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The Fool on Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath While this weekend was destined to become one of the boring ones, a simple twist of fate turned it into a really nice one. London spring weather was amazingly sunny, my face is amazingly red and in stead of hanging around in cinemas someone [...]

Notting Hill blue A blue house in Notting Hill A sunny day in Notting Hill.

My break from the theatre has been long enough, I can’t just not go to the theatre because I don’t want to lose my memories of the Vertical Hour, so I went tonight. Unplanned, impulsive – business as usual. And I know I said I hated musicals, I do, Spamalot was the exception. But I [...]

Love and Rock your iPod

Flying high over London Over London flying high on my way to Nighy York (really) Let’s see what’s in here: a mouse, a Mars bar, old and young, Daniel Craig, Hot Fuzz, Love Actually, coconutophobes, dreams and delicious Scots. And OK, he’s in there too.

2 hours in The Cafe and it was done. 2 cups of tea and warm apple cake drowned in custard did the trick for me. I normally don’t think about it that much any more, but I did yesterday: it feels good that my first script actually got written in The Cafe from The Girl [...]

Some words from the guru Good words from screen writing Guru Richard Curtis. I thought 6 days and nights on a train, think about the huge amount of time I will have to write. Well I did write a bit here and there, but not the stuff I was supposed to. How could I, I [...]

Ghost in the machine Looking back, with my eyes closed, I have had 3 major inspirational influences in my life, which means that inside my head you can find 3 fairly large chunks of information from all three of them. Steffen Brandt‘s lyrics guided me through life in Denmark and they became the basis of [...]

Love Actually Mockba, 26 February 2007 My hotel is located in one of Moscow’s suburbs in the South East. It’s cheap and it takes about 20 minutes by metro to the Red Square and Leninski. Absolutely doable especially because the Metro station is about 50 meters from my hotel. I had done some research on [...]

New York Love (Written: New York, 33rd St – Picture: New York, 5th Ave) While I drink my Milky Way tea in the Starbucks right beside the Empire State Building (and let’s be honest there are worse places to drink your tea – behind your computer screen at work just to name one) I read [...]

Russian for beginners it’s the hardest thing to do. Not because I don’t like London or the place I live, but because I really get depressed after holidays like these! The after holiday dip is hitting me like a rock every time, and it kills all my inspiration to write. I had a good flight, [...]

I’m nearly ready, I need to iron one (can’t watch Bill in a t-shirt) shirt, than I am going to try to catch some sleep. How does one spend a last day before departing (I had the day off), well I did it like this. You would probably have spend it a lot cleverer. (Sorry [...]

In my Caterham train to work this morning, while standing still at Clapham Junction : “Good morning ladies and gentleman. We apologize for the delay, the train doesn’t seem to know where it is, and will therefor not open it’s doors”. I could completely understand the train. I don’t always know where I am either. [...]

Bob Dylan It’s one of Steffen Brandts favourite songwriters. Richard Curtis likes him too. And Bill Nighy is obsessed with him. I like and respect all of the above 3 men, so there must be something about him. He is a legend. I really started to like him when one of his songs was featured [...]

Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford I made a list of things I need to buy before taking off. My calender tells me that one week from now I will be in Moscow, and I now realize how time is running very fast. On my to buy list were (among other things) Lonely Planet’s Trans-Siberian [...]

They really are my favourite genre in film and I never get tired of them, but there are very few good ones. I am still doing Screen writing on Uni, my script is nearly finished, and is currently in rewrite state. Which means reading it a million times, and polishing it by changing words and [...]

No Dancing in the aisles Ed’s Diner – London It has been nearly a year since I moved to London. One year ago today I was in London for a week, to check things out, to have some first job interviews and to look for a more permanent place to live. After that week I [...]

If an idea is worth having once … Listen, this trip of yours …

Right. I think I’ve actually overdone myself in madness this time. But I believe in that simple-twist-of-fate I was talking about even more now. Let me tell you what my plan was – yesterday. Oh : long post alert.