I am being a complete vegetable this weekend. Friday we had a 17-hour video shoot, which started with me awake at 4 am, stumbling into the kitchen and turning on the Magic Machine – er, that is the espresso machine.
At 5 am on the dot, the make-up artist arrived.
At 8 am we were on the set on the Malibu beach. Circa 11 am had me running in a very big and heavy (wet) dress down the beach, occasionally getting side-swept by a wave or stumbling over a dune.
Followed by me hanging on to the cliffs for dear life, also in huge dress and an 18-th century up-do.
In an Alexander McQueen jacket, no less.
Come 1 pm, we were in the canyons, at a ranch.
At around 4 PM, I was taking a break, catching little frogs in the grass (and I have a photograph to prove it).
While at 6 pm I was bouncing up and down on a trampoline on top of a hill.
The day before I found out my mom in Moscow was in the hospital again. So, really, Friday started with me on the phone with her – then the stumbling over to the espresso machine – then the rest of it.
She is ok now, undergoing some tests, but it was a bad day when I found out. She didn't want to tell me, so I could focus on what I had to do.
And so when I woke up yesterday – Saturday morning – I felt like someone had beaten me up with a rather sizable baseball bat. I have been eating tomatoes off the bush in the garden and consuming large amounts of Thai food and chocolate, which, by all accounts, is probably better for my soul, than my body.
I have another two weeks of madness and major prepping before I go to Austin, Texas to perform at the Austin City Limits. Then, to return and a week later we go to NYC. And then the EP comes out. And the video goes live. And the history gets re-written. Ok, never mind that last one.
But today… today I am still on vacation. I have watched copious amounts of True Blood episodes from Season 3 and got my fill of Alexander Skaarsgard. I rode my bike and got a massage. I am going to take a nap. And then maybe another one. Perhaps I will even venture out tonight to hear a friend DJ. He is an editor, who is doing the editing of my video, and he is amazing – Joel Marcus – a lovely, funny and authentic Brit, who happens to live a bike ride away from me.
Tomorrow we start up again, and it doesn't stop until the morning of October 4th – the day after my EP release party at Bardot in Hollywood…
