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This is the second installment of Weitz\u2019s culture diary. Click here<\/a> to read part 2. <\/p>\n

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Photograph by Summit Entertainment.<\/p><\/div>\n

DAY THREE<\/h3>\n

\"\"The Times<\/em> reports<\/a> a boardroom struggle at Barnes and Noble. I have little sympathy for the big book chains, as they have played such havoc with the independent book market. Los Angeles, contrary to popular prejudice, used to be a great bookstore town; there was Midnight Special<\/span> on Third Street and the late, much mourned Dutton\u2019s, which used to be my favorite bookstore in the world, not least because it was arrayed in three different buildings around a courtyard, and no one thought twice if you exited one building with a pile of books under your arm without paying, because you were on your way to a different department. That sort of expectation of civility is lacking these days<\/span>. Nowadays Book Soup seems to be the only holdout<\/span> in the city, and they have recently been acquired by Vroman\u2019s, the Pasadena independent. Most of all, I lay a curse upon Borders, who sucked up masses of customers by convincing people that bookstores were social venues with DVDs and coffee bars, and then imploded spectacularly, having put dozens of mom-and-pop places out of business. <\/p>\n

Part of the blame goes to Amazon, of course, which means part of the blame goes to me<\/span>. Still, I comfort myself with this thought: Books sold in actual space, even books on actual paper, may die off<\/span>; but the instant accessibility of books, the lower cost, the preposterous speed of acquisition, may lead to a more ready consumer. I buy more books because I have a Kindle, and because they cost less, I am more willing to take a flier on a book that I might otherwise not lumber myself with.<\/p>\n

\"\"In the meanwhile however let me recommend Heywood Hill<\/a> on Curson Street in London. Among other things, they are fantastic at locating hard-to-find volumes, and when the third volume of Stieg Larsson\u2019s Millennium<\/em> trilogy was unavailable in the States they were more than willing to send it to me. But if you happen to be in the area you can stop by for events, such as when Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire was at the shop to sign copies of her eagerly awaited memoirs Wait for Me! The Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister<\/em>.\u201d My editor, Pete, tells me that the Mitford sisters would spread jam on their butler\u2019s head to attract wasps away from them. I hope this is apocryphal.<\/p>\n

On the way home from work, I listened to the Disinformation<\/a><\/em> podcast, a bunch of clever Southern misfits covering the occult, conspiracy, and esoteric beat. This time it was an interview with occult historian Gary Lachman, who also happens to have been one of the founding members of the band Blondie.<\/p>\n

\"\"In bed tonight, Mad Men<\/em> seemed a little too much of a harsh toke so we took it easy on ourselves with The Mighty Boosh<\/em>, the absurdist British comedy. I had the pleasure of meeting one of its contributors, Richard Ayoade, familiar to a select few as Dean Learner from Garth Marengi\u2019s Darkplace<\/em> (can\u2019t explain, just watch it). Richard\u2019s first feature, Submarine<\/a><\/em>, just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was picked up<\/span> for distribution by the Weinstein brothers.<\/p>\n

Still concerned with a cryptic statement of Heraclitus as reported in Anthony Gottleib\u2019s The Dream of Reason<\/a><\/em>. He minted some real Hall of Famers, like \u201cCharacter is destiny\u201d and \u201cYou can\u2019t step in the same river twice,\u201d but he was also responsible for this one: \u201cDeath is all things we see awake. All we see asleep is sleep.\u201d Will sleep on it. <\/p>\n

DAY FOUR<\/h3>\n

Very little culture today. That\u2019s the way it is in Los Angeles. In New York, people and culture jump about and do little dances for you the moment you leave your door. Here you have to actually try<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"I did have lunch with Michael Sheen, who is a very cultured fellow, so I shall ride on his coattails. Michael was good enough to play a genuinely weird vampire elder in New Moon<\/em>. At the time, he said that he was channeling the Blue Meanies<\/a> from Yellow Submarine<\/em>; but I think it is a delightfully perverse performance in its own right.<\/p>\n

