That's a fascinating story of your experience in the early days of hip-hop. The fact your work has been deleted speaks volumes. I agree it's likely part of a coordinated (leftist) push to divide people. And thus they work now to delete examples of 'diverse' people working & making music together. This just shows how fake & insincere wokism & DEI really are. The whole satanism angle now in hip-hop looks artificial, as though brought in from outside.
That's amazing how you were directing music videos in your early 20s, & even more your moving on from that without regret or recrimination. There are so many who went to film school wanting that, & should now see they dodged a bullet unintentionally. Best of luck to you!
Not to mention that none of them, blackmailed and/or blackmailers, want to go to jail. They scapegoat a few people they're probably pissed at anyway, just to let off some public steam, and then they shut it down. It's the same with Congressional hearings where they make a show then turn it over to the DOJ to do nothing further.
I co-produced and was production designer with (the late) director Gary Keys of IT’S RAINING MEN with the Weather Girls 1/2 half of which was the fabulous singer Martha Wash— the hidden voice for so many later hits. Gary used to call the Springs the Lionel Hamptons, because of the black enclave there. The vid was not allowed on MTV at the time— as you know it was early MTV, and they wanted to be national— so to cultivate the southern states, no one of color was to be seen. That roadblock was only broken by Columbia Records threatening to withhold ALL their videos if MTV wouldn’t show the vids for THRILLER, which of course included the mega vid hits BILLIE JEAN & BEAT IT, as well as the title track. THAT’s what opened the door. But at the time of Raining Men we had radio dj’s calling for their public to boycott MTV because it wasn’t playing it.
LOL, yes, the “Lionel Hamptons” hahaha. I remember that.
I was actually an intern at MTV when ‘Thriller’ was going down and I was appalled at the racism at MTV and very happy to be a part of making ‘Yo! MTV Raps’, the most successful show in that network’s history, to date.
Yes, I remember the racism connected to It's Rain Men and the raw deal Martha Wash got as "the hidden voice."
I believe part of the problem with Its RainMen video was the size issue. Fat women were just not shown much on any TV shows back then and didnt fit with style conscious MTV.
omg hallelujah & a'men! (THAT is one'a the most WONDERFUL campy music viddeos evah--an' the production design wuz absolootly--fabulous!) thank ya! (or I guess now it's thanks fer the memories!)
What was scarier is that the Daily Dot wrote a hit piece on me quoting some guy I’ve never heard of claiming that I never worked at MTV or at “Yo!”
I chose to ignore it, rather than get embroiled with some CIA-front Scum of the Earth.
So scary to be deleted and then lied-about. For what, exactly?
Because I supported Trump, despite having been a lifelong Democrat. The biggest sin of all, to these brainwashed psychos.
What the CIA has done to this country, with this TDS PSYOP and going to the lengths to destroy this country – down to a relative nobody, like me – is really crazy and unforgivable.
It's not a coincidence that Rap rhymes with Crap. The Black community youth has been trashed with this trash..not music... that's plagued them since the 90's. I love old school black music from their early days of Rythm and blues which was down tempo Rock and Roll, 50's, 60's and 70's.. Many of the 50's and 60's rock singers like Elvis and bands like the Rocking Stones injected blues into their lyrics. Now Satanism has infested music. Lady GaGa was groomed by head satanist Maria Abramovic as have many other singers, actors and entertainers. They are required to murder kids and drink their adrenalized blood called adrenochrome which is an addictive high. They're video taped so if they want to quit they're destroyed. The CIA, P.Diddy and Jeff Epstein specialized in capturing those foolish enough to partake.
I love all that music, too and Jazz and since I’m half-Brazilian, I love the incredible music from there, which also, seems to have been systematically debased in recent decades. I spent 8 formative years in Chicago (5-13), which has always a very strong Black music scene.
I pretty much only listened to Black music, as a youth.
Hank Shockley, the producer for Public Enemy reinvented music, in my opinion.
You have a remarkable story- and an incredible library of accomplishments it sounds like. That's no small feat to have directed so many of these innnovative videos ! The emergence of music video as an hugely influential pop art form and the MTV platform transformed the way humanity experienced popular music. I say now with some certainty it was your exceptional talent and early success that got you marked for being erased. Because Bolshevik (Mossad/CIA) social engineering warfare teams were very impressed with the potential as well. Through deception, blackmail and violence (the MO of the Bolshevik criminal cabal) they swarmed the business, infiltrating everything everywhere, and within a few years had managed to subvert the entire industry just as they have done many times before. Thank you for sharing your personal history. Encourage you to perhaps create a website of your video library of work ! - paywalled even- to protect it from attack but also bc there are people (me for ex:) who would gladly pay to have access to your work to enjoy and appreciate. I lived in NYC during your time - similar age etc, playing in bands in clubs in the NYC northeast music scene (Peppermint Lounge/Mudd Club/ CBGBs etc / lived in east village and Brooklyn. I can easily recognize and appreciate the sincerity of your story. Salute!
Thank you for sharing! What has happened to you & the whole music industry SUCKS! Some of us are old enough to know the truth & remember how things were then.
Externalization of the Hierarchy. Revelation of the Method. Ordo Ab Chao. They don't call Satan/Lucifer the Piper for nothing as well as Rainman and some other choice nicknames. Led Zepplin, Procol Harum and others did in song or on albums. Jimmy Page bought one of Aleister Crowley's houses besides the band adopting occult symbols for names like Prince (of darkness). Like myself at a young age, most just think it's for show. When you play or produce and get close enough it shows itself. They've been bringing the public into an uninitiated form of satanism like Addams Family values through media since we started plugging in. The 1960s were rife with 'acts' who were devotees of Crowleyism, Thelema, etc. It's been a part since before Robert Johnson went down to the crossroads.
