Jonathan D. Steinhoff's Sometimes Blog

Stop Blowing Up The World For A Minute

2012-01-17T00:08:00.000-08:00

Old Puzzle Piece, Looks As Good As New
I neglected to point out in my previous blog, that the image I used as part of my email signature at work was something to which I referred in several blogs in September 2010. So "War Horse" being just released made this email signature image relevant; and McCartney's just-announced new album title ("Kisses On The Bottom"), being revealed as a song reference to a letter closing, also made this same thing relevant. As I have often stated, I am a secret, major influence on Spielberg and McCartney. It would be ten times easier for people to believe I just had their autographs - I do not. Or perhaps if I wasn't so huge an influence, it would be easier to believe. Or perhaps if I was rich.... yes, that would work!

NeesonWeeson
There have been a few occasions when I have referred to actor Liam Neeson in my blog articles. I have noted my belief that the death of his wife occurred in such a manner and at such a moment as to lead me to suspect foul play, though no one else has – that this foul play was deliberately intertwined by the perpetrators with something I had blogged shortly before, that it had to do with Neeson being Spielberg’s Lincoln at that time (the part has since gone to another actor), Neeson having previously been Spielberg’s Schindler, that these factors attracted a certain element to prey on someone in that small sphere, that my secret, great importance in relation to, and my secret, great influence on, Steven Spielberg (updated as recently as my blog article that immediately precedes this one, posted 12/30/11) is something that, over the years, have brought certain things to my doorstep, causing me to develop an ability to read certain things in ways the less experienced would miss.

This time, a recent Tonight Show appearance by Liam Neeson prompts me to draw your attention to my April 18, 2010 blog article (copyrighted to Archive.Org in May 2010 in Volume 3 of my collected blog articles), in which I observe the serious possibility that my “In Orders We Trust” (posted at Archive.Org, as a video and as a story idea) influenced the remake of the movie, “Clash of the Titans”, which stars Neeson as Zeus. My conclusion, though postponed until I had the chance to again see the original “Clash” to recheck a thing or two about the remake, is that I definitely was an influence on this movie.

Without all of this explanation, the following videoclip from the 1.11.12 Tonight Show could only seem completely inconsequential (whatever the word “consequence” means!). I present the videoclip so that you can see Neeson telling Leno urine should be referred to as, “Wee-wee”. Leno concurs (though he’s often overly agreeable, and too easily-made an agreement on important matters are at risk of falling apart, as history has taught us – in fact, I expect our truce with Great Britain from the Revolutionary War to blow up in our faces at any moment. However, I digress.).

This silly little discussion on wee-wee took place the same day the news story broke about American soldiers urinating on the corpse – a story that puts all Americans at risk of being thought of as enjoying desecrating corpses. Furthermore, whether or not you feel inclined to agree that I influenced “Clash”, it should be burned into the mind of anyone who sees (or reads) my above-referenced “Orders” that “wee-wee” is one of the most important things in this Neeson-associated story. It is an important moment in the piece when Hercules causes the human mortal to spray paint “Zeus Is A Big Fat Wee-Wee” onto Zeus (who was frozen into a statue by the granddaughter of Medusa when Hercules, not knowing what she could do, insulted her). The ending of the piece is when a dog, in urinating on Hercules (also frozen into being a statue), is suspected of being an instrument of Zeus, which ends the truce. Here the desecrating of one’s enemy has apparently escalated from writing the word “wee-wee” on their lifeless body to urinating on their lifeless body.

In summary: The key is that the exact words, “wee-wee”, were used in a very pronounced way by Neeson on 1/11/12; and spoken and written in a very pronounced way in my Neeson-associated (by way of my April 2010 blog article) “In Orders We Trust”.

Those wishing to express their appreciation of the position this puts me in with regard to the American entertainment industry’s diplomatic response to this grotesque news story about the soldiers may salute me as often as they please (or if I may ask that you at least not desecrate my lifeless body after I’m dead). Because my incredibly diplomatic nature, where I never say anything anyone might ever possibly disagree with, confining myself to topics that never offend or confuse, is the kind of thing the world now finds itself reliant upon! My “Orders” has come to the fore, wherever that is!

Ending Not With A Bang But A Letter To Kim Jong Un (or, "P Is For North Korea")
As I continuously explain, I have been a big influence on SNL (Saturday Night Live). I was not an influence on their 1/7/12 show – however, I did not “submit” anything for that show, so it kind of makes sense, at least to me, perhaps to you- oh, how I hope you agree!

I did submit something for their 1/14/12 show: “Dear Whoever Gonna Blow Up The World” -- http://www.archive.org/details/DearWhoeverGonnaBlowUpTheWorld.

This comedy idea of mine (copyrighted to Archive.Org on Saturday MORNING, 2am, 1/14/12 Calif. time, indicated at that site in Greenwich Time) is similar enough to the following clip from SNL’s show on Saturday NIGHT, that you might just want to assume mine came after theirs, if I couldn’t prove to you otherwise – though, of course, yes, the two comedy pieces are different.

Some may say that the common elements to both pieces are common ideas in general, to see someone who might someday end the world through the eyes of his childhood peers. Some may say that I could have had inside word that permitted me to post in advance of SNL’s broadcast. Yet I believe that those who have been following over time those things I HAVE been able to prove (proven to those who are truly reasonable, intelligent and honest – and can be relied on to remain so in proximity to these types of powers in the world) would consider it reasonable to give me the benefit of the doubt here. Or at the least, those following should see where it is a definite, real possibility, if not an extreme probability, that it was yours truly who set up SNL’s response to the appointment of the new North Korean dictator.

Now everyone in the world, go do something else, I have private business here:

Dear Un, If you want someone such as myself to feel that I shouldn’t write comedy ideas that people can in less than a day rework into something about you and then broadcast it to America, I suggest you not go waving that thing around the way your father did. I regard those who flirt with the dangers of nuclear annihilation to be grotesque human beings. I don’t wish to be disagreeable, however. Perhaps even just, just, hmm, even a softer image could win you my approval…. Try…. a more relaxed military outfit, that is, assuming military outfits are so essential. Something like a pea coat might look right. Yes, that’s all you need, really.

All The News That Has A Feeling Of The Right Amount Of Newness

2011-12-30T17:48:00.000-08:00

A few notes, presented here in a manner devoid of all insight or perspective into how this might all affect the state of humanity some day! And while I essentially just feel myself to be wearing my reporter's hat at present, I totally see where it does look a little more like I'm actually trying to make a crown of sorts appear upon my head. Okay, well, I get a kick out of wearing crowns! (have I neutralized the deep tension that has subtly plagued mankind over what hats go where for all eternity? not yet?)

THE DAILY SHOW
In my previous blog (12/11/11), I was pushing for SNL (Saturday Night Live) to use material from one of two recent writings of mine for their last show before Christmas. They invariably work stuff I "submit" for that week's show in, though usually in fragments too different or small to be recognizable for what they are, unless one is clued in. Though I don't see how anyone making the effort could fail to appreciate the evidenciary nature of what I generally submit, when I can. They aren't always vague in their reference.

One of those two writings of mine, "Dostoyevsky's 'A Christmas Carol'" (published to Archive.Org by me on 11/27/11), did get used - however, not on SNL, but on another favorite show of mine, "The Daily Show". As I have occasionally described in my blogs, both "The Daily Show" and "The Cobert Report" occasionally find ways to incorporate my material into theirs, sometimes in a very big way, and most likely things aimed by me towards the next SNL.

In this case, I refer to their segment with John Hodgman, which aired 12/14/11. And if I may boast, this was their second to last show before Christmas, and unlike SNL, Daily Show's second to last show before Christmas is only a day apart from their very last show before Christmas. New Year's Eve too, for that matter, so thank me for your Daily Show holiday send-off, or one part of it. Or don't thank me, though it is the holiday season, you might want to thank me just for anything at all. Happy Holidays!

In my above-referenced writing, we find a reworking of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," with the anti-Capitalist message specifically removed as a chief part of the amusing convolution of things. John Boehner, one of the hosts of the movie presentation described in my writing, is seen to be tearful with emotion at viewing the story's new non-anti-Capitalist turn (it is for this reason that I edited in a little special emphasis on Hodgman's tearfulness, in case you somehow missed my point that their 12/14/11 bit comes from my 11/27/11 bit initially meant for SNL's 12/17/11 show):

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
While SNL apparently passed on the two writings I hoped would make their way in some form or another into their 12/17/11 show (though perhaps it is too soon to know these have no use to them), I did notice that they picked up on at least one thing contained in my previous blog (12/11/11). Those who read that blog prior to their 12/17 show will know as a certainty that I was several days prior to that show referring to how in my "Gosk" video, "One finds a montage in which a violinist is getting set up to play classical music, but the montage is coordinated with a Motown song." On SNL several days later, we find a sketch in which Beethoven conducts an orchestra playing Motown music. I have previously mentioned that SNL occasionally evidences that they follow these blogs. I might further add that their sketch on Spielberg's "War Horse" immediately followed this sketch, which I believe SNL did apropos of what came up in my previous blog, when I was discussing something Spielberg recently said on TCM.

I noticed something else on SNL's 12/17 show as well, though it is more obscure and requires great experience and knowledge in these shorthands to appreciate, perhaps. Or maybe you can pick it right up. I refer to the end of my 12/11 blog, where I pretend to plea, on little Tiny Tim's behalf, that SNL include an idea contained in a writing of mine, as it could help Tiny Tim. That sort of approach to creating something for SNL - do it for Tiny Tim. Then, on SNL's 12/17 show, Adam Sandberg calls to host Jimmy Fallon as he's creating a song, to please include something in it for the Jews. Fallon then obliged Sandberg, which had itself sort of been Sandberg obliging me, in trying to get an idea through about getting an idea through. God bless us everyone!

STEVEN SPIELBERG
For this next section, I will begin with an analogy to that thing on "LIVE With Regis and Kelly" (back in the day), where they have a number selected at random by the person on the phone means a person in the audience with that same number gets something. Because: this isn't that, despite looking like that. I've confused you already....

I took from a graphic artwork book of mine, "Go Eyes, Go!", (posted at Archive.Org) a specific image, and reproduced it beneath my signature line on all of my emails where I work, as sort of my logo. I did this from 8/10/09 to 12/28/10, and though thousands and thousands of such emails bear witness, I didn't gett around to emailing everyone who ever lived everywhere, my oops). The work, like it or not, is entitled "A Separate Thing":

Few images come closer to summoning a thought towards the new Steven Spielberg movie, "War Horse". The predominant focus of my signature line logo image is a photograph I took in the English countryside (Dorset), so, essentially the identical setting and subject of "War Horse." Furthermore, it does not simply bring to mind a random moment in the movie, rather, it tends to preserve the film's most innocent (almost iconically innocent) period.

I now abruptly must return to the above "LIVE With Regis" analogy. I recognize that invariably someone (or more than one) make prominent an image that connects to this or another movie or whatever at any given time, I do get that this is a statistical inevitability that someone has the number called out. What distinguishes my circumstance in a complete and total way, however, is that for Spielberg to be influenced in an important decision by something I'm betting my chips on is extremely consistent of him. I believe much evidence of this has already been presented by me from time to time, and would suggest interested predators and good people put in a moment and see my video, "Steven Spielberg and The Mall Man Factor", which can be viewed at Archive.Org). Of additional relevance in this instance is that, according to Wikipedia, Spielberg first announced in December 2009 that he was going to direct "War Horse". I began using this as the image at the bottom of all of my emails in August 2009. This was the image I had committed to, in a way, if you look at it that way.

I have previously asserted that the DreamWorks' recurring opening montage was created apropos of the opening moment in my video, "Gosk".

I have previously asserted that "Jurassic Park" began with the first thing I ever sent Spielberg, which was via a friend of his with whom I had spoken the day before, the title of which, "The Coin That Came In Second" (also posted at Archive.Org) alluding to the idea of occupants of a prehistoric artificial natural habitat environment somehow, perhaps ominously, escaping from there.

Lots of other stuff

I also noticed stuff in the newly released Spielberg movie, "TinTin", and at the risk of appearing to see things (as I always do!), will just mention that I am certain of inside-references in that movie to my little music video, "Whatever Happened" (posted at Archive.Org). References to this music video of mine previously seemed the mostly exclusive domain of Joseph Gordon-Leavitt (who will be in the upcoming Spielberg movie about Lincoln), which I've discussed in earlier blogs.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, WORLD!

P.S. PAUL MCCARTNEY
The title of the upcoming (in February) Paul McCartney release has just been officially announced as, "Kisses On The Bottom". I researched it, and it comes from one of the songs on the album, and in context has to do with the bottom of a letter. I have long asserted and demonstrated (whenever possible) my great (or good at least) influence on Paul McCartney, particularly when we're talking about his album titles and/or album covers (not that there is direct communication where I'm concerned, in fact, well, I don't know exactly how it goes, actually, though I'm sure somebody has a good explanation for why I'm not a billionaire which just popped into my head and may explain why there's no direct communication). Continuing.... I cannot help but observe how this album title of Paul McCartney's conceptually connects, or interconnects, so distinctly with my observation about the signature line on my emails. Because I'm crazy enough to hope that one day everyone in the whole world will be on the same page, except maybe for the illiterates, those lousy bums, so pay attention in school and occupy your fingers, then your hands, then the universe, I'm probably leaving out a few steps. I'm going to have to leave things there for 2011.

Three Show & Tell Points Pending Approval of Review Board

2011-12-11T10:33:00.000-08:00

Studying For The Big Show And Tell Exam
These two photographs of me are from over 50 years ago. I look older now.

Something Of Possible Interest To Those Who Go Overboard For Christopher Walken
Whether or not you possess the socks, or the IQ, or the proclivity for doing research, or the whatever that would be necessary to appreciate the point made in the first paragraph of my August 22, 2009 blog article ("Graffiti Is In The Eyes Of The Typesetter"), you cannot dispute certain things:

First, that this article definitely was not written apropos of recent events, as it was copyrighted at Archive.Org in November 2009 as part of a volume of my collected blog articles.
Second, that this article asserts that the "Gods Behaving Badly" project (an entertainment industry project that first manifested before the public via Marie Philips' best-selling novel of the same name being purchased for development as a TV show by Red Hour, the film company of Stuart Cornfeld and Ben Stiller) resulted from my "In Orders We Trust" project. (Again: appreciating that this assertion was made by me does not require that you concur with the assertion - the point here is simply that the assertion regarding this project was made at this time.)

Now that this exact same "Gods Behaving Badly" project is to become a movie starring Christopher Walken, its very title, "Gods Behaving Badly," will tend to automatically bring to the mind of the public the current mystery surrounding Walken's possible involvement with relation to the recently reopened investigation into the death of Natalie Wood. Which was huge in the news during Thanksgiving, and which one expects will continue to "resurface" (with apologies to Natalie Wood) with like intensity.

My larger point becomes:

Here we have yet another instance where a huge story in the media contains a component of considerable interest that leads back to me - in this case, the upcoming Christopher Walken movie, "Gods Behaving Badly," the title of which will unquestionably prompt one to think of the Natalie Wood death; it will furthermore become obvious to one and all that this movie is prompting this thought, owing to the enormity of the news story and the wording of the title. The news story generating a shadow over Walken, how far his negative side may have gone in real life, and a similar shadow suggested by the words, "Gods Behaving Badly" - how far do the Gods entitle themselves to go?

I Hear That
Those who saw Steven Spielberg's recent appearance on TCM discussing music in his films may recall his description of how, on set, he might occasionally address his music director, John Williams, out loud but in his absence, when particularly cognizant that he has done something that will get interesting further down the "assemby line" when it becomes Williams' turn to contribute something to the material.

This was a rare television appearance by Steven Spielberg, therefore, a special appearance. Therefore, those who have followed me on the subject of my being a secret, significant influence on Spielberg may, like me, have had their receptors up and running, ready to detect that which might lend itself as something to further support my contention.

In this one must first recognize that at no time will Spielberg ever look directly at the camera and state, "Jonathan David Steinhoff is the most amazing person in the universe." No, not directly. All things communicated by Spielberg to express this thought about me, or perhaps only a diluted version of this thought, would occupy a form on some other level, and only via a more subtle means would simultaneously contain this. For we live in a cold realm, where people are only somewhat effusive with regard to one another. I once actually saw an award show where the winning actor only referred to his director as a phenomenal genius, rather than referring to him as the most incredible genius who ever lived, which would have been more correct, at least in my view. However, I was discussing people recognizing one another.

So to continue, yes, if one were looking there was something there.

It is an often seen event, in instances where one finds a work that makes reference to me/my material, that:

There is something contained in the material of another that suggests one is being alerted to the specific place in my material that is in relation to the influence or inside-reference

Alongside the similarity, an additional component that further connects that same material

The moment in my material to which I was alerted while watching Spielberg on TCM is in my video posted at Archive.Org, "Gosk, Part 2". Vinkalert is by himself, yet says out loud, "Dockert, I can see the car." A moment later, he drops his pail because it changed from being a bluegreen pail to being a purple pail. That's when we hear the song by Procol Harum, "Whiter Shade of Pale".

So, not only was a specific moment in one of my works brought to mind while watching something that I pre-anticipated would contain something regarding my work (it being that Spielberg does this frequently with regard to me/my material). The subject of Spielberg and Williams talking on TCM was all about music in film. And what could be additionally said of the moment of mine Spielberg brought to mind? Of all the moments in all my work, it is the singular moment that takes the whole idea of music in film and cracks a joke about it - without compromising the mood of the moment. Throughout "Gosk" I was interspersing the idea of music as something to be heard from "outside the box", but this moment was the most direct.

Other music related moments in "Gosk" that I also would have found sufficiently relevant, had Spielberg brought such moments to mind:

One finds a montage in which a violinist is getting set up to play classical music, but the montage is coordinated with a Motown song.

Women from the planet Klug are automatically mesmerized by Earth music, therefore, as we watch shots of the musician intercut as part of the scene, and hear him playing, the music as we hear it transends its traditional role in such a scene.

Following a montage I use to introduce a scene, the same song heard playing as part of the montage completely changes in significance by the song itself becoming the initial focus of discussion when the dialog in the scene begins (the introduction of the spacecraft interior in "Gosk 1").

I might additionally note that the actor in my "Gosk" scene who speaks out loud to Dockert in his absence was Joni Mitchell's art director in real life. Mitchell goes way back with David Geffen, who, together with Spielberg and Katzenberg, run DreamWorks. I might also mention that it was ONE WEEK after I told a group of my "Gosk" actors, "I don't recommend using the park's restroom, I would suggest if possible waiting until later when you can use a restaurant bathroom," just one week later, one week I tell you, that George Michael had that scandal where he was caught beating off in a park's bathroom and somehow wound up as a result being David Geffen's houseguest for a week according to the papers (had to remain in town as a result or something, who remembers exactly?). Admittedly, the Joni Mitchell art director/"Gosk" actor wasn't in the specific "Gosk" group I addressed on the subject of restrooms in parks, however, he specifically told me on a separate occasion that he had previously worked with one of the actors who was in that "Gosk" group, so with that kind of cross-pollination, and the kind of attention I generally secretly receive, I think this is putting two and two together, from all that I've seen in the past. Oh yeah, and Sean Daniel, to whom I refer from time to time, once ran Geffen's film production company, though what that has to do with me, well, actually, I suppose it has something to do with me, I just don't quite know what. David Geffen was in the physical presence of John Lennon when Lennon was shot, though Lennon is not known to have called out to him, or to Yoko, or to Dockert. But I'm sure I digress.

SNL, PART 1 OF 3.4 MILLION
I should begin by explaining, SNL is secret code language for the television show, "Saturday Night Live".

Below are my Facebook posting of a photograph with my comment, plus another comment from me regarding it below that. I believe these suggest to those who have been following things that, as a more significant part of my ongoing substantial influence on SNL, two consecutive SNLs had political opening sketches which had as their basic idea something I had days before brought up "on the record". One might have to appreciate the context of my being quite (that's right, I said quite) the influence on SNL over the years (as conveyed in numerous blog articles I've written), in order to appreciate my reading of things - please read more, at your leisure, in earlier blogs of mine, be my guest (you may want to go to archive.org, make a single document from the 5 volumes of postings there of my blog articles, and presto, you'll have a searchable database of all of my blogs posted to archive.org thus far).

Jonathan Steinhoff
Herbert Lamm on the left, then my mother (Herbert's cousin) and my father. My understanding, though you didn't hear it from me, is that Mom and Cousin Herbert were great Communists together in their youth, in the Bronx. Herbert later married the sister of Sidney Buchman, who wrote "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington," "Holiday", "Talk Of The Town", etc., and was the head of the Screenwriters Union during WW II, etc., etc. (I therefore credit my mother with every bad thing said on-screen about Hitler during his reign, though it could be said I have an exaggerated belief in my mother's influence on the world, especially when I was a youth, etc., etc., etc.)
December 1 at 5:50pm

Jonathan Steinhoff
Those who caught my subtly ambiguous use of the word "reign" here (Hitler's or Buchman's?) may further notice SNL's taking this very concept further in their opening sketch last night. I've previously referred to my influence on their previous (11/19/11) show's opening sketch as well. My continuing thoughts on this will be next appearing in an upcoming blog!
December 4 at 8:11am

I would add, the SNL sketch to which I refer had Obama explaining how we are not living under his rule, he is only five on the list of the most powerful people in the U.S. Certain show biz individuals came ahead of him, though the application of the exact word "reign" did not literally materialize with regard to a show biz name. It was there, however.

SNL, PART 2 OF 3.4 MILLION
On last night's SNL, there was a sketch about Al Sharpton's political TV show on MSNBC. At one point, as if to represent the idea of an obscure political theory that has been fixated on, Sharpton over and over repeats the idea of the GOP having rocks in their heads, until the phrase appears at the bottom of the screen, "GOP: Rocks In Their Heads?" He further tries to interconnect with this phrase, the idea of "stone walling", the words stone walling said repeatedly, Sharpton saying, "Stone walling? You know, stones are just a variation on rocks. So they have rocks, big old roley poley rocks, in their head?" He finds numerous opportunities beyond these to say "Stone Walling" and "Rocks in their heads". My previous blog, and therefore my last blog before this show, gave the word "stone walling" the importance of being included in the blog title: "All I Want For Christmas Is A Stone Wall". My blog article immediately previous to that blog article refers to the idea of rocks in someone's head, using the phrase several times, while I specifically discuss a previous SNL reference to me/my material. This discussion about rocks in the head goes back to a previous thing I came up with about Larry, The Geologist Of The Mind.

I Was A Prisoner of A Cop Who Wouldn’t Let Anyone Leave The Office Christmas Party Until He Found Out Who Brought The Pot As A White Elephant Gift For 50 Hours
Yes, all that is the title of my newest comedy sketch writing, or for short, "I Was A Prisoner Of A Cop". And as with the one before it ("Dostoyevsky's 'A Christmas Carol'"), it would be most appropriate for their very last SNL before Christmas, and I don't know why I haven't seen a single trace of either one of these ideas on an SNL show yet (I ask but a single trace of one of these ideas, Mr. Michaels, spare a trace if you can, happy holidays to you and yours, sir! It's Tiny Tim, sir, he hasn't been at all well! spare a trace of my sketch idea that'll say something to help poor Tiny Tim!). Oh yes, and on this subject, SNL's last show before Christmas will be taking place this Saturday, or the one after it, or possibly next month (I'm never sure about anything).

http://www.archive.org/details/IWasAPrisonerOfACopWhoWouldntLetAnyoneLeaveTheOfficeChristmas

All I Want For Christmas Is A Stone Wall

2011-11-29T07:49:00.000-08:00

Two things worth noting since last time - my sketch idea submitted for the Nov. 19th SNL, "Talking Dirty Cups On A Dirty Kitchen Counter At Thanksgiving Time":

http://www.archive.org/details/TalkingDirtyCupsOnADirtyKitchenCounteratThanksgivingTime

and my sketch idea submitted for the Dec. 3rd SNL, "Dostoyevsky's 'A Christmas Carol'":

http://www.archive.org/details/DostoyevskysaChristmasCarolcomedySketch

Those who saw (or will see) the Nov. 19th show will notice in their opening sketch the idea of Romney cleaning a teacup was used to represent the opposite of a sleazy type; in my sketch, a dirty cup is used to represent a sleazy type. This fact, combined with SNL's ongoing references (for years and years) to material I submit for that week's show, says a mouthful (not just a sipful). In the neither-here-nor-there dept., there were other possible references on that show. A sketch about a mattress ended with the image of a glass of wine, it NOT spilling being the essential meaning of the image - my sketch has a cup bemoaning that his new crack will result in liquid spilling from him. Another sketch took place in a bar called "The Empty Glass" - if seen in the context I describe, it is related. And finally, in my previous blog, I state (in a discussion relating to SNL) that crude is often regarded as a surefire approach (that blog is not yet copyrighted, so if you didn't read it before the show, you might admittedly consider it had been written any time, though it was not). This idea was central to their opening Romney sketch, wherein he wishes to compete with the edgier personalities of Cain and Perry by appearing more crude than he is.

Those unfamiliar with the degree of my impact on SNL may have difficulty accepting the idea that I should have had so powerful an effect on that show.

COMING SOON:
Something for Christopher Walken and Steven Spielberg fans, or not, depending on your point of view.

Lawrence of Wherever

2011-11-15T21:37:00.000-08:00

From The Ridiculous
SNL (secret code language for Saturday Night Live) has, for the millionth show in the past million years, made some kind of inside reference to material I provided for that show, specifically, something I (officially) posted to www.archive.org on Monday, Oct. 31st, 12:39am Greenwich Mean Time (Sunday, Oct. 30th in California): "We Do That Too".

"We Do That Too" is my comedy idea specifically meant for the Nov. 5th SNL. Throughout the bit, the action of wetting oneself flows through it like a beautiful river (as the prejudiced author, I may have waxed a little too poetic in my description, but the essential thing makes it through: wetting oneself is the predominant action of the bit).

The Nov. 5th SNL included a bit all about pooping oneself (the Dr. Oz takeoff where the person who poops himself is the focus of a magnificent demonstration that one can't forget, though perhaps someday I can charge people to read "We Do That Too" as a possible remedy that might assist one in forgetting to some degree anyway, but I digress).

