This week I’m in LA working on a new film project which we’re hoping to launch in late Summer. Burbank is very fond of telling you that it’s the real home of the tv and movie industry which we all associate with the more iconic-sounding Hollywood next door.

This is where they film The Tonight Show and the outside shots for Desperate Housewives. Mary Poppins and Pirates of the Carribean were also done here at the Disney studios.  This Happy Days publicity stares back at me when I open my hotel door.

We took a break from working this afternoon and went for a walk through the downtown area which they playfully describe as Burbank Village. It’s a ‘village’ in the way Milton Keynes is a city, ie in no shape or form. And like MK, it has an IKEA sitting all big and blue in the middle.

I spotted a second hand bookshop full of old film posters, magazines and film industry books. I think this is the only time I have ever seen Focal Press books from the late eighties on display anywhere.

Imagine my surprise when I spotted a dog-eared copy of Focal’s Video Camera Techniques on the shelf only to find handwritten in the front matter in swirly blue writing the words:

This book belongs to Q. Tarantino. You take it, you die.

Ah these crazy Hollywood types.