It is impossible to think about LA without thinking about roads. A friend we met out there decried the state of them, said that since the local economy began to crumble so did the roads and in some stretches it’s like the third world. This was of course exaggeration but in a city where no building looks older than me the endless snake of tarmac and lamp post does feel oddly ancient. At home it still feels like the roads…

Dear friends forgive me for my recent silence. Chris and I are editing a new TV show called The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff and though this is a delightful process that fills our every waking moment with delightful faux-Dickensian daftness… well, it’s filling our every waking moment. I’ve been intending to blog about a few of the knottier and more fascinating aspects of this process at the weekends… but I’ve instead I’ve just done sleeping. So in the lack…

Astonishingly it seems anytime I attend an event where the focus is on women, pretty much the only people who turn up are women themselves.

They are not the only ones who rapidly tire of the panel’s faltering and banal questioning and at one point Von Trier, having already claimed “So far in this interview I have said nothing of any value and I’m sorry” blurts out “I think these three gentlemen really need to pull their fucking act together.”

I still get exhausted by the mechanics of our industry, a broken antique pocket watch set beside the massive atomic clock of LA. So our first stop isn’t going to be the In And Out Burger, our first stop is going to be Alan Denman’s strategy-packed London seminar with the reassuringly blunt title Breaking Into Hollywood.

I’ve blogged this film before, my brother and I made it last year… however we’re both absolutely delighted to say that both Cariad and Adam have just been nominated for this year’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards, Adam for Best Comedy Show and Cariad for Best Newcomer. Our deepest and most heartfelt congratulations go out to both.

So for the past week Somerset House have been complimenting their Summer Screen season with a series of conversational talks roughly attached to each screening. I’ve been lucky enough to go to a few of these and they’ve been particularly interesting. The first one I saw was Joe Cornish talking about Attack The Block, which screened as part of double bill with Die Hard a few days before it was announced that Cornish was on the shortlist to direct Die…

The sublimely smartly named UnderWire Festival 2011 has opened for submissions, something of note to most of you who wear a bra to work.

Just to say I’m taking part in a debate about 3D this afternoon at BAFTA as part of RUSHES. Do come, it should be fascinating.