So in conclusion, while people have been pooping and wetting themselves ever since they first began wearing animal skins (not that there are any cave paintings where they admit it, but what do you expect), and also making references to same ever since as well, this is not the proper context in which to scrutinize what has occurred here. Here we have the upteenth example of me submitting a comedy sketch idea for that week's SNL, and them taking something from it.

I would just like to add that the core of my idea was not used. My idea includes a concept in addition to the.... other stuff. I was going for how big business will try to co-opt a true group spirit (Occupy Wall Street) by latching onto something irrelevant they have in common with the movement and running with it. I do not normally go for the crude (though it is for many a surefire approach), but in this case, wetting oneself struck me as the obvious common ground for co-opters to exploit. In the '60s, we saw people grow their hair long without having any true belief in the spirit of freedom it connoted at the time, ultimately co-opting real change. So I say, beware the..... beware the..... perhaps you should read "We Do That Too" for yourself.

To The Not Ridiculous Enough (But Close)
When it came to the Nov. 12th SNL, I offered my comedy sketch idea, "It'll Shake Your Head". I posted this one to www.archive.org on Tuesday, Nov. 8th, 4:30am Greenwich Mean Time (or Monday, Nov. 7th California time).

SNL did an incredibly minor reference to it on their Nov. 12th show, would not begin to count as a reference, if not for the aforedescribed context that has developed over the years, as well as a shorthand.

Specifically, "It'll Shake Your Head" is about a Glen Beck-type named Larry, The Geologist of the Mind, who explains all things political with a crazy concept having to do with invisible Tectonic Plates in the sky that act on the human mind.

The Nov. 12th SNL had a game show sketch in which the characters had to guess the secret word without the person prompting them saying it. Kristin Wiig said the name, "Scientist Kate". It was not a secret, so it was okay for her to say, "Scientist Kate". Had she said, "Larry, The Geologist Of The Mind", that would have been a different matter - so, "Scientist Kate" in, "Larry, The Geologist Of The Mind" out.

An additional thing, though I attach little to it, was their opening, wherein Rick Perry is shot in the head but the bullet bounces off. This could be said to bring to mind the idea of having rocks in one's head, or a plate in one's head. If this did bring such a thought to mind, well, rock's in one's head, geologist of the mind, plate in one's head, Tectonic plate affecting our minds.... who knows what was going on inside their heads!

And now it gets scary. Glen Beck was looking at me contemplatively in traffic several weeks ago. So then, on the night of Nov. 8th on his show, Glen Beck guts a fish named Larry as part of a symbolic attack on mainstream media. I don't enjoy watching people defecate, and so never watch the Glen Beck Show, but apparently this was noteworthy enough to rate a Huffington Post article. I did a little further research, and found that the last posting on YouTube of Beck and his Larry the Fish was 2.5 years ago, in March 2009. So Larry the Fish returns after over two years in order to appear within less than a day of the appearance of the Beck-like Larry, The Geologist Of The Mind. A character created by me (a secret perpetual influence on the often political SNL) prompting a reaction from Glen Beck. Nope, wouldn't be at all surprised to find this is the Republicans remembering my influence on SNL when the 2008 election was getting into full swing.

In Other News
There's been other stuff worthy of mention, however, I don't really have the energy (did I mention I still don't have a 9-5 that takes into account my solemn duties as one of the most secretly influential people in the world at a time in history when that could make a real difference, and so my energy gets sapped by non-solemn duties? still waiting for Spielberg, McCartney, or somebody to call and tell me I can officially be seated upon my throne....).

I originally was inspired with the Tectonic Plates concept in "It'll Shake Your Head" as something for an animation of some kind. I saw it as containing huge possibilities. Now I see Glen Beck gutting a fish, and somehow, that messes with the whole thing (hopefully I'm mistaken). I mention this so that Spielberg or McCartney will feel compelled to call before another fish pays the price!

Fish Credit (or Addendum To The Last Thing)

2011-10-26T06:48:00.000-07:00

Addendum To The Last Thing (or Fish Credit)

After a careful review of my description of the Klein/seasick in fishing boat cabin description found in my 11.8.09 blog, "The Price Of Freedom, And The Free Of Pricedom" (also published to Archive.Org 11.10.09 as part of the 1st volume of my collected blogs), which preceded the reference to same in my 10.23.11 (most recent) blog, "Chosen Leader In Reserve", brought up at that time while on the subject of a movie about credit for spotting birds ("The Big Year")....

I find that I feel exactly the same as I have always felt about credit deserved regarding that fish. I shall always feel this way. Case closed.

Chosen Leader In Reserve

2011-10-23T14:07:00.000-07:00

Idiot-Proof Evidence Of Something-Or-Another
For those who might feel a vacuum from there not having been a Saturday Night Live last night, and/or if you're nostalgic for several SNL shows ago, or/and you're looking for proof of some kind of something or another relating to my blogs occasionally pointing at Stuart Cornfeld/Ben Stiller (who run Red Hour Films together, Stuart being someone I once sort of knew going back to 1975 and later and then back to 1975 then go to 1993), or whatever, then perhaps you will enjoy this little videoclip*:
*"The Chosen Leader of Florsheim Shoes" can be found at:
http://www.archive.org/details/TheChosenLeaderOfFlorsheimShoes

In Totally Minor, Unimportant News
That sketch they did on SNL (Oct. 1st I think it was), where they regard Hidden Valley Ranch Salad Dressing as a food to be consumed obsessively rather than as a mere salad dressing: that must have resulted from my mentioning to someone at work that Hidden Valley Ranch Salad Dressing is so great it should be treated like a main course in itself. How? In previous blogs I've touched on how my "secret" super-importance has led to my workplace environments invariably becoming infiltrated as if I was at the center of some kind of Hollywood (and more) chessboard (which I am). Obviously you weren't there, and so those who don't check out the evidence of my being truthful (e.g., the above videoclip) will not want to give me any credibility here.

I more recently have seen additional references to me/my material in a number of things: "Unstoppable"; "The Rite"; "The Green Hornet"; probably lots of other stuff, can't recall off-hand.

I surprisingly didn't notice anything in connection with me in the excellent new Cornfeld/Stiller/Black/ Martin/Wilson movie, "The Big Year" (please note- appreciating why the word "surprisingly" applies requires years of research).

It happens I once did a conceptual collage, "Finding Life" (below) that touches on the subject of "The Big Year", however, this would not "count", by my standards, as something to be regarded as a deliberate act on their part. They also had a character getting seasick and having to sit in the cabin of a fishing boat, as happened to me over 40 years ago when I was with the family of the then-future senior editor of "Money Magazine", Bob Klein (my family and the Kleins were old friends, and so went on a joint family vacation together in Cape Cod in the mid-60s). This also does not "count", as Cornfeld/Stiller provided no tie-in. Bob's daughter, Amy, did photograph me now and then during the '80s, but, nope, doesn't "count", as I was not a bird (and never will be). I nevertheless reserve the right to return to this as I may yet find something. Can't understand why they suddenly left me out, I don't get it....

Finding Life"

If I Was Cool You'd Be In Trouble

2011-09-25T13:58:00.000-07:00

Well, there is quite a bit I might point out about my influence on last night's season premiere of SNL (Saturday Night Live). It's a detail-oriented job, but somebody's gotta do it. I do not revolve around this kind of thing, but do consider it all the type of stuff someone ought to be noting. And I also wanted to remind you, SNL has been thought to possess some kind of influence on the American Presidential campaigns, therefore, for five dollars you can tell me which candidate you want me to send in a joke about (or two dollars if the candidate is unlikely to win to begin with).

In the past I have asserted that my influence on this show (and on many others, such as Paul McCartney, Steven Spielberg, etc., etc.) is ongoing, and for the most part my SNL influence has involved just-written material of mine that didn't even exist at the time of the preceding SNL show. This has gone on for years and years, and there are times when I appear to have considerable standing around there - though it is for some reason forbodden for them to acknowledge or pay me. C'mon everybody, admit I'm a major influence, no one will get mad, we all know how it goes, the public expects there to be some sort of secret person behind the scenes who has some sort of magical, non-direct relationship with all, even more people than believe in the Easter Bunny.

Given the many things I've established in past blog articles, apparent to those with intelligence willing to invest the time and effort, I do not consider it presumptuous for me to ask reasonable people to weigh those things also included that I cannot specifically prove through readily available Internet resources - such resources do make available evidence of enough things to make the conclusion that I am a significant influence obvious to all.

Since the 2011 SNL season finale (i.e., since their last show), I have posted four comedy ideas at the site where I almost invariably post my comedy ideas, Archive.Org:

"Amnesia Land" (6.11.11)
"Investigations Into Why They Were Given Special Thanks" (8.5/11)
"The Everywhere Crowd" (9.3.11)
"Catcher In the None Of Your Business" (9.10.11)

[The dates are all copyrighted at the Archive.Org site]

1. On last night's SNL season premiere, a sketch about Susan Lucci had EVERYONE in the room raise their hand when asked if they ever individually had amnesia at one time or another on their soap opera. In my "Amnesia Land" sketch, EVERYONE in the room at one time or another is conked on the head to induce amnesia.

2. Not quite so obvious a reference to my "Amnesia Land" sketch occurred during SNL's last sketch of the night. A soldier comes to the side of another soldier lying on the ground dying, then must go a few feet away to cajole another dying soldier lying on the ground, then a third, then back to the first, and so on and so forth being the ongoing idea. In my "Amnesia Land," as each person in a room is one by one knocked down by a conk on the head, one of them comes to their side to cajole them back to "consciousness", this happening over and over as the ongoing idea.

2.001 SNL last night apparently forgot to include anything from the three other comedy ideas I posted since their 2011 season finale, and forgetting is something amnesiacs do (this is not a serious basis for correlation, and is instead a humorous remark on my part, humorrous for those who find it funny, that is - however, I may be explaining the obvious).

3. In the opening sketch, SNL had the Republican candidate John Huntsman asking you to vote for him while speaking in a (deliberately) poor Chinese accent. Earlier that day on Facebook, in posting a link to my video about Putin and Kasparov, "Bishop Pawn Forfeit Rule," my Comment was to use a deliberately poor Russian accent wording to ask you not to vote for Putin (as yesterday's news was the announcement that Putin was running again).

4. I have previously posted (and then time-stamped by reposting to Archive.Org as part of my volumes of collections of my blog articles) my assertion that Paul McCartney several years ago made a surprise appearance on SNL a week after I wrote to him through an intermediary asking him to be in a comedy sketch regarding my "Recipe For Fun" video (posted at YouTube, where I'm "Zoomsteinhoff") - I will not detail here the reasons behind that request. I am generally a major influence on a lot of Paul McCartney work, so I was not as surprised as I might otherwise have been when he appeared in a sketch with Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin and Martin Short, all about who had the poison in their drink. So you see, practically identical to the title of my video, "Recipe For Fun". Last night on SNL, Alec Baldwin was joined in his opening monologue by Steve Martin. They did a sketch not at all dissimilar from the aforementioned sketch that McCartney had participated in, in my view: it regarded what was in Alec Baldwin's urine sample, which Steve Martin drank in order to discern. In Alec's and Steve's sketch with Paul, again, a disgusting beverage (to the extent that a drink containing poison is disgusting). So it seems to me, this all comes back to me and my "Recipe For Fun".

5. A week ago I posted on Facebook a YouTube video of the Paul McCartney song, "My Brave Face" (a song on which I was an influence). That song contains the line, "I've been taking dirty dishes and throwing them away." On SNL last night, the Red Flag sketch has a character smashing one dish after the other, going through a whole pile of dishes. One could correctly use the term "throwing away" to describe what she was doing with the dishes. Yet they were not dirty dishes, one assumes they were relatively clean dishes. [I do not feel the cleanness of the dishes undermines my point; however, I see where the witnesses to my Facebook posting of the video are limited to people fortunate enough to be my FB friends.]

6. Alec Baldwin is known to be among Paul McCartney's friends. Additionally, my previous blog article showed (to anyone intelligent enough to know how to disseminate the information) further substantial evidence of my influence on the work of film producer/Ben Stiller business partner, Stuart Cornfeld. So now add in how Steve Martin has a starring role in an upcoming Cornfeld film about spotting rare birds; Steve Martin's recent banjo album, entitled, "Rare Bird Alert," includes an (excellent) song with Paul McCartney on lead vocal.

Yes, They Have No Bananas

2011-08-29T12:39:00.000-07:00

If You Will Now Please Join Me For A Minute Of Not Mumbling
I've been postponing expressing my delight at once again figuring so large in major doings. And one of the good parts about expressing my delight here is that, in so doing, I will also be describing stuff that once again makes me appear, to the discerning eye, as somewhat impressive! Can there be any reason not to begin?

A number of people were involved in the making of the amazing, warm comedy, "30 Minutes Or Less," including film superstar, Jessie Eisenberg. I shall be focusing on this film's producer, Stuart Cornfeld, and the several significant things contained in this film that are inside-references for my benefit.

In blog articles I wrote as early as August 2008, I have made reference to Stuart Cornfeld, a person I kind of knew at a certain point in the '70s, and who is now Ben Stiller's producing partner, running "Red Hour Films" with Mr. Stiller. I mentioned back in 2008 how, when Stuart includes in his movies secret inside-references to the gorilla mask(s) in the 1973-74 CalArts student film, "Limbo", it is an inside-reference for my benefit. I've gone into in 2008 blog articles how, when Stuart includes in movies a character standing over another character knocked to the ground, it is an inside-reference to the time in 1975 I was electrocuted when "best boy" on an AFI film set at Santa Monica Beach, Stuart being the person who came over to me to see if I was still ticking. I also mention in 2008 how, when Stuart's "Tropic Thunder" showed the characters considering using an idea one learned from watching a TV show, this joke also started with me, or at the least was apropos of my using it.

As you might have by now guessed, I enumerate here these three Cornfeld-film elements because each can be found, as I essentially predicted in 2008, in the current Cornfeld film, "30 Minutes Or Less". A movie which had not even cast its stars until 2010. The blog statements of mine to which I refer were not only published as part of these blogs, but also as part of Volume 1 of my compiled blogs that I published in November 2009 at Archive.Org (which is the more binding copyright, as articles posted at this blogsite do not contain a binding timestamp other than being witnessed by those who read the articles).

In "30 Minutes," the instance of a character knocked to the ground, the flame-throwing sidekick of the villain (in the scene where an individual coming to his side as he lies on the ground is humorously presented as an important symbol of that person's humanity), regards someone who is considerably less than truly sympathetic. I therefore would want to emphasize here that this is no reflection on me, I don't use flame-throwers, plus, I'm a nice guy. Furthermore, if in writing a screenplay one happens to include a description of an automobile, which perfectly matches a car belonging to a neighbor, however, in your screenplay the car is owned by someone about to blow up the world, this should not be seen by rational people as an accusation against the real-life car owner in any way (the screenwriter might even be pleased with the neighbor who owns the car in real life, wanting to recommend that he be elected neighbor-of-the-month, and NOT wanting to accuse him of trying to blow up the world, seriously NOT wanting to make that accusation).

I also went to see "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," as it is in the realm of things commonly experienced by me, that if one movie currently showing has gorilla masks as an inside-reference for my benefit, another currently showing movie, if about gorillas, might also contain some interconnecting material deliberately placed. I do recognize that these are not the kinds of things that commonly occur in most people's realm of experience. In "Planet of the Apes" (which features John Lithgow, whose sister was my best friend's girlfriend in high school) we do not find someone who operates a flame-thrower knocked to the ground with someone immediately coming up to them to see what happened. No, here it's the person who operates a water hose, shooting not flames from a flamethrower but powerful bursts of water, aimed at the chimps. As in the moment from which the inside-reference to me originated, he is electrocuted and knocked to the ground. People gather over him.

Once again, I love chimps and don't use hoses to knock them down, and any other resemblance to persons etc. unless stupid people are looking for an excuse to bother me in which case - here's one! Put it all together, and you raise doubts about people gathering over me when I electrocute myself. Could this be part of their making a full-length movie about the character Tom Cruise played in "Tropic Thunder," which Stuart produced, yet a character which some say was based on Stuart just the same? I don't know - I cannot even say if Stuart drives the same car as that character.

Express Lane Now Open
I've often discussed how major Arabic terrorist acts have been preceded by "things left on my doorstep", if the significance of these clues is read correctly (readable after the occurrence). And I've also often discussed how I consider this related to my secret super-importance in relation to the most prominent living Jewish man, Spielberg (whether he chooses to exist in their world or not, can we know whether they count him as occupying a chess square?). I've often discussed how I see one primary obstacle to real investigations of these things left on my doorstep: the question, "Why YOUR doorstep?" As the answer requires much fact-checking (by way of my blog articles) in order to verify my assertion of secret super-importance in relation to Spielberg, McCartney, etc., and as this assertion of mine may appear to work against certain important people's "images" (to which financial empires are tied), this fairly obvious, cut-and-dried evidence from Stuart - most of his company's films are distributed by Spielberg's Dreamworks - may someday go a long way (I hope) towards someone being prompted to perform the investigations I seek. And if any of you major Arab terrorists are reading this, please note: You have too many items for the express lane! Go wait on the long line to be within earshot of Spielberg like everybody else! Nevermind.... will that be paper or plastic?

This will be in connection with something contained in my immediately preceding July 28th blog ("Crossfire Hurricane") in a section regarding Harrison Ford ("Harrison Ford Puts His Best Socks Forward"), which in turn was in connection with something that can be found in a blog of mine from January 30, 2010 ("May The Force Be Tested For Possible Negative Side Effects"), which regarded something posted in December 2009, etc., etc., and Steven Spielberg too, if you follow it all in the way you should!!! [I have used three exclamation marks here to specially help motivate you, as usually one is not asked to connect these types of dots just to be able to follow things, except by overly demanding people, who ask anything for any reason, and so we must all hate them, I hope they're not using three exclamation marks too, but I digress.]

I will here be pointing out to all the world those things I observed in the new Steven Spielberg/Jon Favreau/Daniel Craig/Harrison Ford movie, "Cowboys and Aliens," that I believe fall into the category of being in connection with my material. These observations of mine would not have been made based on similarities alone, in fact, for the most part the similarities alone would not form enough of a basis whatsoever. The extensive set of reasons that go well beyond issues of similarities, such as the shorthand/lexicon and the ongoing inside references from certain camps that have now gone on for decades with relation to me/my material, will be omitted from this explanation. You can close your eyes and point at a good number of my blogs, you'll find something, frequently things for which I was able to include evidence, if you can add two and two (sometimes, 18 times 3 divided by 12 subtracted from a trillion).

I am particularly delighted to have influenced "Cowboys and Aliens" - it is a great, memorable movie! I expect few to be able to appreciate why I consider it likely such vaguely similar bits and pieces in "Cowboys and Aliens" were done apropos of my having first employed them. This blog today is therefore more for the benefit of the few who did these things for "Cowboys and Aliens":

When Harrison Ford puts his hand on Daniel Craig's shoulder and Craig's reaction to this counts with the audience. This is the oft-used thing that I use in one of my three "more major" videos ("Gosk"; "Mall Man"; "Uncle's Dream" - all posted at Archive.Org), specifically here, my 1990/1992 "Uncle's Dream" video, the part where the mother's hand on the daughter's shoulder occurs, in connection with the line about "the hurting kind". "Cowboys and Aliens" has much stuff going on about the idea of the course of the child (and child surrogate) as set by the parent (stuff about who is or is not truly the "hurting kind" is also an important aspect of that moment in "Cowboys And Aliens").

People of one planet having a special power to mesmerize people of another planet. This occurs in both "Cowboys and Aliens" as well as in another one of my "more major" videos, my 1994/1998 "Gosk " video. We hear the Daniel Craig character respond with sarcasm when reminded how he had carelessly subjected himself to the mesmerizing; in "Gosk" the sarcasm is more extreme and not for the same reason, as the character using it does not accept that any mesmerizing has occurred. Nevertheless, in both cases it is a moment of sarcasm occurring within a discussion about aliens mesmerizing. I suppose one might possibly come across mesmerizing aliens in other stories within the genre, and so I would regard the degree of reference to my material here as likely the thing I also see a lot of from certain folk in entertainment: elements included apropos of me doing it (such as the opening logo shot of every DreamWorks movie, a bob in water, which I believe, for a set of reasons, began apropos of when I made this same image the opening shot of "Gosk" in 1994).

In "Cowboys and Aliens", the opening shot following the credits sequence has Daniel Craig sitting up into frame, dumbfounded. This strongly resembles something I use in two of my three "more major" videos, "Gosk" and "Mall Man". I use the action of a character suddenly sitting up from a lying down position to convey a more magically dramatic awakening. In "Mall Man" it is the video's earliest real-time-ish shot of the main character, seen at the end of the credits sequence (as in "Cowboys and Aliens"); in "Gosk", Dockert is lying down, when suddenly one of the girls says, "So what if we are on another planet?", after having previously made no concession whatsoever to this assertion by Dockert. This causes Dockert to open his eyes and sit up. The question of whether or not a character has cognizance of an alien presence is most significant to this sitting up moment in BOTH their movie and my video.

CROSSFIRE HURRICANE

2011-07-28T22:22:00.000-07:00

A few little trinkets, a few tiny morsels, a few delights, or to put it another way, homework:

HARRISON FORD PUTS HIS BEST SOCKS FORWARD

BIRTHDAYS I LIKE
I've additionally quite recently posted at Archive.Org this birthday wish for Carl Jung, Mick Jagger, Stanley Kubrick (7/26/11) and Ringo Starr (7/7/11):

http://www.archive.org/details/HappyBirthdayToJungJaggerKubrickStarr

By the way, this may or may not have a relationship with my recent Paul McCartney birthday wish.

MORE TO LIKE
And as if that isn't enough to throw to you ungrateful heathen, I also have posted this bit of stuff:

http://www.archive.org/details/WhenYouSmokeThatKillinJive

OSTRICHES LIKE SEEING SAND CLOSE UP
In the interest of saving humanity, which has been a longtime hobby with me, as many people know, I again tried to ford my way into getting something started up. I'll bet that requires a little clarification to make sense. Well, let me put it like this.

First, I took this July 2007 posting of mine:

http://www.archive.org/details/HomerSimpsonNuclearWeaponsInspector

My Archive.Org description for this posting makes reference to people at the top of the Arabic terrorist food chain being focused on me, due to my secret importance in relation to the most prominent Jewish man, Spielberg, and someone else of comparable power/influence in our entertainment industry culture, McCartney.

My Archive.Org description for this posting also refers to a December 2006 email I sent to a major "Simpsons" director who once lived down the hall from me at CalArts during the '70s, Mark Kirkland (I also sent the Dec. '06 email to two others, plus a bcc to myself).

Those who received that email would have read the "Simpsons" episode idea that I later posted at Archive.Org in July 2007, which mentions Arabic enemies of the U.S. violating the Mickey Mouse trademark for their own purposes. IT WAS ONLY SEVERAL MONTHS LATER that Palestinian TV came up with Farfour, a Mickey Mouse look-alike character (enough so that it aroused severe condemnation from the Disney family), who was there to instruct Palestinian children in how much to hate Israelis (with some amount of effort made to convince children to appreciate suicide bombers).

It being that I have a Facebook friend who used to be a real friend of mine at CalArts, who is also now a Facebook friend of Mark Kirkland, I thought I could leave a trail of "breadcrumbs" so that Kirkland could wake up, see I'm right about this stuff, and help me get a real investigation launched. The one could make it more apparent to the other. A little help! So I sent a message to my Facebook friend. No answer, so much for us (humanity). Oh well. Because after that there's the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, 9/11, the Times Square Bomber, really plenty of stuff that I need investigated, owing to stuff left on MY doorstep. The funny thing about "me" needing this stuff investigated: though not clearly apparent to one and all, my not taking action in this would be enough to arouse the stored up fury of all humanity. You'll probably never know what I'm talking about.

Birthday Wish In A Bottle

2011-07-09T01:02:00.000-07:00

I have just learned of something that people will surely be talking about after this blog, or perhaps only tweeting about (unless it would have been more proper the other way around, if I had written, "will surely be tweeting about, or perhaps only talking about"). There is reason to consider the possibility, though I do not deny it is not a probability but only a legitimate possibility, that Paul McCartney's recent birthday video to wish Ringo Starr a happy 71st birthday on July 7th was seriously influenced by me.

How could something like this have happened? Where were the authorities? Could this be in any way related to the fact that I am frequently a significant secret influence on significant actions (including artistic ones) by Paul McCartney? Could it be that it is not in the least bit unusual that there is, yet again, as there almost invariably is with regard to Paul McCartney and myself, enough of a basis, owing to the evidence, for an objective mind to wonder why there is (and so often is) a reason to consider an apparent similarity as being more than just a similarity? Not to mention those innumerable times when there is provided more than just a reason to consider a similarity, but in fact something that crosses the threshold into the realm of being evidence, at least to the astute and fair mind.

And now, down to specifics.

We see, in the following June 18, 2011 birthday wish video to Paul McCartney, that I clearly "break character" after my initial, structured birthday wish, in order to offer up a birthday wish in a more natural, personal way (this contrast in tone is the main part of my very limited birthday wish video):

http://www.archive.org/details/BirthdayWishes6.18.11

The above link evidences that I posted my birthday wish video for Paul McCartney at Archive.org less than three weeks before the following Paul McCartney video wish to Ringo Starr for a happy birthday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IHLKm1RtUFY

Here we again see a message for a former Beatle that begins with a structured birthday wish (the performance of a song), followed by a break from the tone/persona contained in the song, so that a happy birthday wish is then expressed with a more personal tone.

This is of course something that one sees from time to time. Interesting, however, that we see it again less than three weeks later, especially considering Paul McCartney's frequent pattern of making such inside references where I am concerned (I would want to add that there are any number of instances where the evidence is clearer, as opposed to what is found here, where pre-knowledge of the pattern would be required before one can even begin to consider that one is witnessing a shorthand/inside-reference/influence).

So now what is to be done? Of course, I expect a complete investigation, witnesses, media, so forth. It seems innocent - oh yes, it seems innocent. Yet, if matters of this kind are permitted to occur without any degree of scrutiny, and without being subject to any form of measurement and consequential regulation, would not the future of happy birthday wishing be put at risk?