One thing they all have in common is a disdain for Jesus and Christians, even when they're promoting themselves as a Jesus with the so-called Christ consciousness. Crowley had a hand in promoting New Age as well. Novus Ordo Seclorum and the hairy eyeball.
enjoyed this muchly--ya really think the walls'll come tumblin' down? Or is this a ltd. "pull" (like bld. 7) where Diddy goes but not Clive Davis AND his "pals?" Think it'll come out 'bout Whitney & her daughter? dunno... I'm still chewin' on black jack (black pill) gum here...
Loved all yer personal shares Alexandra an' totally enjoyed the viddeyos too! (ya deserve ta have better copies shown but had the same thing heppen ta me--low rez only--an' fwiw I checked the MTV link--anythin' I did is gone--ALSO--cuz we shared notes a while back--even the Nile Rodgers one I worked on which was HUGE--the Forget-Me-Nots/Patrice Rushen that we shot on the w. side pier with dancers an' all (a billions of rats ha ha)--gone!--shoot! they're erasin' stuff I guess...(?) I hope they got it archived somewherez..
OK now waxin' nostaligic, I gotta ask 'bout the first viddeyo--what's that location? I swear I've been there (gilded age mansion off the park--mebbe the one where that guy had a set up for nuns to worship upstairs cuz his sister was a nun--the one with classical concerts on the main floor--dang, cannot remember the name but an awesome mansion--mebbe same one I'm thinkin' of? )--2nd viddeo too was fun--"Special Ed!" (reminds me of Hairspray--the phrase that sent Tracy bonkers, not the rapper!) I gotta say tho LARRY BUD MELMAN made my day! LOVED that scene too! Wuz he as much of a hoot in person as he is on film? OMG adored that guy. Also, same viddeyo--was that Cave Canem's pit baths? (looked like 'em--man oh man I nearly fergot that place)
Re Jenny & Russell--wull that's interestin' as I did believe'er completely. She used ta date a producer I knew (the hilarious Donald Rosenfeld) years 'fore he was a known thing (we also worked together on Slaves of NY ha ha--oh yes ha ha / flush) but anywhoo-- until MeeToo got really outta hand (I was one degree of separation from a few of the men-folk wrongly targeted--one recently showed up in NYC lookin' old an' schlubby--that's a hint!)... but really I believed the ladies... never occurred ta me what yer sayin' 'bout Jenny but I didn't know RS at all... That is near-frightenin' what ya said 'bout meetin' Diddy--
Promise ta see yer latest "non moosical" epic Splinterin' Babylon in the next week 'er so--been swamped with far more ordinary time suckers but haven't fergotten!
If you read Jenny's article, it sounds like she, herself was drunk or high and out of control.
I liked Jenny, she was totally adorable but I think it was an Op and that some people got paid and it was a way to get publicity.
It's not like sexual abuse doesn't happen. I was horribly physically/sexually assaulted by my Electronic Music professor at Brown Univ, while I was in my lab session with this massive ARP 2500 we were learning how to use.
It turned out he had done this to other female students and one from my class contacted me and asked me if I wanted to #MeToo him and we thought about it and he deserved it but did I deserve the hassle? No.
As for Diddy, we were talking about "Il Malocchio" the other day. This was different. This was a seething hatred, the likes of which I had never seen. It wasn't *disorienting* like that Malocchio/Golden Dawn Voodoo stuff. It was just stark, raving hatred.
And he had no reason to hate me. We'd never met before. I had directed a lot of good videos. I was supposed to be there. I had a meeting. I think, I was originally supposed to meet with André Harrell, who was friends with Russell and with whom I'd hung out and chit-chatted many times, out at clubs but André had just hired (then-)Puffy and the staff at Uptown Records were telling me, "You're going to meet with Puffy" and I was like, "OK, whatever."
It was just really unexpected. I had a meeting and here's this manchild head of A&R and this guy is wildly hostile and he's wearing the wackest outfit you ever saw in your life, LOL!
Actually, I'm laughing hysterically, as I remember it - because it wasn't only the jacket, it was the *pants*, that were ALSO acid-washed, graffiti spray-painted and rhinestone-studded, also and it came from these guys in Mount Vernon, I think and they were trying to make that the next "look" and it was the wackest sh!t ever!
I think I saw Al B Sure! rocking that look, once. But he was actually a talented singer.
Maybe Puffy could tell that I was thinking that he looked like a complete jackass, LOL
I met with tons of A&R guys, in NYC, LA & London, it was part of my job and then they would let me bid on their records with a written treatment + my reel. He was just super weird and then I couldn't believe that he became the hugest hit artist and then, a billionaire.
I guess I was naïve about a lot of what was really going on; drug money-laundering, etc.
MC Hammer (for whom NY rappers had zero respect, skill/talentwise), I think made himself go Gold by buying up all his records.
I went into that meeting blind, because André Harrell was always cool with me. In hindsight and with everything coming out, yeah, demonic possession might explain a lot.
that's freaky--but they say Diddy underwent MKUltra which is way different from gettin' an evil eye thrown at'cha--the hate, dang...never seen that myself even from the MANY a'holes I met with in both moosick & film--but anywhoo--they say he was a "monster" an' you might have seen something "under the skin"--soul crushing? --I don't go fer all that lizard/Icke stuff but plenty of humans have been altered (no aliens needed!)--so for all we know he is some kinda scary supersoldier... assassin? So he was selected... as some kinda Dark Lord--not just "hired"--an' unless I'm mis-rememberin'--didn't Andre git stiffed at uptown? Didn't Davis pick Puffy as his butt boy an' "schtup" Andre (over)? I could be wrong... so if Andre sent'cha that might have been the time when stuff was goin' on an Puffy picked his sides...you were on the wrong one... I didn't know the Rap A&R guys, more of the punk/garage ones--actually one was this girl from joisey who was like everywhere--short bleached hair--ferget her name but she got big over time...
