Australia 0 Italy 1

:( :( :(
I can’t believe it. Fuck that penalty! Bullshit. Very upset. I am proud we got that far but not happy with how we went out. 3 Min's of extra time and at 93:28 seconds they get a penalty, should have been a yellow for diving...

the last couple of days I haven’t done so much, just been chilling at Ajay's mostly, going out a bit. my friend Lyndie got the lead in this movie which is cool. i might still be going to the streets concert if my mate josh can get the tickets of the net.

So, what has the atmosphere been like for the world cup games with Australia? I had forgotten how attractive Australian women are until we started going to this Australian pub for all the Australia world cup games. believe this or not; $7(us) for a bottle of- Boags premium!!!!!! how crazy is that! that really means $8 because you have to tip $1 for every drink you get.\

Melbourne victory has on the preseason cup beating, grand finalists CC Mariners, young Socceroos and Yatai something (Chinese team) wooooooo good MV, and Alsop has been scoring goals too! ...and we bought a "exciting" left midfielder from overseas. In case you didn't know (or care) we also got two Brazilian strikers. It's a pity that I am going to miss the season, but props to Marcus and Aiden who are getting memberships, great work boys!!

Jake.

testing photos

Editors note: this did not work Jake- email me the pics OR download them to your PC first then upload them.

hey, these arent photos i took, ones that were sent to me:

click on these to see some photos,
1. walking in the met museaum with sarah and nissian etc... wedding day.
2. me and kerri at the wrap party for the film.


oh, and marcus:
i dont miss Fifa, i miss you me and aiden playing it together, i miss that brothers from different mothers shit :P

close call

Yesterday was interesting- I got hardcore scammed, for $25. He (the scammer) deserved the cash after a great performance so I am not so sad, and besides I have no chance going to war with the Canal St hustlers- so what can I do?

One of the scenes we did for the shoot was of these "coke whores" and they used my credit card as a prop for this one scene, anyway there were so many takes of this scene that my credit card got a little damaged. Last night I went to dinner with Angelo and I said I would pay but I didn't have as much money as I thought- I had forgotten about a certain $25!

So he's broke- it is 11- and the place is waiting for us to leave so it can close. Angelo is sitting there being the victim of like 5 Chinese workers angry stares while I am running around Chinatown looking for an ATM that works. I tried 5 and for some reason they wouldn’t accept my card, I thought it was because of the excessive use of the card in the coke scene. I had around $5 of change to my name and was a little worried that I would have to survive on that till I could get a new card or something like that, but luckily today my card was working again….

I am off to watch some World Cup action.

ciao ciao

australia 0 brazil 2

what a game, although we lost I don’t think the score really does reflect the game. I was at the eight mile creek pub (Australian pub) on mulberry st. there were hundreds of Aussies there and it was cool, Still wished I was watching it with my friends, but I was there with Steve, Sarah, Luke, his dad, Christian, some cool Scottish guy, koala Jack and a few others.

I had great bacon and eggs, brilliant, just not enough bacon.

The last few days, I have been going out a bit, Watching football. I made $100 yesterday. The unit production manager from the film ashes asked me to work with him on this job for yahoo music. Pretty simple work, just walking around the street looking for the "right" people and asking them and then briefing them on some topics we wanted them to talk about in front of the camera. when we were finished we went for a beer, then met up with Attila, Brian, Chad, Laset etc.. For more drinks, we found a cheap place called cheap shots which had $2 pots, the cheapest I have seen in NY by far.

so we drank there for ages, then me and Brian in our state thought we would go to this strip club to meet a friend of his who works there, but we ended up stumbling into a gay bar (apparently the club had moved locations). Then we went to this fancy bar, with heaps of open rooms and attractive young rich people.

I am sooo lucky, i move out of the actors loft on Wednesday and move straight into Ajay Naidu’s (the director/writer/star) apartment in the trendy east village for the rest of my stay here, he is of to LA with his girlfriend, she is there to work on this new big budget TV series. So things are cool right now. I just don’t want to leave for London, but I will have too so I can land in LA right at the start of the shoot there. i don’t want to have to leave half way through the shoot, it is to big a movie to do something like that.

bring on Croatia!!!!!!!!!

Australia 3!!!!!!!!!

My god! That game was incredible. I was at an Aussie bar with Steve, Jack, Luke etc... (Aussie guys) but i wished so much I could have been in oz for that game, with Marcus, Aiden etc... It was incredible, i couldn't even cry i was so happy insane!!!!!!! I cant find the words to describe it...