Seriously though (to be honest, I actually have a somewhat more serious tone than this, despite my having just written the words, "seriously though"), if it could someday be proven in a court of law that I have in any way made a contribution to Paul McCartney's wishing Ringo Starr a happy 71st birthday, I would consider myself to have been highly honored and privileged, as if I had received the American equivalent to being granted knighthood (though I wish he would let me in on it so that next time I'll know when I don't need to bother spending the money on a greeting card - unless this should be seen as regifting, in which case I would not feel that I have really been a part of Ringo's happy birthday wish from Paul McCartney, and that's if I felt myself a part of this birthday wish to begin with, which at this point requires more information before a conclusion can be reached).

First Addendum To The Last Thing I Said

2011-07-06T17:50:00.000-07:00

First Things First Or Second
Sometimes the universe isn't what you're expecting. In my previous blog article I was doubtful of any relevance to my seeing Sara Gilbert in traffic yesterday, thus altering the 9 out of 10 times equation to 5 out of 10 times (the proportionate number of times I will see a celebrity relevant to something in relation to me versus irrelevant). However, I have reconsidered, and it now appears somewhat obvious. Sara Gilbert is officially a regular on the show, "The Big Bang Theory." Named for one of the very few modern theories on the origin of the universe. So there I am in my blog yesterday, discussing how the theatre had the sound turned off at the beginning of "Green Lantern" while the narrator was explaining the origin of the universe.

What this all means is that certain very excellent people have come through to make me 10 for 10 yesterday with relation to the aforementioned equation, 100% in other words, or to be more precise, two for two.

Starting With John Goodman Leads To Sean Daniel
When I came to California from the East Coast in the early '90s, my first return after not being here since going to CalArts in the '70s, I saw John Goodman within the first week or two. Goodman is brought to mind as he played Sara Gilbert's father in "Roseanne," which is generally regarded as thus far being the height of both of their mainstream popularity (if one wishes to apply an overly conventional perspective). Within the first week or two of being back, I went to the Universal lot to see if, I don't know, perhaps, just walk up to someone I once sort of knew, Sean Daniel. Sean was the first person who had told me of the college I attended in the '70s, CalArts, and also the person I believed (and believe) forwarded my work to his friends Paul McCartney and Steven Spielberg, resulting eventually in "Jurassic Park", though they made whatever I started with their own completely. And also I believe I had many other reasonable and friendly reasons to say hello. Sean wasn't there, but I had no problem getting as far as his receptionist. As I left, the person whose name was indicated with regard to the place next to Sean's, John Goodman, went by on a golf cart. This became the same image you get of John Goodman in a movie released not long after that, "The Flintstones," as cavemen enjoyed a good game of golf. But the interesting part is that later that day, a good twenty or so miles away, Sean Daniel drove by me, and his car did some kind of jerking forward that made his head fling back a little. I later learned, when I went to see "The Flintstones", that John Goodman as Fred does this identical flinging back of the head when his vehicle gets going. I think what I'm saying is, the world has come a long way since the Flintstone period, and yet it hasn't!

That's Easy For You To Sa

2011-07-05T19:23:00.000-07:00

Is Paul McCartney A Republican?
No. (Although he is reputed to have certain Conservative views.)

Recent Talk That John Lennon Would Have Voted For Reagan From Fred Seaman (Lennon's Former Assistant)
Recent talk that John Lennon would have voted for Reagan is a reflection of (please choose some fragment from the following):

(1) Lennon could not belong, not to the left nor the right, not to mother nor father (the story is that his parents made the 5-year old Lennon decide which one of the two would have custody, only to have the victor - his mother - give him over to her sister to raise. Perhaps this ultimately made Lennon go left/right like some erratic maniac, not to mention running in circles when the moon is full, which never occurred but could be tomorrow's news, who can say).

(2) Lennon being among those artists who try to provoke a rise of a special variety by touching a nerve so as to keep things real, a behaviorism previously exhibited by this individual, hence, he says "Reagan" to shock.

(3) The wisdom of appreciating Lennon being cast in stone for all eternity for what he contributed through his music is equal and parallel to the wisdom of recognizing that many things he said out loud when he wasn't creating music should not be taken as lasting reflections of anything about him but rather should be completely reinterpreted as a yang to the yin of something, it being that he was first and foremost an artist trying to get a good story by presstime.

(4) When I was working on the movie "Gizmo", a 1974 project of Lennon's friend Howard Smith (I just worked in the office and also did some film library research), they also were using Evan Lottman as editor (later replaced by Terry Manning as editor). Evan had edited "The Exorcist", where Regan is the main character's name. Lennon had already in 1974 played games with movie characters names (I've written on this before), so perhaps this was a long-term effort to raise the devil so that people would get secret reminders to play certain records backwards in time for the bicentennial.

Knowing The Way History Gets Messed Around
I've conjectured that the Lennon A Republican? story might not go away as easily as snapping one's fingers, that it could be retrieved in ten years, twenty years, who knows what right-wing revisionists might enjoy exploiting. So I therefore further conjectured on the idea of doing a mockumentary, a fun collection of people who knew him forced to remember Lennon's politics, but genuine recollections. I don't really know how good an idea this would be, but I did definitely decide it wasn't a great idea, and that it isn't an idea worth being a voice shouting in the crowd about. Once everyone starts playing around with the Lennon Republican story, it could turn everything into a strange hodgepodge of confused teenagers. Yet couldn't the same thing happen from doing nothing, and leaving it to the right to play with down the road? So I sent out a few messages in the hope of reaching someone I once worked for, Howard Smith. Howard had first introduced John Lennon to the whole New York City radical scene, particularly folks such as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. If Howard were to be involved in a mockumentary pretending to study the political life of Lennon, it could be.... hilarious! They could interrogate Howard under the lights, asking what Lennon might have said about the way Jerry Rubin wore his beard, or did Lennon really laugh at Hoffman's jokes or was he pretending to while trying to infiltrate the Yippies as an undercover Republican those Abbie Hoffman jokes really weren't that funny were they so Lennon was pretending right? Right? Somewhere within Howard Smith's answers would reside the authenticity of an expert on the subject at hand. And that would filter through no matter how absurdly he is presented. And with Howard's involvement, perhaps others, even Yoko Ono, would lend support to my mockumentary. But Smith never wrote back (it's close to two days now), and as I said, I really don't know that it would be such a good idea. Therefore, I hereby suspend all work on this project, until someone else gets the ball rolling again perhaps, but someone with real weight here. On the other hand, maybe Fred Seaman's plan is to resurrect Lennon in the form of a great uniter of both Democrats and Republicans, being both? I could always do a part 2 to my "Frozen," video at Archive.org about The Beatles being brought back to life, through Lennon and Harrison being brought back to life, through cryogenics. No, on second or third thought, I don't think I will go there - just too much work trying to imagine what George Harrison might say after having been dead but then being alive again but then being dead again but then being alive again.

More Distance Going
For those who have read or will read my immediately previous blog (July 1st), which ultimately connects to Paul McCartney I believe, so you'll want to read and view all of those other connecting blogs, etc. in relation to it as well, there is more news.

Unfortunately for those who have never verified any or several or all of the innumerable verifiable yet extraordinary things I have written about, this is another instance where one must take my word. I am hopeful that it will be considerably less of a demand to take my word for those who have already had the chance to check my veracity.

With that kind of lead-in, you would think I was about to describe an alien abduction. And if that's how I made you feel, prepare for an anti-climax, or at least for some, while for others, anyway, so I went to see the movie "Green Lantern". I had used my computer to find a theatre still showing it in 3D as the previous day the assumption that it would be everywhere proved seriously flawed. I am generally reluctant to use my computer to find a theatre if I can help it, as life has made me paranoid of certain powerful creeps. This time, the situation required it. But please feel free to call me paranoid.

I'm in the theatre plex, and they redirect us to a different location than is printed on the ticket. Time goes by, there are no trailers (no complaint from me on this). Then the movie itself suddenly starts, but without sound. I therefore miss the entire opening half minute sentence or two that explains how the universe works (I might possibly already know how it works, though I cannot say for sure). Then the 3D is NOT working right, there are objects kind of, not transparent, but, and shapes. Okay well, geez, lemme see, imagine somebody, uh, ok, somebody takin' a baseball bat to a projectuh, know what I mean? It was worse than no 3D at all. After the movie, as I'm leaving the theatre, I see some people in theatre uniforms to complain to, and then collect a few people for them at random as they're leaving the Green Lantern theatre. All confirm the same thing I described, in their own words, so we're each given free passes to see another movie. But please feel free to call me paranoid.

On my way home from the theatre, way out in Woodland Hills or somewhere, I find myself face to face (me in my car, he in his car) with a Justin Timberlake look-alike, or else Justin Timberlake. This is good, as I consider his work on SNL among the truly excellent stuff they've done, and I am also an influence on that show myself, and on other stuff in his general neighborhood.

I then mulled over what possible significance his going by might contain. In my immediately preceding (July 1st) blog I mention how, when I see a celebrity, 9 out of 10 times it connects with something going on in some sort of proximity to me, including possibly being in relation to a recent blog (there is thusly an implication of rich people having the power the follow people without difficulty). I also in my immediately preceding blog refer in this same discussion to a videoclip from June 2009 that features Cameron Diaz. So I'm mulling over the possible significance. The best I can come up with is, I was junior high school friends in homeroom with John Turitzin when I was growing up in Princeton, and also knew John at summer camp in Vermont, at Camp Timberlake. John is now among the three people who run Marvel Entertainment. So, the elements being.... Timberlake, Marvel, Green Lantern, who is a DC comic book character, with Marvel and DC being something of a Pepsi and Coke kind of thing. I went home, looked Timberlake up on my computer, and found he is currently starring in the number 2 movie in the country along with Cameron Diaz and several others. I must admit to feelings of concern that this poor man was somehow ripped, ripped from a busy schedule of acquiring MySpace and being the star of yet another movie about to open in a week-and-a-half, just to do his bit in responding to my immediately preceding blog, which must have read like a challenge as 9 out of 10, etc., etc. And as if this wasn't bad enough, I also saw one other celebrity, Sara Gilbert, who had nothing to do with anything that I'm aware of, unless I'm not thinking this through, and so the math was now 5 out of 10 (1 out of 2), if you want to see things from that perspective. That means I needed to see 8 more celebrities that day, but they all had to be in some proximity to some recent thing in connection with me. I continued on home, and that was that, their time was up, just one out of two, owing to Justin Timberlake's currently co-starring with Cameron Diaz. I could have kept driving around, gone anywhere, hundreds of miles away, it never matters, it could easily have completed the 9 out of 10 thing. Somehow it was not fated to be.

Moomoo's Sun No Shine Right Global Change Witch's Curse

2011-07-01T16:27:00.000-07:00

THE HEAT IS
I don't know if you're reading this, Al Gore or Bill Maher (as if - of course they are, both are! Oh wait, you're all clueless. My bad.). Here is where I shall leave my suggestion for a PR approach to a name change for "global warming" - assuming there is a mutual, all-around interest in getting a name change done on this confusing handle and then being done with it, as opposed to getting snagged even on agreeing on the shape of the table (sorry, that was me having a Vietnam War flashback).

So my idea would be, have a sketch in a Bill Maher Real Time Show, only first being sure it will be something that HAS to make the news, such as a brief sketch featuring, in-person, Al Gore PLUS Paul McCartney PLUS Barrack Obama (though his schedule may not permit) PLUS Steve Martin PLUS someone picked randomly from the audience, all joined together to solemnly agree, before the camera, on one thing: Change The Name "Global Warming" Officially. Hillary Clinton could notarize it, sign it, do whatever else it takes, and suddenly look seriously into the lens, Barrack alongside her (though his schedule may not permit), and say, "This of course was meant to be a fun sketch, but in all seriousness, from now on, well, you can keep calling it "global warming" if you like.... but WE (she motions around her at all the celebs gathered, who all cheer, Paul McCartney waving back), WE are hereby changing the name to: Climate Change. Happy Holidays Everyone!" (this may take 'til Christmas)

I think it would be great, even just for the idea of something important in the vernacular being "born" in so special a way (as opposed to the expression, "up your nose with a rubber hose," which all began back in a men's room in Chicago in the 1890s, unless it was at a fire station in Vermont in the 1690s).

On the other hand - perhaps the sketch would be better if absurd, with the final upshot being to rename it something totally ridiculous, in a doomed attempt to clarify the concept in people's minds, as "global warming" is truthfully too misleading (Where do I begin? The problem itself results in so many other extreme, far more direct concerns, such as zero heat - which, for the more slow-minded, one should think of as the very opposite of warm, though I am very far from being any kind of expert here).

Instead of "global warming", perhaps, hmm.... "Moomoo's Sun No Shine Right Global Change Witch's Curse".... How do you like that, I started out trying to make a joke, but I think I like this (better than "global warming")! Yes, it actually does almost have me wanting to sell everything I own so that I can afford an electric vehicle! (Special Note - This was not a dig at the movement to stop climate change, it was a dig at the fact that we don't even have the power to collectively bring electric vehicles within every car owner's financial grasp if our lives depended on it.)

MY MOTHER RAISED ME NEVER TO SAY ANYTHING A MILLION PEOPLE WOULDN'T HAPPILY ENJOY REPEATING IN UNISON
Now that Bill Maher has become increasingly involved with the idea that the term "global warming" is confusing and should be changed (to "climate change"), I am pleased to say that I also stated the obvious in this regard back months ago - about half-a-year ago. Here is my huffington post "comment" several months ago:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/JonathanDS2U/an-answer-for-bill-oreill_b_817238_76086655.html
Yes, and Tide detergent should advertise with the slogan, "Drink it and die!" Handles in these matters are EVERYTHING, so why use one that is obviously generating endless confusion? Sometimes the intelligent have to gear things towards what can be easily understood by the less intelligent (this is where soundbites came from), and "global warming" just does not work as a handle.”

I am occasionally an influence on Bill Maher (I have occasionally included in other blogs what I regard as clear evidence of this). In this instance, however, we are merely both stating the obvious, and both recognizing the importance of changing the wording on the handle, "global warming". I happened to find myself face to face with Al Gore (former Vice President, Nobel Prize Winner, etc., etc.) the other day, as we drove by each other on a narrow, random, obscure, probably middle-class residential street in Santa Barbara. I later looked up the fact that Gore recently (Feb. 2011) purchased a home in Santa Barbara. That doesn't make my seeing him necessarily random and unplanned in nature (though certainly it was not planned by me), as my experience has been that 9 out of 10 times I happen to recognize a celebrity face, it also happens to be a celebrity who around that same time is in connection with some sort of thing regarding me, such as an intertwining and direct connection to the previous week's blog article (e.g., years and years ago I left a message on the phone answering machine of someone I didn't entirely feel entitled to leave a message on the machine of. In the message I said I wanted to work for Steven Spielberg, speaking in a familiar way as I did sort of know the person - of additional note would be the fact that I had by then been a considerable influence on this and that Spielberg work. Within a week of my phone message, I was opposite Steven Spielberg as we waited in our cars on opposite sides of a red light. Can't rule out that it was a look-alike).

I would consider it remiss were I not to include mention of how I have no doubt of being behind a sketch the former Vice President was in when he appeared on SNL.

Fun Background Information
As I've mentioned before in many previous blogs, often including a degree of evidence, whenever I send in my sketch ideas for SNL, something always makes it through in some form for that next upcoming show, or occasionally the one after that. I'm particularly proud of the time I sent through someone a message to Paul McCartney (upon whom I am also a major influence) that I wanted him to make a surprise appearance in a sketch, and furthermore, that the sketch regard (for reasons I've detailed somewhere or another) my "Recipe For Fun." The SNL show that aired eight days later had a sketch featuring a surprise McCartney appearance (he was not even slated as the musical act), and the actual sketch was on a subject clearly related in various ways to "Recipe for Fun": Whose drink has the poison?

Back From The Fun Background Information And Still Having Fun
As I said, I am absolutely certain (for far more reasons than I could detail here) that I once had a sketch idea for the show Al Gore hosted, though the idea actually had little to do with Gore. It was about how Arab terrorists had planted a computer chip in chocolate that, by being planted in people who ate the chocolate, was automatically causing garage doors throughout America to automatically open and close unceasingly. So on SNL, instead, they had Gore play the evil head of a chocolate manufacturing company ala Willy Wonka sorta kinda. Not to mention that Sean Daniel was a White House guest of Bill Clinton, according to the record books, I cannot say I am one who knows Sean Daniel, I knew him a little a long time ago, though believe myself to influence him and his segment of the entertainment world (which happens to be a huge segment, extending to Steven Spielberg and so forth).

I AM OUT CONTEXTUALIZING, WILL RETURN IN FIVE MINUTES
This is a brief return in time a fairly short distance, as new information may serve to further contextualize something I find of great note. I refer specifically to my August 8th, 2010 blog, "Stuck In Traffic, Not". I'll leave the actual piecing together of that to which I refer for those interested enough to follow-through on their own (you can't please everyone, and this stuff isn't for those unwilling to do the due diligence research). The new information regards Drew Barrymore being named "Erl" on the video game in the movie "Going The Distance". In a videoclip several years ago I stated how, through me, there was a Drew Barrymore connection to the origin of "My Name is Earl" (you can find this in my June 28, 2009, blog article, "Jolly Fun"), though I suppose I could not particularly prove I stated it back then as that video isn't locked in with any kind of timestamp. I suppose that makes this more for the benefit of those who can take my word on these things (sorry, wish everything I said was for everyone).

If you check the release date of "Going The Distance" (9/3/10), you will see it is not far from the time of the "traffic situation" I had described August 8th. I had already associated Drew Barrymore with Paul McCartney in relation to me when I wrote regarding when they were both contributors to the movie, "Everybody's Fine". So I see some intertwining connections, and not just because of these particulars. I would also see it all further contextualized by, well you'll have to look that up on your own, too. I recommend going to archive.org, creating a searchable database of all the collected volumes of my blogs - I'm up to Volume 5 now, in fact, this will someday be the first one in Volume 6! Hello, world of the FUTURE!!!

Amnesia Land, Ice Cream, A Birthday, and Amnesia Land

2011-06-18T01:31:00.000-07:00

Just a brief visit to accomplish a few brief tasks:

Wish Paul McCartney a Happy Birthday with a little video of me.

Present to you my newest story idea, "Amnesia Land," which has a kind of Twilight Zone-like profundity contained within it, secretly designed to change the world and make your teeth look like new while you sleep, if applied correctly.

Say hi everyone.

Suggest to al Qaeda and the Taliban that, as bin Laden is gone, they might want to consider going into some other line of business that doesn't annoy people so much.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PAUL MCCARTNEY!
If you are Paul McCartney, and if it is still June 18, 2011, please see this happy birthday wish from me (if you are not Paul McCartney, or you are but it is no longer 6/18/11, this is not for you):

http://www.archive.org/details/BirthdayWishes6.18.11

AMNESIA LAND
My newest writing, entitled "Amnesia Land," is posted for one and all at my posting site of preference, Archive.Org:

http://www.archive.org/details/AmnesiaLand

It is meant to be read as a totally incomplete assessment of the human race's tendency to severe its own connections to that which bridges it to something or another, who can remember.

HI EVERYONE
This section is for those who just enjoy a simple sentiment, "Hi Everyone". And I read somewhere that saying this sometimes leads to fame and fortune. Not that I actually seek fame and fortune per se, though perhaps fortune would be nice. To someone like me, fame would ultimately be quite the downside to the "fame and fortune" combo, although on Paul McCartney's birthday it all somehow sounds like a nice, reasonable arrangement!

HEY AL QAEDA AND THE TALIBAN, FREE ICE CREAM OFFER
My idea here is to seize the moment and make an appeal to any al Qaeda and/or Taliban readers I might have (please take the trouble to see my blogs regarding the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, the Times Square So-Called Attempted Bombing, etc., etc.) to lay down their arms or whatever they're using. There may never be a more perfect fork in the road from which to take a path of peace. And I'm sure with my connections you can each get a free ice cream cone for every weapon you turn in! Hmmm, perhaps this is something you should do even if a free ice cream cone isn't involved - oh, but I mean, it will, an ice cream cone will definitely be involved, I never meant to suggest this free ice cream cone offer was being retracted!

[Please Note - This section may or may not be followed-up on at some time in the future, specifically, a possible general appeal to the public at large for contributions of ice cream and/or cones, depending on what results from this free ice cream cones offer, which has never been tried before.]

Is Connecting The Dots Like Nap Time?

2011-05-29T18:43:00.000-07:00

If You Just Let Me Survive This Black-Out, Oh Lord, I Promise To Never Again Shout Profanities At My Dishwasher
Having just experienced a harrowing two-hour black-out, it has come to me that the unexpected can occur at any time, even unexpectedly. It is true the black-out occurred before it got dark outside, but an intelligent mind instantly sees numerous possible scenarios, in fact, this is precisely the sort of thing for which we intelligent people have been known to receive criticism. Yet can we really close our eyes to the possibility that the lights would never come back on again, ever? That for the rest of our lives the people living in my apartment building might be cursed to live without electricity? What a nightmare - but the lights have returned, and I see now, it's time to get my affairs in order before it's too late. I've even started up a brand new pot of Marley Coffee (unbelievable coffee) - should the black-out be planning a return visit with us, at least I can get in a pot of coffee between crises.

One Person's Secret Word Is Another Person's Magic Word
So here's the thing I should pass along ASAP so as to avoid any risk of a particular possible secret dying with me: I may have had a hand in Paul Reubens adopting the name of one of his characters, Pee Wee Herman, as his official showbiz identity (I refer to his official showbiz identity prior to that incident when he, well, apparently, had his hand in something):

1. Paul Reubens, Tim Burton and myself all attended CalArts at the same time during the '70s, and knew many of the same people there. For a while I was friendly with a girl at CalArts who later worked for Tim Burton on "Beetlejuice", and who was hanging around at CalArts with Paul Reubens at one point. It is a matter of record that Paul Reubens' big movie, "Pee Wee's Big Adventure," was directed by Tim Burton, though I was surprised when Burton stated in an interview that they first met when that movie was being put together, which would put it at a point in time after they attended CalArts. And no mention was made by Burton that they had even both attended the same school.

2. A few years after graduation, in 1980, I sent to a (different) former friend, who was also a friend of Paul Reubens', my short story, "Sigmund Freud's Favorite Patient" (a key part to be excerpted momentarily). This former friend was later an influence on Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas" (as was I). His influence was the part when they're all hunting for the mayor, Jack, by shouting his name over and over. Back at CalArts in the '70s, this person had enjoyed poking fun at the friends of someone we knew named Jack, mimicking them by calling Jack over and over. The similarity to fellow CalArts alum Burton's film's characters and their manner of shouting "Jack! Jaaa-aaack!" would be unmistakable to you if you had been there.

3. In 1982, Paul Reubens, who had not yet made Pee Wee Herman his official showbiz identity, was in a scene in a movie, "Pandemonium," with Tom Smothers, which I will be excerpting momentarily in a videoclip. This scene has something very much in common with the one I will momentarily be excerpting from my Freud short story.

4. In 1987 I copyrighted my Freud story with the U.S. Library of Congress, as part of a self-printed collection of my stories, "Inventing Air". I had previously self-printed it in 1982 as a story in my semi-novel, "The Coin That Came In Second" ("Coin" later to become a section within "Inventing Air"), and prior to that, in January 1981, I self-printed the story (slightly different draft) in "Mysteries of the Cosmic Boot." I posted "The Coin That Came In Second" at Archive.Org in June 2007.

5. In 1999 Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder were in a movie entitled, "Girl Interrupted." This movie title was quite similar to the title of another story from my "Coin That Came In Second" (only 10 pages away from the Freud short story): "Man Without Interruption". One of Winona Ryder's earliest starring roles in a movie was in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice".

6. The name most frequently associated with Johnny Depp, throughout the world, is: Tim Burton. This is because Depp has worked with Burton in so many of Burton's movies.

7. In 2010, Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp were in a scene in the movie, "The Tourist," that has something very much in common with the previously referred-to scenes in my Freud short story and in the Paul Reubens movie. To be excerpted in a videoclip momentarily.

8. In general, I have often been an influence (occasionally a significant influence) on the work of Tim Burton, and have also found myself to be an influence on the work of Johnny Depp, with my Depp influence not being limited to Burton films.

9. Videoclip, including the aforementioned scene from "The Tourist" and the aforementioned scene from "Pandemonium":

10. The aforementioned scene from my short story, "Sigmund Freud's Favorite Patient":

“I see, said Sigmund. “I see, I see… your name’s wrong.”

“It is not! My parents gave me that!”

“Of course, but what I mean is, well, let me put it plainly. You must change your name. Change it at once, I tell you!” said Sigmund.

Egbert slowly unclenched his fists. “How about if I change it to, oh, what do you say to Jimmy Mocassin?”

11. Though one may often enough come upon scenes where people decide to change their name, one would have far more difficulty locating scenes that share the more specific similarity to which I refer. For in these three instances, the humor derives from the idea that the subject should be so over-willing to suddenly make a change to his name, simply because it should be the just-stated wish of the person they are with. And I would further be making the point that it should be looked upon as significant that these three remarkably similar instances should directly regard Reubens, Depp and myself.

YOU KNOW MY NAME

2011-05-15T17:07:00.000-07:00

UP UP AND
There are a number of things I've blogged in the past regarding the TV show, "Smallville", of which I've been a big fan, and a big secret influence as well, in addition to being someone who is quite glad they didn't need to kill Superman off in the final episode. Not being a film critic, I will not go into further detail on the many other things in the series finale which I also found to be great.

So that my first blog article following their series finale is totally up, or upbeat, or coasting along, or bouncing around, or not a downer, or to be specific, to avoid touching on everything under the sun, I have considerably narrowed things down here (with the possible exception of my including these "Up Up And" paragraphs).

AND AWAY
Let me begin, with regard to the series finale of "Smallville" the day before yesterday (Friday, 5.13.11), that I have been saying right along that Clark Kent is really Superman, yet could not get one person to believe me. I will not blame this failure to get across so basic a point on the company I keep, but will instead in the future work harder to become more articulate in expressing how I come to my conclusions.

