Daaaar... Huh. I' uh... Plum fergut whad EYE had in noggin for dis intro Diction... But here it done is anyhow. Burnt out whiskey dicked idiot typing nonsense. Forgive... brain in idle. Ripcord loose. Momma dropped baby. Sloth (aka Hairy) out

I saw that Natalie Portman set visit and thought I'd send this in case of a slow news day or something.

My youngest sister had been listening to a radio station I've always hated trying to win Summerjam tickets when they mentioned that a film was shooting at the Seattle Center. They went on to say that the film was 'A Leonard Cohen Afterworld' written by Scott Rosenberg (Con Air) and starring teen heart throb Jared Leto. The scene they were shooting was a reenactment of the Kurt Cobain memorial so either dark clothes, flannel shirts or tye dye shirts were wanted with no bright colors even though most tye dye is bright. I decided to wear all black with my 'I'll Sleep When I'm Dead' shirt while my other sister dressed her four month old daughter in a little tye dye outfit.

When we arrived, there was about a thousand people there, a lot of which didn't follow the stereotyped Seattle dress codes ( most of us hate coffee too). I guess they had already shot the memorial scene cause the crowd wrangler was instructing everyone to celebrate as they were sprayed with a fire hose which stood in for the Seattle Center fountains which were turned off. If you ever want to be an extra in a film, ALWAYS BRING A CUTE BABY. Jake Gyllenhaal ( October Sky) was shooting his scene right next to us and had a lot of fun making weird faces at the baby trying to get her to laugh (she was not amused) but he was still really nice even though the water kept messing up his makeup ( a giant black spider on his face ) and he had to go back to get it redone.

Later on, Jared Leto arrived and was hit on by every girl on the set. If he wasn't wearing makeup and a costume I never would've recognized him though. He seemed really small and ordinary looking to me as he walked through the crowd and smiled at the baby as he went by us, of course I am a little biased since I'm jealous as hell and had an overwhelming urge to kick his movie star ass. Once my resentment and jealousy passed, my sister decided she wanted a picture with him. Jared was always accompanied by a guy with a clipboard and headset who must've been the 'honorary star asskisser' of the moment but he was still easily approachable. My sister's boyfriend asked if he could hold their baby as they took a picture, the asskisser and him both shook their heads and Jared explained that he couldn't at the moment but would if we stuck around a while longer. I guess they can't do fan stuff while shooting which is understandable.

I wasn't at the original Kurt Cobain memorial so I can't compare it, but I don't blame someone who's married to Courtney Love who commits suicide. The set didn't look very big to me, it had two main cameras, a few small equipment trucks and about fifty crew members. I'm not sure what the budget is but I'm sure it's not huge. They had small orange juices and rice krispie treats for snacks with a guitar smashing contest and gift giveaways for entertainment. From what I saw, the film looked kind of corny with the 'bad guys' sticking out like a sore thumb with puss squirting all over. They were three big guys wearing nice suits, dark glasses and huge shoes with mean faces, kind of like the British trying to hide in the the forest during the American Revolution with those bright red uniforms. The plot as described on the radio station said it was about the two main characters (Leto and Gyllenhaal, I'm guessing) getting in a bunch of trouble in Las Vegas and winding up on a road trip through the Northwest trying to evade the bad guys.

After the shoot ended we waited a little while for Jared Leto who I guess left while we were on bathroom breaks, so we walked around until we saw a big crowd which was just the extras getting their pay checks ($65 for 10 hours of standing in freezing cold fire hose water). But then I saw the guy that I suspected was the DP since he was always running around with a little handheld changing film and getting every angle. He looked like a skinnier Buggar from Revenge of the Nerds but was really cool and said he was a best friend of the director and was just there shooting a little to help out, he also has a cameo in the whorehouse, whatever that means.

I'm looking forward to this one just to see my face squirming in behind Jake Gyllenhaal and my hippie looking four month old niece, hopefully we make the final cut.

Paragonian out.