The Unmeltable Kind Of Snowman

Having seen it a MILLION times before, I knew how to read it when, during a Bruce Willis movie, I suddenly saw something that specially reminded me of something in my own material. A MILLION times before. If I had only seen this kind of thing 993,259 times before, well, who knows? But a MILLION TIMES BEFORE? It ceases to be a matter of crazily trusting one's own instincts, but rather, it would instead have been a matter of stupidly behaving like an ignorant sheep to ignore what one sees.

I am often an influence on Bruce Willis. He is mentioned numerous times in my blogs. There was even an incident, beginning with my March 13th, 2009 blog, where I specified a license plate that contained "Zigski" as something that secretly related to the death of Princess Di that secretly related to someone acting on my secret super-importance in relation to Spielberg, McCartney, etc. that secretly related to someone bringing in a connection to Bruce Willis' line in "The Jackal", a movie produced by close Spielberg friend Sean Daniel, "You can't protect your women" - and three days after that blog, on March 16th, 2009, the wife of someone Spielberg was working with at the time (Natasha Richardson) was killed in a skiing "accident".

Several days ago, when I saw for the first time the 2009 Bruce Willis movie, "Surrogates," I immediately recognized something that reminded me of a strange thing I did as the cinematographer in a scene from the movie "Limbo," the CalArts 1974 School of Film/Video class film project. In "Surrogates," towards the beginning of the movie, one sees the Bruce Willis character through a tilted camera (as in the photograph). In "Limbo," a very drunk character is about to cast a gorilla, is about to inspect several people dressed up as gorillas. So as the camera follows the intoxicated man on his way to inspect people dressed as gorillas, I sought a tilted image (as in the photograph), not because I didn't know how to keep the camera level, but to embellish the idea that something a little trippy was going on. I don't say this has never been done. But images of this sort of tilt that correlate so directly are quite rare, it was enough to bring it immediately to (my) mind, and experience told me that, with it being a Bruce Willis movie, I should be looking for something else in "Surrogates" to "cinch the deal". It's the short-hand these guys have "taught" me/my experience has "taught" me. I am learned in these matters.

That something else was very much there, and very much in plain sight:

• In "Surrogates," the characters we generally see are outwardly actual people, but in reality they usually are surrogates for the actual people - robots connected to the actual people in terms of the source behind their actions/movements, etc. Bruce Willis' character, on the other hand, unbeknown to most, is one of the few actual people walking around.

• In "Limbo," among the people in gorilla suits seeking to be cast as gorillas, unbeknown to most, there stands an actual gorilla.

What more evidence did I need. You, on the other hand, would have to go to CalArts and ask to see "Limbo". And you, on the other hand, would need to already be aware of the Bruce Willis/Steinhoff stuff. You should wait for the ones where I can demonstrate my point without asking you to take anything on faith, as I am periodically able to do. Why take this for something genuine simply because my genuine-ness has so often been demonstrated in the past. I could be a wolf in sheep's clothing this time.

You Don't Owe Me A Thing, Jason Lee

Having seen the premiere episode of the new Jason Lee show, "Memphis Beat," I see where it falls to me to respond, or not respond, to their "secret" shout-out to me. As I am the person responsible for Jason Lee's other TV show, "My Name Is Earl" (see my posting, "The Fun Guy", at Archive.Org), as well as the title of the first movie to star Jason Lee, "Mallrats," I do not take lightly the inclusion, on his new show's important first episode, of inside-references to my 1990/1992 video, "Steinhoff's Dostoyevsky's 'Uncle's Dream'".

I admit that at first it all seemed like I was being made the recipient of some sort of obligatory pat on the head. But having allowed a few days to pass since the show aired (as all wisemen do!), I have decided not to sidestep this call to have some sort of involvement, if only via this blogged response to the "secret" shout-out.

I am not pleased at being beckoned out onto this all-too familiar limb, that is to say, being made to appear like I am imagining things, at least to those unfamiliar with my frequent "role" in popular culture. On the other hand, given the weight of other things that come my way (such as that related in my previous blog of yesterday, "Crazy Time"), I am developing a strange appreciation of things that diffuse the overbearing seriousness of it all. It's a shot in the arm.