The following videoclip contains parts of two scenes from the "Smallville" series finale, and are presented with my prerequisite (or postrequisite, or no requisite, what do I care) that it be seen in relation to the previous time I discussed "Smallville", which was my 4.23.11 blog article ("If You Look Closely You Can See The Sun", in the section entitled, "When Last Blurry", the 4-15-11 Smallville related videoclip there being the more relevant here). The particular thing to bear in mind today is that my "Uncle's Dream" video (at archive.org), which I am contending is connected with this series finale, was shot at The Beresford in New York City (to be elaborated on following this videoclip):

Both the "Smallville" episode clip and the "Uncle's Dream" clip regard parent/child situations, most particularly extreme situations, where one feels the parent to be well beyond their boundaries in the affect they have on the life of their offspring. In "Smallville", Lionel Luthor wishes to take the heart of his daughter Tess, to implant it into a composite clone of Lex Luthor, Lex being in need of a heart. In "Uncle's Dream", slightly less serious but serious just the same, the mother is pushing with all her might to manipulate into being a marriage between her young daughter and a wealthy elderly man.

Regarding my above statement that my "Uncle's Dream" video was shot at The Beresford:

In my October 18, 2009 blog article I state that famous director Sidney Lumet bought the apartment in which I shot this video.

This link to a October 4, 2008 New York Times article reprint shows that Sidney Lumet resided in The Beresford: www.carolelevy.com/pdfs/NYT-glennclose.pdf

Sometimes I Wish I Could Just Fly To The Hamptons
Not everyone will recall a news story from January 2004 about Ray Davies of The Kinks being stabbed while standing up to a mugger. It being that I have been a significant influence on The Kinks (late '80s and early '90s), and it being that just two weeks prior in December 2003 I had been describing running away from a mugger one New Year's Eve despite the threat of death (an incident I had scarcely ever described in the decade or so since it happened), and it being that insidious creeps often find a way to make front-page type news in a way strangely apropos to what I might say (but in a convoluted/demented/twisted way, it being that I am secretly super-important in relation to Spielberg and McCartney and many others and therefore attract some of the worst people to focus in on me as a person of interest), and for other reasons, I concluded at the time that, somehow, one thing had led to the other here.

I bring it up now because, years after this conclusion, a new reason has become part of this. As I once described in a blog article, the words "Drift Away" had been used as an important part of the refrain on different songs on two Kinks albums in a row, and that, for a very specific set of reasons, I had concluded that this occurred because of me. In fact, I had discovered the first usage even before it was distinguished by becoming a carry-over to their next album. So recently I was reviewing in my mind where I was at the time I was describing standing up to a mugger - I was working temporarily in the office of the business managers of Andy Griffith, Bob Newhart, Brian Seltzer, Dan Hicks, and many others. Among the things of which I was particularly aware in being there (I was there two weeks while one of the secretaries in this two-secretary office was on vacation), one was that, two years previous to being there, I had given my brother-in-law the latest Dan Hicks CD (at the time) as a holiday gift ("Beatin' The Heat").

So the thing about all this that just recently crossed my mind is that one of the songs on that same Dan Hicks CD is entitled, "Driftin'".

And finally, so that I might continue to avoid touching on everything under the sun, I will not go into at this time how:

Andy Griffith's "Matlock" would make occasional inside references to me/my material

The legendary series finale of "Newhart" made inside reference to my "Uncle's Dream" video (including direct mention in that "Newhart" episode to the Marlon Brando movie, "The Ugly American", wherein the star of my "Uncle's Dream" video, Sandra Church, played Brando's wife)

I'll Always Hold That Image Close To My Heart And In Storage Locker #87

2011-05-08T14:08:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday, May 4th, I posted at Archive.Org, "If Paintings Of Dead Evil People Could Talk". I also blogged about it. So far, I have only been able to discern that people connected with Bill Maher and also SNL have read it, so I have to feel neglected. It's only half a page, shouldn't take more than an hour or two. Here, I'll give you another link to it (I really want you to read it!):

http://www.archive.org/details/IfPaintingsOfDeadEvilPeopleCouldTalk

On the brief (half-page) occupied by this comedy idea of mine, aimed for the May 7th Saturday Night Live (which over the years has usually incorporated pieces contained in my contributions for that week's show, as I have referred to in many previous posts accompanied by what I regard as evidence), I use as a major point of crystallization the idea of Osama bin Laden's catch phrase, "Death to America," reduced, so that the last thing coming from him would be "Death To". In this May 6th videoclip, Bill Maher (whom I have previously blogged as occasionally making references to my material, accompanied by what I regard as evidence of same), in his very first monologue following Osama bin Laden's death, chooses this as the note upon which to end this opening monologue:

One of the things I wished to evoke with my May 4th Osama bin Laden comedy sketch was an image for "America's rear-view mirror," or, well, hmm, an image for "the collective psyche of all humanity," or something along those lines. Which, I don't know, I guess I just always like to keep a connection with that greater totality in mind somehow - and on Saturday Night Live May 7th I believe I may have gotten another one through onto the big board (I am totally outside of my vernacular, I hope I just said what I think I said, and presume forgiveness if not, afterall, what's the worst thing I might have accidentally said?).

Specifically, in my above-referenced May 4th comedy sketch (on one of its levels), I summoned (or "used", depending on how seriously you feel like taking this kind of thing) the graphic image of Osama bin Laden's corpse being in the center of a room, though any potential seriousness to such an idea is pretty much diluted by the very much less intense political chitter-chatter among a social crowd collected together in the same room, who inevitably react to the idea of the Osama bin Laden corpse in their own idiosyncratic, occasionally silly way.

If that description can be fairly regarded as among the several ways to properly characterize my May 4th comedy sketch posting, then it would seem that on May 7th Saturday Night Live once again found a way to include in a comedy sketch my material designated for that night's show:

If Paintings Of Dead Evil People Could Talk

2011-05-04T21:47:00.000-07:00

In my first blog of the post-bin Laden world, I thought I would keep things simple and appropriate (to some anyway, no doubt):

Starting Up A Brand New Car
First, I thought I would again bring up, mainly for the benefit of those who have already bothered to check my evidence that I'm amazingly consistently right about amazing creative things by others having begun with something from me or have been seriously influenced by me/my creative work (and so they would do well to believe in this one as well perhaps perhaps perhaps, though the real evidence in this instance, such as a song I created and recorded that was copyrighted by me with the Library of Congress, has to be regarded by the average idiot as less verifiable evidence than desired, it being that the material copyrighted at the Library of Congress is comparatively inaccessible), the fact that I created something that resulted in Sting's "Starting Up A Brand New Day".

My version of things regarding the origin of that song, a song which was used as a sort of anthem of the new millennium (including being played in the background during a major network's coverage of the moment the new millennium began in Times Square) can be found by going to Archive.Org and looking at my "The Illustrated Story Of Sting's Brand New Day". Some of the direct links contained therein may have changed since it was first posted, but they should still work enough to achieve the main purpose if you do an extra obvious search or two.

If Paintings Of Dead Evil People Could Talk
I also have, in answer to my usual "responsibility" to come up with something for Saturday Night Live so that they can debone it of all the potent stuff that would tax the brains of grandmas but keep a few inside references from it on the next show and occasionally include something significant that I wanted used but still nothing that would really tax the brains of the little kids (or grandmas, whatever), I have a new comedy sketch idea - again, specially designed for the post-bin Laden world, a world which we all have already come to know and love.

I have just posted "If Paintings Of Dead Evil People Could Talk" at archive.org.

I SOMETIMES FORGET A FACE

2011-04-23T16:07:00.000-07:00

IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY YOU CAN SEE THE SUN

As the current primary incarnation of the "Superman" legacy, "Smallville", has only several episodes remaining (the series finale is May 2011), I thought it possibly relevant to provide this photograph of one of the three then-future heads of Marvel Entertainment. For those who don't see a connection, Marvel Comics and DC Comics ("Superman" Comics) were at least at one time arch rivals ala Pepsi vs. Coke, each with their own universe of superheroes.

I took this photograph in the summer of 1968 or 1969 at Camp Timberlake in Vermont. I also knew this then-future Marvel head from homeroom while attending Valley Road Junior High School in Princeton, New Jersey. It was only a handful (four one year, five the other) of us little Princetonians who also went to the same Vermont summer camp together.

WHEN LAST BLURRY
As "Smallville" comes to the end (as mentioned above), I am pleased to report new observations that they are again referencing my material. I have on many previous occasions presented my observations when "Smallville" has done this, accompanying these observations with explanations, as well as the bases in fact showing how these are not simply to be regarded as my own crazy little observations where you would have to take my word for it. I have also conjectured as to how this might at least initially have come about (could the missing "link" be Sean Daniel?, etc.). Because these types of things are part of other types of things, and so on, and that's if you have a moment or two or three.

On the 4.15.11 episode of "Smallville", I noticed a parent/child moment that could be seen as a reference to a parent/child moment in one of my three main videos, "Steinhoff's Dostoyevsky's 'Uncle's Dream'" (1990; 1992; posted at archive.org Nov. 2008):

4-15-11 Smallville; 1992 Steinhoff

Due to it generally being a common enough type of moment in films, I didn't think there was enough to bring up this connection, until the following week's episode (4.22.11), in which there is again something that brings the same "Uncle's Dream" video of mine to my mind, this having become the customary tip-off that the previous observation had significance.

In the larger context of "Smallville" having on previous occasions often done things in relation to my material, which I believe I have previously been able to demonstrate, I conclude that the very last image of the 4.22.11 episode before the end credits goes back to my Dostoyevsky (this is not the first time I have observed them referencing this video of mine):

4-22-11 Smallville; 1992 Steinhoff

The other thing I noticed about the 4.22.11 "Smallville" episode was their featuring something that one can easily see as a Kafka reference (not just Kafka-esque): A timid young man who suddenly finds himself trapped inside the body of a beetle (this is an easy one; they only give you $10 for answering this question correctly on a TV game show). Kafka and Dostoyevsky are, by no stretch, both members of a small, exclusive group - legendary authors of all time - and therefore are names to associate together.

BACK TO A REALITY
I just saw the Jack Black version of "Gulliver's Travels" (not as good as the Jonathan Swift book, though few things are), and as I half-expected, found there to be inside-references regarding me/my material. I have previously referred to Jack Black making inside-references to an AFI film set incident in 1975 in which I was knocked down by an electric shock (then future producer Stuart Cornfeld having been the first person to come up to see what had happened to me, Stuart Cornfeld being someone who has often worked with Jack Black). And so, how could I be surprised when I saw in "Gulliver's Travels" Jack Black being knocked to the ground by an electric shock? I also saw tons of stuff in this movie that could be related to one of my three main videos, "Mall Man" (1993; posted at archive.org Sept. 2005), in that both have someone who works in the mailroom lying about who he is to get ahead, then at some point suddenly taking on a special identity/special powers.

Could You Not Point That Guitar At Me

2011-04-10T21:34:00.000-07:00

I Prefer Her Umbrella Movie
Okay, this posting will be what I regard as a rush job. "Saturday Night Live" (4.9.11) was very influenced by me, apparent to those who connect the dots at least, and I mustn't leave SNL wondering whether I caught it, I must confirm. There were also a few other things on last night's SNL I am less certain about, very small fragments that may have been intended to be part of something or another, things that years of scrutiny may someday unravel (I won't be scrutinizing them just now, however, maybe later, if they should feed into the larger continuum that humanity needs addressed for the survival of the species, as that really gets me motivated!).

The thing I will be focusing on here from last night's SNL is somewhat ripe with opportunities to address issues concerning world peace, and certainly this kind of usage entitles me to enough of a seat at the table (like maybe a little part of a seat, or more) to seize the moment and wield everything I can grab towards the betterment of mankind and all that. But as I said, this will be what I regard as a rush job, therefore, I'll just skip it, for now anyway. Nevertheless, you know you're always in my thoughts, mankind. Or humanity, I never know what to call you.

This videoclip foolishly portends to be self-explanatory in terms of giving you what you need to connect the dots and see proof of my influence:

You may also want to factor in that it was a March 2011 episode of "The Regular Show" (this requires you go back to my previous blog) that prompted me to bring this image of mine to the fore in my previous blog.

Don't Tell Anyone, But Jimmy Olsen Is Really Superman
And now we come to a videoclip that incorporates a moment from the pilot for "Smallville" from way back when, and my "Gosk 2" video, from 1998. This videoclip offers nothing in and of itself - the lines spoken here, though common to each, are not unique, we see them now and again. In fact, it was once a gag for there to be someone engaged for a while in a whispering conversation to eventually say, "Why are we whispering?" Yet I consider this videoclip possibly significant, if seen in light of evidence I believe I have previously offered regarding other "Smallville" episodes and my influence.

Excalibur Marks The Spot
I went to see the new version of the movie, "Arthur" (they have once again opted against making it about that king who had a magician named Merlin and all that). I have previously written that I believe my film idea, "Two Hours In The Life Of George Washington" (at Archive.Org) influenced the first "Arthur". And now once again I am finding a few things in the new "Arthur" that may show the influence of the same part of "Two Hours" (to avoid a spoiler, I will say for now, that I believe I give the movie a "stable" feeling, which, by the way, tells you nothing, absolutely nothing, because that is how sealed my lips are).

And now to explain what I mean more fully:

In my "Two Hours" idea, the part that I believe influenced the first "Arthur", the special names the character has for his horses is of particular significance.

In the new "Arthur", he states that he does not even know the name of the horse, and suggests several possibilities.

In the part of "Two Hours" that I believe influenced the first "Arthur", there is a haunting suggestion of Abraham Lincoln (one of Washington's horses is named Lincoln).

In the new "Arthur", his most frequently worn clothes are the genuine articles Abraham Lincoln once wore at his inauguration, thus serving as a haunting suggestion of Abraham Lincoln.

King's Knight To A Square Not On The Chessboard (It's An Odd Little Knight)

2011-04-03T20:58:00.000-07:00

Cain, Pete Townsend and Abel

Image on Left:
from 3/28/11 "The Regular Show"
Image on Right:
"The Electric Guitar Before The
Discovery of Electricity" 7/27/92
from my self-published book (copyright 1993),
"Go Eyes, Go!" (posted at Archive.Org)

Before I begin speaking on the subject of this image, I want to state in the most unequivocal terms that I am a huge fan of "The Regular Show," and if it should someday prove to be the case that I have influenced that show in any way, I feel honored, privileged, and not mad.

I recently indicated on Facebook that "The Regular Show" is among my favorite TV shows. At that same moment of indicating this there, I was already half-aware, based on my past experiences as a secret super influence on the most important, etc., etc., that this could reach "The Regular Show", resulting in my influencing them. So I think I may possibly have influenced them in this instance, though of course it is not the sort of image that could only come from one person, and would not have bothered mentioning it if that was the whole reason behind my thinking this could reflect my influence.

To Continue
I've tried to make this videoclip 38% self-explanatory, accompanied by a separate, additional explanation here designed to fill in the other 62%. Initially I only wanted it to be 25% self-explanatory, and then fill in 75% of the explanation in print. However, though a separate, additional explanation is essential in order to appreciate this teeny-tiny, itsy-bitsy, scarcely real clue that I'm pointing at in the videoclip (so that you can see how they're still keeping a chair warm for me up there at the top), yet it gets more and more tedious to follow it all so people are only gonna watch the videoclip (if that) and think they're done (right, sure you'd be done). So here I will just suggest that you may possibly maybe also want to look up my blogs where I discuss (accompanied by evidence when available, if you're up for connecting dots) that:

A conversation I once had with someone led to the premise of Tom Hanks' weekly TV sitcom, which was his first really big breakthrough

I am a significant influence on Steven Spielberg, who is often associated with Tom Hanks

With few exceptions over the past decade or so, I have been able to identify where Saturday Night Live has incorporated fragments from what I forwarded in (through "intermediaries") into the very next show, or the show after that. My influence prior to the past decade was significant as well.

I Saw It Coming 1.284 Miles Away

2011-03-29T09:52:00.000-07:00

Statement of Purpose Of The Third Word In Every Fourth Sentence
I've always hated the dividing up of people into groups, whether it's the continental drift (in case you don't know, that's what formed the continents, you'll have to find out about this from someone else), or figuring out who knows how to do arithmetic and who doesn't, or Munsters watchers versus Addams Family watchers (you youngsters out there may have missed that particular dividing line between all people).

However, fate has put me in a group by myself (and not just when it comes to the fact that I'm on the far left yet believe our invasion of Iraq was justified in the same way the precaution of mandatory car insurance is justified). And this "group" (me) has come to where it must put others in groups:

Cannot begin to believe the stuff I go on about and never will if scrutiny of the evidence involves committing more than five minutes of your time.
Are torn down to your very soul regarding the question of whether or not I am secretly remarkably super-important.
Don't care, are just amused by the whole thing, perhaps I'm a delusional liar or perhaps I'm crazy or perhaps it's all true, whatever.
Total believer, and you've checked my evidence enough to avoid misrepresenting who I am when speaking to others.
You dispute my assertions for corrupt reasons, such as because you've been bought off, or see what power is doing and want to be obedient to it, or you can't be bothered with evidence, or you allowed yourself to be indoctrinated against me without making up your own mind, or someone hit you on the head and now you're too stupid to add two plus two but don't mind baselessly disputing things off the beaten track anyway.

The only group I will be addressing today is Group 4 (if you're in Group 2, this will only make you feel more torn over what is or isn't true). I'm almost an old man (at Denny's I even get the senior citizen discount), and don't have the strength to deal with the rest of you. I do not say everyone has to have the time to check the voluminous stuff that supports what say. I would ask that reasonable people might consider that, if my "premise" is correct about my secret super-importance, I am on a certain level going up against enormous powers as an individual, and the tactics employed to protect the reputation of a Hush Puppies Shoes, or any billion-dollar enterprise, cannot be assumed to be ethical or even legal.

Let It Shine
In my Statement of Blog Purpose (found at the beginning of each of my blog articles), I make reference to when I was sort of part of two groups, The Beatles and The Stones (though I believe a certain plane exists where The Beatles and The Stones are part of the same group, and there even exists a plane on which we all can be seen as part of this same group, except the people who wear white socks with dress shoes, I hate those people, and even if you change to brown socks it is too late I will still hate you, I just hate you, we, that is, me and my white-sock-hating group, really hate you. But perhaps I digress).

Leon Russell is going to be appearing on Saturday Night Live in a few days (April 2nd). If you read my second blog ever, August 10, 2008 ("A Few Words About My Statement Of Blog Purpose"), I refer to Leon Russell in relation to something that I believe specially concerns myself and the Stones.

In the spirit of ship christening and recognizing my responsibilities to the world as an important person (though secretly important), even when others ignore my responsibilities and what they should really be doing to assist me in the fulfillment of my responsibilities (by the way, I LOVE Hush Puppies Shoes and always have, they just feel right) instead of sitting with your hands folded while corrupt people march in and take over my situation and persecute me (contrary to the popular post-Nazi era belief that the word "persecution" has been replaced in the dictionary by "persecution complex", as if no one gets persecuted 'cause people don't do stuff like that).... where was I, oh yes, in the spirit of ship christening....

For the first time since this Rolling Stones material-generating incident I was made part of in the '60s, I made a certain inside-reference to it, contained in what I posted Thursday, March 24th. Two days later, a member of the Rolling Stones drives by me and nods when we see each other. Ron Wood. I should mention that a section of my second-to-last blog (3/14/11) was entitled, "A Bleep Is As Good As A Bloip To A Deaf Horse". See, I changed around "A Nod Is As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse," see, which is the name of an important Faces album, see, which Ron Wood was important on.

So I have to wonder, don't I?

Don't They Warn You
Tim Burton, my fellow CalArts alumni whom I influenced so incredibly much, if that was you I saw standing by the Warner Bros. Studios gates in the downpour as I drove by on Wednesday, sorry if you were expecting a lift. As it is I have my hands full defending to outsiders that it actually does rain out here, and so am loathe to experience anything further that might be met with disbelief when described.

Wheel Of Ortun And More

2011-03-24T20:50:00.000-07:00

Announcing WHEEL OF ORTUN
I am pleased to announce I have just recently posted a new comedy idea, based on a certain TV game show, to archive.org, (though I'm sure I've already said too much already):

http://www.archive.org/details/WheelOfOrtun

If You Count This One, I've Got A Million More Just Like It
And now, an incomplete case pointing somewhere or another built entirely upon outlandish statements I have previously made:

I have previously made the outlandish statement that when Paul McCartney does a song for a movie, I am consistently able to objectively (now there's a lightning rod of a word for those who presume the things I report must surely come from a desire to twist and deceive) see where I/my material have been tied in with it.

I have previously made the outlandish statement (don't worry, I'm not planning to list every outlandish statement I've ever made) that Paul McCartney's surprise appearance on SNL about 4 or 5 years ago, where he and Steve Martin were in a sketch on the subject of poison in one's drink, resulted from my request 8 days previous, through an intermediary and for reasons I won't bore you with here, that he (P.M.) do a comedy sketch in relation to my Recipe For Fun video (YouTube).

I have previously made the outlandish statement that the major Hollywood producer, Stuart Cornfeld, who is currently producing a movie about rare birds that stars Steve Martin (Martin's new album entitled "Rare Bird Alert" has lead vocals by Paul McCartney) and is someone whom I knew in 1975 to a degree, continues to manifest my influence in his work, as do so many in "Hollywood", as I am an amazing sort. In fact, it is my belief that when his business partner, Ben Stiller (they run Red Hour Films together), appeared at the Oscars in 2010 with blue skin and a fishing rod, that was because one of my major videos, "Gosk" (Parts 1 and 2, at archive.org) has two major characters in blue skin with fishing rods (I shall spare you a retelling of my influence on Avatar this time around, however, please feel free to look it up in previous blogs).

In conclusion, everything remains as usual for me, though outlandish-sounding for the general population when reported. As usual.

Old Garden And More

2011-03-14T18:18:00.000-07:00

Announcing OLD GARDEN
I have a new song, "Old Garden", which is a work-in-progress, and is the second version as a work-in-progress is what it is, and I'm nevertheless awfully proud no matter what nobody says:

http://www.archive.org/details/OldGarden2work-in-progress3.12.11

In the first part I took where I first sang the song into a cheap $30 recorder, process it, then I return later with more words and also add electric guitar throughout, and finally, some sound editing all around. Bingo, my vegetables au gratin are done, that is, they're done enough to be a work-in-progress, at least as far as my tastes are concerned. Is this song in limbo then? I do not even know, it may be done, in a sense anyway.

Unfortunately, the song has an earthquake reference among its few lyrics, purely coincidental, so already it's born with ten strikes against it for sounding like pandering to the tragedy of the moment. Or, I have the delightful alternative of representing myself as having come up with this half-an-hour before the Japanese earthquake, which appears to be the situation, or at the very least, I was not aware of any earthquake when I came up with it. I think there was an ad about how long some product retains its usefulness, so I had to sing about the earth outliving its usefulness, which led me to the part where the ground shakes as an example. Oh yeah, I wanna be saddled with selling the idea that I was first, ahead of the actual earthquake. Probably I'll come back to this after the dust has settled, no one is thinking about earthquakes, you know, then I'll refine the song a bit, kind of slide it over to Paul (M) and/or Eric (C), they can grab something off it, the rest will be history. Nothing new to me - just scan these here blogs. I know what's happening, baby.

A Bleep Is As Good As A Bloip To A Deaf Horse
Do you remember that movie, "After The Fox," specifically, the scene where Peter Sellers is talking to a beautiful woman while the voice of a cigar-smoking fat man seems to come out of her, because a cigar-smoking fat man is at the next table, his back turned and so disguising the fact that he is speaking with Sellers, meanwhile the beautiful woman somehow knowing exactly how to lip sync to the words of the cigar smoker even when responding to Sellers' questions? Well, anyway, that may perhaps be a partial explanation of why I think I might be in some kind of strange communication to some degree with some kind of cigar-smoking Peter Sellers or two, or, no, I think I'm Peter Sellers in this one. Once again, I shall keep further details apart from the world, and not feel a drop of guilt as you're busy anyway and it wouldn't be worth it.

Jonathan Kent, Jor-El and Milton Berle Made Me Who I Am

2011-03-06T12:42:00.000-08:00

In my previous blog article (3.1.11) more evidence was provided of my impact on the soon-to-end TV show, "Smallville". *
*One might also look upon evidence in that direction as ipso facto simultaneously relating to a particular other matter that I occasionally bring up pertaining to Tim Burton, Iran, Times Square, other things (see my 8/28/10 blog article).

The March 4h "Smallville" contained something that may or may not be related to me. One would not say that the idea in question has never been used by anyone, far from it - in various forms, it is an old idea. However, my sense of this (have I not yet established my remarkably acute sense of things?) is that their specific usage may have been apropos of my usage. As I've detailed on previous occasions, I believe the excellent writers of "Smallville" have previously used my ideas for season finales and many other things (which I do not feel offended by in the least, I love the show, plus, they wrote a movie for the first person who told me of the school I attended who I am not in any kind of contact with but I believe has used his influence here and there towards making people aware of me though I have nothing solid in regard to this), so this possibility would be familiar territory to me.

In my shooting script for a video that I never did shoot, "Gosk 3" (posted as a link from my website http://www.angelfire.com/blog2/jonathandsteinhoff/page14.html), I refer to one of the artifacts aboard the spacecraft as follows:

"#9 Unlike most of the objects with shelves and captions, the shelf for this object is located in the first room of the spaceship, where the couch and the monitors are, in some spot that wasn’t shown in “Gosk-Part I” or “Gosk-Part II”. Its shelf is empty, and features a caption describing its (missing) object as “Product of a Failed Attempt to Create an Earthling Grandchild of George Washington and King George of England.” The greenish-blue egg-shaped rock is lying in the middle of the floor near the shelf."

This shooting script came up in my August 28, 2010 blog, while I was on a subject that also included reference to "Smallville".

And now, from the 3.4.11 episode of "Smallville":

So as you can see, in both instances, this specifically regards the creation of an entity who is the offspring of two famous nemeses, courtesy of laboratory experimentation.

I Can See For Miles And, I'm Sorry, Could You Please Remove Your Hat

2011-03-01T21:19:00.000-08:00

With A Song In My Sky
As I have indicated in a certain number of earlier blogs (going back to early 2010), the TV show, "Smallville", which in general has occasionally made inside-references regarding me/my material, has more recently (if early 2010 can be still be considered recent) been focusing more specifically on the songs I did on my "Enough To Eclipse" music CD (copyright June 2005).

