After I woke up and got ready, Chelsea and I met up with Keen (a rapper and a friend that use to live in Philly) and Luca (a rapper from Italy I just met) and we drove out to B-Real from Cypress Hill's Studio. My job was to film a live web-cast of their B-Real TV 420 show.
As soon as we walked in, you could smell the 'stuff' in the air. After we introduced ourselves, they soon lit up a joint and passed it around. Everyone there was cool and down to earth. After meeting everyone, I was then put to work to make sure everything was setup for their web-cast. After an hour of trouble-shooting, I finally got the setup working. Then came 4:20, show kick-off time of course. It was a test show so the format was pretty loose but it was basically B-Real, D (I think), and Keen in front of the camera, as I was behind the camera. Fans and fellow 'Killer Army' members could write in questions in the chat room as they watched and Keen would read them out loud as B-Real and D would answer them. Most of the topics dealt with his music and Ms. Mary Jane.
It was an entertaining experience, as well as an entertaining show. It lasted about a half hour and I'll admit, after spending a few hours in that studio, my head started to feel a little loose.
After the filming, Chelsea and I decided to grab some fresh air and some food. So I took Keen's car and went to a local Pizza joint, where the concrete floor was littered with peanut shells. The pizza was pretty good though.
When we returned, Luca asked me to film some in-studio footage of him and B-Real rapping for a music video. Luca and B-Real collaborated on a track that ended up being remixed and used in the new 'Fast and Furious' film. We did a few shot setups, such as a mock recording session and some hallway shots. The final product is going to consist of an edit of the footage I shot and some footage already shot in Italy. So be on the lookout for this video.
While we had some time to kill, we watched 'From G's to Gents' with J (their sound engineer I think). J was funny as we made our own commentary for the show. I have never seen this show and this was the finale. It was between some tall black dude, and some little white guy. After a passionate speech, the white guy won, and cried, and of course that made Chelsea want to cry.
As I packed my things to go, Xzibit came walking into the studio. I introduced myself and had the pleasure of listening to a few tracks he's been working on. He was really nice and pleasant.
We left around 8pm and headed back to North Hollywood. About 2 minutes down the road, Keen noticed her check engine light was on and that her temperature gauge was in the red. She quickly pulled over and popped the hood. Luca, Keen, and I examined her engine and noticed that the coolant cap was off. It must have built a lot of pressure at some point and popped off. Needless to say, there was no fluid. So we drove to a gas station and filled it up with coolant and water, thinking that would solve the problem. It didn't. The temperature gauge still read high. After a few phone calls and some deliberation, Keen accepted the car's fate and got a tow truck to come out and tow it to the nearest dealership.
Fortunately for us, my friend Lisa was in town and she had planned to visit me so she was also in the area. She and Flitz came and picked us up. We dropped Keen and Luca off at Keen's house and picked up some friends of Flitz's. The six of us then drove to a Thai place for a late dinner. After some food and good conversation, we called it a night.
Today was my fourth day here and it became a four twenty day and I don't even smoke.
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