Crazy Time

“Attempted” Bombing Of Times Square, 5/1/10 –

My Special Information That Would Take
You 30 Minutes To Get Through

This is where I ask you for 30 minutes of your time without even having the good manners to wear a vacuum cleaner salesman outfit. This is where I beseech you to follow-through on scrutinizing my evidence, so that you might see proof of something that has to be…. too extraordinary for you to believe, I give up. No. I will continue. This evidence will cause those among you who are truly honest, very intelligent, and completely non-dogmatic to see something that happened to me that is of huge concern to all (only in the sense that the Pakistani Taliban could win over the Pakistanis and take control of their nuclear arsenal). Unfortunately, I personally must doubt that anyone within the “sound of my voice” will give that 30 minutes. Or will even admit that, to have an opinion of the things I contend, should such an opinion be formed without following-through here, would thusly be formed out of willful ignorance. I tend towards expecting that you simply will not know how to hear what the evidence screams. And yet, here I go.

1. 14 minutes, 30 seconds of your time
See my video that establishes the extraordinary fact that I, a graduate of the CalArts School of Film/Video, having first learned of CalArts from a very big Steven Spielberg friend, producer Sean Daniel, have come to be a secret, super-major influence on Steven Spielberg to an unparalleled degree:
"Steven Spielberg and the 'Mall Man' Factor"
http://www.archive.org/details/StevenSpielbergAndThemallManFactor
(posted at Archive.Org 12/26/09)

2. 20 seconds of your time
Consider that Steven Spielberg is perhaps the single most prominent living Jewish person in the world today, and how that might relate to the crusade (jihad) of Arabic terrorists against Israel, a jihad that includes a hatred of the world assimilating Jewish people/accepting those who have become important “emissaries” of Jewish people in the world, emissaries such as Steven Spielberg.

3. 5 minutes, 56 seconds of your time
See my video that was ostensibly prompted by secret, significant usage of my material in the final episode of the TV sitcom, “3rd Rock From The Sun”, as it is part of the picture I am drawing, members of the jury. And whether or not you can believe this version of an important cause and effect regarding that TV show finale, the specifics of that contention can clearly be identified as having been implied at least as of the date of this video. The material specifically implied regards the investigation of an empty vehicle parked on a busy New York City street (see the following item, Item 4, below), a situation contained in both my material and in the “3rd Rock” finale (this assumes you have seen the "3rd Rock" finale; or find a way to view the "3rd Rock" finale; or read a synopsis of the "3rd Rock" finale).
"Come On, French Stewart, You Owe Me!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlH2Ln7GlmU
(posted at YouTube 4/29/10)

4. 1 minute of your time
The reference implied in the video in the preceding item (Item 3, above) can be found in my 1993 screenplay, “Gosk, The Screenplay”, which was posted at Archive.Org 7/3/07:
http://ia350641.us.archive.org/1/items/GoskTheScreenplay/
The New York City parking space is first referred to on screenplay page 53/pdf page 55. The investigation of the unoccupied vehicle parked on a busy New York City street develops on screenplay page 58/pdf page 60.

5. 30 seconds of your time
Consider that the text description that accompanied the 4/29/10 video posting referred to in Item 3 (above) included the following: “Meanwhile, the Iranian President has joined countless others in secretly intertwining their statements to things regarding me, while I'm supposed to sit there and not call in anything from anyone. Why doesn't he pick on Spielberg, or is that his secret idea to begin with.”

6. 10 seconds of your time
Consider that two days later, on 5/1/10, an unoccupied vehicle parked on a busy New York City street was investigated, the focus of a perceived attempt by the Pakistani Taliban to blow up Times Square. Or was it an attempt to have an unoccupied vehicle parked on a busy New York City street investigated?

7. 20 seconds of your time
Consider that the Pakistani Taliban alternated between asserting that the perpetrator acted at their instigation, or as someone who acted alone (according to various reports).