I attribute this, at least in part, to the fact that Sean Daniel, the first person from whom I learned of the school I attended (CalArts), produced a movie written by the "Smallville" writers ("Mummy 3"). The person with whom he produced that movie, Jim Jacks, is a Facebook friend, so who knows, this could come from Jim and Sean, then it goes to Steven (Spielberg, an old friend of Sean's), back to "Smallville", over to Paul (McCartney - no time to explain where he fits in), then to Tim (Burton, also interconnected, but then I'd have to bring up the Iranian President), over to "Smallville", then over here. Or whatever. Read my blogs, it all makes sense probably.

And so, as "Smallville" gets ready to say goodbye (sadly.... unless it's all a trick and "Metropolis" begins next season with the same characters?), the series finale being in May, I believe their February 25, 2011 episode made yet another reference to a song on my 2005 "Enough To Eclipse" music CD. My song, "Almost Like Saying Goodbye," can either be heard for free, by going to where it's posted at iSound:

http://www.isound.com/mp3s#/jonathan_david_steinhoff

or by paying to hear it, by going to CD Baby:

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/jdsteinhoff

I find it only fair to forewarn you, it is considered highly unfashionable to actually pay me anything for my creativity. In fact, you needn't even bother listening to it to see my point - the title is enough. Read on.

And here is the videoclip from the 2.25.11 "Smallville", which I believe is consistent with what I've been mentioning in my blogs since early 2010, that they are making inside-references in connection with things on my "Enough To Eclipse" music CD, in this case, my song, "Almost Like Saying Goodbye":

More George Harrison Birthday Thoughts
In my February 25th blog I tried to express that George Harrison, though mainly thought of in connection with Paul, Ringo and John, deserved my vote for also being thought of outside of that company. This was an obvious enough sentiment, highly unoriginal, however, I didn't feel the situation called for wild unpredictability on my part, at least, not right then and there.

And now, I would like to add that one might also think of George Harrison in the company of "The Graduate" and "Raging Bull". (credits: I got this idea from what Steven Spielberg said at the Oscars the night before last.)

Happy Birthday, Paul and Ringo!

2011-02-25T17:27:00.000-08:00

I feel obliged to my readers (I'm including those who may read this a hundred, perhaps even a thousand years from now, so we're talking about trillions of people, right?) to provide a relatively immediate response to the recent Paul McCartney news story regarding his upcoming ballet. And not because anyone would ever include me among the world's ballet lovers.

A Feb. 23rd New York Times article states the premise of Paul McCartney's upcoming ballet as:

"involving two worlds — the ocean kingdom.... and the earth kingdom"

In my blog's "Statement of Purpose" (at the top of each blog page) I refer to my story "Endless Voyage" (written when I was 10, in 1965) as having been..... well.... "source material" of sorts for a number of Beatles works. You laugh. I understand.

In the second blog article I ever wrote, "A Few Words About My Statement of Blog Purpose" (August 10, 2008, which is additionally published at Archive.Org as part of Volume One of my collected blog articles), I was specific about the premise of "Endless Voyage":

"And so, dispassionately, the human race would be divided in half, and the question of what to do with all the people resolved, by sending half to live beneath the sea, to become a group of strangers to the other half of the human race."

This is not to say any of this is new. There's the ancient story of the ancient undersea world of Atlantis, which McCartney friend and "Yellow Submarine" song contributor Donovan sang about; there's Jimi Hendrix, for whom McCartney was a benefactor at a certain point to a degree, who sang at that same time about people being able to breathe underwater. I conjecture that both Hendrix and Donovan doing so could have been in alignment with the same thing, through McCartney. Far more importantly (should one be inclined to compare the importance of such things), I believe McCartney's alignment with my "Endless Voyage" story (which I didn't regard as a Beatles starting point until certain occurrences in my life, work, and in the life and work of the members of the Beatles, which I believe continue to occur to this day, to this blog article, in fact!) warrants at least a degree of consideration. Certainly I must point it out.

I plan to give more time to this (in spite of it regarding ballet), however, just now I am preoccupied with remembering today as George Harrison's birthday. Happy to remember the Beatle who in some ways is best remembered as not being John, Ringo or Paul. And is also remembered as being George.

All The News That's Fit To Make You Think I'm Nuts

2011-02-20T09:34:00.000-08:00

The Telephone Game
For quite some time now, I have "felt" myself to be in the sites of people involved with "Ripley's Believe It Or Not".... I'm somehow "getting" that they want me to come up with a "Believe It Or Not" dance.... they need me to express in this dance the idea, "you ain't gonna believe this unless you take all kinds of trouble to research how I'm not a liar but worthy of your having great belief in me"..... that I should go through life with many of the important things I might need to say being tinged with a feeling of, "believe it or not". Someday I hope to prove in a soundbite how this feeling has been given to me, and is not of my own device. I just know I can prove it all in a soundbite.

Sorry, I just need to say the kind of stuff contained in the preceding paragraph every now and then. Should you read on, you may possibly see the relevancy for this being one of those every now and then occasions.

I Shot The Walnut
So yesterday I'm on my way to the nut house again (the Somis Nut House in Somis, California, where I get my almonds and walnuts, however, my readers may recall that I prefer to provide my detractors the chance to go, "Yeah, he belongs in the nut house!" at every possible opportunity, thus, I choose my words in a way that helps set up such remarks, it's the least I can do). And I'm right at that stretch where Paul McCartney drove by for my benefit once (see my August 8, 2010 blog, "Stuck In Traffic, Not"). I believe I reported that incident as hard to believe in most respects - it meant McCartney, on whom I have been a huge influence over the years, ran to California all the way from Canada for a day or so, in relation to my email to someone. Not like the new Clapton song about running back to someone's side, rather, more like a billionaire flying in a super-luxury version of first class so why really care about where you're flying to anyway, it's gonna be a fun time. Or so goes the theory. In fact, it was in that same blog that I expressed how I looked up on the Internet where on the globe McCartney was supposed to be, in order to help me evaluate whether I could actually have seen him then. And at some point after that I did a blog article about seeing someone who looked like another person I've been an influence on, Eric Clapton, after which I looked up his whereabouts on the Internet, at which point I learned the siting coincided with the day of Clapton's announcement of his first album in five years - as if someone knew the siting would cause me to look him up on the Internet that one day in five years.

One would also have to read other things I've written about Clapton, in order to more properly appreciate how I would construe this siting (and others) as having been specifically intended for me.

So there is Jerry Seinfeld driving by in his car talking on a cell phone, right in Paul McCartney's spot. Should I add in the fact that the person to whom I had sent that email that led to the August 2010 moment happens to be among those connected in a certain way with when Michael Richards of "Seinfeld" attended my school (CalArts)? Or that Seinfeld on a talk show appearance once talked and talked about introducing McCartney at an Obama thing? Another thing that should also be regarded as related: my Oct. 25, 2009 and Nov. 29, 2009 blogs, which essentially prove my major influence on the "Seinfeld" reunion on "Curb Your Enthusiasm". I've also mentioned in previous blogs how the entire last season of "Seinfeld" was seriously influenced by me as well.

What does it mean? Nothing. It's Seinfeld, it's not supposed to mean anything. The guy who played Uncle Leo on "Seinfeld" just died in Burbank, 50 miles from where I saw Seinfeld, he has a funeral to attend. That's the only sense most people need to make of this stuff.

Head of the Hats
I have often referred to my influence on "Smallville". Without going into detail, recently, shortly after a certain famous person drove by me/looked at me while she was wearing a certain hat, which I construed at the time as having been for my benefit for reasons I also won't go into, an episode of "Smallville" (Feb. 18th) featured the same type hat as serving to keep Green Arrow's identity secret. This episode in general related to Clark Kent coming up with something to wear to keep his identity secret.

I Follow You, Clapton
A recent news story went into a degree of detail regarding the great interest Kim Jong Il's son has in Eric Clapton. (This fact goes into storage until Ahmadinejad and his Steinhoff-mania can be tied in.)

How To Handle A Whiter Shade Of Deeper Blue Pail

2011-02-02T18:24:00.000-08:00

This past week I believe I have possibly received two secret messages from Paul McCartney, and feel quite certain of one of the two. (For those who are caught a little off-guard by this kind of crazy-talk, I frequently mention in my writing how I am a secret influence on this particular Beatle, as well as on other Beatles, and Stones, and others. There, after that explanation it won't all sound like crazy-talk, right?)

As I said, I am less certain of one of the two possible secret messages than the other, and this less certain one, it would be almost impossible to describe, and would furthermore require that you accept my word for quite a bit besides.... I know, I'll leave that one out of the history books, and only describe the one I'm more certain about! (I don't know why I'm not always narrowing down your view of these things in this same precise manner.)

ONE
In my September 12, 2010 blog article (additionally self-published at Archive.Org, therefore verifiable that I didn't recently re-edit it to fit this present observation), in a comment on a subject I often remark upon (how I have been a significant influence on Paul McCartney in numerous ways over the years), I state:

"....my expectation that the movie, 'Everybody's Fine' would have contained something related to me/my material (as tends to be the case when a movie is made for which Paul McCartney contributes a song)...."

TWO
A Feb. 1, 2011 article states that Paul McCartney is working on the music for a surfing movie entitled, "A Deeper Shade of Blue".

THREE
In my August 28, 2010 blog article (additionally posted at Archive.Org) I refer to the song, "A Whiter Shade of Pale" as being right there at a moment in a video of mine (my 1998 "Gosk 2" video, also at Archive.Org, posted 2005) that has, in a recent burst of Steinhoffmania, become part of recent, separate focuses by important folk. In that same blog article I characterize this "Whiter Shade Of Pale" moment in "Gosk 2" as existing in connection with (recently in many instances) Tim Burton/Johnny Depp/"Alice In Wonderland", "Smallville", the kitchen sink, Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, and of course, the Iranian President (I should add that the title of that 8/28/10 blog article regarded the "Whiter Shade of Pale" moment in my video). I am leaving out many people/things also connected here, to limit it to those who suddenly at the same time were interconnecting to it (not McCartney and Michell, you see, oh, just read the 8/28/10 blog article sometime already).

From the 8/28/10 blog article:
"Vinkalert suddenly notices that the greenish-blue plastic pail he's been carrying has become purple. Shocked, he drops the pail to the ground, as the Procol Harum song, 'Whiter Shade of Pale' is heard."

Avatar: Not In A World Of Its Own

2011-01-30T15:09:00.000-08:00

Cameron Is Half-Gosk
I've finally gotten around to putting together my "Cameron Is Half-Gosk" videoclips video, which is an attempt to partially describe the basis for my outlandish assertion that I influenced "Avatar". To more fully appreciate the validity of this general contention of mine, you need to also see my Feb. 21, 2010 blog article.

Half A Mind Not To Take This Case
I recently completed a story idea outline (which I posted at Archive.Org) about a private eye on some planet or another, an alien Humphrey Bogart, being hired to figure out what or who it was that caused the Earth to come to an end. It's called, "The Gumshoe From Alpha40":
http://www.archive.org/details/TheGumshoeFromAlpha40

Partial Credit For Cameron
And finally, I was mistaken in my previous blog about there being a new James Cameron movie opening next week, he is only the Executive Producer. The TV commercial misled me, they said the movie was from James Cameron. Though I am to blame, this should teach us ALL a valuable lesson, that research is always a good thing (including not taking TV commercials literally, which I did, and I should have known better). I only hope no one goes to see that movie on the false belief that Cameron directed it. It would not be the end of the world if they did, however.

Never Shout Bangs In A Crowded Theatre

2011-01-27T00:50:00.000-08:00

I have been a little quiet lately, blog-wise, so am here to yap for a bit so as to protect my reputation, in that you gotta watch them quiet ones - I'm still waiting to find out where George Harrison buried the bodies.

[Disclaimer: That part about George was intended as a joke, and though a potentially tasteless one as I am not feeling up to speed at the moment (and so I must ask that you please forgive me), as such I am not responsible should somebody respond by digging up that incredibly extensive lawn of Harrison's English estate, I love that lawn.]

Let's see, still need to yap some more....

A recent Comment of mine to an article at HuffPost may be worth something:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/JonathanDS2U/skepticgate-revealing-cli_b_814013_75275653.html

And a little more....

I'm thinking about making good on the promise I made in my February 21st, 2010 blog, wherein I state that it won't be until "Avatar" is accessible via TV that I can most correctly make clear the basis for seeing my influence on this movie. In order to see my point on this, it would help if you already appreciated my influence on Spielberg, Tony and Ridley Scott, etc., in terms of your having the ability to be receptive to this extraordinary assertion on my part. You might come around to what I'm saying, if you would only just spend a billion or so hours going through my blogs and finding where evidence is presented, however, I may force myself to work around your obstinate ignorance (please ignore if you have put in the billion or so hours, I'll get around to you diligent folks later, or some other time, or, who knows, not sure I can make any promises, what with having to focus on addressing those who don't bother and so haven't the slightest idea how I can justify such outlandish statements).

February 21st, 2010 blog on "Avatar":
http://jonathands2u.blogspot.com/2010/02/james-cameron-and-steinhoff-factor-non.html

And now let me tell you a thing or two.....

I've previously touched on how my "secret" super-importance in relation to certain individuals' creative work has resulted in every situation I'm in being "infiltrated". I will not go into a whole lot of detail at this moment about what that can mean (this is something I've gone into before). However, there is one particular thing about which I would want to take a moment. Not only has my work environment been "infiltrated", as I have mentioned before. Not only has my Facebook environment been "infiltrated", as I've also mentioned before. Now it has been made manifest to me that a specific Facebook friend has demonstrated a link-up with people wiretapping my apartment/hearing me when I'm "alone" in my apartment. This person had previously reflected in what he wrote on Facebook (according to what I was able to figure out through logical deduction combined with experience) some kind of link-up with some incident my next-door neighbors had with the police. He posted an identical occurrence where he lived, simultaneously. Then an extremely unusual event happened when I went to the same barber I've been going to for 15 years: I was given a TV remote and asked to switch channels while my hair was being cut. This same Facebook friend immediately posted about using a TV remote at a dentist appointment. This reconfirmed what my previous experiences of this type regarding this person had already indicated to me. And finally, something most unusual that I said in the privacy of my apartment, out loud to myself, very shortly thereafter appeared in another posting by this person. Had I not pre-anticipated from the first that something fishy was happening, because I have encountered this before, it would be one thing. But the pieces have unmistakably fallen into place. I will have to assume someone has a gun to this person's head, or someone gave this person a false pretext for making those postings (e.g., "Hey, you know what you should do? I'll give you.... a dollar if you say post on Facebook about a TV remote in a dentist's office!" "Why?" "I'm trying something, just do it!"), or blackmail, I don't know, I do not have to regard this as a bad person despite this clear link-up with people committing a serious invasion of my space. And I don't care if I'm "secretly" super-important in relation to super - billionaires, this is a serious crime against me. These people grab hold of a good number of those with whom I come in contact, they creep me out, it's been going on a very long time, and I know how to recognize more things of this nature than the inexperienced would.

yet more....

Having in previous blogs put forth evidence that the TV shows "Medium" and "Smallville" were acting in conjunction with one another in relation to my material, it is interesting to observe that one of the main stars of "Smallville" over the years, the actor who played Lionel Luther (I'll remember his name in a minute, I promise, oh right, John Glover, that's it, that's him!), had a guest spot on the third to last "Medium" (as the series has now concluded). That Glover episode did refer to my material, but only if one contextualizes cumulatively with other usages on those shows - in this instance, Glover speaks of knowing all that is going on, as in my "Mall Man" video; Glover also speaks of no longer being who he was, as in my "Mall Man" video. Again, by themselves I wouldn't draw a connection between these "Medium" moments and my work (one might even find these two statements coupled together in various people's works simply because they are thoughts consistent with the same kind of persona, just as many different stories about the persona of an overly-muscular man might each have such a character say at some point, "I don't have to answer to anyone, because no one is more powerful than me!"). The principle of logic I am using here in deducing "Mall Man" references requires weighing a larger body of evidence than I'm describing here, but I believe the evidence is all there in previous blogs, for anyone who bothers to check it.

more.....

I once blogged that I saw Jennifer Aniston with bangs (I was mentioning her in relation to something, and was not there to make reference to a celebrity citing - despite how easy it may sometimes be to confuse me with those who are about celebrity citings). I then wrote a retraction, apologizing to whoever might care (I noticed somebody's blog had picked it up as a possible clue to the new Jen) that I thought bangs was where the hair comes to a point at both cheeks (I described this better in my retraction). Now that Aniston currently has bangs on a new magazine cover, no doubt an inevitable hair style sooner or later for society's fashion plate women (which she is, part-time anyway), I immediately see someone who looks like Ariana Huffington with bangs (I've previously referred to funny business between me and HuffPost). Then Rachel Maddow with bangs (I've previously referred to funny business between me and Maddow). I also believe I saw David Arquette and Patricia Arquette, but separately, and without bangs. So the look-alike industry and the bangs industry are my stock picks of the month (except the David Arquette look-alike, because that really was David Arquette I saw; don't know about the others).

and lastly.....

My old friend from when I was a teenager in Princeton, and now Southern Cal neighbor and Facebook friend, who shall remain nameless (for a second or two), directed/edited/etc. an unbelievable independent feature, "The Watermelon," which I was fortunate enough to see as he gave me a copy. It is already on Turner Classic Movies, despite being only a couple of years old. So as not to go on forever heaping the same old praise upon it, I will limit myself to applauding / heaping praise on this filmmaker's having managed to establish the Watermelon trailer as a perfect archetype, without compromising the tremendous heart that is the core of this movie. I am a huge believer in providing our culture with solid, new archetypes, Jung and I can tell you, we need these to develop together.

I should also make mention of the fact that Brad has suggested to me that we both might want to collaborate on a fun, not-to-be-taken-seriously, little video project. I'm hoping to convince him to do a story idea I posted on Archive.Org a few months ago, about a dead, time-traveling derelict, which I think is called, "The Dead, Time-Traveling Derelict," or something like that. But whatever happens, happens. One film I can guarantee exists, or will exist, is the new James Cameron one opening a week from Friday. Yet another work upon which I may find myself to be an influence.

Having No Direct Affect On The Fate Of Humanity Lately

2010-12-31T12:14:00.000-08:00

Just here this time to quickly jot down a few things and let the world know this is an alive-and-well blogsite. I know I don't normally leave so long an interval between blogs, however, if one carefully reads the name of my blogsite, "Jonathan D. Steinhoff's Sometimes Blog", you would have to agree that I'm covered in such instances, right? Because I'm the one who gets to say how much time can be represented by the word "sometimes". Oh yeah, I had this angle figured out back when I first named this blogsite, got myself totally covered here.

A Few Quickly Jotted Down Things
Without going into any amount of detail (which would of course be well worth the hours of explanation were I to), here is a listing of the people and/or shows I have recently, specifically observed as doing things "because of me" (these specific observations all previously unreported by me). In each instance, my concluding the "because of me" part results from how I put things together, including putting things together in relation to my extensive, unusual, previous experiences in matters of this variety (whatever variety that is, sure wish I knew).

Tim Burton
Prince
"Smallville" (12.10.10 episode, re my song, "December 1980, Morning")
"Christmas In Madagascar"
Paul McCartney (12.11.10 SNL, re my "Endless Voyage" photograph)
Paul McCartney singling out Nat King Cole in making a general reference to music while discussing The Beatles on iTunes, this occurring immediately after I had discussed Nat King Cole's twin daughters with a friend of Cole's twins. (There is a long history of people such as Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, Elisha Cuthbert, and many others taking things that have recently come up in my conversations with people in restaurants or where I work, and working them into things they say immediately thereafter in interviews, which, as always, is something I see as just another part of that secret, crazy, snowballing phenomenon started by John Lennon and Paul McCartney during the '60s, "Jonathan D. Steinhoff (aka Secretly The Third Beatle Making Ringo The Fifth Beatle) Mania".)
Conan writer tailing someone who looked like Jon Stewart while "The Daily Show" is on holiday break, within hours of that news story hitting about Conan apologizing for his writer giving him a joke that resembled a two-week old Jimmy Kimmel joke, Conan promising to fire the writer.
"Book of Eli" movie

I'm sure there were many efforts I missed (was that Eric Clapton driving a truck in Houston? because if so it would have regarded me in relation to "Slowhand" due to a certain set of circumstances, but if not, and then again, etc., etc., etc.). Who knows, perhaps even a few efforts regarding which those involved would deny such a connection in their work to me/my material. How strange that would be.

Happy New Year!

If North Korea Could Please Stay Out Of This, Thank You

2010-11-29T23:26:00.000-08:00

Disclaimer
You are not allowed to do any kind of interconnecting between any matters relating to the Iranian president found in the following (which I describe as being in relation to my “theory” in order to lessen the possibility that I will be sent to the loony bin for taking it as fact and not just theory) and matters one may have read about regarding Iran receiving from North Korea assistance towards achieving its nuclear weapons capability ambitions (especially at this point in time when North Korea is about to blow up the world again, South Korea first perhaps, I want to stay away from all that, being shy).

Eleventh Hour Make-Believe Diplomacy
Whether you agree with a theory, disagree with a theory, feel a slightly involuntary urge to laugh in the face of someone because of their theory, or want to go out and kill cats because of a theory (whatever): if the theory results in strange predictions that nevertheless come to pass in spite of how unlikely they may seem…. well, a rational person should certainly take notice of such developments, or at least stop feeling a slightly involuntary urge to laugh in my face, that is, not laugh in the face of a person because of their theory, if such developments occur after they are predicted by a theory.

In my August 28, 2010 blog article (copyrighted Sept. 2010, when I published it at Archive.Org in the fourth volume of my blog articles there), I was particularly explicit regarding a previously-described Steinhoff lexicon situation that I contend has come to involve many in entertainment, a lexicon which is also seeing usage by Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president.

My lexicon “theory” is described by me as likely having to do with my secret super-importance in relation to the work of many, McCartney in many instances, and also the work of Spielberg (see my “Steven Spielberg and the ‘Mall Man’ Factor”, posted at Archive.Org in Dec. 2009). That the world of politics is also in the picture to a considerable degree is ascribed in part to Spielberg being among the WORLD's most prominent/high profile Jewish men; now factor in that Ahmadinejad is someone who publicly announced a wish that the Jewish state of Israel be blown off the map, while he meanwhile is presumed by the West to be developing nuclear weapons capability. So I’m saying I’ve attracted the notice of Ahmadinejad, who, in his more attention-grabbing statements, has been secretly referencing the same lexicon also referenced in much product from the entertainment industry.

The idea that people would be indulging in such a “game” together, one of this variety, would perhaps tend to seem worthy of more serious consideration, were anyone but myself presenting this awareness to you. For, by me being the one asserting this lexicon is built around things I myself have made/have been prominently involved in, it immediately and clearly makes it all incredibly unlikely-sounding and absurd-sounding, however absurd so much in life may be. As I’ve expressed before, it wasn’t my idea for this lexicon to exist, to be brought to the table, to be so much at the center of the chessboard. Yet I recognize that the reporting or ignoring of certain developments should not be predicated so entirely on the degree of mass acceptability one expects such a report to receive. And my vantage point makes the question of reporting or not reporting one of taking responsibility.
In my August 28, 2010 blog article I describe the specific place where Ahmadinejad last left off inserting such an inside-reference. It was with regard to my 1998 “Gosk 2” video (at Archive.Org since Sept. 2005) and with relation to that video’s “hat scene” and things around the “hat scene”. It is therefore a matter of record that I correlated Ahmadinejad’s words to something regarding that section. As to the “hat scene”, we see Vinkalert pondering why things didn’t work out with his high school sweetheart, Gosk, as if to say he wished they had continued together, i.e., gotten married.

And so, how could it fail to jump off the page for me when, on November 21, 2010, Ahmadinejad, with what would obviously be an attention-grabbing statement, announced that he wants Iranian girls to marry at the age of sixteen?

I Owe Me The World

2010-11-18T20:29:00.000-08:00

PAID IN LAUGHTER
There have been a number of new Steinhoff references on the Saturday Night Lives this season, as always. I will not be going into these things, however.

I will instead be focusing on something I see as being in relation to the Pakistani Taliban joining everyone in Hollywood in making inside-references to things Steinhoff. That is what I will be prioritizing this time around! Owing to my being secretly super-important in relation to Spielberg! And McCartney! And others of note! I'm running out of exclamation marks! Read on....

PAID IN HALF-FULL
Fans of what is perhaps my craziest statement ever (that's quite a distinction, with all the crazy statements of mine there are to choose from) should be happy to learn there is something new to report in relation to this, something to perhaps chew on, perhaps scratch your head about, or even, perhaps, laugh hysterically over to think that a corrupt world should somehow inch its way into this strange a circumstance.

I refer to a connection I have repeatedly made between, among other things, the time proximity between the May 1st, 2010 Times Square Car Bomb Incident and my April 29th, 2010 YouTube posting, "Come On, French Stewart, You Owe Me!":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlH2Ln7GlmU

I will begin by putting that idea into a tiny nutshell here (but know I have your promise that you will explore the subject for weeks, beginning with my June 23rd, 2010 blog, "Crazy Time"):

The primary allusion made in my April 29th YouTube posting (evidenced at that site as having been posted on that date) is to the idea of curiosity and investigation resulting from a suspicious-looking empty vehicle parked on a busy New York City street (my June 23rd blog extensively explains the allusion made in my YouTube video, also including verifiable evidence that this allusion was contained in the April 29th video). We all know how this very same idea provided the focus of the news story regarding the Times Square Car Bomb TWO DAYS LATER on May 1st: curiosity and investigation resulting from a suspicious-looking empty vehicle parked on a busy New York City street. Now, add in my secret super-importance in relation to the most prominent living Jewish man, Steven Spielberg (see my video, "Steven Spielberg and the Mall Man Factor" at Archive.Org, posted December 2009), and think of what that could possibly mean to Pakistani Taliban thinking types. There's lots more I could describe, but I don't think anyone is likely to find all this truly worth so incredibly much of their time, unless perhaps someone finds a way to increase our lifespan to 1,000 years old, at which point devoting half your life to studying all this will still leave you 500 years for other things. 500 years! That's plenty, I say!

So the condensed version of what I'm on about here, the new thing in connection with all this, involves, I believe, none other than Mr. International Political Situation Investigator Extraordinaire, Jon Stewart (or "Jon Stewart, Daily Show Host", for short)!

In recent blogs I've provided evidence (a link) that I posted a Comment to a blog article at Huffington Post that Stewart and Colbert should do SEPARATE rallies, at a point in time when there first was talk of some kind of Colbert rally. A few days later when the two did make announcements, they hyped it all for weeks as two SEPARATE rallies.

