Twelve: Listing Lazily to the Left.
This has been a truly wonderful experience so far, and I can’t wait to start again. I have met some really amazing people, and been taught by some super cool teachers. This blog will now take on a more list-based approach. Hence LISTing Lazily to the Left.
Top things I learned,
Your characters can all contain a portion of yourself and all be different.
If you’ve done the work then the work will be in you, and you don’t worry about whether a thought or feeling is valid in a scene - the existence of the thought justifies itself.
The job is exponentially more fun, the more work you put in. It’s like golf - sure, it’s fun to bash around a short course with a seven iron and a putter, but it’s much more fun to have a whole set of clubs to choose from. It’s actually much more fun to not play golf. The point stands.
See my notebook - there’s stuff in there that I can’t now print because we’d be here a week. But I learned more stuff.
Top things I did,
Thanksgiving was an enormous highlight for me - I had such an amazing time, it was honestly quite surreal. What a weekend.
Going to the Staples Centre to watch the Lakers was wicked - and I got to see it while it is still the Staples Centre, and not the Crypto.com Centre. Ew.
Every time I’ve hung out in Mel’s diner until like 4am.
Coming second in the trivia night. Go team.
Beach rave in Santa Monica.
Top movies I watched that I had previously not seen,
Sophie’s Choice
The Grapes of Wrath
There Will Be Blood
Doubt
Top cinema experiences,
Mulholland Drive on film at the New Beverley Cinema.
Last Night In Soho at the Alamo. Reclining chairs and table service during the movie.
Spiderman; No Way Home.
Castle in the Sky in the Academy Museum.
Top places visited,
Malibu Lagoon.
The Roosevelt Hotel.
The National Park around the Observatory.
Top websites from whose mailing lists I unsubscribed in the last 3 months,
Halfords.
BlueCat Screenplay Competition.
Sonos.
Top grocery stores shopped at,
Trader Joes - I feel like a better person for shopping there. I don’t know why. Also great wine selection. Cons - can’t buy milk less than like a litre, and the most badly organised fruit and veg section.
Sprouts - what a store this is, enormous, everything you can possibly dream of, but it’s a spenny store.
Target - the most European of the lot; European brands, layout, everything. Just more American produce.
Top views,
Looking over the whole city from high above the Observatory.
Looking out at the city at night from below the Observatory.
Looking up Rodeo Drive.
Pretty much the whole drive from LA to Malibu.
The misty morning view from some random dude’s house in the Hollywood Hills.
The view out of my window (the main picture on this blog).
The view down one of the streets from Santa Monica boulevard that I walk past almost every day but can’t remember the name of it.
The view up one of the streets I sometimes walk up on my way to school and can’t remember the name off but it suddenly gets super wide and there is a beautiful view all the way up the hills.
The view from the top of Runyon Canyon Park.
There is a horizontal street that I sometimes walk down on the way to school that is super cool too - it’s, like, slatted house that look kind of like beach houses down either side of the street and it always catches the sun in a super indie music video kind of way. I always scooter that way if the sun is getting low because I feel like I’m in a music video.
The view out into the Pacific Ocean from the beach in Malibu.
These are some of the many many memories that I have created so far, and I can’t wait to make even more in a few weeks’ time. And now, I must away, for I have packing that needeth doing. I must also find out if I am going to have altered travel plans because of COVID. Really starting to get bored of that now. Wonder what movies are going to be on the plane.