2001-04-15 - 2:19 p.m.

�I was over in Australia during Easter�interesting to note that they celebrate Easter the same way we do, commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling their children a giant bunny rabbit left chocolate eggs in the night�I wonder why we�re fucked up as a race�?�

It�s not that I hate all actors. No, really. Just the ones who left RADA with the delusion that they have some kind of monopoly on insights into the human condition and mention Brecht more than can be good for you and talk about their art as if it�s some fucking mystical god given gift, but dangle the opportunity of a commercial for washing powder in front of them and they�d put their dirty cash-grabbling limbs seriously out of joint climbing over their own grandmother in the money-crazed scramble to hawk whiter-than-whites to the bovine English speaking world. Just that kind.

We called back 12 people from the auditions. I could imagine talking to about 3 of them without having to strangle myself with my own major intestine after about 30 minutes of conversation. �God, auditioning for adverts is just SUCH a nightmare�the things they make you do�honestly�� What, besides have you willingly take it up the arse from multinational corporations? Your poor dears.

�Why those two things? Why not goldfish left Lincoln Logs in your sock drawer? As long as we�re making shit up, go hog wild! As least a goldfish with a Lincoln Log on its back going across the floor to your sock drawer has a miraculous connotation to it��

The four day shoot is going to be a wonderful experience.

Oh, and one location and about two thousand quid�s worth of investment have backed out, so at least it won�t be too much of a logistical apocalypse.

�Mummy! Mummy! I woke up this morning and there was a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer��.�That�s the story of Jesus��

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