I have often influenced these two, as I've explained from time to time, and I've even periodically included what I regard as evidence of my influence, evidence spelled out in "clues" that could be easily pieced together. Therefore, though they could have had the idea of SEPARATE rallies independently of me, I lean towards the possibility of that not being the case. I for one am additionally aware that Jon Stewart (or someone who looked enough like him for me to feel inclined to blog about it the next day) looked at me as he drove by me the day after my HuffPost Comment.

PAID IN FULL
On Tuesday, November 9th (a little more than a week after his rally, and a week after the Midterm elections), Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" beseeched former president George W. Bush to "come on" his show. He claimed he was starting a new recurring segment, though he repeatedly bemoaned the strange name his people came up with for the segment, "Come On Jon Stewart". Is it possibly fair to say my YouTube video referred to above, "Come On, French Stewart" is worthy of more serious scrutiny, under the circumstances? And what more can anyone ask for, in the name of all humanity, than more serious scrutiny?

I should additionally mention, however, that though I see this as a deliberate reference by "The Daily Show" to what I see as my little Pakistani Taliban-related situation, I do not presume it to mean any one person has really done the homework I'm talking about, no one has necessarily taken the trouble to see any of the emerging larger picture here. As with the Manhattan Project, many may understand some fragment of the larger project, which might give off that they see the larger project, but I see no clear sign of someone acting on a sense of the larger situation.

How To Convert A Plastic Pail Into A Sword For Defending Against Martian Attack

2010-11-07T16:54:00.000-08:00

As I promised I would be doing back when Tim Burton's "Alice In Wonderland" was released in theatres, I have now been able to put together my Steinhoff/Burton Correlations "version" (with a little help from the video becoming accessible on Starz Channel's Early Premieres).

Basically, this is just a dispassionate explanation, perhaps so that there will be some chance of the record being set straight someday. For those who can see the context/history I'm trying to get across, I believe this shows, as I have before, my influence on my fellow CalArts alum, Tim Burton - in this case with regard to "Alice". Unfortunately, however much my little videoclip provides some bases for my conclusions, there ultimately are many other things that contributed to these conclusions as well, things too voluminous to include here.

One Percent Rocket Science, Or Possibly Thirty Percent

2010-11-06T19:37:00.000-07:00

In the very first blog I wrote, August 10, 2008 (later published at Archive.Org November 2009 as part of Volume 1), I first discuss something that I believe to be recurring inside-references made by someone regarding myself, by which I mean, a certain type of thing has recurringly (though not invariably) appeared in movies produced by Stuart Cornfeld (whom I once sort of knew a very long time ago, and who produces excellent movies that sometimes appear to have been influenced by my material, in which he is not alone, not by a longshot, Spielberg, The Beatles, etc., someone behind the scenes must be making everyone be influenced by me, you should be spending all of your spare time reading about me, the most unacknowledged man who ever lived, though it might be too soon to say if there are people more unacknowledged than myself, as they wouldn't likely be known if they weren't acknowledged, nevertheless, I cannot imagine someone more unacknowledged than me):

8/10/08. Jonathan D. Steinhoff's Sometimes Blog
(regarding a recurring inside-reference in Cornfeld-produced movies)
"....lying on the ground unconscious, opening his eyes to people/person standing over him."

Today I was fortunate enough to see Stuart Cornfeld's latest movie, "Megamind (released yesterday).

[It is an excellent movie, but of course I'm not here to be a film critic, I'm here to jump up and down pointing at myself.]

Those who saw the end of "Megamind", essentially the final scene of the movie, involving the David Cross character, will, I expect, have to consider the potential significance in my having identified above and so long ago (my first blog, as indicated above) that such a scene (not a particularly uncommon scene, generally) might be particularly associated as having, when in a Stuart Cornfeld movie, inside-reference qualities. In this instance, the scene was considered special enough to belong seconds before the end.

The nature of the scene is very common, in many ways conventional, and normally one wouldn't see its recurring from one movie to the next, in and of itself, as leading to any kind of connection. One distinguishing characteristic here is that a special twist is involved, which again is not entirely uncommon, but more uncommon.

In the context of so many other inside-references and influences regarding myself that I've seen over such a long time, by so many in "entertainment" (people for whom I and so many others have so enduring and enormous a respect and appreciation), I lean towards believing this is again the case with the ending of "Megamind". It is a pleasing thought, hopefully not one that will be seen as a stretch of the mind.

Oliver Hardy Laughter

2010-10-25T17:28:00.000-07:00

Just as someone might, with relatively little difficulty, begin with nuclear energy, yet one day find himself to be in possession of a nuclear weapon, so Saturday Night Live has, by starting with the "plank of wood, a 2x4" originated by me (previous blog, 10.17.10) while discussing SNL's (very) timely inside-references to Steinhoff material, somehow found a way to beat my plowshare (well, plank) into a 2x8 (disclaimer- these dimensions are based on a visual approximation):

I believe it clearly contains stuff that can easily be interpreted as a continuation of what started in my previous (10.17.10) blog as an Ahmadinejad "discussion" with SNL. How far that reaches into this videoclip has yet to be resolved, though I see where this could all easily culminate in a three-picture deal, or another sketch, only this time all of the characters get to be sitting down on nice soft chairs.

Two Pair Showing

2010-10-17T10:49:00.001-07:00

A Show Of Hands
Little tiny inside-references to me/my material have been detectable here and there over the past several weeks. Most are of that nature where one would already have to be familiar with a number of facts before one could appreciate the significance of such observations, otherwise, I would seem to be making too much out of something. What a bother when recognition of the significant context requires special effort.

The Saturday Night Live one I am bothering with reveals to me, as they have before, that they see my blogs. I bothered with this inside-reference because, due to the "history" preceding it, I read it as being in the sphere of Saturday Night Live sorta kinda asking me to inject a remark or something about the Iranian President. Ahmadinejad is part of what they are inside-referencing, thus, my reaction might be expected to include such a remark. Furthermore, I see where I should believe SNL might very possibly scrutinize my reaction to their inside-reference.

There are a few things I should mention about the context of this image. It is preceded by my having mentioned in and demonstrated through numerous blogs, that "Saturday Night Live" has a long history of including things "hot off the Steinhoff press". Usually, the week in which such pieces of my ideas appear are the very same week that I specifically submitted them to SNL, through intermediaries. I do not say such ideas could never have existed prior to my incorporating them into my work. I emphasize the context created by the timing and consistency of their making such usage.

In this case, they not only had their image tie in with something in my 9/26/10 blog. What they chose to reference simultaneously intertwines with the video I have just completed - "Hatch", posted 10/15/10 at YouTube and Archive.Org. That I was working on this video was announced a few months ago in a blog. That announcement was immediately followed by an inside-reference on Colbert, as I described in a blog. "Hatch" also influenced the second episode of the new William Shatner sitcom (I am not new to influencing William Shatner, or influencing almost anyone you can think of, for that matter). When I first wrote the comedy idea several years ago (as "Down The Hatch"), SNL also immediately included an inside-reference.

So what, if anything, do I want to say about Ahmadinejad this time around. Well, I saw him on Charlie Rose recently, and here's what comes to mind. When I was working on the movie, "Gizmo" back in 1974, I came across this old Fox Movietone news footage (from the early '30s, I believe). It showed this young man sitting on the end of a plank of wood, a 2 x 4. The cameraman was on the other end. The plank of wood was on an upper floor of a very tall New York City skyscraper, hanging over the sidewalk. So the man sitting on the plank of wood is looking at the camera, laughing nervously. Why would a person put himself in that position? His nervous laughter was our only handle on his state of mind in doing this. That guy reminds me of Ahmadinejad, who has deliberately chosen to make his world far more precarious than any sane person would. But he looks at the camera with nervous laughter, soliciting the warmth of the cameraman. Asking to be seen as a man free of conventional fear. Impressing us with his bravado. It is a primitive person's route to winning points with people. And yes, you will find people in the crowd who will totally overlook your insanity.

The Two Of Us Are Really One
As I've mentioned a few times, it was I who suggested the Colbert and Stewart rallies be two rallies:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/JonathanDS/restoring-truthiness-colbert-rally-beck_n_704578_59349947.html

The day after I posted this Comment, Stewart drove by me, which I reported in a blog article the day following that.

Now they are making one rally out of it, so I suppose I ought to react. Okay, here it is: Fine with me!

Hatch

2010-10-15T21:35:00.000-07:00

My new (10/15/10) video, "Hatch", just posted at Archive.Org (http://www.archive.org/details/Hatch) and YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptDmQCsk3gk), experienced a proper amount of incubating immediately prior to its release.

How Does This Not Disappear

2010-10-05T23:46:00.000-07:00

Were you to do a search through my various blogs for "Bruce Willis" (you might go to where they're collected in volumes 1-4 at Archive.Org to simplify the task), you would find this name showing up here and there, now and then. You could then go back to the actual blog articles posted at this site that you had looked up, so that you could actually see the videoclips involved. You'd have so much fun! You'll even find references to Willis appearances on Letterman!

In my past three blogs I've made mention of a trail of bread crumbs that has come to involve, among other things, the Bruce Willis movie, "The Jackal," as well as my video (posted at Archive.Org in 2008), "Bishop and Pawn Forfeit Rule." So, part of my thinking while watching Willis on Letterman Monday night was to see if there would be anything from Bruce Willis in this regard. Which has often been part of the "pattern"....

Outwardly, the big thing about Willis' Letterman appearance Monday was his hamburger hairpiece (which had been important enough for Bruce Willis and Jon Stewart to reflect on the following night during Bruce Willis' appearance on "The Daily Show"):

Okay - but that was all a trick, carefully designed to get you to train your eyes on that part of Bruce Willis. See, so that your eyes would already be there when this happened later on during that same Willis appearance on Letterman:

Because, as is already known to those who have seen my above-referenced, "Bishop and Pawn Forfeit Rule," I play Merlin in that video:

By the way, lest there seem a trail of bread crumbs amidst all this pointing towards this idea, the answer is no, I am not secretly Merlin the Magician in real life. But thank you just the same for thinking you see a trail of bread crumbs pointing in that direction.

Gotta Be A Superman

2010-10-01T22:27:00.000-07:00

It's "Smallville" time again - the Superman show, for those not up on things. And if you've been following my blogs over the years, you'll know how that often means it's also time once again for me to describe how I have been incorporated into things over there - how this is something I attribute, in part at least, to the fact that Sean Daniel's "Mummy 3" was written by the "Smallville" writer/producers. Yes, I am there once again, if you know how to put a few things together, and feel like bearing with me until it all makes sense. At the VERY least, don't you have to wonder how it is that I so often have something to give pause, and from the exact same place as where I so often find something to give pause? Or.... perhaps you profess to believe it's all pulled straight out of the air?

Check This
In the final paragraph of my immediately preceding blog (Sept. 28th, "Politics for Dummies"), I observed how, for some reason I didn't particularly get, there were several shows that had recently incorporated references to Sean Daniel movies ("Animal House" and "The Jackal"). These were objective observations anyone might have made, anyone familiar with certain public knowledge:

The Bishop scene in "Animal House" (John Belushi smashes Stephen Bishop's guitar as he sits playing on a staircase) showed up via a scene on Leno featuring Sheryl Crow and Ed Helms (which I was bound to watch, as I had shortly before that mentioned in my blogs some Sheryl Crow stuff in relation to me).
On Saturday Night Live's season premiere almost a week ago, a reference to the Jack Black scene in Sean Daniel's "The Jackal" (in their takeoff on the recent Stallone movie).

It had crossed my mind, regarding the Sean Daniel connection in the above-referenced Sheryl Crow bit, that, as the word "Bishop" had come up there (Stephen Bishop being in the "Animal House" scene), and then "Smallville" shortly thereafter (last week) made inside-reference to my "Bishop And Pawn Forfeit Rule" (see my Sept. 26th blog), there could be a connection in that for my benefit, but there wasn't enough for me to go on until tonight's "Smallville".

Before you have enough to go on, I would have to ask that you look at my August 13, 2008 blog, "A Piece of the Mask" (also at Archive.Org as part of Volume 1 of my collected blog articles, therefore a matter of record that I couldn't have written it after the date Volume 1 was published). In Item 2 of that blog article, I note special inside-reference significance to someone, in the role of rescuer, standing over a person who had just been knocked to the ground. Specifically, the blog article describes this action with regard to scenes involving Jack Black, including reference to the movie, "Tenancious D And The Pick Of DESTINY".

And so, I now give you this videoclip of moments from tonight's "Smallville," which include

Someone, in the role of rescuer, standing over someone who had just been knocked to the ground

A situation that brings the movie "The Jackal" to mind

A discussion of Destiny

Also of interest is that this same DESTINY discussion scene in "Smallville" ends with the introduction of the word "superman" to "Smallville" (I end the above videoclip right before Lois Lane provides the translation for the German version of this word). Whatever you wish to attach to the appearance of "superman" here.

Politics For Dummies

2010-09-28T21:04:00.000-07:00

At Least Someone's Reading These
In my Sept. 8th blog I refer to how it was I who suggested, in a Sept. 3rd HuffPost article Comment, that Stewart and Colbert make it two separate rallies: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/JonathanDS/restoring-truthiness-colbert-rally-beck_n_704578_59349947.html

This is copyrighted proof that I made my statement prior to it becoming a part of things. I also stated in my Sept. 5th blog article that Jon Stewart and I looked at each other as we drove by each other on Sept. 4th. This also was before my statement had become anything, though based on having influenced Stewart and Colbert many times before in very big ways, it did lead me to suspect that my HuffPost Comment might be turning into something big. Stewart's look might have contained a certain suggestion of this, unless he was thinking, "Why are traffic lights green and red, Christmas colors, why must we Jews put up with this, someday I'm gonna run a traffic light, that'll show those bastards!" This is something all of us Jews think about from time to time, though few of us go through with it.

The following videoclip should be seen in the context I've just described (not the part about traffic lights, the other context):

Saturday Night's Alright For Following Tiny Little Details
I should at some point fit into a blog article how the SNL season premiere several days ago, like nearly every SNL for years and years and years, included a few things for my benefit. I know, I'll include it in this blog article.

Let's see, well for one thing, Amy Poehler's very brief revival of her Kim Jong Il. Her Kim Jong Il originally (a few years back) included referring to him as a film critic ala the Siskel/Ebert show, "At The Movies", as he said something about saving you an aisle seat. I had several days prior to that impression several years ago passed along (I would pass along an idea and they would always use fragments on the next show) the idea of Kim Jong Il being the guest host on "At The Movies" (when Ebert would always have a guest host with him). My idea showed how Kim Jong Il's taste in movies, in terms of why he appreciated the movies he liked, betrayed a strange sort of personality. Perhaps I should take this opportunity to say that I would personally love for him to review any of my videos, I was only joking about the kind of film critic he would be. (I seem to possibly be tangling with Ahmadinejad these days, and one crazy person doing stuff that could lead to nuclear bomb explosions is all I can handle at one time, thank you, would somebody else mind taking on Kim Jong Il?)

And then there was the appearance on SNL several days ago by the Governor of New York, Patterson, wherein they included their usual routine where he walks too near the camera, blocking things. This recurring bit (though previously it involved an SNL Patterson impression without the Patterson) began with something that happened in an Obama/McCain presidential debate hosted by Tom Brokaw (10.7.08), where McCain at the end walks too close to the camera, blocking things, which led to a few laughs when the moment was rerun on various shows. That real-life moment began with something I published at Archive.Org prior to the Brokaw-hosted debate ("Peek-A-Boo, ICU", 9/29/08, and also contained in my 9.28.08 blog article), a comedy idea about that very same (then upcoming) Brokaw-hosted debate. Incidentally, this was not the first time McCain did something in response to my comedy ideas - though you'll NEVER believe my version of what preceded his Palin selection. Anyway, in my Brokaw debate comedy idea, each candidate is on a video cell phone, placed on a table, facing each other. Brokaw inadvertantly puts his water glass down between the two video phones, blocking Obama's view of McCain, which he complains about, while McCain defends Brokaw's right to block his view.

I believe there may have been a few other things on SNL a few days ago regarding me, but who knows. One other thing I noticed on SNL, but NOT regarding me (every now and then I actually notice things that don't regard me, which in itself is yet another fact that many have trouble believing) is that, in their parody of that recent Stallone movie, they included something that brought to mind Jack Black in Sean Daniel's "The Jackal" (I have mentioned Sean Daniel not infrequently in my blogs for reasons I have also mentioned not infrequently). This struck me particularly because when Sheryl Crow was on Leno recently, she did something at the opening of the show out of Sean Daniel's "Animal House" (Ed Helms was sitting on a staircase playing a folk guitar and she took it away and smashed it). Though Sean Daniel did not produce "Animal House", it is an important part of his history, he was the person behind it when he was a decision-maker at Universal. So what's up with all that?

Your Comprehension Will Never Be Tested

2010-09-26T21:30:00.000-07:00

As I promised in my previous blog article, “A Knight To Remember” (9.24.10), I will in this blog show how the Sept. 24th season premiere of “Smallville” (the final season), as has occurred MANY times before regarding this TV show (see references to “Smallville” in other blog articles), made substantial reference to my material (as also demonstrated in other blog articles). It may also perhaps be relevant to mention that the writers/producers of this show also wrote the movie, “Mummy 3”, which was produced by Sean Daniel, the first person who told me of CalArts, the film school I attended. Also perhaps of relevance is the fact that the person who co-produced the “Mummy” movies with Sean Daniel is one of my relatively few (less than 40) Facebook friends.

Image 1
This image featuring a chess knight is the logo for “Checkmate Agency,” which first appeared on “Smallville” in February 2010. Checkmate was an important part of “Smallville” episodes for the remainder of that (the previous) television season.

Image 2
This image showing a fence, field and tiny figure is the establishing shot for what is essentially the final scene of this 9/24/10 season premiere “Smallville” episode.

Image 3
This image, entitled, “A Separate Thing,” is from my graphic artwork book (self-published, copyright 1993), “Go Eyes, Go!” (posted at Archive.Org in June 2007). It is also the image I’ve been using for several years as part of my signature box on all of my emails at my job (thousands of emails). One sees an unmistakable similarity to Images 1 and 2. It is also the only creative work of mine that makes reference to chess, other than my video, “Bishop And Pawn Forfeit Rule” (posted at Archive.Org in May 2008, from a story posted at Archive.Org in October 2007). That video is the source of the remaining non-“Smallville” images.

Image 4
From the 9/24/10 season premiere of “Smallville”, this image represents the moment when Lex Luthor murders other Lex Luthors.

Image 5
From my May 2008 video, “Bishop And Pawn Forfeit Rule,” this image represents the moment when Chess Master Garry Kasparov states that he will travel in time to return to our present, and murder the Garry Kasparov there. Therefore this correlates to what occurs in the moment Image 4 represents.

Image 6
From the 9/24/10 season premiere of “Smallville,” in an extremely rare moment of losing his self-control, Clark is pushed to the point where he suddenly strangles someone, coming very close to strangling that person to death. This is also referred to later on in the episode, as being the moment when he lost his moral high ground.

Image 7
From “Bishop and Pawn Forfeit Rule,” in an extremely rare moment of losing his self-control, Kasparov is pushed to the point where he suddenly strangles someone to death. This is later self-described by Kasparov as the moment when he lost his moral high ground over Putin.

Image 8
From the 9/24/10 season premiere of “Smallville,” soldier pieces are moved around with deliberateness. The scene ends with the image of a soldier piece burning in the fireplace (forfeited?), a strange juxtaposition in which it is outside the normal context/realm established for it.

Image 9
From “Bishop and Pawn Forfeit Rule,” Putin and Kasparov move chess pieces around with deliberateness. Later in the story, having traveled back in time to the 6th century, Kasparov finds that chess pieces are strangely juxtaposed outside the normal context/realm established for them as he understands it, in that there are rules to chess back then with which he is unfamiliar.

Image 10
From “Bishop and Pawn Forfeit Rule,” in which Iranian President Ahmadinejad is made an important character in relation to the plot, in that he plays a key role in motivating Kasparov to travel back in time. In several of my previous blog articles (which are periodically copyrighted in volumes at Archive.Org), I have discussed how something appears to be going on behind the scenes that has led to “Smallville” episode moments and Iranian President announcement moments to, within the same several-day timeframe, include something that coincides with the same thing regarding me/my work (i.e., if both Hitler and Bob Hope had each said something within the same two-period that brought to mind the same, somewhat obscure moment in the movie, “It Happened One Night”, and then, about a year later, it happened once again regarding the same, somewhat obscure scene in the movie, “A Night At The Opera”, and then, two years, it happened again). It is not self-apparent, from what I have been able to identify and evaluate, that those who make “Smallville” have an inside track regarding the Iranian President. Also of relevance here is that “Bishop and Pawn Forfeit Rule” is my only creative work that includes a reference to the Iranian President.

A Knight To Remember (As Having Nothing To Do With The Titanic)

2010-09-24T22:20:00.000-07:00

The Walls Are All In Place
I will not be demonstrating specifically in this blog how I am extremely important in relation to tonight's "Smallville" episode, which was the season premiere of this show's final season (those who read my blogs are familiar with my frequent presentation of evidence of my importance in relation to a great number of this show's episodes, including last season's season finale).

Demonstrating how I figure in relation to tonight's episode will take a little more doing than my present energy level will permit. But I do want to indicate here and now that I recognized it, as I am not one who feels good about keeping people in suspense regarding something important to them (I refer to the Smallville people who included me in so significant a way). I consider it very important that they have included me, I love this show, I also believe "Smallville" relates to an important modern mythology, Superman, and I feel enormously gratified by the whole thing. And I don't know if this will offend my old friend from junior high school, who is now one of the three people who runs Marvel Entertainment, and who is also my Facebook friend, but Superman is way better than Spiderman. Period.

The public-at-large may not feel totally satisfied this time around with the proof of what I say that I will be providing. It very much involves the image included with this blog, which can be found in something I posted a while back at Archive.Org, "Go Eyes, Go!", entitled, "A Separate Thing". This image is something I've been including for several years as part of the signature line of every email I send where I work. There are literally thousands of my emails containing this image. But do all of those "witnesses" comprise the entire population of the world? And so, as is the case with so much evidence of various things that exists in the world, there are indeed some among the entire population of the world who cannot be counted among the witnesses, and must therefore rely upon the witness testimony of others. There are always going to be some people who don't witness something! I suppose I deserve the blame for that!

Anyway, until the next time I have the exact kind of energy this task requires.

Hoping For A Stalemate
I also want to throw in, on Wednesday my blog asked the Iranian President, Ahmadinejad, to be serious already. The following day, Thursday, he made himself seem unmistakably ridiculous for the first time, as if on purpose. He may have been outlandish before, but his statement that most Americans think 9/11 was an inside job? He had to know how silly that sounds. I think he was setting himself up. And today, Friday, he announced that he may no longer do that enriched uranium thing he was doing that was scaring all the children around the world and no small number of us adults as well. I'm not crazy about him, but I do have him to thank for the fact that I will be sleeping a little easier tonight. Then again, I wonder how much sleep he was making people lose altogether? Maybe I should just be glad of where the pieces on the chessboard are at this moment, and leave it at that.

When You're Ready To Be Serious, Napoleon

2010-09-22T23:23:00.000-07:00

Here's a little bit of fun, at least for those who think things that touch somewhat directly on an important moment regarding the Iranian President are a little bit of fun.

In my previous blog, "I Don't Suppose Anyone Has A Videoclip Of Larry King Leading A Conga Line" (9.20.10), one of the things I touched on was the then-upcoming appearance on Larry King of the Iranian President (at that time it was scheduled for Thursday, however, it aired today, Wednesday). I also touched on something I've been making repeated mention of, that the Iranian President has plugged into my secret super-importance in relation to Spielberg (the most prominent living Jewish man) and Paul McCartney (another individual with a non-comparable prominence in the world), by making inside-references that I get but that would not be appreciable by the public-at-large (am I crazy sounding or what?).

In that same 9.20.10 blog article, I also touched on the Eric Clapton album, "Slowhand" regarding something Clapton did in relation to me personally. (I've also described this same thing in other blogs as well, where I get particular about how it was in relation to me.)

I will begin with "Slowhand". It will become relevant to the other thing.

I have a Facebook friends who is not unconnected from the above-referenced thing Clapton did. And there have been a certain number of occasions when this same Facebook friend person has posted something on Facebook in response to things I've posted that touch on him, though in so indirect a manner as to be undetectable to the Facebook public-at-large that his Facebook posting has anything to do with me. Therefore, I paid close attention on September 21st to see if this person had anything in this "mailbox" for me. What I found was that this individual "Liked" something that was posted by a Dr. Wayne Dyer (who has a quarter million Facebook friends) on September 21st:

"At your core, the place where you originate from and return to, there's no one and no thing to judge."

What does this have to do with Clapton's "Slowhand"? The first song (the opening track) on "Slowhand", entitled, "The Core," contains the line, "I'm at my core."

I had specifically been looking to this person's Facebook posting on this precise day for such a reference to what I had posted the previous day, and I unmistakably found it. I recognize that this had also required that Dr. Wayne (quarter million Facebook friends) Dyer be complicit for this to have come about. I have already described in a recent blog how in general this type of thing has been occurring, including the involvement of the complicity/cooperation of non-Facebook friends taking place in conjunction with Facebook friends.

This brings us to today's interview on Larry King with the Iranian President. Such a TV show can be seen as important in relation to the Iranian President, as this is rather significant exposure on a fairly significant American TV show.

On this occasion, I detected no inside-reference on the Iranian President's part intended for my interpretation. However, at the very end of this show, Larry King closed with a reaction to this interview from the editor of Time Magazine:

I am not saying that heretofore no one has ever used the word, "core". But an intelligent person will see that without my pointing that out. I should also point out that a friend at work is a friend of Larry King. Prior to today's Larry King, I described what happened with "The Core" to someone else at work. I can imagine that as one of the ways word could have reached Larry King. I have no doubt, having pre-anticipated something of this kind, that the specific choice of words used at that important moment began with Eric Clapton's "The Core," or to be more specific, my having just referenced the album on which that is the opening track.

Tomorrow the Iranian President speaks at the United Nations. If you're reading this, Mr. Making - Everybody - Nervous - That - You -Won't - Take - Responsibility - For - Seriously - Playing - With - Fire - While - Doing - Nothing - To - Address - The - Problem - When - The - Future - Of - The - Whole - World - Is - At - Stake, just tap your foot in time with Jack Bruce's "Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune" when you're up there speaking to the world. It will really help me put together my next schpiel.

