting and I do hope I learn a lot from it. I cant wait to visit B&H Photo Video when Im in Manhattan, its a really big video camera store with some pretty awesome cameras and electronics. Ive heard a lot of good things about them on FXhome.com. Speaking of FXhome.com, Cell is as said earlier this week submitted to the Hauntfest contest and based on the reviews its doing quite well. I wont take out anything in advance though.
Another thing which will make the stay at Heathrow much better is the fact that weve lost our digital camera, so we have to buy a new one. Theres nothing like walking around some nice still cameras, and convincing your parents to buy the one with the highest megapixel quantity. Nah, just kidding, but it will probably be interesting.
So, how will the video diaries be posted? Im not really sure. Well, I could theoretically put them on my computer, cut and fix everything, but Im not sure that I really would have the time to do that. Ill probably film everything and when I get home Ill have to edit it together and upload it day by day. Gotta go to sleep now, and Ill write more tomorrow, so make sure you check back here sometime tomorrow (cant say which time though, since I dont really now what time it is over there).
Life is spiffy, thats for sure (not sure if spiffy is a real word, but it sounds cool).
