Rupert's vlog - not current, see twittervlog.tv

Click to Play (yes, my side of the screen is supposed to be silent) this one has a bit of a story behind it. 5 years ago, we came out here to the Comox Valley for six months so I could finish writing a novel that i'd already been working on for a year.   it was about a young wannabe director who goes to America, visits movie locations and starts to lose the line between fantasy and reality.  it was pretty funny and I had a great agent and everybody thought it was going to be a massive hit and i fucking BLEW IT   i came back from Canada with the book unfinished and started working for my dad's aluminium company.  i blamed this on a car accident, which i said had stopped me writing.  really though... (i've never admitted this before) i could've finished it if I'd just fucking knuckled down and applied myself. but there you go. 18 months and multiple thousand quid down the bog.   RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA then we had Amy, three years passed. the aluminium company went bust, and i went freelance (same thing, more or less).   but before i got properly lost in freelance hell (see this video for evidence) i gave the book one last shot.  i flew out to San Francisco by myself in november 2006 to revisit the movie locations i'd been writing about.  the idea was that i'd write and videoblog while i was there - the sights and sound would fuel a reimagining of the story - and i'd return with a vision of how to tie together all my unfinished fragments. instead i just lost the line between fantasy and reality. so these clips have been sitting unwatched and unedited on my hard drive - a bit too painful and guilt-inducing to open - until now. life is a bit more back on track, we're back in canada, i have a good steady job working for someone i like and i'm starting to feel like i can write again... so i reopened the box. i haven't looked at them again yet, but i have clips from movie locations all around the san francisco bay area.  if you like this, let me know and i'll hack them together.   i've also just installed the AddThis plugin, something i've been meaning to do for a while.  so if you like a video, you can easily add it to a social bookmarking site like StumbleUpon or Delicious so other people can find it, too. shot in Room 773 of the Cathedral Hill Hotel ( map ), formerly the Jack Tar Hotel. and if you haven't seen Coppola's (and Murch's) The Conversation , do so immediately.