Mark and Ted's Excellent Adventure in Drama

Down here at the airport waiting to do what hopefully will be the last ADR for the film. Hopefullly I can post an effects frame or two later tonight too.
 
Had our ADR session last night but we didn't get back up to Tim's place until about midnight and then had to get up at 4:30 a.m. to hit the road down to Temecula for a forensic shoot (really cool case involving a motorcycle that collided with a road grader .... we had the county blocking the road while we filmed a rider on a Honda F4 1000, which last month was clocked at Bonneville as the fastest production motorcycle in the world at 187.726 MPH (302.116 KPH). Anyway, we finally made it back here this evening and are getting back to the machines.

Herman, we'll have a new edit that should be a picture lock along with our notes out tonight.
 
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Seriously, I had NO IDEA there were so many wineries down there. I've been by Temecula on a glancing blow but this time we were right out there in the midst of the vineyards. I've never seen so many amazing looking wineries outside of Napa. Tim has never experienced the joys of the tasting room so I was seriously tempted to stop but we both figured that way led to madness. WIth the traffic on the 15 (on a Friday no less) facing us we decided to forego the pleasure and were glad we did once we hit traffic.

Next time. .....
 
You know, I think it was. It was at our neighbor's house, but that definitely sounds right.... sooo good too.
 
If it was, you definitely have higher class neighbors than I do. The 2004 is going for about $350 a bottle at Drager's in Palo Alto! However, if I had a bottle and you were around I'd open it for you, Rebecca!
 
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I would love to hit Napa at some point. Had a lovely red from Bourdeaux this evening....:smile:
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It's funny, everyone thinks of Napa as this charming vineyard paradise. Aside from a slooooowwwly developing downtown area and a few good restaraunts, the city of Napa itself is kind of an ordinary and not at all touristy place. Maybe everyone just uses Napa for Napa Valley, now that i think of it.

The majority of the wineries, fancy restaurants, scenic drives, quaint historic downtown areas are all in 3 or 4 little tiny towns heading north up the highway out of Napa. (Yountville, Oakville, Rutherford, St. Helena, Calistoga)

Napa does have a pretty famous mental hospital for the criminally insane, however. That would be worth a visit right there, I'd think.

:)
 
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There's a little wine shop in downtown napa that has a lot of great small winery labels that I try to support, but otherwise there's not much reason to go into Napa. For that matter, I pretty much avoid the whole west side of the valley (along 29) and buzz over to the Silverado Trail where you can still enjoy a drive among the vineyards without bumper to bumper traffic.
 
Calistoga is probably the most beautiful word ive read today......

it made me smile as i sounded it out.
 
So true. The traffic on 29 is getting even worse. Silverado Trail sure is a beautiful drive though.

That's cool that you know these haunts, Mark. Geez, is there anywhere you haven't become familiar with in the US? :) You'll have to let me know if you're in the area again, I'd love to meet you.

I believe your leading lady for TTN is pretty familiar with the area also! I helped crew a video shoot covering the Sonoma Film Festival last spring and Taylor was the spot's host, interviewing all of the indie folks on camera. :) Tell her I said hi!

-Jared
 
What a small world Jared!!! Taylor and I were talking about the film festival as well as Napa last week! I will DEFINITELY tell her you said 'hi'!

I also can promise you that I'll be up your way and will make a point to meet up. Bullis and I have been discussing a run to the wine country and Tim wants to come along.

Napa has always been sort of special to me due to a little event that occurred in the late 80's when I was a pretty new lawyer with not much experience outside of the midwest. In fact, every year I throw a party at a little cooking school in San Francisco and invite 20 close friends so we can all drink wine and cook a meal together. Traditionally, before we sit down to eat the meal we have prepared together, I always tell the story. It's sort of like a poor man's Christmas Carol in a way, I guess. Anyway, a long time ago one of my friends asked me to write down the story and so I put it on a web page. Since so many of you on the forum here have become true friends I'll share it here with those who care to read it:

http://www.archivisuals.com/silveroak.html
 
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