April 26th,27th,28th
Spend the rest of the weekend in N.Y with Maggie and her
chaperone Maria, the tattooed lady, Gonzales. Escape back
to London on the night of the 28th.
April 25th Off to N.Y, land and meet GF Maggie Wang. Go to Cousins
Entertainment for a meeting with Stuart Parr and his assistant
Luca to sort out the Eminem tour book
for Europe and Japan.
Then over to Harris publications to see Brad Tolinski,
he shows me the new Guitar World cover with Jimmy Page
which looks great. Brad wants me
to shoot Aerosmith
and Kiss together for a summer cover.
April 24th
London. Back to reality. Dave Brolan from Q Magazine comes
to my house, spends the day going blind picking out photos
for a Kerrang/Q special issue of Metallica.
There are some very nice photos of Lars painted silver with a metal cake.
April 23rd
At 1:30am, I am in Longs Bar where Queer Dave is drunk
and idiot dancing on his own. Vivi, Laurance and I watch
this fantastic entertainment. I must remember
to remind him when he wakes up.
Wake up, take great pleasure in telling
Q.D in great detail what he was doing.
4:40 flight back to London. Fly over Shiraz then the Zagro's mountains which
are huge and run along most of Iran
April 22nd
Get up at 4:15am, drive half way to Oman to the huge
sand dunes. This is the first time I've shot them at
dawn. The sun comes up at 6 but it's hazy, don't
get any good light until 7:30. It's still great as
we are the only people out here. Get some good stuff,
I'll post them on my travel page.
A big thank you to
Vivi Janingrum, concierge of the Ritz Carlton
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Go to the beach
with Laurence(the naked man), Queer Dave(back from
secret missions) and Nicholas Marmol.
Late afternoon, go to Krarma(I may have spelled
wrongly), Indian area of Dubai. You can buy copy anything
watches, DVDs etc,etc. Take a picture of
DFC
chicken restaurant (it stands for Damascus Fried Chicken).
Go over to see Vivi at the Ritz for a drink in the evening.
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April 20th
Wake up over Iran, try and fail to chat up a very
nice air
hostess called In Hee... The hotel is the Jumeirah Beach
which is like a super deluxe Las Vegas hotel, it has everything
including
(unfortunately) a lot of English tourists. I hate the place.
Anyway, still better than being in London.
April 19th
Easter. I hate all religious holidays, Christmas included.
So I'm off to Dubai. With some very stupid people
asking "why are you going to a war zone?"
April 17th
Overcast cold day. See Eddie Williamson from Ozzy's
office who gives me a nice pair of Ozzy slippers. As
I check out from my hotel, get presented with
a huge bar bill for 50 absolute vodka and orange juice. As I don't
drink this I point out that this is absolute BOLLOCKS. Check out, get
6pm flight back to London.
April 16th
My friend(?), unhappy Jack aka Matt Kent, birthday.
Happy birthday for unhappy Jack from Kazuyo and I (we LOVE
you
XXX).
Think I'm shooting Fred around L.A. Of course
by the time the management get involved this is not going
to happen.
End up back at Fred's office exactly
the
same as the week before but I must say Fred was charming and easy to shoot. April 15th
Got a call last night to ask me to go back to L.A to
shoot Fred Durst again so here I am on United 935 heading
back
to L.A.
April 13th
Meet up with Jimmy Page at my house to pick
out photos for the 5.1 DVD segment of the new Zeppelin live
CD "How
The West Was Won". Choose some very nice unseen Jim
Marshall photos from the actual show. Very nice day so
go off to Wimbledon for lunch.
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