8. 5 minutes, 54 seconds of your time
In the one other work of mine also referred to in my video posted 4/29/10 (Item 3, above), the ending humorously focuses on the question of whether or not the perpetrator acted alone, or at the instigation of someone else.
“In Orders We Trust”
http://www.archive.org/details/InOrdersWeTrustvideo
(video posted at Archive.Org 4/7/10)
(initial screenplay posted at Archive.Org 8/11/09 –
http://www.archive.org/details/InOrdersWeTrust)

9. 1 minute, 20 seconds of your time
Deeply contemplate all of this, then fall back on the idea that Spielberg would never do something this far off your radar in the first place, not to mention the absurdity of the idea that the Pakistani Taliban would want to mix it up with a super high-profile Jewish man's secret super-major influence by working things out to where I would have to be shouting about this stuff.

Children Are The Future, And Monopoly

A brief note regarding "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." Harry Potter movies generally make inside-references regarding me/my material, like so many other movies, TV shows, etc., and so, when I am watching a Harry Potter movie and it triggers an association, I know to see it in terms of that context. In this 2009 movie, which just had its HBO premier, I found something connected to my 1978 video, "How Did The Future Learn To Play Monopoly."

To identify this inside-reference, one need never have acquired the education provided by English boarding schools (though I imagine an English boarding school experience would provide the knowledge needed to know one's place with regard to upperclassmen, or perhaps if one were to have been a less-important member of The Beatles). All you need is experience with the secret shorthand Hollywood has specially reserved for me.

In my May 24th blog ("The Secret Is Out There"), I observed that the final episode of "24" included this same inside-reference to my "How Did The Future Learn To Play Monopoly":

It was very close to the way the star of my video, Henry Golas (who was once Groucho Marx' right hand), intoned the words, "Take your grubby hands off of me," as they were leading him away to be tortured.

In the Harry Potter movie, a character is similarly captured and taken away, causing him to say, "Take your hands off of me, you filthy Squibb." Again intoning his words in a manner identical to what one finds in the referenced "24" episode and "Monopoly". And again, the question of finding some way to get someone to divulge a most-important secret is a key issue regarding the larger story.

Happy Birthday, First Beatle On The Left (Fourth Beatle From The Right)

This is all about today being Paul McCartney's birthday. I believe my secret importance in relation to this individual is so great (first year pupils, please see "McCartney and Steinhoff, An Introduction" at Archive.Org), that the spirit of the entire world, to the extent that Paul's spirit touches it, would suffer for the negative impact to his spirit that my neglecting to wish him a happy birthday would cause him. Also, I'd just like to wish him a happy birthday.

I am not Paul McCartney's Facebook friend (whatever that means, I believe sociologists have years of work cut out for them trying to figure out what this whole Facebook friend thing involves - I hope they won't forget the part where people are so bent appearing to have the most friends and certainly not the least friends that it can all start to lose meaning, though it can be so helpful when it comes to assigning social rank, if I can just figure out how to work that part - as far as the idea of enormous sociability equaling having a social conscience, man do people have that one wrong, which isn't to say the Nazis didn't throw fun parties, I'm willing to give them that).

I would like to be Paul McCartney's Facebook friend. But not if he already has more than 252 Facebook friends (I should have researched this before writing today's blog). Things can get crazy at that point, 252 Facebook friends, I mean, that's just a crowd of people pretending to be a group of people. Give me a call, Mr. McCartney, let's discuss this. Did I say "happy birthday" yet?

The Boy Who Cried Don't Sound The Alarm

A few interesting things that may or may not be earthshaking.

I Only Hope That Someday People Who Ask Us To Research Things Will Be Banned From Our Country Club
On 6/7/10, 12:54am I posted a comment to a Huffington Post article, "It's Always a Bad Year to Get Out of Afghanistan," as follows:

