Recording...

Yesterday I felt like I turned on my camera and that there was a purpose behind hitting record, like I might actually use the footage…this is a good sign! Tomorrow this could change, but for now I’m feeling like the story is revealing itself – it's just being deligent in capturing it. One of the stories might take me to Turkey in the next couple of weeks, another story would reunite me with somebody I interviewed in Kosovo six years ago…we’ll see what they think about the idea this Friday.

It’s difficult, because I want to tell the story of Kosovo, but without offending the masses in this region, without getting too deep into war stories, and within the next two months. I think the three stories I’m looking to tell will allow me to do this, but you don’t really know until you’ve committed a fair amount of time, and by then it would be too late to turn around trying to find a new story. My largest sponsor just emailed me and put the heat on as far as deadlines. I think the pressure is good, as long as the story is there, but if in a month it looks like one of the stories is dying….I need something to fall back on…maybe I could turn this into a reality show – “The Kosovar Bachelor”

(As I type this I am being graced with the song “ F… It ” by Eamon – wow…American music…I think these people are actually anti-artists – their music stifles creativity. It’s this slow poisoning of the mind that leads to other forms of corruption…at least I have over 15 hours of Bob Dylan on my laptop!)

Rush-hour on the Kosovar Autobahn