I keep meaning to write a blog post and then failing miserably. I’m getting into a bit of a passive phase with the internets – instead of generating content, I’m just watching YouTube videos and ending up on the other side of epic, pointless Google searches that start with something simple like ‘Attack The Block screening times’ and end with a Wikipedia marathon on the moon landings. Must improve!

It’s been great to be back in New York – I truly felt like I was back only after smelling the real smell of NYC though: a stinky dive bar. It’s the combination of stale beer and disinfectant that you just don’t get in nicer places. I was walking past a divey place on 2nd Ave last night and smelled it, and suddenly I felt at home again.

Since I got back I’ve not done a huge amount other than working and (finally) unpacking – I got my suitcase back, yay! – but I did bag a day doing background on a new CBS crime drama called ‘The 2-2′ which is coming out in the fall season. I think I’m going to be in the very first episode, although you probably won’t see me much. I did get to be a crime scene tech though, pretending to take pictures outside the building where a murder happened, so that was more fun that my usual stuff. Me and the other background people I was with were having a great time coming up with our own dialogue and storyline:

Me: So, yeah, here are the pictures. Let’s look at them for a while so we can buy time before we hit our next mark. Check out the intestines!

Cop: Oh man, that’s a good one. Look at the guts on the floor!

Me: Yeah I know! Speaking of, I’m starving. What’s for lunch?

Yes, we’re juvenile. But it stops you getting bored. Also I should point out that my camera was a broken FILM camera, so we couldn’t have even looked at (or taken) pictures if we wanted to.

This weekend I’ll be doing the Pub Crawl (join me!), which was featured on an Australian national radio station earlier in the month. I was one of the guides that day so you can here my dulcet tones here. I sound a tiny bit American in places, which is worrying, but I don’t really worry too much about it any more. My accent wanders depending on where I am and who I’m talking to, but it’s managed to stay pretty solidly English in the last 6 years so I don’t think it’s going to go anywhere.

I’m also reviewing three (yes, three!) shows in the Fringe Festival this year for nytheatre.com, one of which I’ve already seen. Been fun to dust off the reviewing chops again after a bit of a break.

That’s it for now!