Monsters

Watched Gareth Edwards' Monsters last night with Director friend D and Besty. The cinematography is amazing - apparently he attached an SLR lens onto a digital camera to get DV to have the same beautiful quality as film. It works superbly and the look of the movie is stunning. The only complaint I have is that the lack of script, and only one camera means that improvised scenes edited together sometimes lack life and become a bit flat. One of the joys of improvisation is capturing the other person's reaction to a new line, an offhand comment - and with one camera, you can't really do that, and lines spliced together often don't make sense, so it often came across as a bit meandering. But with a teeny budget and the SFX genius of Gareth Edwards, it's a phenomenal achievement. Director friend D is now obsessed with how to do his own movie on a similar budget with that kind of beautiful look about it.

I'm so deeply in love with California at the moment. Staying present is such a massively hard thing to do for me, it's really blissful to be walking around loving the weather, the rain, walking the pups, hanging with Besty, not mulling on my future fears or my past worries. I swear I'm built to be a housewife who writes. Nothing makes me happier than homemaking, pups and writing. I don't want to be a breadwinner at all (sorry feminism).

Back to work. It's cold and windy outside. The palm trees are dancing. Mr Chips is asleep on my lap. We have a log fire burning. I love it.