Make My Life A Big Vacation

July 18, 2008 @ 6:37 AM - by Deeli

Yesterday was the first day of my 2 week long Sweden mission to shoot with Lewis Marnell, who’s here to visit his dad, and Love. As a bonus Pontus Alv is in Stockholm working on his new film, and since I’m staying with Mika and Miranda, there’s a good chance I’ll get something with him as well. They have a great little flat in Vasastan, complete with life-size James Dean and Marilyn Monroe woodcuts. Are these really life-size? Was James Dean that small? Then next week it’ll be the WeSC skatecamp in Linköping.

Lewis was in flames yesterday. It rained about every hour or two, and as soon as it would almost dry up he’d be jumping down stuff and onto rails.

We got rained out about 5 times yesterday, I think.

At one point we waited for 3 hours for the rain to stop and it to dry up. When we got to the spot, Lewis broke his board in about 5 tries. So we took the tube across town to his dad’s (who’s the producer who created the biggest TV show ever to air in Finland, Salatut elämät, by the way), picked up a new board and raced time and weather to get back before sun went down and it started pouring again. It was pissing down when we got back to the spot. Some more waiting and then an impressive drying operation with newspapers and towels we found in a bin next to the run-up. All worth it, 2 tricks in the bag at the end of play. Can’t wait for what happens today!

Oh, on a side note, there’s no word for “please” in either Finnish or Swedish language. Just thought of that while I was clicking through Epicly Laterd and one of the tabs was called “and the first word they learned was please.” I suppose “they” weren’t Scandinavian…