Lately Michael has been interested in Edward Kelly<\/a>, the con man who scammed John Dee, the Elizabethan magician; Edgar Allan Poe, whom he may end up playing on screen; and Kenneth Williams, the British comedian whom he recently played in Fantabulosa<\/em>. That\u2019s a word from Polari, the British gay slang that was complicated enough to be considered a dialect. Polari died with the social strictures that gave birth to it, unlike some other languages, which die when they are sanctioned against (as is the case with aboriginal languages around the world\u2014cf. Philip Noyce\u2019s Rabbit-Proof Fence<\/em>). We also spoke about Elric of Melnibon\u00e9<\/span><\/em>, the British fantasy series<\/a> that I am dying to see come to life<\/a> on film. It is a pity that the most banal children\u2019s toy is proper fodder for the screen, so long as it is moving enough units at Walmart, whereas a genuinely seminal work of fantasy is hard to get traction for.<\/p>\n

\"\"Which brings me to the question: Why do I despise Dora the Explorer<\/em> but love Wonder Pets<\/em>? They both involve the same formula: Someone is in peril, and it will take overcoming several obstacles to put things to rights. It may be<\/span> that Dora finds things so easy; I have the feeling that a generation of children will grow up astonished at the fact that difficulties are not always brushed away with magical maps and obvious answers. <\/p>\n

DAY FIVE<\/h3>\n

Hard at work today, recutting temp music by Alexandre Desplat, who will be composing music<\/span> for The Gardener<\/em>. <\/p>\n

After lunch I went to a screening of The Runway<\/a><\/em>, a charming Irish film with Demi\u00e1n Bichir. As usual, he is superb, this time entirely in Spanish. He is actually a frighteningly good English speaker, and I will have to match his bilingualism if I am going to do proper service<\/span> to The Gardener<\/em> with the hispanophone press. I have been one of the few non-Spanish speakers in my extended family for long enough, and we must realize that we live in a bilingual country. When we shot The Gardener<\/em>, we were gringo, Puerto Rican (boricua), Spanish, Mexican, Filipino\u2014the works. <\/p>\n

\"\"Back to the office after the screening, and Christian McLaughlin, one of the producers, and Missy Stewart, the production designer, brought by the results of a photo shoot at Homeboy Industries, the gang intervention program run by Father Gregory Boyle and my homie Hector Verdugo. These guys do an incredible job in difficult and often dangerous situations and do so with extraordinary loving kindness (check out Father Boyle\u2019s new book Tattoos on the Heart<\/a><\/em>). They\u2019ve been helping my team deal with the gang elements of our story in a manner that is at once authentic and non-demonizing. And, as regards to culture, this is so important and so vital\u2014vital in the sense of life and death. Christian and Missy were showing me some photos of guys in the program, who have yet to remove the tattoos<\/span> showing their gang affiliations. The tattoos are, in a way, beautiful, often in terms of their aesthetic and the accomplishment of their line (they are never in color, other than black and blue), sometimes in the sheer holy terror that their all-encompassing nature inspires. Imagine a twenty-five-year-old with the name of his neighborhood gang emblazoned across his back, portraits of dead friends inscribed upon his chest, symbolic threats of death and cautions to silence engraved on his arms and legs, hardly an inch that is non-affiliated. Then the look in his eyes, because he has refused to kill somebody in prison and is, as a result, a marked man. That is culture, a culture, though hardly in the positive sense we like to cultivate.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Me, I\u2019m able to go home and not worry it overmuch; I\u2019ll be picking extras from the contact sheets over the weekend. Lucky enough to be white and well off, I launch myself into the empyrean, dipping into Marcus Chown\u2019s The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck<\/a><\/em>, a chapter about quantum theory. My mind wheezes and flops about, trying to get a handhold; I wish I had a mind for math and science but I simply don\u2019t, and I\u2019m not sure whether this was always so or because I gave over all of my neuroplasticity when I took the easy road and moved to England to take A-levels in English, ancient history, and art history. If I moved laterally in life, I would be a cook; if I could go back and do it again, I would be a physicist.<\/p>\n

Chris Weitz is a producer, writer, actor, and director. He is currently at work on <\/em>The Garderner, scheduled for release in 2011. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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