Anywhoo--how COULD you have known about the drug money & stuff? Remember Rick James? So I was a huge fan an' thought it wall was for show, a joke--like every vice you could think of--but it was real--not just art direction. And NOW we're hearin' that rap was a cover FOR the drug traffickin' on the private planes...
The outfits--omg I remember those tho' sounds like you saw one that was just beyond beyond! (Hey, if he could read minds mebbe he read yer snicker? but really I think it wasn't that). Didn't Puff even have an absurd fashion line? Fugly stuff... Hilarious that it was from Mt Vernon--perhaps by some 85 year old garmento goin' "ya really want this? yer gonna wear it where?!"-- And YES I remember MC Hammer--too funny buyin' up his own records (not a fan myself either lol). BUT... I wuz a fan of MC Solar--the french rapper.... wunder what happened to a lot of these folks...
Anyway--if Diddy was kinda possessed & MKUltra'd you DID see a beast... yeesh!
ps ya didn't say if Larry Bud Melman was fun in person--so many of the characters really were so I'm curious ;-)
he might have been afu on something really scary (they all had ta carry stuff around in the little pink fanny packs... I fergit all I heard but these were not normal drugs either)---so
I remember a short bleached-hair A&R woman at Atlantic, when I did a video for Audio 2 of "Top Billin'" fame (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Billin%27) - I loved those guys and we had a lot of fun with each other but this bitch ruined the show.
I'd never had a label person hover over me and try to override my directing. I was already very experienced and it was beyond annoying. Needless to say, I never did another video for Atlantic.
hmmm-I think it was not the same laydee... this one did just punky stuff an' I'm near-sure a different label--she hung out with Danny Fields (a real old timer from Elektra) but I think she was on a smaller indie label that became a "name" later...shoot, cannot fer the life of me 'member her name tho' I can see her in my head--often at CBs, also Maxwells in Hoboken... nice tho'--personable, super chatty (er... wull that might'a been related ta something but...)--def. not yer B with an Itch... Ugh--
re the bleached blonde you encountered--her hoverin' that's HORRIBLE--sounds like a Stasi Woman!-- see I was way lower on the food chain (lol) an' some bands I directed stuff for were either unsigned or with velly small indie labels--includin' the couple ones that went bigger and got airplay (which happened fer me a few times--Much Music & even MTV) were still on super small labels. the likes of Norton & Bloodshot Records are not exactly household names -- imho I think the more $$$ involved the more a-holes ya git... tho' I did run inta some "egos" every so often...
The only work I did when bigger labels were involved was not as a direct-turd (lol)--I'd started as a lowly PA, worked my way up ta "inside props" an' also did a lotta extree work on Moosick Viddeos an' other such (industrials too--I also directed some--ditto commercials re props etc). Props paid best ('specially on features & better on commercials)-- the shorts & other stuff that got distribution were not music-related--totally diff. market--all rotting (I think I wrote 'bout this once) in their BETA SP an' other outdated format plastic cases... Anyway, I'm ramblin' on near 4am an' I gotta few things ta read 'fore I hit the hay (have not thought about this stuff for ages!--fun talkin' shop a bit with ya!--I DO miss the good parts--the fun folks / camaraderie, the clubs! Sylvia Miles (ha ha) the music--but not the a'holes /poseurs/attitudinals (as we called 'em)--or (lol) the EuroTrash--oh my lordy--now THAT was a thing ;-) still kin laff at 'em at least!
Larry Bud Melman - not his real name. The real first name was DeForest, I forget the real last name. He actually was mentally challenged and it was very frustrating to try to get him to say his lines right.
Profile Records CEO, Cory Robbins insisted I write in a scene for Larry and it was a challenging pain in the ass to execute it.
He was a victim of The Letterman Show (many of whose writers I knew and who were fellow Harvard Lampoon writers, like my ex-). There was a hardcore mafia in TV comedy: You had to have written for the Harvard Lampoon or no dice.
That finally changed with Family Man, which was created by a guy from RISD (where the Talking Heads went to college).
Omg, wull, fer one--I didn't know his history OR that he was mentally challenged--eek--he was (in spite'a bein' a PIA for ya) GREAT in yer viddeyo. I'm a fan of character actors in particular so I had no clue that wasn't "all" an act (oh my). I have worked with two old fellers that both had trouble with lines--one was DRUNK (I won't mention his name as not sure if he's still workin'--of course I didn't know this at castin'--72 takes fer one scene he kept botchin' whilst burnin' thru a lotta film an' grossin' out the actress in the scene as Binaca would not cover the booze-breath) and an'nuther guy--character actor name Kuno Sponholz--worked with him a few times--he was mentally sharp--an' funny! but just a REAL PIA that liked ta "extemporize" an' thought he'd improve upon the script! which of course screwed up the other actors an' their own cues -- he was nice tho, just a huge PIA an' somewhat distracted when listenin' to er, "direction," so also a many-take fella at great $$$ (ugh)
That said, sorry fer the icky polly-ticks--they always say the "end result" is what counts AND it hides a LOT! I've been on sets (as act-truss & behind the scenes) where folks hated each other an' ya'd never know it once "roll camera"--so take it as a complement that Mister DeForest/Larry Bud came off velly well an' I liked yer stagin' of that opening anywayz
I had friends that worked Letterman (no big roles, production stuff) an' said not nice thangs 'bout that set (by contrast I've posted 'bout some I knew that had great stuff ta say 'bout workin' on Apprentice!)--but anywhoo--I also had no idear 'bout the Havard Lampoon gang--I know many of that gang were tight--that it was fairly insular as it wuz fer teevee writers but never connected the 2--interestin'. (I do know former an' current SNL'erz--tho' not insular same way--there was always a "I knowaguyyoushouldmeet" kinda thing goin'--an' there were some PIA folks there but I'll be mum 'bout that fer now as it's still in bizness)....
