10/5, London

Dammit!  I got a memory stick and dv tapes for my camera and didn’t pack the second half of the power cord.  Damn my eyes!

Me and Jory got a proper English breakfast and made our way to the Common Rotation video shoot.  This fellow Evan was shooting it.  He’s a good guy with good ideas. 

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the fantastic moviemaker, evan richards

He was Bill S. Preston, Esq. in Bill and Ted’s tv show.  He knows my almost manager who once bought me the best sandwich ever, The Sloppy Johnny, on 25th and 6th.

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A Card Trick

We started in Parsons Green at a girl’s apartment.  She was off opening for Duran Duran with her band and her place was very nice.  If you want to buy it you can for 205,000 quid.  I’ll hook you up.  I didn’t bring my book because I thought there would be too much to do while waiting for our scene.  Damn me again!  I looked through five Vogues and a People before seeing a deck of cards.  I did magic tricks for Jory and then me and Jory and Matt played poker with what change we had.  I cleaned out Jory and then gave him his money back.

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A Texas Favorite    

We went next door to get "The Best Burger You’ve Ever Had".  They had a Whataburger poster above our booth.  There was a lunch special with these best burgers from 11 to 3.  It was 3:15 and the waiter wouldn’t be cool.  So, I abandoned the best burger.  Matt and Jory got the overpriced disappointment.  I got the other meat.

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Map of Battersea Park, old timey

We went to this park and waited for more shoot developments.  Adam gave us some tiny Uno cards.  Me and Jory played Uno on a sidewalk. 
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The Albert Bridge, daytime

We waited by the wrong bridge.  They shot at this bridge which is much prettier.  It’s pink and light blue.

It got dark so we called it a night and went back to the hotel.

We wandered out to get dinner and saw a double decker that had hit a tree and removed its second tier.  No one was hurt.  Just mangled top and blocked street.  I watched them saw off the top.  And then I had the best kebab.  I knew England would come through for me.  They press the pita like a panini.  What a joy compared to pony-tail waiter’s place. 
We saw each other have dinner.
Later we went to Will’s bar and drank and it was good seeing him.