History Lesson

I went to an art museum today: Ayala Museum. I guess i really am my mother's child. I learned a lot about the history of the Philippines. Apparently this little island chain has been occupied by the french, the spanish, the british, and the United States. So there were a lot of wars, as you can imagine, but also a lot of different influences that make this place unique. Again, i will probably learn little to no Tagolog because EVERYONE speaks english. They probably speak spanish too. Man, i really need to get on this language train, there's really no excuse at this point. Ill have to learn spanish first, because my family is from Panama and i shouldn't disgrace them anyone :) then maybe ill learn portugese because its so beautiful. Itll give me an excuse to move to Brazil. Then what? Maybe something non-latin based. Any ideas? How about Hindi? Japanese? Hawaiian? Icelandic?
The world if my oyster, after all.

Whats Up Manila?

I am here in Manila for two days all by my lonesome. That's right! Two days of waiting for the cast to arrive. The rest of the crew left this morning. here's the view from my hotel room.


So i get to be a tourist for a couple days. YIPEE! Any suggestions? Hey Manila! What's up! Lets party!

ALOHA TIME!

We had a one hour layover in Hawaii on the way to the Philippines. ONE HOUR! what a damn tease. I called my brother, he said he was just about to paddle out and do some surfing. AND his girlfriend just got crowned Miss Hawaii! It was humid and warm and i am going to quit my job and move back home and live on the beach and make puka shell necklaces. HA!

LA Shout-Outs

I just want to say thank you to Kent Kravitz who, in the middle of the morning (2 hours before i had to leave for the airport) flew in like a crazy angel and gave me all the programs i needed to download to i can work on the road. kent, how do you do it? little bit of fairy magic perhaps? or just plain BADASSery?

And THANK YOU KRISTIN! For lending your car and you home and your time to me all week long. I love you. :)

Los Angeles, My Love

I always feel so at home in LA. For as much as I complain about that city, it really is a very marvelous place to be. I had a thanksgiving dinner with Kordy and Rasty. And i made a gingerbread house in the park. Dandylion came to visit! I also saw some awesome sunrises over the downtown skyscrapers and wrote a silly song about it. I also saw a cat get shaved and then put into a dryer (see hilarious pic above.) Los Angeles, Ill miss you...

BON VOYAGE!

Hey Everyone!

I am in Manila, Philippines. Just got here about an hour ago. Yippeee!! I gotta set up the computer a bit (new hard drive to get up to speed) and then ill be posting pics in no time.

Manila is warm and full of small brown people, just like back home! So far its bustling and busy and the streets are not well lit, but the little carts of food look absolutely delicious, but probably lethal to my american digestion. That wont stop me though!

No More Posts this Trip

So my computer is completely busted. Its been just a fantastic week for me and electronics. Needless to say, i will not be able to post any more pics, or anymore posts for this trip. That's alright. Scandinavia is gloomy and beautiful but also makes me sad and bored, so there's not too much to post about any way. I go home in 4 days. "Home" being hopefully San Francisco for about a week. Then:

PHILLIPINES!
JAPAN!

Woo hoo. Ill have to get a new computer so i can work, so posts will be starting as soon as that happens. Thank you for reading along everyone. Posting and reading comments is the most connection i have with all my friends and with my life in the US and i will miss all of it terribly in the gloomy denmark days ahead. oh yeah, did i mention i am back in Denmark? We drove in yesterday and now i am staying in a haunted castle. Ooooooo!!! its actually really cool to look at, and besides the rain and hale, it'll be a nice place to finish out my Scandinavia trip.

Kisses!

RIP Sheila

i opened my brand new ukulele tonight and it doesn't work. Totally busted. Fuck you sweden

Meet Sheila

I was SUPER depressed yesterday, hating my job, and hating my life and venting way too much and its probably because I haven't seen the sun in a month, haven't had any days off, and because i hate my PA. So i did something that makes me feel really great IMPULSE SHOPPING! There's a music store across the street from the hotel and i finally bought an ELECTRIC UKULELE!!!! Her name is Sheila and her older sister Poliahu is happy to have a fellow uke on the trip. Now they can play and laugh together and we can all make beautiful music.

LOST

Man i love this show. I realized i can download TV shows and watch them on my iPhone so i have downloaded the fourth season of LOST, which is probably the most epic show ever. PENNY! I am a couple episodes in and trying not to watch everything all at once, just stay up all night and watch the whole. Because, i know when it is over, i will be sad that its going to be months before season 5 even starts and i will have even more questions unanswered and its going to be terribley marvelous.

More Hilarious Swedish

Falkenberg, Sweden

The view from my awesome hotel balcony. This town is so sweet and quaint and gorgeous. Its my favorite part of Scandinavia so far.

Windstorm

Today I was on the coast of Sweden, at an ocean-side fortress. The wind was blowing so crazy!! I went out to the windiest point with a bunch of my fellow crewmembers. We leaned into the wind and had a ball! The wind was so crazy i was almost doubled-over against it. It was too dark for photos. But i laughed for like 30 mins straight. when i was done, i was tired enough to sleep right then and there in the production office.

Stockholm

On our way to the next location, its quite a long drive, so we stopped in Stockholm for the night. They have subways that remind me of New York (but maybe that's just cause thats the city i think of when i think of subways). But it was full of kids looking for parties and we found ourselves in an english pub with real english people. How exotic! Kristytown's friend Seth lives here and so i met up with him and we had beers and talked about california.

Early Nights

i woke up one day as the sun was setting. Its daytime so rarely here, because we are near the north pole and its turning into wintertime. A couple of people in the group are starting to get little depressed, and the days seem like weeks. Luckily, we have the Phillipines to look forward too next trip.

OBAMA

The news report wasn't even in English but we were able to translate "Barack Obama is President."

Hurray!

Cemetery

You would think we'd see a lot of cemetery's on this show, but its just not so. The cast says "eh its just full of dead people. BORING"
Ha! These are some wintery Swedish graves in a town that is hundreds of years old, but only has a population of 40.

Silly Sveedes

Ostersund

I'm pretty sure that car is under water.