We finished shooting yesterday and we had a big wrap party which was fun. It has been a long time since I have posted so allow me to think for a second... It has been the craziest week, I say this every time but each week tops the others. Lots of crazy stories to tell but this isn’t the right place for some of them. The free apartment is fantastic!! Although the dream will end soon when i have to leave it. We have had some cool locations, namely the three story penthouse near times square, we had a fun party there after, crazy.

We shot on Coney island "warriors, come out and play!" and this huge club in Chelsea. I know i am going to miss the crew, everyone on the shoot rocked!! Every single person i liked a lot! And hopefully i will get to work with them again at some point. It is almost really emotional.(whatever that means -editor thomasr)

Australia vs Japan, the crew, NY, music, people I have met, things i have done, places i have been, it is just insane how alive I feel (I am sorry, a little drunk from watching the Germany vs Poland game so that is why i am writing in this whatever..) I miss chilling out with my amazing friends, i miss my family too. Little Louis, the coolest cat around. I tell lots of people about my little bro. I am glad to hear dads shoulder is getting better, you're a tough guy and i know you can deal with it so i am not so worried, like i was with the first shoulder surgery.

I have finished the shoot now and i am thinking about how i should keep my self busy, for the next few days at least i will occupy my time with world cup!!! Drinking, gym and Roosevelt Island.

I don’t want to leave NY for London, but; the show must move I guess :( then after that, to Hollywood I’m going to make a movie staring Selma Blair, Mathew Perry, Robert Downey jnr, and maybe Rob Lowe. That will be another crazy adventure I’m am sure. And since the movie is much more unionised and regulated I will have to try and curb my "crazy side" and play it a little quieter... And discrete.

Steve got back from Hawaii with Sarah so I have seen him recently. My bike got stolen about a week ago but such is the way of the city. Now I am freer, I will try and keep this blog more up to date. It was funny today, I was waling home from the game and i saw Josh, the sound guy from the shoot, he was talking to this Greenpeace chick- which was very fitting- then out of know where I saw Nate, one of the g&e guys from the film, he was in the middle of shooting a documentary of coffee in NY so me and josh got interviewed and i was quite drunk from the bar so I don’t remember if I said stupid stuff or not but it was a cool coincidence for us to meet at this spot. We shot this one scene at this huge club and it was funny as I had to block (walk the actors through the sequencing) the actors through this scene, where they come in sit down rack up lines and fake snort them, I had to show them how to breath out so the line disappeared but yet looked like they had snorted it (sweet n' low) and the sequencing of movement and who pulls out the credit card etc.. It was kind of funny, but cool as this is usuallythe role of the director or 1st AD.

ANYHOO:
3-1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jake.

Ohhhh yeahhh!!

hello,

check it: i got to my hostel at like 11PM after a looong day to find
they were booked out completely, so i had to get all my bags,
everything i own and ride in the rain looking for another hostel. i
find one and manage to get one night there. i go to my dorm, tired
scrap that, exhausted to find three European girls having a pajama
party eating pizza; usually i would be very happy to find my room
inhabited by attractive pizza eating euro girls, but not last night.
they kept me awake till like 3 in the morning; my alarm set for
4:30AM... i wake up at like 7am so i am already one hour late for
work. i find that my alarm is switched off, one of the girls had woken
up and turned of my alarm before it could wake me up, biatch. i get to
work at abut 8:30am i think and Bridget (art director) isn't able to
be there again so for 17 hours i was props, production assistant, 2nd
assistant camera, production designer, art and assistant art director.
i literally fell asleep leaning on a table by the end of the day, but
i worked hard and felt pleasure in doing so. today i feel great!
really tired but great. i moved into this huge apartment/loft on
Broadway st in Soho, just below spring street. (the hippest, coolest
location in NY) Attila, 1st Assistant Director joins me tomorrow and
we are staying there for a month or so. Attila is a legend!!! soo
funny, and i don't even know why but he is. i am right around the
corner from all the places i was traveling to when i lived in Chelsea,
it is the best thing that has happened to me yet in NY, getting this
place. tonight i am going to go get some dinner (i haven't eaten all
day) then at 10 i am going to go out for drinks with Lyndie, a cool
girl i met last weekend.
just curious, does anyone read my blog anymore? i ask because i
haven't really had a chance to keep it nice and updated, this last
week i have been literally finishing work and going straight to bed,
waking up and going straight to work, no down time at all.

Jake.