Hi hi hi

It's been a crazy few weeks. We start shooting on season 5 of "Nurse Jackie" on Monday. The time leading up to shooting is always my craziest time, since it's my job to get all the equipment and such in place to shoot. All the bla bla bla. That's what I do. The bla bla bla. So things have been crazy.

Even though it's season 5 things have been very different this year. The show was originally conceived by a couple, Linda Wallem and Liz Brixius. Not long after they wrote the pilot they split up. Then Showtime picked up the show. So they now had to work as an EX couple to write this show together. It's like they split up and found out that one of them was pregnant (yes, they were a gay couple, so the metaphor doesn't totally work. But you get the idea). Either way, after 4 years of insane tension, they both gave up and left the show. BUT Showtime wanted the show to go on, so they brought in the guy who wrote "Dexter" for the first 4 seasons. I won't say his name in the case he googles himself all the time. (Which I'm sure he does), but he is an absolute lunatic and it is NOT hard to see where Dexter comes from at all. A few small examples:

* He will only let his assistant bind his scripts with 1" silver fasteners.
* His office must be 72 degrees at all times. And he still wears a scarf.
* He had the ceilings raised all over the studio because he's claustrophobic. At the cost of $60,000!!!!
* He uses Purell after touching anyone.
* He won't let anyone who is the SLIGHTEST bit sick be in the room with him. At all. If you cough, sniffle, anything, you're gone.

He's fun!!


But I have to remind myself every once in a while that while my job is often ridiculous (And it is), sometimes...JUST sometimes....something amazing comes out of all this.

For example:





Don't get me wrong I did NOT work on "Almost Famous" (twas a bit before my time, I'm afraid), but I wish I had. I think it's just about perfect in every way. God I love this movie.

If you could pick one movie to watch forever, what would it be?