About to bed down for the last time in Hong Kong.

Mixed feelings about leaving this place, even though I’ve fantasizing about it for most of my time here. Everyone is gone now. Rob and his family left last week, the Hales left on Monday, Johnny left yesterday and Matt and Tim headed to Shanghai today.

Got to say goodbye to Johnny last night after having dinner with him and the assistant editor, Killer. Him and John seemed to get attached pretty good during their months of work.

Then we said goodbye to Tim and Matt as they got into the van headed to the airport. They seemed excited about going to Shanghai for the weekend. They’ll be back early next week. Tim is staying until after the New Year and Matt is leaving with the Hales on December 9th. Just making sure everything is wrapped on the film.

So tomorrow is it for this three month odyssey in Hong Kong. We came, we made a film and now we’re headed out. I’m already missing the people on the set and the heartaches are dulling as I think of the future and hopefully to my next film. I think the film looks good for what time John has put into it and I can’t wait to Cronin to get his hands on it in Maryland.

All right, I’m rambling on at this point.

Let me just say that I will truly miss this place and the people that I met during this process. Like any film, there are always problems, but they were far outnumbered by the good times and fantastic work that was done. It seemed like most of them really cared about what we were doing and for that I’m truly thankful.

I’ll miss the incense burning at the start of each day, Handsome doubling for Tim, leaving the set every night after another day was done, Four’s nasty chin hair, the spaghetti and pizza from CRU, So’s craziness, mon soy, Lam’s “a little bit,” Bing Bing’s tea and fahsohn (peanuts), Suiman doubling as Amy, Lau not saying hello to me, the bong, I mean, gong, Kit’s 110% with everything he did, Gloria’s look when she had no freaking idea what I was saying to her, Alan’s red shirts, Joey riding up in the elevator with me at the end of the night, Hale’s 70’s look, Man’s gentle touch as he held me tight on the back of the pick-up, the October boys, Daniel and On, my waders, Andy’s driving, Compton’s daily white man sneakers and jeans look, Jason’s running like a madman as a Pale Figure, actually, all the damn Pale Figures, Hale’s pissing and farting videos, Amy on her damn phone, Tiger in that funky white gown with the blood all over it, May doubling for Amy, Cindy bossing everyone around, Kelly and the rest of the make-up girls swarming Amy, Tat willing to go anywhere to get the sound just right, Southy playing with my kids, Tim being all handsome and shit all the time, my family visiting the set, the sacrificial goat, Abal offering me fahsohn and other stuff I can’t really mention, and I should stop now, because I really have to go to sleep.

One thing I will not miss is that damn, bloody car! Okay, maybe a little bit.

Thanks to the whole cast and crew for all the hard work and for all the love they showed this go-low. I’ll remember you all and my time here very fondly.

I’m over and out from Hong Kong! See you at Rio Grande for brunch on Sunday!

Peace.

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