500 – 1,000 dollars a piece… We decided to go down the street and get some 5 dollar malts. For pictures of my malt, and some antique and vintage stuff, click the link.

There’s two glasses worth of strawberry malt in there. With real chunks of strawberry in it.

There was a record player in the other half of the tv cabinet.

My brother Eamon was hired to be an extra in a TG4 production known as Ealu II, a series of recreations of famous prison breakouts from Irish prisons, mostly during the early 20th century (That’s 1900′s) It features stories from both male and female prisoners, and from what I’ve seen today, it looks really good.

Pictures and more info after the jump.

Eamon in costume, with the getaway vehicle.

Shaun Coyle playing the character Tom Malone (Who annoyingly doesn’t have a wikipedia page) who’s one of the main people in the show.

The director Paddy Hayes, and the cameraman. Epic lighting. And if you click through to Paddy’s page, you’ll get some more info about the project.

Action shot!

One of the best costumed extras of the day. Unfortunately, we weren’t involved in the same scene as the prison guards. We were involved in a scene where Shaun jumped off a wall and Eamon was his escape partner.

My apologies to the man in the picture above, I forgot to get your name. If you comment below I’ll be sure to add your name to the list of the great and the small listed above.

Thanks for the opportunity to check out a production in progress to TG4, Paddy Hayes and the whole crew.

It’s called “Blood, Fire and Spades in Castlefinn City”. If anything comes of it I’ll definitely let youse all know.

Nikki, my industry mentor, suggested that I get Final Draft 7, the industry standard program for writing screenplays, plays and TV shows. It’s fantastic software, and anyone who wants to be a writer and has an extra 200-300 dollars lying about, get your hands on it.

Oh yeah, the picture.

So, on Monday my dad was working around the house of this woman, he’s in telecommunications contracting just so you know, and they got to chatting. She mentioned that she was a First Assistant Director on several popular TV shows in the UK. He then proceeded to talk her ear off for the next hour or so about me, and my media experience. She was very interested, she gave my pa her number to give to me [are you keeping up?] he texted it to me, I left a message on her voicemail, and then settled into bed, ready to try again on wednesday evening, today.

My phone rang, it was her, and we proceeded to talk for around 90 minutes about the industry, what I wanted to do, her work, my work….

She called me “Babe” and said that she could be the first entry in my “little black book”. It was exactly the sort of conversation I envisioned having with someone in the business we call show. A business with no equal apparently.

So I’ve been writing and reading my previous works, editing and refining and picking out my best work. It’s been a busy few days, but it could very easily be very, very worth it.

You know, it’s like I never left.

Still… nice to be home.