If I may ask, yer ex must have been funny if he wuz writin' fer the lampoon--never knew any lampoon-erz but knew a few Hasty Puddin' performers--lost touch a while back --- they likely went full-woke durin' covidcon BUT they were hilarious when I knew 'em--even without the funny lines!
I'll have ta re-read it--I think I saw it when it came out--interestin'--who knows if it was an op (someone with a beef against him... someone like Diddy since KP got KO'd an' Kimmora was her bestie... folks do that stuff...) sorry re yer class at Brown--they all got covered up--ya know Naomi Wolf got molested by Harold Bloom (!) an' fought it for over a decade I think--others came out with the same (awful) stories / similar--but Yale covered it up. Yes, these folks deserve it but that "hassle" takes years, is all -consuming--and in some cases like Naomis--ya still come up empty handed--even his legacy wasn't tarnished (see that's the thing--some of these fellas exhibit rotten behavior but their work is often maverick so they git protected... of course that's also "Hollyweird"...
THX! oh my--so I had the wrong place in mind but the robber barrons' part I got right--Jay Gould's son--dang--ya cain't git any more famous--just amazin' architecture--guess the Guggenheims took it over? Anywayz, I just eat up the old stuff--I've shot at Lyndhurst an' a few other "barron" sites (not near as famous0 an' worked on set on the one I mentioned-- The barrons might not have been the most noble people, but heck those "joints" are just jaw droppin'ly beautiful (ha ha white snake yup--ya might be right as to why did look familiar)
Okay, a question. Who is I? The writer of this Substack? I searched under the art director for the tough leather part of the story. It looks like many others did the same since Google offered and preset search. I must believe plenty of other readers want to know the same. So who is it?
My name is Alexandra Bruce. I avoid mentioning it on here, due to the AIs that have auto-removed me from everywhere, including TRUTHSocial, even though I don’t really post anything on there, I just “Like” and “re-Truth”.
Unlike my 16-year-old FaceCrime account and unlike my 13-year-old Twit accounts and despite several appeals to each and after Musk’s acquisition, TRUTH did reinstate me. I was never shown my offending tweets or FB posts.
I went by my nickname, Chica Bruce until I started writing books, in my 30s. I’m pretty sure that is how I was credited in that film. My music video contracts were with my legal name, Alexandra but I was known as Chica Bruce. If you have the first De La Soul album kicking around in your record collection, you will see a shout-out to “Chika Bruce”.
Laurel Canyon 2.0. Back then, around the 1967 summer of love, Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills of LA got occupied by young musicians many of whose parents tracked to intelligence or military. The Doors Jim Morrison's father was a Navy admiral. The psychedelic musicians of that day all made it to the Canyon which became music central. Presumably, that music was aimed to turn the baby boom into free-love, drop-out stoners. It worked well enough...for a while. But by the early 70's, boomers, the most educated generation to date, got out of college and lost interest in bohemian lifestyles. They started building the careers they went to college to have. In the early 80's, as boomers' began to become more affluent, the social puppeteers capitalized on that This time with movies glorifying Wall Street greed, status, and materialist craving, and the boomer generation went yuppie. Hip Hop and its degeneration fits right in, but it was aimed at Blacks apparently. It's always something. From our perspective these days, every social trend, whether naturally occurring and enhanced or ginned-up, advanced the Marxist demoralization plan...anything to make us less moral, less competent, more jaded, more compromised by cheap, decadent values. In other words, to destroy us. Seeing this pattern, we have a tendency to become more demoralized. Fear-mongering news and rumors of wars try to crush hope. Don't allow it. While contemporary generations have been affected by all this, there seems to be a resilient, common human decency that springs back. Don't let the bastards get you down.
You will then be sent a confirmation email with links to a private Rumble link, as well as to an .mp4 link, so you can save the movie to your computer, if you wish. Rumble is banned in France, so this keeps the film available wherever Rumble is banned.
Both can be watched whenever you've got the time.
We could not host the film with a commercial VOD company, we would have been insta-banned.
There will be a live screening at The Barn in Riverview, FL on October 5th that I think is being organized by Dr Christiane Northrup and a screening in Asheville, NC, that we'll be announcing soon.
That's a fascinating story of your experience in the early days of hip-hop. The fact your work has been deleted speaks volumes. I agree it's likely part of a coordinated (leftist) push to divide people. And thus they work now to delete examples of 'diverse' people working & making music together. This just shows how fake & insincere wokism & DEI really are. The whole satanism angle now in hip-hop looks artificial, as though brought in from outside.
That's amazing how you were directing music videos in your early 20s, & even more your moving on from that without regret or recrimination. There are so many who went to film school wanting that, & should now see they dodged a bullet unintentionally. Best of luck to you!
Yeah .. Still waiting for those Epstein convictions… don’t hold your breath
They will never release them. As soon as they do all those cretins are no longer *blackmailable*.
Not to mention that none of them, blackmailed and/or blackmailers, want to go to jail. They scapegoat a few people they're probably pissed at anyway, just to let off some public steam, and then they shut it down. It's the same with Congressional hearings where they make a show then turn it over to the DOJ to do nothing further.
Action! Take Action! Not, just more charades campaigning. Rand plays this best for reelection. Fuking jok…
What action??
A Hollywood thing
I'm afraid that doesn't answer my question.
