LAgain

My head hurts. OK here is how last week went, probably our most productive couple of days shooting we have had this entire time.

Thursday - We goto pick up Jarrod from the Sunset Marqui, where he is staying for the night. Then over to North Hollywood where Mark and Travis's studio is. The studio is fucking AMAZING. I would like to point out at this stage that it seems everyone has a studio, like EVERYONE. We meet Fred who is the +44 tour manager and he introduces us to Mark. Mark is super nice and super funny too. He is exactly like he is on stage and in videos and stuff. We do a great interview with him and swap contact details. Yep i am officially friends with Mark Hoppus now. YESSSSSS. Then it's over to Hollywood to interview the surfer Tim Curran. Tim is also making a record so we interview him at the place where he is recording. Tim is once again a super nice guy. After the interview he plays us some of his music and it's awesome. I think i see a tear coming out of our DOP Jarrods eye. This is possibly the best moment of his life. Jarrod has no place to stay tonight so i message Tim Armstrong to see if he can stay there with us, i tell him Jarrod is a BMX dude from Santa Cruz - Tim flips out and calls me asking if he's cool and if i trust him, i tell Tim that he is cool and that he will love him. Turns out, Tim does love Jarrod and all is sweet at The Armstrong residence. We go for dinner at a Mexican place in Silverlake that night with Tim and John, who is Tims engineer. This is the start of our sober week.

Friday - Wake up feeling great. Today we are off to San Diego to interview Tom Delonge and Rick Devoe, who managed Blink 182. We are cruising down the 5 listening to Young Love. I would like to also point out that ALL we listen to now is Young Love. If you haven't heard it yet check it out here. SOOOOOOOO good. Dude used to sing in Recover and now he's a pop master. Anyway we get to Toms studio which is also the Atticus/Macbeth office, warehouse and out back is this massive room with clouds and planets painted all over the walls with a blue neon light shining over them. This is the Angels and Airwaves, hang out, studio. The band are currently making their new record, Tom plays us a new song and it sounds sweeeeeeeeeeet. Tom's interview goes really well, i'd say it was one of the best interviews we have had. Tom is also really funny and he still speaks about dicks alot. Then we interview Rick, who is one of the nicest people ever and we are off back to LA. That night we get back to Tims and just chill, no going out for us, we are sober now.

Saturday - Wake up feeling great. Again. Today we are interviewing punk rock royalty. Brett Gurewitz and Greg Graffin from Bad Religion. Brett also owns Epitaph. We head to another studio where Bad Religion are making their new record. We meet all the Bad Religion guys and they are cool, Greg Hetson is on Myspace haha. Actually i am going to add him now i think about it. Cool added. OK so we interview Brett first, he is great and then we do Greg Graffin. We are probably at the studio for a few hours when Brian Baker comes up and asks if we live at the studio, i say "No we don't we are actually from Australia, we have just been here for a few hours to do the interviews"... After the interviews Jarrod leaves us to head back to Santa Cruz which is like a 5 hour drive north of LA. We will miss him. We have our man hugs and he is gone just like that. Bye Jarrod. Once again no alcohol intake as we are flying to Maui at 7am the next morning.

Sunday - Up at 4:30am. Dude. I only went to sleep at 2:30am(i was editing The Jai Show). Tired as shit. So we are flying to Maui, Hawaii today because we are going to be interviewing Dexter Holland from The Offspring who is out there making the new Offspring record. We get in at 9:30am and get a Mustang convertible hire car. Sweet. Then off to our hotel which is the Kamole Sands, pretty sweet place. Our hotel is more like an apartment, it has 1 bedroom, 2 bathrooms - so we each have our own space. Right now it is just Matt and I. Our crew are dropping off like flies. Tomorrow is our interview so today we just cruise around the island and take in some sights, Maui is beautiful, we drive along the cliffs and it's just so chill. The speed limit is like 20mph.

Monday - We have adopted Dennys as our place of fine Hawaiian cuisine. Anyway off to Haiku to the studio where Dexter is. We rock up to this amazing house that overlooks the ocean and this is where they are recording. Sweet deal Dexter. We meet Bob Rock who is producing the record, Bob Rock is a big deal he has produced records for bands like Metallica and Motley Crue plus he played Bass on the last Metallica record and was in their documentary 'Some Kind Of Monster'. Bob is cool and introduces himself to us, i'm thinking the whole time "Yep i know who you are BOB ROCK". Today because we have no crew our sound guy is called Mic Stand and we are shooting on my little Panasonic 3 chip, Matt Wardle plays the role of DOP today and i interview as usual. We look SO unprofessional. Oh that's right, we are fucking unprofessional! Dexter is cool and once again we hit the road. It's our last night in Maui - so we go and get 1 cocktail and then off to bed again.

Tuesday - Back at the airport flying back to LA. We should just live in LA or at airports because it seems all we do is fucking fly. The flight is 5 hours but goes by really quick, they give us a movie to watch and unlimited tomato juice. Thanks ATA. Back to Tim's house where we left all of our stuff. We get in pretty late and Tim is asleep. We then fade off to bed not before listening to hilarious comedy from David Cross.

Wednesday - Ok this week in LA is kind of weird for us. We have 1 more week to shoot 2 more interviews, Pennywise and Green Day. Once these are done we will have finished shooting and get to go home. Yay. So today we go and pick up another hire car from Hertz as the one we hired last night was too expensive, our luck with good cars has run out and we get a fucking Kia. It doesn't even have central locking. Fuck you Kia. Tim has 3 days to finish his solo record so we have to stay with Casey and Shannon for a few days, our friends from Australia that we met in LA. They're awesome and very very hospitable friendly people. Thanks Casey and Shannon. They're also the ones that live in Jim Morrisons last residence. We head to CPK for lunch, in the lift the kid that plays Stacy Peralta in Lords Of Dogtown is in the lift with us. What is even funnier is that morning i got an email from the real Stacy, so as soon as i get home i email Stacy and tell him i saw the fake him(Stacy Peralta directed Dogtown & Z Boys, and is one of my biggest influences). Tonight we are going to see The Ataris with Adrian at The House Of Blues. We get there WAY to late and they are about to play their last song. I'm kinda bummed out as i grew up on this band in high school and it was at an Ataris show that i first got to go backstage in year 11. Then they come back out and do a 5 song encore of stuff only from "Blue Skies" YEAH!!! I'm stoked, i think we got here just at the right time. It was pretty sad though because the venue wasn't even half full and i'm not sure exactly what happened. Then we are off to the Whiskey Bar at The Sunset Marqui, some dude hits on Adrian so we leave and head to the Rainbow where we drank til half past 2(Ataris reference), actually no they kicked us out at 2am because they were closing. I am super drunk at this stage, first time in a week and vomit everywhere. I think i may have started crying again. I suck.

My head hurts.