I Don't Suppose Anyone Has A Videoclip Of Larry King Leading A Conga Line

2010-09-20T22:13:00.000-07:00

Nothing extraordinary to report, nevertheless, a few things I consider worthy of mention:

End Of The World, Part 12
Thursday the Iranian President is scheduled to appear Larry King, and Friday will be the season premiere of the final season of "Smallville". No possible connection, unless you've been following my blogs. I will see if this possible connection takes on significance.

Look Both Ways Before Smashing Into Something
Recently someone who may have been Sheryl Crow behaved in traffic a little like the person I recently mentioned in a blog article for having looked like Eric Clapton on the day his new album was announced. You may want to put on the brakes here, go to Archive.Org, search for Volume 4 of my collected blog articles, then search for Sheryl Crow and Eric Clapton there (you may particularly want to note that Crow will apparently be big on Clapton's upcoming new release). But back to the recent traffic thing - I was at the light to the on-ramp to the 134 on my way to work, the light turned green, however, up came Sheryl Crow (or someone one would think of as her) in the on-ramp diamond line and so didn't have to stop. I behaved appropriately, but I always see that protocol as an accident waiting to happen. I'm glad it is incredibly rare when that on-ramp diamond lane car that doesn't stop vies for the road space of the car that did and then got a green light. I first got my driving license by practicing driving in the car of and accompanied by a woman whose image Clapton put on the inside album jacket of "Slowhand" on my account, so it is important for me to assess the driving of these people, you understand. She also knew (knows?) Paul McCartney, who drives well, last I saw, but I believe I digress.

I recently was provided an opportunity to join in on a Facebook discussion that had Will Lee as a participant. Will Lee is part of Letterman's houseband. This is interesting in that a recent blog article of mine referred to Sheryl Crow in relation to Letterman. I had nothing to contribute to that discussion, and for some strange reason I allowed that fact to be the basis for my choosing not to say anything. I do enjoy Will Lee's impression of a person tortured by Dick Cheney that we occasionally get to see on Letterman. Will Lee also played on a Lennon recording. (I imagine this is a digression for those appreciating the generally non-Beatles quality of this blog article.)

Always Place The Fork To The Left Of The Bishop
Recently Regis on Fallon did his usual secret inside reference for my benefit regarding someone I once knew who is also someone to whom Regis once introduced himself. Fallon participated in it (Fallon is a friend of Drew Barrymore, whom I've mentioned in blog articles, recently, in fact) and I think it was quite entertaining all around.

File Under Bulletin Board
I recently noticed that the woman I once knew whose image was on Clapton's "Slowhand" inside album jacket on my account (she's not the one in the photo showing Clapton kissing, that's Linda McCartney) has on her Facebook Info page something I recognize as being part of a line from the title song of my "Enough To Eclipse" CD (available at CD Baby). She seamlessly worked part of my song line into something about something, and you'd never know. Clapton once married George Harrison's ex-wife (could be I'm digressing again). I merely wish to acknowledge something that jumped off the page as far as I'm concerned, and don't believe I'm expressing an opinion.

Why Don't You Pour It In Jar
And finally, this videoclip regarding the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man" in relation to my 1990/1992 video, "Steinhoff's Dostoyevsky's 'Uncle's Dream'" (posted at Google Video in 2005, and later posted at Archive.Org) requires an appreciation of the fact that certain ideas can emerge from a collective effect that aren't visible when seen with a piecemeal perspective. You might actually feel I'm dreaming to think this videoclip has anything serious, in response to which I might actually feel you can't be serious to believe I'm dreaming, and there we are, at the beginning of World War III.

Hugely Insignificant Addendum To Something That Meant Nothing In The First Place

2010-09-12T12:02:00.000-07:00

A minor addendum to yesterday's minor addendum blog article (9/11/10, "Most Are Unaware Of The Evidence"). This will once again be for the benefit of those who know certain things that others do not, as is so often the case in life (far more often than what I would choose). Perhaps others will also find value here, more likely those who have reviewed a number of my blogs wherein I have been fortunate enough to have supporting evidence to provide, in that such people may feel a basis for having faith in my words at this time.

It has occurred to me, regarding my discussion yesterday of my expectation that the movie, "Everybody's Fine" would have contained something related to me/my material (as tends to be the case when a movie is made for which Paul McCartney contributes a song), yet seemingly did not, that there are several things I may have overlooked. These are possibilities, but possibilities I consider significant enough to relate. I already realize that, numerically speaking, there are fewer people who are "insiders" than there are "outsiders" to what I describe. Sometimes the football only needs to be received by one person.

Drew Barrymore, who is in this movie, previously made reference to my "Leonardoville" movie idea (a version of which is posted at Archive.Org) in her movie, "Ever After". "Leonardoville" regards a humorous imagining of the backstory behind the creation of the painting, "Mona Lisa". In "Everybody's Fine", we see at the end of the movie, as a major closing moment, the significance of the backstory to a painting.

Additionally: I have previously asserted that a number of Beatles songs grew out of a 15-page story I wrote when I was in the 5th grade, "Endless Voyage," how this story involves a pill that, when taken, makes it so that one can breathe water but never breathe air again. In "Everybody's Fine," we find that Drew Barrymore's character has a job performing as a mermaid. Mermaids breathe water. Also, pills are given an extremely special place in the movie's plot, regarding the life and death aspect in relation to De Niro's character not having his pills (not to mention the drug overdose juxtaposed in relation to this, if one construes it this way).

If these things were included for my benefit, and I have a considerable number of reasons to believe they may well have been, or even if I see that only as a significant possibility, I would have to feel some kind of obligation to make an acknowledgment, which is the primary role of this article. Clearly such acknowledgment comes with a cost, in terms of how it must make me seem to the "outsiders".

Most Are Unaware Of The Evidence

2010-09-11T19:29:00.000-07:00

For those who recall my August 8th blog article ("Stuck In Traffic, Not"), I have a minor addendum, unless one considers it to be very important in relation to Paul McCartney, in which case it might seem disrespectful to use the word "minor". Whether it is a minor or a major addendum, that is something for history to decide. Perhaps I shouldn't have even brought this question to the table. I have an addendum, I shall simply leave it at that, yes, that would be best. Oh yes, and as the title of this blog article states, most of you are unaware of any evidence for what I describe. You'll just have to total up the times I have been able to provide in my blog articles evidence in matters of this nature, calculate an assessment of my character and intelligence, and stare in astonishment at the results!

Minor Addendum (Preface)
In the above-referenced August 8th blog article, I described a message I sent someone that related to a video I made at CalArts in 1978, "How Did The Future Learn to Play Monopoly," a video which was a significant influence on many people's work, including Paul McCartney's work, particularly his movie, "Give My Regards To Broad Street". I also described in that article how that recent message was responded to, by way of Paul McCartney driving by me the following day on a road that resembled something out of his "Regards" movie, a beginning scene in that movie that directly related to a section I had influenced.

Yesterday I received a direct response from the person to whom I had sent the message. This may have been a reaction on this person's part to the very last paragraph of my Sept. 5th blog article, about emailed responses to phone calls or phone call responses to emails, and how this could generate the appearance of zero responses in the eyes of those presuming what form the responses must take for proper protocol to be involved. The response I received yesterday may additionally (as some actions are designed to serve multiple purposes) have related to the TV premiere (as an "Early Premiere" on Cinemax) of the Robert Downey Jr./Guy Ritchie movie, "Sherlock Holmes".

Follow Me, Watson
When I was in England for the first time, May 13, 1983, several days following my arrival McCartney and myself were nearly alone at the Baker Street Underground Station in London (facing platforms separated by the train tracks). Baker Street is, of course, very related to the Holmes mythology. When McCartney's "Regards" movie came out the following year, Rathbone Inc. (Rathbone Industries?) were the bad guys. At one time the actor Basil Rathbone was synonymous with Holmes (he played Holmes often). Also related is the fact that "Regards" includs a scene meant to evoke a Holmes-esque hunt for a criminal in 19th century London.

I Didn't Say I Was Finished Yet, Watson
I have previously been an influence on works that involved Holmes' Downey and Ritchie. One instance was Downey's "The Soloist", which made inside-reference to my 1993 video, "Mall Man" (posted at Archive.Org). For this and other reasons, I believe there are the right number of reasons for me to regard as deliberate the similarity between Downey's characterization of Holmes and my characterization of Mall Man. Not to mention the moment when Holmes discards a garment from his coach bearing a similarity to Mall Man discarding the socks.

We're Almost There
(I Thought I Told You To Use The Bathroom Before We Left)
Tonight was the TV premiere of "Everybody's Fine," a movie that features a McCartney song written for the movie. Traditionally, movies that feature songs created by McCartney for the movie have invariably contained inside-reference to me/my material. I therefore would first want to state, I hope that the scene in that movie in the train station with the guy who destroyed De Niro's medicine was not that reference (by the way, I would be remiss not to mention that I have also been an influence on De Niro). I would never do something like that, and if McCartney's recollection of what happened at Baker Street remains accurate, I think he would have to agree. I just pointed him out on the near-empty platform to the guy strangely dressed like Sherlock Holmes sitting next to me, who clearly should have observed it for himself, and was therefore obviously putting me on (not just in terms of the fact that he wasn't the actual Sherlock Holmes). Did that person at Baker Street dressed like Holmes destroy anybody's medicine? No. We were both well behaved. Therefore: The only possible connection I was able to find in "Everybody's Fine" that might possibly have been put there for me to identify is the fact that the song title, "I Wanna Come Home" has the word "Home" in it. However, this song title's spelling of "Home" is different, and uses the singular rather than the plural, "Holmes". Furthermore, it would have been scientifically impossible for them to have arranged the TV premieres of these two movies to coincide one day after the other. I suspect magic may have been involved, if anything.

Can't Completely Rule It Out

2010-09-08T19:55:00.000-07:00

Here are a few things that belong in the category, "the more weight I attach, the more others will feel compelled to make light" (I've got to start writing about things that fall into a different category). Well, I guess I can stand the short-term break-even (or worse) that comes from this battle between attaching heaviness vs. being made light, in that matters of consequence endure and so I shall be vindicated for though fools may seek to rule the world.... I think I've already begun the making light process on my own. And so now, to be serious about what's serious (it is too). Or, as the title of this blog article states, here are some possibilities I cannot completely rule out, having experienced the strange things that I have (have too).

We've Got To Get Ourselves Back Off The Sofa (by Joni Mitchell)
In my previous blog article I mentioned how Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" apparently drove by me Saturday (admittedly, no fingerprints to support this conviction). I also took the opportunity in that blog article to repeat my oft-made assertion that I am an influence on him (and Colbert as well, as I've also oft-asserted). Older blogs of mine copyrighted on Archive.Org confirm that I didn't just start saying this yesterday (this Blogspot site confirms no chronology of when I said what, as one can attach any date to any article, and so I refer to what is copyrighted to Archive.Org).

In this context, one might consider, as a possibility, that there is greater significance to the following videoclip than merely being an instance of like minds thinking alike (then again, perhaps it could strike you as confirmation of same, or perhaps, different minds that haven't the slightest to do with one another, or, that Steinhoff sure hit the nail on the head this time, or, I wonder why he's talking about Colbert, that looks like Stewart):

I believe the upcoming event Stewart and Colbert allude to in the videoclip could ultimately prove to be the biggest event of the year, or something along those lines. Humor is a medium, and what these two do in that medium is most serious, in my view. Yes, I am serious about the seriousness of humor even if many make light of the weight of.... but some might say I digress, and the opinion of those who feel that way is what matters most to me in the whole world.

Some may feel the need for me to spell out how it is that I believe the Sept. 3rd comment I made on Huff Post as JonathanDS fits in with the direction in which Colbert and Stewart are taking things. It's simple. I reacted to the idea of a Colbert rally with the idea that it be juxtaposed as completely separate yet alongside a Jon Stewart rally, both essentially vying to occupy virtually the same space, despite the expectation that, if anything, it should be one big rally. And that is precisely how they are playing things out at this point. Easily possible I am making too much of a like minds think alike idea, limited in originality, no big deal. Also very possible that this, the biggest event in the history of mankind (I'm only quoting Colbert), in terms of the way Colbert and Stewart are handling it, sprang from my pen. Can those who have followed my influence on things, both in general and specifically, completely ignore this possibility? Would someone pay for my plane fare so I can attend? Or maybe, go to CD Baby and listen to my songs so that, penny by penny, I might at least make it halfway across the country, where I might watch the proceedings from a TV in a dingy hotel room, muttering to myself about the people who wouldn't pay to listen to my songs at CD Baby, that I might afford to be a few miles closer to where things are happening? Don't I deserve at least that, enough song money to be within a thousand miles of it? By the way, I recommend my song, "Whatever Happened" (which is also available for free elsewhere on the Internet in higher quality than mp3, as well as the music video, I didn't just say that, I wonder if Jimi Hendrix' ghost is laughing at me for that, which would be quite an honor).

Stop Pointing That Erasure At Me
Also difficult for me to ignore: In my August 22nd blog article I correlated the book burning in Ray Bradbury's "Farenheit 451" to the suppressive mentality of Iran's president. Now in the news we see this Terry Jones character suddenly causing an international stir with his vile plans to have a book burning of the Quran. I am not pleased by this (please note my use of the word "vile"). Nevertheless, of all the book burning the world has seen, rarely has the idea of such received this level of attention, including in this instance condemnation from the Pentagon, the Pope, and most importantly, Hillary Clinton (unless you're Catholic and/or militaristic, please don't put me in the middle of this). All this less than three weeks after my book burning referencing blog article. I do recognize that only those who read the blog article upon its publication could testify to this, it being that, as mentioned earlier, this Blogspot site makes it possible to fiddle with dates. Nevertheless, for those who know what I am saying is true about my having posted a blog article on August 22nd that makes significant anti-book burning mention, and also for those who have by now learned to believe me: this is far from the first time the right-wing has used me to springboard their crap onto center-stage. I suppose they would consider it their true crowning achievement if I permitted it to silence me, or bug me. Well, I can recognize a bright side. You see, when one plays pool, one often aims for the bank, it is well known that this is how to hit certain balls into certain pockets and leave oneself well-positioned. I think it extremely possible that, after Terry Jones is finished playing the antagonist in this little drama, the larger story that emerges will be a positive one. People who might otherwise seem aligned against all Muslims showing their repugnance at such conduct. Etc.

I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing Like Jimi Hendrix
And finally, on Sept. 6th, immediately following my Sept. 5th blog article about seeing words of my song show up in somebody's Facebook posting (seemingly inadvertantly), President Obama used words from a Hendrix song in a speech, as if inadvertantly ("they talk about me like a dog" - "Stone Free" by Jimi Hendrix). Okay, not enough here to necessarily construe that this had anything whatsoever to do with my blog article the previous day. How about the fact that the same blog article of mine held back from observing Hendrix song postings by Facebook friends who presumably don't know each other, in that they coincided with my Dwight Hendricks ("Memphis Beat") blog articles? I held back on including mention of those Hendrix incidents, though it would have been germaine to my blog article, owing to the fact that many see posting a Hendrix song on Facebook as being as common as using the word, "the". I would generally concur, if not for the collective significance when seen alongside the other stuff to which I was referring. But it was too obscure a point for me to make in my Sept. 5th blog article, so I held back - now, perhaps, things are different (too late!). I have also indicated in previous blogs that I am an occasional influence on what the President of the United States says. And that he is an old friend of someone I know at work.

Attaching Weight Can Be Fun

2010-09-05T22:39:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I believe I was face to face with Sean Daniel, the first person from whom I learned of CalArts, the college I attended. Sean is a good friend of Steven Spielberg and Paul McCartney, and has played an important role in my being a significant influence on both, and on many others as well (that is, from what I can tell Sean has been in this role, although he could be getting his instructions in these matters from McCartney or the Kremlin or the ghost of Abraham Lincoln or whoever). Sean is also one of the co-producers of the Mummy movies (Jim Jacks, one of my Facebook friends, being the other). Sean and I were in our cars and less than half a block from the "Mummies of the World" billboard in Hollywood, the proximity to this being something I discovered after I recognized him. He appeared extremely concerned about something, and I would have to wonder whether my previous blog article on Iran's president might have been a contributing factor. Depending on how much weight one attaches to it, that particular article could be quite a source of serious concern, therefore, you may want to make light of it for that reason alone, as life is too short, etc.

I also saw Jon Stewart yesterday. I may also have seen Rachel Maddow, however, I'm not sure on that. I have at various times been quite a significant influence on both. As a Facebook friend had just posted something about Maddow's MSNBC buddy Keith Olberman, my mentioning this Maddow moment could easily sound contrived to some for that reason alone (I'm sure no one has ever been out to make me sound contrived, and I must accept full responsibility for all the times my words have sounded contrived, it must be something I like to do!).

Relevant to this latest instance of my sounding contrived, I have recently found evidence that some person or persons behind the scenes has been coordinating certain actions of certain Facebook friends of mine, people who presumably have nothing to do with one another. This has on occasion become additionally complicated to the point where it has involved the coordinating of certain Facebook friends of certain Facebook friends to post things, which in turn provide my Facebook friends the opportunity to comment on or like certain postings that were actually made for me to see. For example, a Facebook friend of mine (someone I knew at CalArts) who is connected with Eric Clapton had the opportunity to like a posting his Facebook friend made, causing me to see his Facebook friend's posting. That Facebook friend of a Facebook friend posting happened to use words that are identical to words contained in a song I once did, and the timing of when they made their Facebook postings coincided perfectly with a matter going on in relation to my video for that song (I will not go into further detail, sorry). That Facebook friend of my Facebook friend is himself the Facebook friend of a woman (not my Facebook friend) who is herself the Facebook friend of another one of my Facebook friends (from when I was in high school in Princeon), and this woman did something similar in relation to that Princeton Facebook friend of mine (who is not in the least connected to the Facebook friend person I knew at CalArts). So, a situation involving two of my Facebook friends who aren't connected to one another, and one of each of their Facebook friends who themselves are Facebook friends with each other, all doing things aimed at me (again, I will not go into further detail, sorry again).

As I have mentioned before (e.g., my Sept. 6, 2008 blog article), this type of stuff is nothing new to me. The unfortunate thing for me in this Facebook instance is that, if I keep seeing postings people are aiming at me, I would nevertheless be seen as initiating things without invitation were I to react in any way, as if I'm someone who speaks when not spoken to (ooh, I must be imagining it all). Someday there will be two people, one who telephones the other but never emails him, and the other will be someone who always emails that other person but never telephones him. And a third person will be perfectly able to make the case that one is continuing to send emails to someone who has never sent an email back. And that the other is continuing to phone someone who has never phoned him back. Persona non gratis, I think it's called. A hell of a thing to do to the person in the middle of this U.S. entertainment industry/Iranian President stuff, that is, if you've been attaching any weight to the evidence.

Waiting For The Paint To Dry With All The Time In The World

2010-08-28T23:13:00.000-07:00

Preface
This post will be a semi-sketchy attempt to justify the outlandish-sounding assertion I made in my 8.22.10 blog, "So I Says To Myself, Hey, I Don't Want The World Blowing Up, Right?". Specifically, I refer to my statement that the Iranian President, on several headline-grabbing occasions, employed a somewhat secret lexicon to express something in addition to what he appears to have endeavored to express. That this secret lexicon regards someone secretly super-important to Steven Spielberg, who is the most prominent Jewish man alive today. [I refer you to "Steven Spielberg and the 'Mall Man' Factor", posted at Archive.Org.]

In spite of the length of this blog article, as stated above this will only be semi-sketchy, that is, in the sense that I will not include here most of the numerous footnotes/links scattered about the Web, accessible to all, that support my statements. What I will do is indicate, with red font, those statements I am making that I believe can be verified/proven were one to know the footnotes/links, as opposed to non-red, unverifiable statements such as, "I sneezed half-an-hour ago, allergies," a fact I cannot prove to you (though it is not my fault that I cannot prove it to you). The statements you will see here in red font, had I included all of the related footnotes/links with them, would lead you to Web locations like YouTube or Archive.Org, where everything has a visible copyright date, so therefore, things posted there clearly did not suddenly come into being "after-the-fact". As I've stated many times before, this blogsite has the defect of an all-too-malleable timestamp, and I do not hold up the dates that these blogs are posted as being indicative of anything. There are also matters of public record such as news articles to support some of my statements. I periodically post at Archive.Org accumulations of my blog articles (Volumes 1, 2, 3 so far), which thusly makes it possible to pinpoint, to a degree, when certain of my blog articles were written (i.e., if at the end of 2008 I posted all of my 2008 blog articles at Archive.Org, there may not be proof that my Sept. 6, 2008 blog article was specifically written Sept. 6, but this would provide proof that it was written prior to 2009).

I must also preface this semi-sketch with the following example (which I like to refer to as "The "Aby Principle") to illustrate an important point regarding the deductive reasoning involved with cumulative implications (by the way, cumulative implications, if of a particular nature, can be considered valid in a court of law):

The Aby Principle
If I am on a 500-mile road trip, and at 10:49pm I see a personalized license plate that reads, "mccartney", and then at 11:49pm a license plate that reads "ccartney", and then at 12:49am a license plate that reads "cartney", 1:49am "artney"; 2:49am "rtney", 3:49am "tney", 4:49am "ney", 5:49am "ey", 6:49am "y", 7:49am "by", and at 8:49am "aby", cumulatively, something's going on here. Somebody put somebody up to something. So if I say the "aby" license plate is connected to that stuff, it isn't because I think McCartney necessarily has any involvement, and it isn't because I believe "aby" is generally to be associated with "McCartney". It would be because, as a basic point of logic, there is a cumulative implication. My experience of many, many, many years may have made me aware of how to associate certain things - but conveying to you exactly why I've deduced the "aby" car has anything to do with the "mccartney" car might require a WHOLE lot of explaining - that is, my example here may illustrate the concept, but in terms of the actual, specific things I need to describe, the example only barely scratches the surface of how many details might inform an observation of this nature, however unmistakable the implication may be.

So hopefully, in this semi-sketchy approach to this very important matter, those things I (thankfully) feel I am able to verify with footnotes/links (red font) will sufficently balance against those things I cannot, and you will get a.... semi-sketch of what I am saying. I may eventually return with a more complete explanation of those things referred to here in red font, though you might just go through my earlier blogs, archive.org, etc. if you need reassurance that I'm not just pulling things out of the air. And I apologize for not including everything here, footnotes/links and all, however, a degree of energy is required in order for me to track down all of the related links/footnotes, and this task has become quite draining as it is: The idea that the chain of ideas I express here is only as strong as the weakest link, and then the idea that it is MOST important that I correctly convey what I am attempting to convey, instead of dropping the ball, the potential for this to so seriously impact so many - well, to put it bluntly, a rather considerable amount of strength must be summoned to accomplish this.

A Semi-Sketch Of The Iranian President's Secret Little Messages
A lexicon has developed among those artists at the highest level of the entertainment industry. It is built around me and my little videos and other stuff regarding me, because of my secret super-importance in relation to people such as Spielberg, McCartney, Lennon, Tim Burton, Ridley Scott, The Stones, Madonna, SNL, etc., etc., but it might just as easily have been built/based around things more generally known, such as that which is found through reading Greek Mythology, or information accessible through reading a biography of John Lennon's Aunt Mimi, or it could have been based on anything you can think of. But it wasn't based on anything, it happens that it was built around me. I didn't ask them to and I don't get off on it personally, except perhaps the child inside me does. The size of my ego, though you might be inclined to presume from this that it is great, is not predicated on the things directed towards it. No, I do not describe all this out of ego, but rather, it is because I am stark raving mad! (I can't resist an opportunity to be most humorous - no really, that was a joke! I am as sane as, well, a few people)

By way of a secret lexicon, a man can seem to be heard talking about making his rocket go off with his girlfriend when everyone else goes to the movies, but he's really talking about them going at each other's things and doing their business (and I look forward to someday understanding what I just said, if I could just meet the right girl). Hopefully I haven't lost anybody other than myself yet. By the way, the very famous four-letter word we men use when we don't feel like saying we're doing our business with our rockets was itself originated a while back to avoid a direct reference, each of those four letters themselves being the first initial of four separate words.

And yes, I do recognize that followers of the music of aby are capable of getting all helter skelter with their screwy interpretations of so-called intended hidden meanings. However, that is not an intelligent reason for concluding that no one ever conceals their meaning from certain parties, or follows a complex path in order to accomplish this. So clearly, it can take a very discerning mind to make the difficult distinctions between subtle meanings, ambiguities, semi-ambiguities, slightly semi-ambiguities, non-ambiguities, etc. I do not expect that everyone is equally suited to the task, especially when it comes to a particularly high level matter, by which I mean, you are all terrific.

My fellow CalArts alum, Tim Burton, often makes heavy inside-references to me/my material in his work. A CalArts alum woman we both knew is part of that, and also part of some of the things contained in those references.

The TV show "Smallville" also makes heavy inside-references to me/my material. I first noticed that show's references before I learned that producer Sean Daniel, longtime Spielberg friend and the first person from whom I learned of CalArts, who is also someone who is involved with making inside-references to me/my material, was using the "Smallville" writers for his major project, "Mummy 3". I also came to make several other observations regarding "Smallville" in relation to these references. One was that sometimes the cumulative factor required seeing episodes of certain other shows that aired the very same night as the "Smallville" episode in question, TV shows that also had come to make inside references to my material ("Monk" and "Medium"). The other thing with "Smallville" is that they were the only show that led me to wonder what the turn-around time was for them, whether they could possibly get something into an episode 24 hours before air-time. One already knows Saturday Night Live or Bill Maher's show can do this, but I had specific reason, on more than one occasion, to wonder this about this one non-live show, "Smallville", and no other non-live show. I still do not know the answer, but it is clear what caused me to wonder this.

When CalArts alum Tim Burton had a scene in his movie, "Mars Attacks", where a gift to the Martians of white doves is presumably misconstrued and reacted against with serious violence, it was based on an incident involving myself and the CalArts woman I knew who worked for Tim Burton (this same incident also influenced Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas" and James Cameron's "Titanic", the latter of which she herself worked on). A gift of a mechanical (wind up) bird was involved.