I co-produced and was production designer with (the late) director Gary Keys of IT’S RAINING MEN with the Weather Girls 1/2 half of which was the fabulous singer Martha Wash— the hidden voice for so many later hits. Gary used to call the Springs the Lionel Hamptons, because of the black enclave there. The vid was not allowed on MTV at the time— as you know it was early MTV, and they wanted to be national— so to cultivate the southern states, no one of color was to be seen. That roadblock was only broken by Columbia Records threatening to withhold ALL their videos if MTV wouldn’t show the vids for THRILLER, which of course included the mega vid hits BILLIE JEAN & BEAT IT, as well as the title track. THAT’s what opened the door. But at the time of Raining Men we had radio dj’s calling for their public to boycott MTV because it wasn’t playing it.
But THRILLER opened the door for hip hop.
LOL, yes, the “Lionel Hamptons” hahaha. I remember that.
I was actually an intern at MTV when ‘Thriller’ was going down and I was appalled at the racism at MTV and very happy to be a part of making ‘Yo! MTV Raps’, the most successful show in that network’s history, to date.
Yes, I remember the racism connected to It's Rain Men and the raw deal Martha Wash got as "the hidden voice."
I believe part of the problem with Its RainMen video was the size issue. Fat women were just not shown much on any TV shows back then and didnt fit with style conscious MTV.
omg hallelujah & a'men! (THAT is one'a the most WONDERFUL campy music viddeos evah--an' the production design wuz absolootly--fabulous!) thank ya! (or I guess now it's thanks fer the memories!)
I’m so sorry they targeted your work like that … it’s terrifying the more I read of first hand accounts like this …🙏
What was scarier is that the Daily Dot wrote a hit piece on me quoting some guy I’ve never heard of claiming that I never worked at MTV or at “Yo!”
I chose to ignore it, rather than get embroiled with some CIA-front Scum of the Earth.
So scary to be deleted and then lied-about. For what, exactly?
Because I supported Trump, despite having been a lifelong Democrat. The biggest sin of all, to these brainwashed psychos.
What the CIA has done to this country, with this TDS PSYOP and going to the lengths to destroy this country – down to a relative nobody, like me – is really crazy and unforgivable.
It's dang demonic.
Those old MTV videos in the days were the best. I’m so old I remember watching the mtv premiere at a hs party. Lol
Yes. I had one friend who had MTV on her TV and I spent alot of hours there watching that magik of music to vid explode.
It's not a coincidence that Rap rhymes with Crap. The Black community youth has been trashed with this trash..not music... that's plagued them since the 90's. I love old school black music from their early days of Rythm and blues which was down tempo Rock and Roll, 50's, 60's and 70's.. Many of the 50's and 60's rock singers like Elvis and bands like the Rocking Stones injected blues into their lyrics. Now Satanism has infested music. Lady GaGa was groomed by head satanist Maria Abramovic as have many other singers, actors and entertainers. They are required to murder kids and drink their adrenalized blood called adrenochrome which is an addictive high. They're video taped so if they want to quit they're destroyed. The CIA, P.Diddy and Jeff Epstein specialized in capturing those foolish enough to partake.
I love all that music, too and Jazz and since I’m half-Brazilian, I love the incredible music from there, which also, seems to have been systematically debased in recent decades. I spent 8 formative years in Chicago (5-13), which has always a very strong Black music scene.
I pretty much only listened to Black music, as a youth.
Hank Shockley, the producer for Public Enemy reinvented music, in my opinion.
It takes all kinds to make a world.
You have a remarkable story- and an incredible library of accomplishments it sounds like. That's no small feat to have directed so many of these innnovative videos ! The emergence of music video as an hugely influential pop art form and the MTV platform transformed the way humanity experienced popular music. I say now with some certainty it was your exceptional talent and early success that got you marked for being erased. Because Bolshevik (Mossad/CIA) social engineering warfare teams were very impressed with the potential as well. Through deception, blackmail and violence (the MO of the Bolshevik criminal cabal) they swarmed the business, infiltrating everything everywhere, and within a few years had managed to subvert the entire industry just as they have done many times before. Thank you for sharing your personal history. Encourage you to perhaps create a website of your video library of work ! - paywalled even- to protect it from attack but also bc there are people (me for ex:) who would gladly pay to have access to your work to enjoy and appreciate. I lived in NYC during your time - similar age etc, playing in bands in clubs in the NYC northeast music scene (Peppermint Lounge/Mudd Club/ CBGBs etc / lived in east village and Brooklyn. I can easily recognize and appreciate the sincerity of your story. Salute!
Thank you for this.
I was deleted from Wikipedia too. I got out of social media when my identity started to be hacked.
Thank goodness for Global Research, which has given me freedom of speech since 2007, Veterans Today, which is doing it now, and, of course Substack.
Blessings.
Here is my latest:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/world-war-iii-is-on-but-the-empire-has-already-lost-an-american-civil-war-looms-spiritual-transformation-is-the-only-way-to-prevent-extinction/5868285
Thank you for sharing! What has happened to you & the whole music industry SUCKS! Some of us are old enough to know the truth & remember how things were then.
Externalization of the Hierarchy. Revelation of the Method. Ordo Ab Chao. They don't call Satan/Lucifer the Piper for nothing as well as Rainman and some other choice nicknames. Led Zepplin, Procol Harum and others did in song or on albums. Jimmy Page bought one of Aleister Crowley's houses besides the band adopting occult symbols for names like Prince (of darkness). Like myself at a young age, most just think it's for show. When you play or produce and get close enough it shows itself. They've been bringing the public into an uninitiated form of satanism like Addams Family values through media since we started plugging in. The 1960s were rife with 'acts' who were devotees of Crowleyism, Thelema, etc. It's been a part since before Robert Johnson went down to the crossroads.
One thing they all have in common is a disdain for Jesus and Christians, even when they're promoting themselves as a Jesus with the so-called Christ consciousness. Crowley had a hand in promoting New Age as well. Novus Ordo Seclorum and the hairy eyeball.
