In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

It's is really hot tonight- like 90 degrees in my apartment hot- I'm not sure how this happened, though I had a feeling this may be the outcome as I walked to class today under a brutal sun. Correct me if I'm wrong, but today was the last day of September... right?

Oh yeah, I'm not in the north east anymore- the strangest thing is that this may not be just a fluke hot fall day- Apparently I'm trapped in a desert climate, and I can expect more of this. Gross!

On the other side of things- the third and final weekend of shooting went brilliantly, the crew and actors were confident and just about flawless in the execution. Again, I think writing a script that involves only two characters and one room was the way to go for this film project. We are now in post production, but within three weeks the film will be finished. It's on to the second project- this one I will be director of photography for, so an nice change of pace.

I saw CHOKE this weekend, and part of being in L.A. means you can go see a movie and happen to get tickets to a showing where the director will show up and talk about the film afterwards. Such was the case with Choke. I enjoyed the fast paced cliff notes style film version of my favorite Palahniuk novel as I was watching it, but here, two days removed, I feel the film only gives one a taste of what the book accomplished. This is so often the case, but this film strives because Sam Rockwell made a perfect Victor. I wish the film itself had a larger production value and was a bit more faithful, but the humor was in the film, just not the grander scale satire that powers the novel. But the director, who is also a character actor in many films, was on hand, so I had to applaud... right?

Friday, I get a chance to see an early screening of Synechoche New York, with a special Q and A with writer/director Charlie Kaufman- I'm thrilled for this one- as I'm sure you would be too!

In the mail I received the shirt portion of my halloween costume- I won't disclose exactly what I'm being but know that the hammer doesn't represent my fists and I hate the homeless... ness problem that plagues our city!

Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the night we started making and decorations for THE GREATEST HALLOWEEN party anyone will ever throw, at least I will ever throw- there's no way this year's Halloween will even come close- but damn it, I'll stay up all night in the pumpkin patch if I have to!

More to come later this week!