Ok, I wasn’t at Berkeley in the Sixties but I was here in 1996. I came here for a year abroad during my undergraduate degree and lived in a co-op and, um, well, those were halcyon days! I’m here now drinking coffee outside Cafe Strada and feeling very happy to be back in the bosom of Berkeley. It’s actually really making me want to study again, something I swore off for life after the horror of my Masters. Deleuze and Guattari nearly finished me off! I think I just like the idea of walking around campus with lots of books and reading under trees - but the thought of actually writing a paper makes me shudder.

I’m in the Bay Area to meet some film people here and spread the Shooters love. We’re also throwing our first ever West Coast Shooting People event tomorrow night. So if you’re anywhere near Laszlo’s in the Mission between 6 and 9pm on Wednesday night, stop by and say hello. We launched an email bulletin for San Francisco and Los Angeles in May 2006 but it has been hard getting out the message to everyone because there is only one full time Shooter in the US - me! It’s really good to be here now and I’m looking forward to the next few days of indie film mayhem. Emily Renshaw-Smith from Current TV in the UK is over here too which is awesome because we used to work together at Channel 4 and I’m looking forward to seeing her immensely. NY Editor Jesse Epstein is also out here working on her film. So together with SF/LA Editor Malcolm Pullinger who is a Bay Area local we’re ready to rumble.

Bring it on!

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