Windy Welly

I'm in Wellington! Yesterday we decided to drive to Miramar, (which is in Wellington) and see The Weta Cave, which is basically a museum with different Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, and District 9 props and prosthetics. It was so cool! Pretty small, but cool.

I asked the guy who worked there where the actual workshop was, and he said it was just behind the Weta Cave. I guess I expected Weta Workshop to be this huge massive complex, but it's really just a series of pushed together garage-looking places. And it's in an area of Wellington where there's not a lot of people. It kind of looks like Spanish Fork or something, which is strange because you'd think people would be buzzing around Weta all the time. At least I would.

Further down the road is Park Road Post Production Studios, which Jaron knows a thing or two about. After seeing if I could connive a way into Weta Workshop and then deciding against it, Amalia asked me if I "had a plan this time" for getting into Park Road. I didn't, really... but I did want to take a look around the lobby, at least. So we went in, and after a few minutes I walked up to reception and asked about Stephen Gallagher, the music editor guy I was supposed to meet the next day. She said "Ah, you know Steve! He's here right now actually, do you want me to call him?" And I said "Suuuuuuurrree...." So she did. He came down a few minutes later and got us some orange juice (the extra pulpy delicious kind) and walked us around the studio. Really nice guy. And I'm meeting him for lunch next week to talk more!

On our way around the studio we ran into Mike Hedges. He's a giant in the film music world. He is an oscar winner for his work on Lord of the Rings. He was super nice and super gigantic. I'm going to say 6'5". The whole time it was kind of like that, running into really talented, friendly chaps. I don't think a single person ever walked by without Stephen saying "Hey, so-and-so, how goes it today?" Just great.

So I decided to be bold and ask about job openings at Park Road. The lady at reception gave me a top secret e-mail address and said to mention that I knew Stephen. So that's what I did. I'll be sure to keep you posted on that.

And sorry about not getting out the news about me being okay... I guess it's strange when you don't really have television anywhere, and internet only sometime... we had heard about the earthquake but didn't know how big it was until later. We'll probably steer clear of Christchurch for a while.