I'm now back at home after doing my second radio interview about Grimhilda! in a week. The first was with Owen Rooney last Thursday morning - the day before Grimhilda! opened. The second was earlier tonight, with Donald Saville-Cook. It took place in exactly the same studio, at Radio Dunedin. I've learned a bit about Radio Dunedin over the last week or so; it's always good to know more about your local community.
To my surprise, I've found both the interviews quite enjoyable, and I was a lot more relaxed than I thought I'd be. It helped that I was talking about something which I'm thoroughly familiar with. If I'd been working on a subject about which I knew a great deal less, things might have been different...
On a totally different tack, I've been looking on my computer for something relating to a motorcycle helmet. Surprisingly there's very little there. A comment about purchasing Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance while we were in England in 2007 - I never actually read more than a few chapters before I gave it up as taking itself too seriously for its own good, and sold it on Trade Me. It's a very popular book, but I wonder how many people actually get all the way through it - a bit like War and Peace in that sense!
One other reference was to an incident in Barcelona - this was in the same year, 2007. I was wandering back to the place we were staying in when I sort of got caught up in a piece of moviemaking. The film crew were filming a supposed robbery in which the robbers got away on a motorcycle. The driver of the motorcycle had a helmet with horns on it for some reason. Every time they filmed the robber running out of the building with the loot and getting away on the bike, the two of them had to go right round the block to get back again, because they were being filmed in a one-way street. Not only that there was a cameraman on the back of a second bike, and of course they had to go round the block as well. Such are the joys of moviemaking.
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