Day One San Francisco

It's wonderful to be back in San Francisco. The here and now is fantastic, coming "home" with the finished film to the fabulous SFIFF. Wherever I go, and around every corner from there, are memories: scenes we shot with Someguy, interview locations, looking for the perfect park bench, navigating the city, favorite restaurants, the many hotels we stayed in... Between January 2004 and July 2006, we came to San Francisco seven times, filming well over 20 hours of interview footage with Someguy alone, plus  about twenty interviews with contributors to the journals and other people connected to the project or Someguy. In most of these memories is of course Ralph, and I'm sad he's missing the festival. He's crazy busy with work, but we are hoping his call sheet on Sunday has an opening so he can join Stuart and me in Newport Beach.

Our first screening here, at 1:30, was great fun, and packed, and this despite nearly 80 degrees and bright sunshine. Many people stayed to check out journals, and snapped pictures. Among them ADDA DADA, who posted great coverage on his Flickr page, and Curbsidetreasures. On the news scroll are updated links to pics, reviews and blog posts.