Can't believe Paramount deleted all those videos. That's crazy.
enjoyed this muchly--ya really think the walls'll come tumblin' down? Or is this a ltd. "pull" (like bld. 7) where Diddy goes but not Clive Davis AND his "pals?" Think it'll come out 'bout Whitney & her daughter? dunno... I'm still chewin' on black jack (black pill) gum here...
Loved all yer personal shares Alexandra an' totally enjoyed the viddeyos too! (ya deserve ta have better copies shown but had the same thing heppen ta me--low rez only--an' fwiw I checked the MTV link--anythin' I did is gone--ALSO--cuz we shared notes a while back--even the Nile Rodgers one I worked on which was HUGE--the Forget-Me-Nots/Patrice Rushen that we shot on the w. side pier with dancers an' all (a billions of rats ha ha)--gone!--shoot! they're erasin' stuff I guess...(?) I hope they got it archived somewherez..
OK now waxin' nostaligic, I gotta ask 'bout the first viddeyo--what's that location? I swear I've been there (gilded age mansion off the park--mebbe the one where that guy had a set up for nuns to worship upstairs cuz his sister was a nun--the one with classical concerts on the main floor--dang, cannot remember the name but an awesome mansion--mebbe same one I'm thinkin' of? )--2nd viddeo too was fun--"Special Ed!" (reminds me of Hairspray--the phrase that sent Tracy bonkers, not the rapper!) I gotta say tho LARRY BUD MELMAN made my day! LOVED that scene too! Wuz he as much of a hoot in person as he is on film? OMG adored that guy. Also, same viddeyo--was that Cave Canem's pit baths? (looked like 'em--man oh man I nearly fergot that place)
Re Jenny & Russell--wull that's interestin' as I did believe'er completely. She used ta date a producer I knew (the hilarious Donald Rosenfeld) years 'fore he was a known thing (we also worked together on Slaves of NY ha ha--oh yes ha ha / flush) but anywhoo-- until MeeToo got really outta hand (I was one degree of separation from a few of the men-folk wrongly targeted--one recently showed up in NYC lookin' old an' schlubby--that's a hint!)... but really I believed the ladies... never occurred ta me what yer sayin' 'bout Jenny but I didn't know RS at all... That is near-frightenin' what ya said 'bout meetin' Diddy--
Promise ta see yer latest "non moosical" epic Splinterin' Babylon in the next week 'er so--been swamped with far more ordinary time suckers but haven't fergotten!
That location is the Guggenheim Estate at Sand Point (Port Washington). It had become a Navy R&R and then, it was donated to Nassau County.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hempstead_House
I think White Snake or another one of those Hair Bands did a video there, too with big explosions:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hempstead+House/@40.8627269,-73.7006129,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOkrr4jwQv5FfauKxjs9ZK96NuCHUrHH_qeCSjo!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOkrr4jwQv5FfauKxjs9ZK96NuCHUrHH_qeCSjo%3Dw114-h86-k-no!7i4032!8i3024!4m16!1m8!3m7!1s0x89c28edfb0c3987d:0x3d64ae73ef6a170e!2sSands+Point,+NY+11050!3b1!8m2!3d40.8517669!4d-73.718742!16zL20vMHkzNzg!3m6!1s0x89c28efd5875e90f:0xfddd5c51ba956690!8m2!3d40.8632628!4d-73.7007284!10e5!16s%2Fm%2F03c82mh?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkxOC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
If you read Jenny's article, it sounds like she, herself was drunk or high and out of control.
I liked Jenny, she was totally adorable but I think it was an Op and that some people got paid and it was a way to get publicity.
It's not like sexual abuse doesn't happen. I was horribly physically/sexually assaulted by my Electronic Music professor at Brown Univ, while I was in my lab session with this massive ARP 2500 we were learning how to use.
It turned out he had done this to other female students and one from my class contacted me and asked me if I wanted to #MeToo him and we thought about it and he deserved it but did I deserve the hassle? No.
As for Diddy, we were talking about "Il Malocchio" the other day. This was different. This was a seething hatred, the likes of which I had never seen. It wasn't *disorienting* like that Malocchio/Golden Dawn Voodoo stuff. It was just stark, raving hatred.
And he had no reason to hate me. We'd never met before. I had directed a lot of good videos. I was supposed to be there. I had a meeting. I think, I was originally supposed to meet with André Harrell, who was friends with Russell and with whom I'd hung out and chit-chatted many times, out at clubs but André had just hired (then-)Puffy and the staff at Uptown Records were telling me, "You're going to meet with Puffy" and I was like, "OK, whatever."
It was just really unexpected. I had a meeting and here's this manchild head of A&R and this guy is wildly hostile and he's wearing the wackest outfit you ever saw in your life, LOL!
Actually, I'm laughing hysterically, as I remember it - because it wasn't only the jacket, it was the *pants*, that were ALSO acid-washed, graffiti spray-painted and rhinestone-studded, also and it came from these guys in Mount Vernon, I think and they were trying to make that the next "look" and it was the wackest sh!t ever!
I think I saw Al B Sure! rocking that look, once. But he was actually a talented singer.
Maybe Puffy could tell that I was thinking that he looked like a complete jackass, LOL
I met with tons of A&R guys, in NYC, LA & London, it was part of my job and then they would let me bid on their records with a written treatment + my reel. He was just super weird and then I couldn't believe that he became the hugest hit artist and then, a billionaire.
I guess I was naïve about a lot of what was really going on; drug money-laundering, etc.
MC Hammer (for whom NY rappers had zero respect, skill/talentwise), I think made himself go Gold by buying up all his records.
You know these guys are really demons right? Not a joke.
I went into that meeting blind, because André Harrell was always cool with me. In hindsight and with everything coming out, yeah, demonic possession might explain a lot.
Yeah well,demonic possession explains ALOT of what's going on, not just in music biz.
