Has it been that long?

Has it been that long? Jet lag’s lasted longer than normal. Fall asleep during The Daily Show, up before NPR Morning Edition.

Jonah came back Sunday; picked him up at JFK (a very non-NYC thing to do, I know. Getting a car >> encroaching suburban mindset). He shot some more airport stuff on his own. He kept the camera through the weekend, partly because I had to carry back some precariously wrapped art I’d bought nearly two years ago from Chantal Crousel. Of course Chantal and Niklas were in NYC for the Armory Show. Alice gets back today; we’re meeting to go through all the shot logs, expenses, etc.

Been logging our rushes, generating time code lists which we’ll use to digitize the footage in a day or so. For audio, we mapped audio tracks to each take while on location. After we edit using the camera audio, we’ll go back and lay down synchronized MiniDisc audio just for those scenes that make the cut. Right now it takes me about 90 minutes to log a 60-minute tape. It could go a little faster if I could get time codes to show up on my monitor. Any Sony VX-1000 experts out there who can Bjorkfest, where I filled in my CD collection and listened to all her albums straight through. Here’s what I’ve found so far (in addition to the Morricone and Orozco songs mentioned below:

  • A couple of tracks on Debut
  • Visur Vatnsenda-Rosu, an Icelandic track not on any US album [will add links later]
  • Downtown, Bjork’s cover of Petula Clark’s classic (haven’t found it yet, but I want to hear it and see)
  • Ambient/trance tracks from Planet Soma’s Drone Zone stream on Shoutcast, like TUU’s Shiva Descending
  • Circular 1’s Drifting, and
  • DJ Food’s Kaleidescope

    Purely for editing purposes, you understand (and to avoid driving Jonah crazy by camping out on his Mac), I thought I’d better cross the front lines myself and get a Mac. And a 100Gb external drive to walk the whole project around. Promptly seduced, I know own a G4 Titanium. I may never watch a DVD on my Thinkpad again. Oh, and I hate the new lamp-style iMac. Sorry.