The Wonder of America.

So I find myself once again in the arms of America. Its a great place - with lots of not so great places in between. We have been lost in the bowels of New Jersey for a few days and are now in DC for one night before heading back up the turnpike to NYC. I dont know why America has an economic crisis. The entire population is obsessed with malls. The first thing, some, (too many!) people say to you is "Where are you staying?" to which you reply 'a dump in the middle of nowhere beside a non stop highway that has a make your own trans fat waffle counter masquerading as a breakfast buffet' and they then say "oh great, thats right down the road from the xyz Mall - you'll like it there, they have a restaurant on the second floor selling reheated frozen prawns".

Great. Bloody great. But you have to go there because there's absolutely nothing else to do and nowhere else to go. There's loads of folk buying shite they dont need eating food that will kill them. Of course not everyone we meet says that...some people we meet are captivating and charming and far more intelligent than us!

This time I'm here with two very talented an friends who are also cinematographers, Alex & Andy. This is good for many reasons, one, that I can relax about the film we are here to make being fantastic and two, I have the pleasure of having the complete piss taken out of me for the slightest misdimeanor. I should also say that this pleasure is shared three ways.

We had breakfast today in Bethlehem. No shit. Bethlehem. In fact we agreed that "Breakfast in Bethlehem" would be a good name for a rock band. The town has the biggest steel works I've ever seen. It was actually bloody impressive. Check out the picture.



Anyway, with about 8 hours sleep in the last 60 I'm off to my kip. Sleep well. ZZZZZZZZzzzzzz


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