Portals have been opened (CERN) and excess greed invites them in.
that's freaky--but they say Diddy underwent MKUltra which is way different from gettin' an evil eye thrown at'cha--the hate, dang...never seen that myself even from the MANY a'holes I met with in both moosick & film--but anywhoo--they say he was a "monster" an' you might have seen something "under the skin"--soul crushing? --I don't go fer all that lizard/Icke stuff but plenty of humans have been altered (no aliens needed!)--so for all we know he is some kinda scary supersoldier... assassin? So he was selected... as some kinda Dark Lord--not just "hired"--an' unless I'm mis-rememberin'--didn't Andre git stiffed at uptown? Didn't Davis pick Puffy as his butt boy an' "schtup" Andre (over)? I could be wrong... so if Andre sent'cha that might have been the time when stuff was goin' on an Puffy picked his sides...you were on the wrong one... I didn't know the Rap A&R guys, more of the punk/garage ones--actually one was this girl from joisey who was like everywhere--short bleached hair--ferget her name but she got big over time...
Anywhoo--how COULD you have known about the drug money & stuff? Remember Rick James? So I was a huge fan an' thought it wall was for show, a joke--like every vice you could think of--but it was real--not just art direction. And NOW we're hearin' that rap was a cover FOR the drug traffickin' on the private planes...
The outfits--omg I remember those tho' sounds like you saw one that was just beyond beyond! (Hey, if he could read minds mebbe he read yer snicker? but really I think it wasn't that). Didn't Puff even have an absurd fashion line? Fugly stuff... Hilarious that it was from Mt Vernon--perhaps by some 85 year old garmento goin' "ya really want this? yer gonna wear it where?!"-- And YES I remember MC Hammer--too funny buyin' up his own records (not a fan myself either lol). BUT... I wuz a fan of MC Solar--the french rapper.... wunder what happened to a lot of these folks...
Anyway--if Diddy was kinda possessed & MKUltra'd you DID see a beast... yeesh!
ps ya didn't say if Larry Bud Melman was fun in person--so many of the characters really were so I'm curious ;-)
he might have been afu on something really scary (they all had ta carry stuff around in the little pink fanny packs... I fergit all I heard but these were not normal drugs either)---so
I remember a short bleached-hair A&R woman at Atlantic, when I did a video for Audio 2 of "Top Billin'" fame (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Billin%27) - I loved those guys and we had a lot of fun with each other but this bitch ruined the show.
I'd never had a label person hover over me and try to override my directing. I was already very experienced and it was beyond annoying. Needless to say, I never did another video for Atlantic.
hmmm-I think it was not the same laydee... this one did just punky stuff an' I'm near-sure a different label--she hung out with Danny Fields (a real old timer from Elektra) but I think she was on a smaller indie label that became a "name" later...shoot, cannot fer the life of me 'member her name tho' I can see her in my head--often at CBs, also Maxwells in Hoboken... nice tho'--personable, super chatty (er... wull that might'a been related ta something but...)--def. not yer B with an Itch... Ugh--
re the bleached blonde you encountered--her hoverin' that's HORRIBLE--sounds like a Stasi Woman!-- see I was way lower on the food chain (lol) an' some bands I directed stuff for were either unsigned or with velly small indie labels--includin' the couple ones that went bigger and got airplay (which happened fer me a few times--Much Music & even MTV) were still on super small labels. the likes of Norton & Bloodshot Records are not exactly household names -- imho I think the more $$$ involved the more a-holes ya git... tho' I did run inta some "egos" every so often...
The only work I did when bigger labels were involved was not as a direct-turd (lol)--I'd started as a lowly PA, worked my way up ta "inside props" an' also did a lotta extree work on Moosick Viddeos an' other such (industrials too--I also directed some--ditto commercials re props etc). Props paid best ('specially on features & better on commercials)-- the shorts & other stuff that got distribution were not music-related--totally diff. market--all rotting (I think I wrote 'bout this once) in their BETA SP an' other outdated format plastic cases... Anyway, I'm ramblin' on near 4am an' I gotta few things ta read 'fore I hit the hay (have not thought about this stuff for ages!--fun talkin' shop a bit with ya!--I DO miss the good parts--the fun folks / camaraderie, the clubs! Sylvia Miles (ha ha) the music--but not the a'holes /poseurs/attitudinals (as we called 'em)--or (lol) the EuroTrash--oh my lordy--now THAT was a thing ;-) still kin laff at 'em at least!
Larry Bud Melman - not his real name. The real first name was DeForest, I forget the real last name. He actually was mentally challenged and it was very frustrating to try to get him to say his lines right.
Profile Records CEO, Cory Robbins insisted I write in a scene for Larry and it was a challenging pain in the ass to execute it.
He was a victim of The Letterman Show (many of whose writers I knew and who were fellow Harvard Lampoon writers, like my ex-). There was a hardcore mafia in TV comedy: You had to have written for the Harvard Lampoon or no dice.
That finally changed with Family Man, which was created by a guy from RISD (where the Talking Heads went to college).
I sorta remember LarryBM on Letterman. I didnt like the way Letterman interacted w Larry. It seemed so condescending.
SO LONG AGO. I 'm not sure I remember that exactly...
