Monday, September 05, 2005                                              <back Carpetride Video Shoot..."L.A. Scenes"  Wow!..its been awhile since I posted anything in here. Hope you’re all doing well. (all 2 of you who actually read this thing haha! j/k) anyhow, to catch up, I’ve moved back to LA as planned and have been working my ass off as usual ;)&ldots;I really do love it here. I mean I miss the family and all back in NY of course but its good to be back. I’ve been working a lot in my studio in the downtown rehearsal building here in Los Angeles. Its like working in paradise compared to the studio I had in Jamaica Queens NYC back in the day, plus I got my lil office set up in here and have been working on the new “Manic Noize” Compilations, lots of good bands have been submitting songs for it! Some good stuff out there ;)   Anyways, over the next few weeks I will also be filming the “L.A. scenes" for the re-edited “Carpetride” video from Kreep (my former band) which for those of you who don't know is based on my near death experience I had in Hollywood, CA back in March of 2001 "KREEP Filming New Footage For "Carpetride" Video"&ldots;Although I left the band over a year ago ..the video and song’s entire meaning are extremely personal to me and I will keep filming these scenes until I finish. For the record Brett (Kreep) has always been supportive of that. . .Ian Brookfield will be editing all this footage I have amassed over the last year in New York and now in LA. Its taken like forever, because I wanted to wait until I got back here to L.A. to film footage in the areas where it actually occurred.  When we finish later this month, I will be entering the re-edited “Carpetride” video in the ION Film festival for the “Music video” category which will be held in early December in Los Angeles. www.ionfilmfestival.com So today (Labor Day) I started filming the "L.A. scenes" for “Carpetride” in Hollywood, CA. I filmed my first apartment on Cahuenga Blvd. over by the 101 fwy. I also went to the infamous “spot” it happened at! right there on Cherokee right in the heart of Hollywood. It was very surreal for me. This was the first time I actually came back here to the “spot” and checked it out by myself. . .I spent some time there and sat in the same place where I had my “out of body experience” etc. right where I saw myself lying in the street near death!!! Would you believe there was a cross embedded in the road where it happened! . .how crazy is that?! And then on the curb where I sat and had conversations with two people whom I believe were angels. . .(that’s right angels motherfuckers!) and while sitting there filming today I looked over my shoulder in the spot they were standing and saw painted on the sidewalk the words “Hollywood Undead” , now I don’t know what that is in reference to. . maybe name of a band or club,etc... but it was weird you know the coincidence of it being painted right there and all...I filmed during daylight because 2 yrs ago we tried to film there at night and they wouldn’t let us, we had to film across the street. These people could care less the night it happened. Instead of calling me an ambulance they shoved me in a taxi to get lost while I had blood pouring out my ears and head like a motherfucker. I could have and should have sued but...well you know. . .anyways, Karma is a bitch! I got some great footage today and to be honest it felt kinda weird revisiting "the spot" where I was almost murdered!!! To see the original 2003 version of "Carpetride" click link below: MANIC RECORDS - "Kreep Videos"