This post is to redirect you - "Jonathan D Steinhoff's Sometimes Blog" has moved to:
http://zoomsteinhoff.blog.com/
this is due to Blogspot having given out word their site will soon not work for, in so many words, my old computer....
additionally, I continue to post collected volumes of my blog articles at www.Archive.Org
follow.... if you dare!
As a matter of maintaining historical records, it once again falls upon me to make note of this and that. If my laying out of details here seems blandly straightforward, it is not a reflection of a bland disposition on my part. Just filing everything in the right files is all goes on here.
special note- this blogsite will soon be unusable on my computer, which could affect any number of things that haven't even begun to cross my mind or touch human history.... - Jonathan
A Hillbilly's Empathy
I'm pleased to announce a new song (it's only a little bit of a song), "A Hillbilly's Empathy":
http://archive.org/details/AHillbillysEmpathy
A Split Personality Taliban Terrorist Does The American TV Talk Show Circuit
I'm also pleased to announce a new comedy sketch idea (possibly too explosive), "A Split Personality Taliban Terrorist Does The American TV Talk Show Circuit":
http://archive.org/details/ASplitPersonalityTalibanTerroristDoesTheAmericanTvTalkShowCircuit
Things Detected In Relation To "Inspector Burgundy"
I could list you the things that have occurred since the recent reemergence and (minor?) reworking of the 1978 work, "Inspector Burgundy". In certain instances, you'd be left having to take my word, or else do exhaustive research to verify. In other instances, not such exhaustive Internet research would be required on your part to verify. And without meticulous understanding of the precise bases for the conclusions, false bases would inevitably be presumed, leading to false assumptions about how the conclusions were reached. Hardly seems worth it.... however, it includes Paul McCartney, and Johnny Depp, which therefore ties in with my recent influence once again on Tim Burton (described below a little), etc. And so, for the millionth time, I imagine it's worth something.
Let's see, what's the best way to describe this. I'm always influencing Paul McCartney, for years and years and years, and have at various times known people he knows, etc., etc., etc. If you go through my blogs (you could compile a search-able database) you can form your own conclusions, I suppose. Not that you would thereby share all my "knowledge" on the subject.
I cannot completely stay away from going into some of the many intricate details of this and that (it's already over-intricate, which is why it's semi-invisible unless you closely follow), however, if you saw Paul McCartney's guest appearance on the live "30 Rock" East Coast edition (available if you have the right cable subscription), he went behind a picture on a wall. This action was performed by Inspector Burgundy in the 4/15/12 released "Inspector Burgundy" (www.archive.org), released over a week before "30 Rock". I've often shown in my blogs how I am an influence on Saturday Night Live (I regard the evidence as compelling at the least). I've also made the assertion that Paul McCartney's surprise appearance years ago on an Alec Baldwin sketch on SNL about Poison in a Drink resulted from my request through an intermediary a week before, for special reasons I won't detail here, that he do something in a comedy sketch relating to my "Recipe For Fun" video (on YouTube, this has to do with John Kerry.... I think).
I particularly believe there to be a connection between a sketch idea I posted a while ago, "Amnesia Land" and Paul McCartney's appearance on the live "30 Rock". The sketch idea is all about a TV show from the very early days of TV. That episode of "30 Rock" was all about the early days of live TV. At one point McCartney expressed having amnesia, a fact another character exploited to her advantage by convincing him his identity was that of her boyfriend. In "Amnesia Land", it is all about the characters convincing each other, as soon as they (inevitably) become amnesiac, of a made-up identity, to further their own ends. I would not even say that these similarities are sufficient for a conclusion, if not for the additional factors of my having an ongoing influence on McCartney, Baldwin in relation to McCartney, SNL, Lorne Michaels. Where was I? Right, "Amnesia Land":
http://archive.org/details/AmnesiaLand
In the second half of "Inspector Burgundy", the song in the background is, "The Piano Has Been Drinking," by Dan Hicks and Tom Waits. In Will Ferrell's opening on SNL 5/12/12, we see him onstage with his mother. And as with "The Piano Has Been Drinking", he diverts attention from himself by blaming the piano (I have occasionally referred to my influence on Will Ferrell in the past).
Inspector Burgundy's closing statement has him stating that now they must work on their hand gestures.
And much about hand gestures is suddenly going on. On the 5/5/12 SNL, the guest host is in a sketch as a fashion model in a contest, who, upon losing, demonstrates her hand gestures, which she had hoped would be singularly responsible for making her win.
While I was working on "Inspector Burgundy" (4/15/12, when I released it by posting it to www.Archive.org, being approx. 4 days after I had first received a digital copy from the unsynched, unedited 16mm material from 1978), Paul McCartney was simultaneously receiving a degree of media attention from incorrect use of sign language by the performers in his music video, Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman.
Yes, it would certainly seem preposterous to correlate their hand gestures with the hand gestures discussed in Inspector Burgundy, in Burgundy's closing speech. That there was coordination of things involved. Well, I often do just that, sorry! I make preposterous-sounding assertions of my great influence on Paul McCartney over the years.
My Spin On My Spin
In earlier blogs I have described and I believe demonsrated, how I am a frequent and sometimes significant influence on Tim Burton, who went to CalArts at the same time as myself, and knew many of the same people. His newest film, "Dark Shadows", like many of his other works, contains my influence as well. I'm watching the movie, see, already expecting I'll find something, 'cause he so often is influenced by me, almost like a secret college ritual that includes McCartney, Spielberg, SNL, Sting, Madonna, everybody else in show biz, major politicals as well, etc. And then I spot at the very beginning, matted in the background of the character, the spinning around 360 pan, but combined with the sense of powerful wind connected to the background 360 pan. Recognizing the likelihood that this was indicating something to me in shorthand, it being the millionth time, I thought, okay, why that work of mine it is suggesting to me? And then it instantly became obvious: the title of the work, a music video, is "American Gothic" (you can view it on YouTube, where I'm "zoomsteinhoff").
A Dolphin Idea I May Have Forgotten Hearing Somewhere
PREDICTION: I hundred years from now it will finally be revealed! We were able to fluently communicate with dolphins by 1989, butt we said something to them in conversation a few minutes later that they took as SO offensive, they refused from that moment forwawrd to communicate with us!
Secret Language of Smarties
The new release by Ian Anderson, "TAAB2" ("Thick As A Brick 2"), more recognizably known by some as "Mr. Tull," contains something on its CD cover which I interpret as being an inside-reference for my "benefit" (this is not in the category of things regarding which I would choose to go into detail). The specific thing it brings to mind is also brought to mind in the inside-references adding up to my very significant influence on Ian Anderson's album, "Secret Language of Birds." However, his whole idea of a 10-year old boy writing something that leads to songs by a legendary rock band, the whole Thick As A Brick concept that is, it's just pandering to child mythology wish fulfillment fantasy, although, then again- as a writer of a story at the age of 10 that influenced The Beatles, I should in all fairness recuse myself from this one.
