I find it hard to start writing about stuff here again. First, I’m pretty tired, yeah, finishing directing the movie, Grassroots. Followed by a couple of days in LA and then on to NY, where I’m now starting to shoot the TV show Blue Bloods, about to premier on CBS.
Again, I find myself drifting [...]

A message to Grant. Weird. I’m on a plane. Had missed my earlier flight and was supposed to talk on the phone at an event for Grant to raise money for his latest project. I tried calling him on Skype from the next flight I took. No go…hopefully he’ll be able to play this at [...]

MessageForGrant

I received this e-mail as a private message with many apologies (which seem extremely unnecessary even if English were the first language, which it is not.) The issue of democracy having been so corrupted. Or perhaps, as the writer suggests incapable of really functioning properly is food for thought — not to give up on [...]

Obama may have entered the White House with the intention of assembling a Lincolnesque “team of rivals,” but Summers subverted that notion by making himself chief packager and gatekeeper for any dissenting arguments about economic policy—all, he claimed, to spare the President from meeting with “long-winded people.” Lincoln’s “team of rivals” reported directly to Lincoln, [...]

Billionaire candidate Jeff Greene, who’s facing-off against Rep. Kendrick Meek in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary, has found himself embroiled in controversy over damages caused by his 145-foot luxury yacht.
The St. Petersburg Times reports that Greene’s 350-ton vessel, Summerwind, severely tore up a coral reef system off the coast of Belize during an ocean voyage five [...]

A quick note while shooting…
That nothing that matters is easy to do. Actually most things that don’t matter aren’t easy to do either. Pretty much everything takes work from where I stand right now. Just to stand still takes work. Even to sleep takes work. Sometimes I find myself waking up out of a night’s [...]

Sunday morning at Café Vita, my haunt here in Seattle. It’s overcast. Trash on the street after a Seattle night with so much live music and partying up here on Capitol Hill – a part of the city that likes to live its nightlife — two days off for me (Sunday/Monday). I’ve come to see [...]

We’re almost two weeks into shooting GrassRoots and to some degree I’ll talk about details of the process after the dust has settled, though I’ll try my best doing it a bit as we go along.
More than anything I guess I want to keep exploring here and on the GrassRoots website what it’s really like [...]