Omg, wull, fer one--I didn't know his history OR that he was mentally challenged--eek--he was (in spite'a bein' a PIA for ya) GREAT in yer viddeyo. I'm a fan of character actors in particular so I had no clue that wasn't "all" an act (oh my). I have worked with two old fellers that both had trouble with lines--one was DRUNK (I won't mention his name as not sure if he's still workin'--of course I didn't know this at castin'--72 takes fer one scene he kept botchin' whilst burnin' thru a lotta film an' grossin' out the actress in the scene as Binaca would not cover the booze-breath) and an'nuther guy--character actor name Kuno Sponholz--worked with him a few times--he was mentally sharp--an' funny! but just a REAL PIA that liked ta "extemporize" an' thought he'd improve upon the script! which of course screwed up the other actors an' their own cues -- he was nice tho, just a huge PIA an' somewhat distracted when listenin' to er, "direction," so also a many-take fella at great $$$ (ugh)
That said, sorry fer the icky polly-ticks--they always say the "end result" is what counts AND it hides a LOT! I've been on sets (as act-truss & behind the scenes) where folks hated each other an' ya'd never know it once "roll camera"--so take it as a complement that Mister DeForest/Larry Bud came off velly well an' I liked yer stagin' of that opening anywayz
I had friends that worked Letterman (no big roles, production stuff) an' said not nice thangs 'bout that set (by contrast I've posted 'bout some I knew that had great stuff ta say 'bout workin' on Apprentice!)--but anywhoo--I also had no idear 'bout the Havard Lampoon gang--I know many of that gang were tight--that it was fairly insular as it wuz fer teevee writers but never connected the 2--interestin'. (I do know former an' current SNL'erz--tho' not insular same way--there was always a "I knowaguyyoushouldmeet" kinda thing goin'--an' there were some PIA folks there but I'll be mum 'bout that fer now as it's still in bizness)....
If I may ask, yer ex must have been funny if he wuz writin' fer the lampoon--never knew any lampoon-erz but knew a few Hasty Puddin' performers--lost touch a while back --- they likely went full-woke durin' covidcon BUT they were hilarious when I knew 'em--even without the funny lines!
thanks fer the back-story!
I'll have ta re-read it--I think I saw it when it came out--interestin'--who knows if it was an op (someone with a beef against him... someone like Diddy since KP got KO'd an' Kimmora was her bestie... folks do that stuff...) sorry re yer class at Brown--they all got covered up--ya know Naomi Wolf got molested by Harold Bloom (!) an' fought it for over a decade I think--others came out with the same (awful) stories / similar--but Yale covered it up. Yes, these folks deserve it but that "hassle" takes years, is all -consuming--and in some cases like Naomis--ya still come up empty handed--even his legacy wasn't tarnished (see that's the thing--some of these fellas exhibit rotten behavior but their work is often maverick so they git protected... of course that's also "Hollyweird"...
Disgusting!
THX! oh my--so I had the wrong place in mind but the robber barrons' part I got right--Jay Gould's son--dang--ya cain't git any more famous--just amazin' architecture--guess the Guggenheims took it over? Anywayz, I just eat up the old stuff--I've shot at Lyndhurst an' a few other "barron" sites (not near as famous0 an' worked on set on the one I mentioned-- The barrons might not have been the most noble people, but heck those "joints" are just jaw droppin'ly beautiful (ha ha white snake yup--ya might be right as to why did look familiar)
Okay, a question. Who is I? The writer of this Substack? I searched under the art director for the tough leather part of the story. It looks like many others did the same since Google offered and preset search. I must believe plenty of other readers want to know the same. So who is it?
My name is Alexandra Bruce. I avoid mentioning it on here, due to the AIs that have auto-removed me from everywhere, including TRUTHSocial, even though I don’t really post anything on there, I just “Like” and “re-Truth”.
Unlike my 16-year-old FaceCrime account and unlike my 13-year-old Twit accounts and despite several appeals to each and after Musk’s acquisition, TRUTH did reinstate me. I was never shown my offending tweets or FB posts.
I went by my nickname, Chica Bruce until I started writing books, in my 30s. I’m pretty sure that is how I was credited in that film. My music video contracts were with my legal name, Alexandra but I was known as Chica Bruce. If you have the first De La Soul album kicking around in your record collection, you will see a shout-out to “Chika Bruce”.
Thanks 🙏😁
Thank you for this. Choke No Joke is the gift that keeps on giving 🤣
Laurel Canyon 2.0. Back then, around the 1967 summer of love, Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills of LA got occupied by young musicians many of whose parents tracked to intelligence or military. The Doors Jim Morrison's father was a Navy admiral. The psychedelic musicians of that day all made it to the Canyon which became music central. Presumably, that music was aimed to turn the baby boom into free-love, drop-out stoners. It worked well enough...for a while. But by the early 70's, boomers, the most educated generation to date, got out of college and lost interest in bohemian lifestyles. They started building the careers they went to college to have. In the early 80's, as boomers' began to become more affluent, the social puppeteers capitalized on that This time with movies glorifying Wall Street greed, status, and materialist craving, and the boomer generation went yuppie. Hip Hop and its degeneration fits right in, but it was aimed at Blacks apparently. It's always something. From our perspective these days, every social trend, whether naturally occurring and enhanced or ginned-up, advanced the Marxist demoralization plan...anything to make us less moral, less competent, more jaded, more compromised by cheap, decadent values. In other words, to destroy us. Seeing this pattern, we have a tendency to become more demoralized. Fear-mongering news and rumors of wars try to crush hope. Don't allow it. While contemporary generations have been affected by all this, there seems to be a resilient, common human decency that springs back. Don't let the bastards get you down.
Where is this new movie Splintering Babylon going to be shown, or where will we be able to see it?
It is mainly an online event.
Go to: https://splinteringbabylon.com/
and hit that red button to buy a ticket.
You will then be sent a confirmation email with links to a private Rumble link, as well as to an .mp4 link, so you can save the movie to your computer, if you wish. Rumble is banned in France, so this keeps the film available wherever Rumble is banned.
Both can be watched whenever you've got the time.
We could not host the film with a commercial VOD company, we would have been insta-banned.
There will be a live screening at The Barn in Riverview, FL on October 5th that I think is being organized by Dr Christiane Northrup and a screening in Asheville, NC, that we'll be announcing soon.
All the best - AB