However you feel about war, or a specific war, can you really ignore the chess game/tactical dilemma aspect? As such, the stakes connected with Afghanistan are not necessarily something that extend no further than Afghanistan's physical boundaries. And I personally apologize for making war sound cold to the point where it involves the people of one country with matters taking place beyond their national borders. And on this subject of seeing entities (national or otherwise) differently than those entities may wish to see themselves: Steven Spielberg is among the most prominent living Jewish people; The "concerns" of Arabic terrorists is not outside the sphere of world opinion of Jewish people; Two days before that empty vehicle was found on that busy New York City street (Times Square) and immediately became the focus of investigation, I posted something on YouTube referencing the origin of the "3rd Rock" ending - an empty vehicle found on a busy New York City street that become the focus of investigation. My description with that posting touched on Arabic terrorism. I am secretly super-important in relation to Spielberg. The YouTube posting is a matter of record, as is what I've said here about what it was in relation to. Now accept that these things happen in a chess game type context, and research it instead of taking refuge in non-creative approaches to cause and effect:

http://jonathands2u.blogspot.com/2010/05/knowing-where-to-look.html

Thank you.

And here's a fun after-thought, which regards something else terrorists may have "left on my doorstep" as an additional phase of the Times Square Bomber episode (just in case you actually do the research with real follow-through).

You may eventually have actually gotten around to a video of mine, "In Orders We Trust" (posted both at YouTube and Archive.Org). It is part of the story - it is referred to in the above-referenced "Come On, French Stewart, You Owe Me!", my YouTube posting of two days before the Times Square Bomber incident. The ending of the "Orders" video focuses on the question of whether or not a specific individual's actions should be looked upon as having been instigated by one of the conflicting parties, or: if that individual was acting alone.

The Pakistani Taliban initially claimed credit for the Times Square incident. They then denied that they deserved responsibility. Wouldn't you have to say they kind of did something "special" with regard to the question of whether or not a person acted alone?

The Pakistani Taliban are most scary if one considers how they are aimed at taking over Pakistan, which has a nuclear weapons arsenal. They once were within distance of this, it appeared, taking over stuff and being thirty miles from the capitol of Pakistan, etc. The territory they are in is not as opposed to them as one might wish. I believe our military involvement in bordering Afghanistan is connected to this. If they move on a nuclear arsenal and enough Pakistani people are resistant to accommodating US efforts to stop them, a base of operation such as Afghanistan could be the difference between whether or not the Taliban gains nuclear weapons. And for those who have completely avoided doing any research of any kind regarding this inconsequential stuff, the Taliban are very close with al Queda. If I'm spelling it wrong, perhaps someday you will find it in your heart to overlook my not being inclined at this moment to research the correct spelling. I'm busy.

Boom! (Goes The Drum)
So my new used car was left with one flaw after all the fixing up - the hubcaps rattled most percussively. Once resolved, as far as I can tell, it would be as perfect as one might expect a used car to be. Rattling hubcaps. You couldn't just tighten them, they needed to be replaced, because the things wouldn't tighten in the old hubcaps, the hole, the diameter had, well, I'm not going into that much detail. But I did not want to go around rattling all over the place. So finally I got around to getting new hubcaps, and then went for a test drive. I had to experience no longer being a rhythm section, now that this experience was available to me.

Apparently word had spread like a stone in a pond sending out ripples, or like soundwaves rippling out from a single.... well anyway, who do I suddenly see driving towards me, but a Ringo Starr look-a-like, in this really old English car from the '50s I think, wearing about forty coats of paint (the car), beige the latest one. Unless it was the real Ringo, I cannot say. Whoever it was, I knew why that person was there: the non-rattling.

And I am pleased to say, he clearly did not seem to feel himself to be in the presence of excessive percussive rhythm (nobody did). And as someone who has been a super-major influence on Ringo at various important times, I would like to state, here and now, that rattling hubcaps was never something I wished to include among my tools for generating influence.

Four! (or Fore, Whatever)
A comment I posted in response to a Huffington Post article written by Elayne Boosler of "Seinfeld" fame won a comment in response from Elayne Boosler of "Seinfeld" fame. I'll blow my own horn here (who else will?) and take this opportunity to again point out (as I have in an earlier blog or two) that I was an influence on the last season of "Seinfeld", and also on the "Seinfeld" reunion on "Curb Your Enthusiasm". So perhaps I should feel that I deserved that response from Elayne Boosler of "Seinfeld" fame.

