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Had a good meeting with Gary Brosnan and his beautiful wife Ciara in relation to costumes. We had a lovely couple of hours together, initially tinkering with their wonderful kids as they were incrementally being packed off to bed and slipping back out again peek by peek to join in this intrigue. I pitched the entire deal to date as Ciara had not heard any of the real details so far, and we talked about various possibilities and they made numerous insightful suggestions to help make this a better movie. When Daniel arrives at the airport on Monday, our first mission will be to go and see Gary and Ciara at their boutique ‘Shindig’ and chose costumes, then Gary the following day is off to Barcelona where he can source the duplicates we will need. We are also trying to chase down mannequin limbs, Gary and I talked about this over the phone last night, and he is actually sourcing them for us and will buy them himself, as he can use them after the shoot. Monday last was catering and costumes in the evening after a full days banging on over the phone. And as it is now 9.08 in the morning and I have been on the move since 7 a.m. the banging on is about to begin again.

The 11th of April 2008 and I am feeling physically good after a cycle and now with a cup of hot water and honey, but that is where the snug bug little fuck head happiness ends!! Yesterday was a twister and as mentioned when rapidly approaching the start date under our present circumstances without all actual monies in place, one begins to reel from time to time as massive fundamentals start to raise their heads like grumpy Krackens and peer down at your wee little skeleton. In other words my beautiful baby of a budget threatens to morph into a little daemonic Damien. Alphonse A Lanza our sound guy had to make arrangements to change his thicket, as he has two gigs before arriving here, one in Amsterdam, one in Paris, so he is going to wrap with us in London and fly to Paris, then back to Toronto. I wrote to him suggesting he change his flight to return from Gatwick with the other’s. For his own reasons he went ahead and booked a change of flight yesterday which cost $595 Canadian, that’s cool, expect I could have a got a cheaper one with Zoom airlines, one way. No Biggy.

BUT!!! We have not booked the return flights yet for the crew as definite dates for their return have not been set in stone, they may want to spend a few days in London after the shoot, wouldn’t you? Meanwhile I am watching prices fluctuate on tickets like a stock broker whose heart rate races with the curve. A one way right now on say the 17th of May is 226 pounds sterling, I need to buy four of these suckers eventually, although another slight complication is that Pierre Branconnier the AC ( assistant camera ) wants to tour around for a while, which OK I can simply give him the money equivalent to do with what he wants at a later date. But this is basically ringing an alarm bell for the crews flights which I can deal with coming in at 3,000 euro, but the PLUS is staggering dangerously near my nice little bone china tea set and waving a stinking snack box about the place. Also I must book Daithi’s ferry from Rosslaire to Pembroke which is how the equipment is getting to London, and the generator, as well as making the call on whether we leave (the crew, Emma Griffiths Malin and I) via Kerry or Shannon as prices are not good from Kerry on Sunday the 11th of May, added to the above I don’t have our company Visa card yet!!!!!!!!

All the big hitters are weighing in now and come Monday I expect a massive rumble for our imaginary Visa card and real Bank account as money will projectile from its punched gut. The Skid (transporting container) is an unknown since Vinit is dealing with that, so shipping which I have factored may also take a wobble, all that gear has to get to Shannon, be ferried to England, ran round the city, zipped off to Gatwick and packed off for Toronto. WITH A FUCKING MASSIVE SIGH OF RELIEF.