tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578728360904637566.post4538972092849241187..comments2024-01-11T03:09:43.960-08:00Comments on The Hills Are Burning: The Best Thing I Ever Bought.A.J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06280771470428710391noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578728360904637566.post-66936826459771594942014-04-24T16:05:25.602-07:002014-04-24T16:05:25.602-07:00At a certain point I just grip-clipped the duve to...At a certain point I just grip-clipped the duve to the curtain rods in my bedroom and left it there. Coming home from a night shoot, I'd drop it in place and be good to go. My bedroom didn't exactly look like House Beautiful, but that was fine by me.<br /><br />Of course -- like most young men at the time -- I had very low standards when it came to house beautification. Still do, even though I'm now far from young...<br /><br />There was nothing I could do about the heat, though -- a second-floor bedroom with no shade facing west turned into a sweat-box by early afternoon. There's nothing like awakening from a fever-dream about work just in time to... go to work.Michael Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02569781786039595929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578728360904637566.post-6103917648676317092014-04-18T15:31:20.431-07:002014-04-18T15:31:20.431-07:00Michael - Ah, yes. Duvetyne: the poor man's cu...Michael - Ah, yes. Duvetyne: the poor man's curtains. The problem with that, as well as the heat you mentioned, was that the last thing I wanted to do after working an all-nighter was tape duve to my windows. <br /><br />I don't mind the all-nighter jobs too much. It's when you're day playing and have to jump between the nights and day calls that kills me.A.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06280771470428710391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578728360904637566.post-81423542931853933792014-04-10T20:53:55.650-07:002014-04-10T20:53:55.650-07:00Duvateen -- "borrowed" from the grips an...Duvateen -- "borrowed" from the grips and hung inside my bedroom windows -- used to keep me comfortably in the dark during extended periods of night filming and day sleeping.<br /><br />That darkness helped a lot, but for me the real battle was heat -- fending off the thermonuclear rays of the brutal LA summer sun, which turned my bedroom into a Tandoori oven. Hard to sleep while sweating like a pig.<br /><br />Man, do I hate those all-nighters. If I never do another it will be much too soon... Michael Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02569781786039595929noreply@blogger.com