Diary of a Blonde.

Yes, the time has come, I now have a YouTube Channel. You can find me under Nadine Svea and watch me talk about random things. Like the fact that I now have lavender hair and am a Fairy. Things like that happen.
There's also a blog that goes along with it: Blonde Girl Diary

Well, I think that's it about now. There were so many things happening during the last time, but it's just too late to list them all. Shootings, missed deadlines, but still so much joy at the same time. Kali is leaving in 17 days. Omar is going to move in! That's going to be fun! I'm actually excited.
Anyway.
I will go now.
I will leave you with a link to my video. Some of you will realize: I haven't changed that much at all. Except that my hair is now lavender.


Lot's of love,
Nadine

Europe.

I just watched 'Blue is the warmest color' - 'La vie d'Adèle' and of all the things be the end of the movie, I felt one thing, more than anything else:
I miss Europe.
It's the scene where she just walked out of the Gallery, she lights a cigarette and walks down the street. It's summer you can feel it, and suddenly I'm filled with the memory of that certain smell, a smell you'll never have here. After a warm, maybe even hot summer day, out, when it cools down in the streets and you walk home, there's a certain smell. I miss that smell. That very specific smell.

#SELFIE

I am way to into this right now! Hahaha

Oscars.

I guess I'm supposed to give my opinion about the Oscars last night; Was Elle's hosting brilliant or boring? Did Jennifer Lawrence trip accidentally or was it publicity? What do I think about Jared Leto and what about Leonardo DiCaprio? But honestly… If you want opinions about those things, there are more than enough on the internet already, so I'm not going to do that. Everyone who's watched it has their own point of view, so there you go. Instead I'll remember the night where I had the pleasure of watching one of Hollywoods greatest nights being surrounded by people that I adore deeply, drinking wine, eating lots of Pizza and getting another producer on board for my short film. Not a bad night at all. A truly wonderful night to be completely honest.
Now I'm back in real life, doing translations, working on a re-write of the script and preparing for two meetings tomorrow.
Kali is gone, so the apartment is empty - that's rather strange. And everyone is making their plans. Robert is moving back to England in April, Sara is planning her trip to Spain in July and Kali, after India, will be going to Paris for a while. Everything is changing. A friend of mine used to say that it's hard to find friends in this city who will really stick, and it's true. It's even weirder when you sincerely believe that you've found the best of them all and then are faced with them leaving. Granted, Sara and Kali are coming back, but you never know for how long. And to be completely honest, I am not planning on staying here forever either. I'm a European at heart and that's where I want to go. That's where I want to be. But one step at a time.
For now, let's honor the winners and nominee's of this great year of film (it really was exceptional) and continue creating. For the future will lead us where it has to.

The big Storm.

I have to admit; I was laughing when I heard the news that the "year's biggest storm" was heading our way, with a quarter of an inch of rainfall.
First of all, a quarter of an inch, compared to where I'm from, is NOTHING, secondly; when does it ever rain in LA?
Wednesday came along and it started raining. I thought that was it, and I was laughing again, then, I think it was the same night, it started storming. I was literally sitting outside watching it, because I have missed it so much, but that was just a storm, a nice little storm, nothing more.
Today is Friday, the rain has passed, but DAMN! that was a storm. Not a long one, but seriously, I have never in my life heard thunder that loud, and I have heard a lot of thunder. Within 10 minutes it was pouring and it wouldn't stop.
I was too amused about the fact, that I got a text saying: "When we heard the thunder we thought we were being shot, so LA.", because that was exactly what was going through my mind. It sounded like a bomb just hit. Bunny was shaking and Luigi was not to be gotten out from under the bed. It was perfect timing to leave the house and switch cars. I got SnapChats from people running in the rain, commenting about thunder and it was wonderful. I have never seen this before, and I come from a pretty rainy country. I mean google Switzerland, I'm sure they'll tell you that there's a lot of rain.
Anyway. That was basically it. Luigi is still under the bed. Bunny demanded to go outside (I mean, she's a stubborn little thing and I'm aware of that, but what bunny in it's right mind would demand to sit outside in a thunderstorm?). Now everything seems calm, the roads are still wet, but apart from that, there's no more trace of the epicnes that happened.
In conclusion, maybe I shouldn't have laughed as hard as I did (actually I should have, you should have seen the reactions to this apparent Storm of a century), but this was wonderful. I miss the rain, I'm glad I had it back for a bit.

History and Journalism.

I find it funny. I'm currently translating a history book and it seems that one side of me is reacting really highly to this: My Journalist side. I remember when I worked for the papers and all they told me is: Use as little adjectives as possible. It is about the story, not what you try to make it to be. Try and get the word count by actually telling something, and then, when there's nothing more to tell, you can add in the adjectives. Fill it up till there's nothing left.
Well this thing is filled with adjectives and all that goes through my mind constantly is: Why? Because I have to say, the story is actually interesting, I mean, it's history for Christ's sake, so why are there so many adjectives? Why do you have to sell it so hard. So I battle my every instinct to just cut all of them out. In the end I get paid to translate what's on a page, not to write what I want. Not yet.

Heros and Role Models.

Yes, I am very well aware that it's already 3 AM in the morning again, but hey, I'm working and it has been a while since it felt that good.
We've had our first Production Meeting for What about us? today, and it got me into different spheres.

(how I like color coordinating things, it makes everything look so much prettier)

There have been a lot of good things happening. On my wall is now a giant calendar with the Deadlines for Screenwriting contests and then there's of course the short, the Feature I still have in my back pocket, the web series and the translating. No thinking, doing. If I try to look too far into the future I'll collapse, I won't be able to do anything, so right now I'm doing May. May is possible to plan.

(Scott Neustadter, Julie Delpy and Bob Nelson at the Film Independent Directors Close-Up)

And then of course there are the directors close-ups. I met Julie Delpy, it made my life good, very good, to see this wonderful, wonderful woman that seems to be as frantic as I am, a woman who just does, a woman that inspires me. Julie Delpy. She doesn't hold back and she was in this room full of men and she was just herself. No, I'm still not over it, I don't think I'll be for a while.
And than there was Scott Neustadter, a guy, I have to admit, I fell in love with. He seemed to have so much ease and love for what he was doing.
Okay, before I now go on writing forever (because I will), I should probably go to bed.
Enjoy your weekend.
Love, Nadine