Max Records. Awsome name. Fact.

The last few weeks have been very hectic. Interesting and stressful, and hectic to no end.

Comic Relief had taken over at one point, both very exciting and bewildering with the masses of people (crew) who took part - alas it was a good experience to witness it behind the camera.

I also learned that I (among the rest of the crew) were to be ''let go''...not in redundancy tragic stakes (because we are freelance workers) but that production was to cease earlier than planned, with an unforseen return to the small screen. So sad. Just as we were all starting to get along.

On that flip side the weather has been stuplendous in London. Absolutely gorgeous. It suits this city fo sho - everyone is happy, beautiful and London just thrives - it (and all those who reside) does so much better with a warm golden start to the day.

I have also finished (finally) Dan Browns fantastic Angels and Demons. It was so worth the long two months I was reading it for. Work commitments get in the way and really do make it hard to read. Fact. I can't wait to see the book on screen though, I liked The Da Vinci Code - but I only liked the the book version also...so hopefully the prequel will be an all round better deliverence.

I have started a new one mind *Beyonce style: to the right to the right* --->

The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Nifenegger - great name. But not as great as MAX RECORDS! (below in my 'Films 2009 to Watch' Where the Wild things Are)

I wish my child (if I had one...which I dont) had a cool name like that...but this would involve finding a partner with a cool last name...like SASHA* PAYNE or sasha BASE or sasha BOND or or ...or sasha ICE...woe I need to get to first base with a boy first...**

Besides the point, this awsomely named child Max Records (seen in poster above with one of the wild things Forrest Whittaker is voicing!) is taking the lead role as naughty mischievious Max who as I recall...chased his (silly) dog with a fork. Like in the film poster (above) Max has donned his Wolf suit, and after a raucous play, he is sent to his room without supper...(as an avid food lover all my life, that part really got to me, no lie) I read the book back in primary school around reception year - and I remember being scared and curious about these 'Wild Things'. They were hidious drawings -

- and I don't remember being fond of Max either - favouring him as naughty for running away and having fun. See I love food, and back then I couldn't understand why he would make it harder for himself to get his dinner by running away to play with beasts!?

Having flicked through the (10 sentenced!!!) book recently with my brother (he confessed he was once scared of the pictures also) we came to the conclusion that it was actually a great story - conveying the displaced stubborn anger and tantrums young children feel. The wild things, and where they were, was simply a metaphor or visual spectacle for Max's internal 'dark place' (hence the film poster tag line: there's one in all of us) - and I have now come to the notion that in fact what happened was - he fell asleep (dreamed of this wild place), woke up half an hour later feeling less angry and more sorrowful - and found hot food waiting for him - as I always did.

*I stole sasha as my first boys name from my big sister...because back then I wanted to do everything she did...since then 17 years later not so much...but the name Sasha stuck as a fave.

**I have actually been to first base. I have actually had a partner...dont judge me.