My comment regarded, first, the "Seinfeld" episode about a golf ball being landed inside a whale's hole, and then, relating this to the idea of Tiger Woods doing the same thing, only as PR for BP.

The very next day Huffington Post had an article conjecturing on Helen Thomas doing PR for BP. People shamed in the eyes of the public doing PR for BP. Perhaps this is where I should take the opportunity to deny rumors that I'm the one who coined the well known comment about Nixon: "Would you buy a used car from this man?"

And Honorable Mention! (To Some)
Without going into detail, I should also mention that I was also a big influence on Sunday's MTV Movie Awards. Also, on some recent Daily Shows, perhaps Colberts as well.

The Thing Of It

Those who may recall my previous observations regarding my influence on "The Daily Show" (my observations being a matter of record if one looks up my blogs posted at Archive.Org, where they are copyrighted) may be interested in the latest on this.

On Wed., June 2nd, I posted a comment to an article on Huffington Post (at 4pm, in reply to a 3:49pm comment) wherein I personified the oil in the oil spill. On Thurs., June 3rd, "The Daily Show" also personified the oil in the oil spill. No doubt some will argue that the specific oil I was personifying was different from the specific oil Jon Stewart personified, which will become apparent when they finally put our different oil into different barrels. This has yet to be proven.

So first the one, and then the other (and yes, that's the Mayor of Los Angeles as one of my Huffington Post "fans"):


"Obama Calls For Rolling Back Oil Company Tax Breaks To Net Billions For Alternative Energy
"JonathanDS
"4:00 pm, 6.2.10

"This oil-hating rhetoric isn't helping: we must try to understand oil, for the oil hears us - that's why it's working against us. We need to speak nicely about oil. We should deliberately create another oil leak next to this one, a small one, and then repair it, so that when this oil sees what we want it to do, by watching the other oil, it will follow the example. Oil is our friend."

Mr. Combo!

Mr. Combo now exists as a download-able album, or set of songs that can also be downloaded individually. To put it another way, Mr. Combo and the Crazy Combinations Sing You Some Tunes! is now available for purchase at CD Baby. My previous blog was designed to prepare you for it: Now I think you might be ready!

So.... enjoy.

Mr. Combo and the Crazy Combinations Sing You Some Tunes

In order not to upstage the meeting taking place at this moment between Paul McCartney and President Obama, I would firstly ask that whoever forwards to Mr. McCartney important Jonathan D. Steinhoff news postpone this item until after they are finished. I can now begin in good conscience.

I am pleased to announce that my newest collection of songs, Mr. Combo and the Crazy Combinations Sing You Some Tunes (by Jonathan D. Steinhoff) will soon (perhaps in another day, or two, or perhaps in another week) be available for download at CD Baby.com! This will be the first release of a collection of my songs since my 2005 "Enough To Eclipse", which was something of a Paul McCartney influence, as I/my material often am/is (which Paul McCartney knows, even if not everybody else does).

The fact that:

• I am announcing the release of Mr. Combo and the Crazy Combinations Sing You Some Tunes on June 2nd, the 43rd anniversary to the day of the American release of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band;

Combined with the fact that:

• I was a significant influence on a number of Beatles songs, including Eleanor Rigby, a song which precipitated Sgt. Peppers in that Sgt. Peppers suggests the sublimation of The Beatles in order to promote the plight of the lonely (Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band), Eleanor Rigby containing the refrain about what to do with all the lonely people;
  

Combined with how:

• I never get monetarily compensated for all of my contributions, which is semi-communistic or at least anti-capitalistic and downloading Mr. Combo songs will address this injustice;
  

Combined with how:

• This collection of my songs even has a few never-before-released, and all of the songs are from after "Enough To Eclipse";
  

Combined with the fact that:

• Stevie Wonder is also at this moment meeting with Mr. McCartney and Pres. Obama, his crying harmonica in Sting's "(Starting Up A) Brand New Day" having begun with my crying saxophone in my "(Build It All Up Into A) Brand New River of Love" (copyright 1999);
  

Combined with how:

• Mr. Combo will usher into the world a new age of combining things....
  

All adds up to this (to paraphrase "A Day In The Life"):

Mr. Combo would love to turn you on!