the chin up bars we found

Met at Westside first to meet with the Westside people and talk about Asking for Trouble. Told the long story of my life and Westside Circus. It’s so epic… It was good to do but lasted longer than we expected and shortened our training time.

Instead of training we went on another mission in Nona to find chin-up bars. I knew they were there…but where? Driving and then wandering around Melbourne’s parks. Christy and I ended up walking together across Princess Park while Luke went back to get Nona. The sunshine and the afternoon light and a good conversation about how we’re going.

Finally chin-up bars and both of them swinging, climbing, turning on them, us filming with the lap-top and the funny joggers, random drunks and teenagers passing us by. Thumbs up from one group of teenagers and Christy, upside down on the bars said,
“It’s the 80’s all over again!”

Afterwards we sat in Nona and talked ideas. So many of them. For structure, character, themes….we want to tell the story in vignettes. Luke is really interested in the secret world of the person who imagines they are a superhero but the rest of the world doesn’t know. I am really interested in the imaginative energy of a team of kids who wildly make up adventures as they go along ‘then suddenly a massive wave comes and crashes us down..’ ‘yeah and were all bruised but really tough then we have to race across the desert’ ‘Yeah, because otherwise…’ and its funny because for both of us we are remembering something very specific from our childhood and we want to capture both of those energies in the show.

We’re interested in these hilarious characters we are beginning to create and also in our own voices telling stories and in the voices of the people we interview – either recorded or learned by us verbatim.

We sit in the truck and make discoveries about what each other think and we think out loud and come up with new ideas. Go to a café and eat too much food while we watch the footage of what we have made so far. Arrive at tumbling together in a jumble of conversations.