A game of dominos

It's midway through Eric's shoot. The morning was spent driving around Williamsburg in a car rig. I wasn't there but I heard the van was hot. One of the actos was on the verge of passing out, or so I heard. I arrived on set in Queens for the second half of the day at 2.30. The morning shoot ran late and the camera and the director didn't arrive until two hours later.

The day proved long, but the footage looks great. Nerves were fraying however. On breaks between shots, as the camera and lighting departments were resetting, Tim taught me how to play dominoes. He had just taught Amelia, the head of the costume department, and we sat on the back porch and played my first hands. When she was called away, Jo, the woman who played the mother, sat in.

Call it beginner's luck, but I won my first game. After a number of rounds, I was up, with ten points to 100. We had just finished a round and I joked that all I needed was to lead with the double five tile. Generally, the person with the double six tile starts. If no one has drawn that tile, the next double tile plays. After we had drawn, Tim asked who had the double sixes. No one did. I looked at my hand and opened the game. The game was over. I had played the double five making my score an even 100. Posted by eku at July 18, 2004 12:47 AM