I don't know if it has something in do with all the fruit I've been eating, but something in my brain wants to connect every event that happens to me to some higher meaning.

3 or 4 times today I've had instances dealing with cords to electronic devices being so tangled that they looked like they were knotted by a sailor. As if it were a dream, I began to contemplate the possible symbology and it led me to wonder, since these were power cords, that maybe my connection to an energy source has a kink in it.

Is it a cord to my higher self? Is it my connection to God? Or is it possibly a symbol of my paths winding road?

Sure, it could be that I just don't wind up and pack these chords properly, but that is highly unlikely.

During a break in my highly productive day, I was sitting in one of my regular cafes reading the Abel Ferrara biography when an older gentleman and a very attractive mature and very tall Lady turned to look at me. Out of the corner of my eye I saw them pointing at me. I'm used to this. People point at me almost all the time.

Finally, she leaned over to my table and told me she had auditioned for Abel Ferrara on an episode of "Miami Vice" and another project he had been trying to put together here in Los Angeles.

She was very funny and told me a couple of stories that coincide with the information I was getting from this great book. I was telling the two of them about recently watching and listening to Ferrara's audio commentary on the DVD of his short films, which is the bonus disk for "Driller Killer," and how funny he is to listen to.

Just then, loud screeching tires shocked us as we turn to look and see a pickup truck fly up the air at least 4 ft., spin, knock down a sign, land on the lawn of a house on the corner, as the car that hit it rolled into view with the hood up over the windshield and its grill scraping the ground. I don't know what kind of car it was, but the entire interior was filled with inflated airbags. You couldn't even see the occupants.

I told my new friends that it was nice to meet them and I ran home to get my video camera. There is a portion of the Ferrara book that talks about how he would incorporate the events around him into his films. There had been a blizzard in New York that had shut down filming and about every other kind of business in the city, but he wanted to get some shots of the main character walking through the blizzard, because it was free and involved no special effects and added immense production value.

I too, have partaken in that kind of guerrilla filmmaking, like when I was directing the episode of the Hit TV show, "Split Screen" for IFC and Co-creator of the Nickelodeon phenomenon "Ren and Stimpy," Bob Camp was in my passenger seat filming me and we saw a car that had careened off the road and landed on top of a fire hydrant in front of the Hollywood Bowl. We pulled over and shot a scene of me pretending that the smashed car filled with spraying water was mine. To this day every once in awhile people who have seen it comment on it!

So I get home thinking that I'll get my camera and run back and shoot the accident and somehow work that into a film, but my OCD couldn't leave these tangled chords behind without first untangling them. I didn't even NEED the cords!

I was so worn out after unknotting them I figured anything worth videotaping had already been towed out of the way.

I need to carry my camera with me at all times!