When the Iranian President had a major media event several years ago (November 2007), announcing a major milestone regarding his proceeding with developing nuclear energy, he had the graphic image of white doves as his backdrop. Thoughts of the scene in "Mars Attacks" crossed my mind at the time, as I felt the Iranian President sought to generate the impression that he was some innocent guy whose peace doves were being misconstrued and reacted against with threats of violence. When there already exists in popular culture (such as in a movie scene) something most very similar to an image someone seems to possibly be trying to conjure up, one might consider the possibility that it is deliberately intended in some way - though not necessarily intended to be foremost in our thoughts, as sometimes people exploit things in the backs of our minds (see the nature of the advertising industry for further examples, or political tyrants who have been known to go to extremes to manipulate how they are perceived by the world, such as when they make believe they won their power in a fair election even though we all know he didn't).

My being aware, through experience, of so many incidents in which people intertwine with the above-described lexicon regarding myself, incidents that sometimes involve world leaders, including presidents, I was on special alert with regard to a possible connection here to the "Mars Attacks" scene. The following day, an episode of "Smallville" also did something that immediately brought to mind the exact same incident regarding the mechanical bird and the woman at CalArts. I would have been aware of that similarity even without it having been brought to mind by what happened at the Iranian President's presentation to the media the day before. I noted this in my own inside-reference about a year later, in my Sept. 6, 2008 blog article. I indicated that there was a secret inside-reference I observed that connected the words "Iran" and "Smallville" and "Tim Burton" and "dove" (I included 10 other words as well, which were indirectly related, but the fact that these four words were included (and published at Archive.Org in November 2009 as part of an accumulation of my blog articles), supports my present statement that I was connecting these things no later than November 2009. From this it should be easy to deduce that "dove" in relation to "Tim Burton" was a reference to that "Mars Attacks" movie scene, and furthermore it is no stretch to construe that "Iran" also being put in relation to "dove" in that same Sept. 6, 2008 blog article regarded the November 2007 photograph that I include above. My point is, I had already made this connection prior to what I am about to describe regarding "Iran" and "Smallville" and "Tim Burton".

In Tim Burton's "Alice In Wonderland", released 3/5/10, he again makes inside-references regarding this same CalArts woman in relation to myself. However, more significantly, in "Alice" Burton makes inside-reference to a particular section of my 1998 "Gosk 2" video. In the first "Smallville" episode to air following the release of "Alice", which was titled "Escape," 4/2/10, Season 9, Episode 189 (their previous episode aired 2/26/10), "Smallville" also brought to mind that same section of "Gosk 2". I will be specific here, although, I also plan on doing a videoclip that more clearly illustrates how "Alice" makes strong reference to this section of "Gosk 2", at which time my point will be far more easy to see.

At a certain point in "Gosk 2", Vinkalert suddenly notices that the greenish-blue plastic pail he's been carrying has become purple. Shocked, he drops the pail to the ground, as the Procol Harum song, "Whiter Shade of Pale" is heard. At the end of "Alice", the Mad Hatter drops his sword to the ground in surprise, as if suddenly aware of what it truly is. He shortly thereafter does a special dance that is given great attention by all. In "Whiter Shade of Pale", the song lyrics begin with a description of doing a dance, "We skipped the light fandango." Additionally, the hat scene occurs at this point in "Gosk 2", wherein Vinkalert, lying in the front seat of his car, can only be identified by his hat - his hat is all we see. I cut between different angles of the hat to punctuate what he is saying about things not working out with the girl he knew back when he was in school, much as one would normally cut to different angles of a person's face. The Mad Hatter is the central character in "Alice", therefore, this is the single moment out of all my various works that most directly ties in with the idea of the protagonist of "Alice", The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp). And cumulatively, alongside all of the other Tim Burton inside-references to me over the years, as well as elsewhere in that movie (see "aby" description above), I believe it should be easy to see that this was in relation to his fellow CalArts alum, i.e., myself.

On the very first "Smallville" episode following the release of "Alice" (4/2/10, as indicated above), we see a silver metal pail that has never been painted. Also in this episode is a story line that involves a painting in an inn, a painting containing paint that shockingly changes by itself.

When I was filming the above-described pail/hat scene for "Gosk 2", I had just finished filming with Robbie Cavolina (who played Vinkalert in "Gosk", and was Joni Mitchell's art director for a number of her album covers, while me, I'm just secretly a major influence on a number of Paul McCartney album covers, see "McCartney and Steinhoff, An Introduction" at Archive.Org) the scene where he's walking with the pail when it was still greenish-blue (clearly the same film location). So, what had to happen, of course, to avoid having to return another day? I had to then and there paint the pail so that in the video it could first be greenish-blue, then shockingly change to purple by itself. I painted the pail purple, and Robbie and I sat around waiting for the paint on the pail to dry, in order to continue (Joni Mitchell and Paul McCartney were nowhere to be seen). This moment was again brought to mind by the "Smallville" episode that featured a totally unpainted pail, and paint shockingly changing by itself on a painting. One could recognize the basis for drawing a correlation due to the cumulative factor regarding "Smallville" so often referencing me/my material. The Tim Burton/Gosk-related "Smallville" episode was their first episode to air following Tim Burton's Gosk-related "Alice". So now it's 4/2/10.

On 4/7/10, the Iranian President grabbed the headlines with his remark, "Mr. Obama, you are a newcomer (to politics). Wait until your sweat dries". This remark was considered odd. It is often the case that when someone is trying to work a lexicon reference into what they say, and/or are bent on being quoted in the headlines, the ostensible (non-lexicon) meaning is expressed in a strained/odd manner.

Paint Things As You Please
It is my carefully considered belief, based on my special experience in such matters, that the coinciding of Tim Burton, "Smallville" and the Iranian President's actions in March/April 2010, all occurring in the same very specific time proximity, is too precise a mirroring of what occurred in 2007 with regard to Tim Burton, "Smallville" and the Iranian President, and therefore should not be presumed a mere coincidence. Somebody put somebody up to something.

I do not venture an opinion as to whether any value must be found in a discovery that the Iranian President was involved in the use of a lexicon at these important moments. I only wish to present my belief that such action did occur, and semi-sketch how I came to this conclusion. Some may regard my assessment as being based on something too flimsy to warrant so serious a conclusion. Some may even think the whole world situation in relation to Iran isn't serious. Some may think DNA evidence shouldn't be taken seriously because that stuff is so tiny you need a microscope to see it. There are people who watch detective shows on TV and think, "That's enough evidence?" I believe there is enough here, and the situation sufficiently important, as to make it idiotic to disregard it. However, many are new to this sort of thing, and I'll try not to judge too harshly those who fail to recognize in this a matter of grave concern.

And as I've indicated in other blog articles, I believe my May 2, 2010 blog article, "Knowing Where To Look," proves that the Times Square "attempted" bombing needs to be seen in terms of some of the key things touched on here.

If Periods Could Talk

2010-08-25T22:29:00.000-07:00

Anyone who has seen my “Mall Man” video (archive.org) and also the August 24th season finale of Jason Lee’s “Memphis Beat” (which may or may not have been its series finale) and has also been reading my blog articles written since that show first began relating to how my having secretly created that which led to Jason Lee’s “My Name Is Earl” (“The Fun Guy” at archive.org) and that which led to the title of Jason Lee’s first starring role in a movie, “Mallrats” (“Mall Man” and "Fun Guy" were both sent to the producer of “Mallrats” and only one or two others prior to "Mallrats" and "Earl", respectively[8/26/10 correction-"Mall Man" (1993) video distributed to various people prior to "Mallrats"; "Mall Man" story treatment (1992) sent only to person who was later to become "Mallrats" producer]) will already have caught on to the clear basis for interpreting important things that occurred in that TV show episode as having originated with my video, “Mall Man” - the villain's self-description as having buried his former self, the villain’s head injury disconnecting him from his former self, the villain’s love interest becoming estranged/no longer feeling that she can recognize him due to the inner change, the villain’s rejection of a possession taking on a psychologically symbolic significance for the villain regarding the change in the character – however, all will not be aware that my “The Fun Guy” which led to “My Name Is Earl” was originally conceived with Drew Barrymore in mind for one of the three leads, causing me to send it to her when it was created (and speaking with Chris Miller, her housemate and business partner, who gave me his personal cell phone number), which makes it of particular interest that, on the same important day for Jason Lee (8.24.10), Letterman had Drew Barrymore as a guest, featuring her speaking the word “karma”, the oft-repeated, important word in both “My Name Is Earl” and “The Fun Guy”, though if I or Jason Lee had made a point of using that same word “karma” on August 24th it may possibly have been more obvious what the implied context usage of the word on that day might have been, though I'm only the guy who originated "Earl" and August 24th was only the last day of the first (and possibly last) season of "Memphis Beat", so what does my seeing Barrymore in "Earl" have to do with Barrymore on August 24th, and I should also mention that I've occasionally referred to Drew in earlier blogs regarding my influence, a positive influence I believe, and on a totally separate note, the inside track regarding myself with relation to the dove in Tim Burton’s “Mars Attacks”, to which I allude in my previous blog regarding Iran (8.22.10), and also alluded to, for those with a very discerning eye, in my Sept. 6, 2008 blog, “In Common Again”, is that the dove in the original situation upon which the movie scene was based was a mechanical flying bird (you wind it up) in relation to myself and a fellow CalArts alum who herself is in relation to fellow CalArts alum Burton, surely a fun coincidence given that Iran unveiled their new unmanned bomber (which they call their "Ambassador of Death", and which is receiving enormous attention) at a point in time when the issue of their aiming for nuclear weapon capability has so recently resurfaced pertaining to when they will attain it, the deadline for stopping them now very much of concern, and I know I can take comfort from the certainty that it is a mere coincidence, and I'm sure we will all agree, the time has come for this sentence to come to an end.

So I Says To Myself, Hey, I Don't Want The World Blowing Up, Right?

2010-08-22T21:37:00.000-07:00

The Beginning
First of all, happy birthday to Ray Bradbury, author of "Farenheit 451", a book that tells the story of a government that burned books as part of its handle on how people should relate to things.

Think Of Adults Talking About Sex When They Don't Want The Child To Get It
I choose today to convey two things that the Iranian President secretly communicated to me, which I expect he did so that I might use my secret super-access to communicate them to pop culture's most super-important. His secret communications were accomplished by the employing of a lexicon of a generally secret nature, which he used in publicly made statements. This lexicon is used frequently by a certain set of people, and in this instance, was used in conjunction with an apparent awareness of my personal knowledge of certain events.

I certainly know how absurd this must sound to the general public, and I don't expect to win any new friends here (I would nevertheless appreciate the men in the white coats being kept at bay, thank you). This is written for those who have the advantage of already knowing that my powers of dissemination are keen in these matters, that I draw from vast experience (did I mention, it also helps to trust that I am sane). The value of this explanation regarding the Iranian President additionally requires that one already be aware of my singular, secret, super-importance over the years in relation to Steven Spielberg, the most internationally prominent Jewish man in the world today, my singular, secret, super-importance over the years in relation to Paul McCartney, and also my secret, super-importance over the years in relation to so many other super-important people in the world, who, through the massive effects of their creative inspiration, have so powerful an influence on the hearts and minds of so many people. Many share the belief that the current nature of things puts the power of certain major pop culture figures very much alongside tremendous political power, irrespective of whether these individuals would wish to exist in a political context (I am not so cynical as to believe their power is limited to occurring in a political context, and would appreciate not being lumped together with those who see everything through that prism).

I'm almost finished with my preface(s) - I hope it is understood that some things require more context-setting than others.

Though there may appear to be a path available to the reader for piecing together the specific basis for the conclusions I've drawn with regard to exactly what was communicated to me, i.e., though it may seem that you can figure out exactly what caused me to believe these specific things were communicated to me by the Iranian President, I am quite certain that, even at best, you would not know more than a part of the story, a part of the basis for my conclusions. You would not have enough facts in your possession to properly refute my conclusions, though you might think so (this statement is of course not meant to be taken as proof that I must therefore be right, I merely wish to state that you are not in a position to use deductive reasoning to determine whether I am right or wrong about having received these communications). Furthermore, the facts that some of you might possibly already have in your possession would likely mislead you into believing you have all the facts that led to my conclusions. This would be unfortunate, given the importance here and the consequential need for my words to be taken seriously. And so, the value of what I write here resides in your ability and inclination to trust in what I say. By now, there are some people who should. This is written for certain people within that set of people. There's a football of sorts here, and I'd like to see it reach the endzone, received by but one person if need be. An important investigation could perhaps be the upshot.

The Middle And The End
The Iranian President has pointed to two moments in two films. Through this, he has demonstrated the desire to solicit support for a position regarding nuclear power in his country. He has relied upon my proximity to the most influential as his means of carrying his message. I will carry his message here, but again, I must emphasize, I do not consider him a sincere person, and liken his approach more to that of the convoluted government in Ray Bradbury's "Farenheit 451", than to that of a world leader seeking a way to make his true and honest feelings known to those who are so influential in shaping popular culture.

The two moments are both contained in films by famed director Tim Burton. My dissemination of the references through the Iranian President's use of a lexicon was assured by his repeatedly drawing from the work of the same filmmaker, a fellow CalArts alumni who knew some of the same people as myself and who has himself made use of secret references known to few (as previously stated, there has come to be a lexicon that is used frequently by certain people). Some of the secret references made by the Iranian President are identical in both instances, further reinforcing my conviction with regard to how to read things. And though both of these secret statements by the Iranian President have an obvious political significance, I would have the same conviction that I had correctly read his secretly made statements even if they had turned out to be on the subject of the old woman who lived in a shoe rather than political matters. He did not have anything to say about the old woman who lived in a shoe, incidentally.

The first is the scene in "Mars Attacks!", where a dove of peace, a gift from our world to the Martians, triggers a massacre of those presenting the dove because it is supposedly misperceived as an act of aggression. The second is the scene in "Alice In Wonderland", where the Mad Hatter finds use of a weapon repugnant because it goes against his nature.

Why would the Iranian President prefer this avenue? He prefers to inject the poison of his propaganda into our reservoir (our most influential), than to be so clearly seen as engaged in propagandizing the world into seeing him as this innocent little lamb. He sees vulnerability/opportunity in the idealism of our most important creative artists.

I've Got The Key To The Highway Merge Ramp

2010-08-19T19:39:00.000-07:00

This one may be of particular interest to those who appreciate that I don't make things up. It will also likely make me look like a desperate attention demanding liar to others. I don't exactly consider that any kind of a break-even, but the day I confine the things I choose to describe in order to avoid being, etc., etc. etc.

Our story begins with a subject I would prefer to avoid for various reasons: Once upon a time, the last time I'm aware of seeing a particular woman I once knew whose photograph was on the dark corkboard inside sleeve of Clapton's "Slowhand" album on account of me, I was on the 134 near the 210. And George Harrison (close Clapton friend) was expected to die inside of a week. He did. The previous time to that, this woman was in a car next to the one I was in as I was on my way to being driven past Clapton's Florida home (my being a Clapton tourist or something, I suppose; I'm also an influence on Clapton).

Yesterday, I noticed a Facebook friend had a Facebook conversation with her, so this is in that continuity - it was the first direct sign I've seen that she's still alive since the just-described two previous occurrences, though indirect signs of her still being alive are out there as well.

This morning, while I was on my way to work, nearly there, about to exit the 134 near the 210, there's a car in the entry/exit lane driving next to me, going too fast for me to exit in front of him, causing me to do a major slow down to let him enter the freeway in front of me, and to let me exit the freeway (which is good, it's always nice to have someone takeover for you on the freeway, lest it become too empty and boring, then they tear up the concrete and build a park on it or something).

[For more on this, go to http://www.wikihow.com/Merge-Onto-the-Highway-Without-Crashing]

I feel inclined, in consequence of this which-one-of-us-is-gonna-slow-down negotiation, to take a good look at the driver. We weren't actually in a game of chicken, neither one of us was really on the brink of death at any point, but it was just unusual enough. And I do always have to be slightly suspicious of the unusual things that happen to me. People parade things around me for my benefit at times, being the secretly super-important person that I am. It comes with the territory. You may or may not be interested in the details.

I find, in this brief moment, that the other driver is either Eric Clapton or a look-alike. I have on various occasions described how I have to occasionally consider that I might be getting dispatched at me a look-alike, i.e., someone I am meant to think is a particular person when it isn't, rather than their simply being some random person I happen to think is some particular other person. For example, if it's the day Jennifer Aniston is marrying Brad Pitt, and someone who looks like David Schwimmer is driving next to me, I know it doesn't have to be David Schwimmer. But I'm certainly expected to believe it is.

I go to the Internet shortly thereafter, to see where Clapton might be in the world today, in case I might be able to resolve it then and there, as when Paul McCartney drove by me several weeks ago (see my blog article from among the blog articles I wrote several weeks ago). I found, in an article dateline Los Angeles, that TODAY Eric Clapton announced his first album in FIVE YEARS. Sheryl Crow will be on it. I should add to this, that my July 21st blog ("All Roads Lead To Memphis And France") described something done on Letterman for my benefit that was specifically in conjunction with Sheryl Crow being a guest. I believe there is evidence to support that assertion, and I believe that evidence is apparent if you are intelligent and inclined to spend the time examining when what happened.

I am now, therefore, absolutely convinced, given the importance of today with regard to Eric Clapton, that I "encountered" either a Clapton look-alike, or Clapton himself. As to whether Paul McCartney might have been behind it, or.... whether the three of us will ever be in the studio together (I've already proven I have the ability to drive there).... or whether I will later be able to describe being inside-referenced on the upcoming Clapton release (as has happened on other Clapton releases).... or whether I have made myself appear like a child crying for attention by making things up (opportunities to undermine how seriously people take me are not sneezed at by those who see the chessboard a certain way).... all of these are thoughts that float about unobstructed. The main thing is, it's about the music.

Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Hallucinated

2010-08-18T19:30:00.000-07:00

Yeah, Well I'm The One Who Oughta Be Quarantining You
Some of us look at other people, figure a few things out, and then divide them up into three categories: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. It's a weakness, of course, in that we all belong in one group, we're all the same, we all know the same things, have the same background information, the same inclination, willingness and perspective in putting facts together, etc. It's silly that I scored 97 percentile on my college tests and that this can ever make me feel that I'm among stupider people. I get so silly sometimes, it's enough to drive me up the wall.

Don't Put This Section Together With Anything
A while ago someone I know gave me a box of Q-tips. She didn't really give them to me. My group in my company had a Christmas Party and I was the lucky one who received her gag gift. She's an old friend of President Obama, lived a few doors down during the Chicago days. Even before I knew of that relationship, even before Obama was the president, I laughed about the Q-tips.

Isolate This Section As Well
The Iranian President said something not too long ago regarding the American President. Because I'm secretly super-important in relation to Steven Spielberg, the most prominent Jewish man, and also because I'm secretly super-important in relation to Paul McCartney and Saturday Night Live and Ridley Scott and Tim Burton and James Cameron and Sting and Madonna and The Rolling Stones and countless other institutions that wield unimaginable influence over the hearts and minds of Americans and the rest of the world, the Iranian President joins in. Like so many others, he said something in a lexicon that is unknown to almost everyone, a lexicon of which certain individuals have been continually making use. But we're all the same, really, no Beginners, Intermediates or Advanced, and if one of us doesn't get something none of us do.

All Of Five Minutes
In some of my other blog articles I've commented on my influence on Jason Lee's TV show, "Memphis Beat", an influence I've characterized as having grown out of my influence earlier in Jason Lee's career. Such as my originating what became "My Name Is Earl", by sending my Earl-like idea to the producer of the 1995 movie, "Mallrats", Lee's first starring role, a movie which had been named for my video, "Mall Man".

Last night's "Memphis Beat" once again included a few things that, if put together with a few other things, spelled something to those I consider Intermediates and Advanced. As if there actually is such a thing as Intermediates and Advanced, that is, which there aren't, it's just me being some sort of silly, crazy con artist or something. But let's just pretend I'm right, okay, and then I can finish the train of thought and move on to the next subject and finish that and then we can get out early and catch a smoke before our next class.

In my 1993 video, "Mall Man" (do a search at Archive.Org), we have a big shopping mall mogul. In last night's Jason Lee episode we did as well. In "Mall Man" we have someone seeming to be a homeless person who really isn't. Likewise on last night's show. In "Mall Man" we have the idea of a woman getting a special gift for a fiance, but it just isn't for him. On last night's show, likewise. Any of these connections in of themselves, nothing. All of these things on last night's show taken together with "Mall Man", perhaps again, nothing. All of these things put together with what I've been saying in other blog articles regarding Jason Lee and "Mall Man", that is something. Not to the Beginners, but to the Intermediates and the Advanced. And there are those who will hand over the microphone to the Beginners and boost the speaker to full volume for precisely that reason.

A Day In The, Okay, Not A Day Hanging In The Balance
At work, Obama's old friend from the Chicago days was supposed to give me a piece of paper showing she had permission to take a day off, signed by her supervisor. WEEKS ago. Her supervisor already knows she took the day off, the timekeeping system already recorded that she used up her time off. But I still need that piece of paper, it's part of my job, so that I can put it in a drawer and then a box for five years or so until the obligatory period of a potential audit has passed (like that's gonna happen). She laughs when I remind her. That's what happens when you laugh when someone gives you Q-tips. I'm this close to giving up on this and moving on. I'm really divided on this.

You Did Not Just Say That
Two days ago or so Bolton that Bush Administration right-wing/white mustache guy said the Israelis have an eight-day window to attack Iran's nuclear sites, after that, it would release dangerous radiation if they did. I'm left-wing, he's right-wing. He has a white mustache, mine is brown (okay, I'm willing to admit there's a little gray there). We're apples and oranges, therefore, I don't have to think about this.

It's A Small World (And That's Even Without Circumstances Having Yet Reduced It To A Speck Of Dust)
A recent Facebook development in my life has put a certain red wire very close to a certain blue wire. I sure am glad someone else is in the middle of that one. Though it actually has a whole lot to do with me. And yet it doesn't. It touches on a big part of this lexicon business I've been referring to, the part which stretches in the direction of what the Iranian President has been secretly connecting with in some of his headline-grabbing remarks over the past several years. I sure am glad there are enough Beginners in my life to scream in my ear that I'm just being silly about this.

Down The Hatches
Making good progress on my latest video, "Down The Hatch," which is currently in danger of being renamed, "Down The Hatches," and then good luck doing a search for it after you've read it in sketch idea form at Archive.Org, or vice-versa.

Oh Yeah
It took me 45 or so years, but I finally figured out something from John Lennon. I count about 14 major Beatle songs that I was a significant influence on (something to which I've occasionally made reference), and this one belongs in that column. The thing I figured out is, in the Beatle song, "Rain," it's like, emotionally a rainy day versus a sunny day. A year or so later, in the Beatle song, "Penny Lane," Lennon's emotional harmonizing on the word "Blue" in "Blue suburban skies" is like, advocating that the skies are blue. Meanwhile back, "the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain". So, therefore, it's like, a rainy day versus a sunny day.

I bet if I had really worked at it I could have gotten this in only 22.5 or so years. Then again, I hope I never stop being a Beginner, finding things that were always there but are only now exploding off the page in front of me.

You Really Have To Put Your Ear Right Next To The Speaker

2010-08-13T20:24:00.000-07:00

As some who might be more familiar with these blogs can testify (not that they wouldn't leave the country if that's what they had to do to get out of testifying), some of the important-type things I describe here are accompanied by the kind of evidence an intelligent person can disseminate and appreciate, while other things are not. The same way you cannot prove to most of us that you didn't sneeze five times in a row eleven minutes ago. Your not being able to prove certain things is not to be taken as an indictment against you. As always, my hope/expectation is that the vast accumulation of things I can prove would suggest to those who are intelligent and good judges of character that "certain types of things" really do happen to me. In other words, you gotta give me credit already. Unless you don't happen to feel like it, but you don't feel like doing the (admittedly voluminous) research, and then have something to say about me being some kind of a.... which leads me to wonder a little bit about you, or maybe not just a little bit.

The Shadow Is On The Wall
Some may have expected me to do my blog article about Tim Burton's "Alice In Wonderland" by now, as this movie is currently available as a pay-per-view. I already described in a blog article, upon it's release in theatres, how I was a big influence on this movie, how I tend to be a big influence on Tim Burton films (March 16, 2010, "Kalorping Against The Jabberwocky"). We both went to CalArts at the same time, knew a lot of the same people, though we scarcely encountered each other. Nevertheless, I have come to be a very significant influence on him. I also wonder why his hair style is conspicuously identical to the one I had while at CalArts.

But no, I am waiting for "Alice In Wonderland" to come to the premium cable movie channels, that will give me the kind of time I need to put together a videoclip. For now, I can relate what I believe are related bits of information with regard to the blog article I wrote upon seeing this movie.

Those with hundreds of millions of dollars know, as might those with only fifty dollars, that if you only have three Facebook friends, Facebook shows up on your page and suggests you friend certain individuals who visited your Facebook page (if you have a number of Facebook friends, they have a more vast set of people to suggest, as they draw from all friends of all of your friends). I now have 26 Facebook friends (my reclusive nature catching up with me in terms of my not having accumulated a vast number of friends and acquaintances over the years), but at the time I wrote about seeing "Alice In Wonderland", mentioning my influence, I only had three (hey, I wasn't even trying). Within approximately two days of my aforementioned "Alice" blog article, I was directed to go to my Facebook page. This was accomplished by someone I hadn't spoken with in about 30 or so years, whom I shall refer to as Person A, inviting me to be her Facebook friend. I did, and of course then went to my Facebook page, for what was the first time in half-a-year. And there was that thing I was just talking about, Facebook suggesting I friend someone who had apparently visited my Facebook page, someone I knew at CalArts during the '70s, whom I shall refer to here as Person B. Without the "directive" from Person A to go to my Facebook page, I never would have seen that Person B had visited my page. I then did what one might expect I would do. I looked to see who Person B's Facebook friends are/were. Person B turned out to be one of Tim Burton's eighty Facebook friends. So two days after my blog about being a big influence on Tim Burton, most recently "Alice", I am being directed (yes, directed I say!) to one of his relatively few Facebook friends (few considering how big a figure he is).

When I was little we used to go to Passover Seders at the home of Person A's father, also attended, of course, by Person A. Another person we would see there was someone named Stanley Panesoff, who was involved in a TV show they had back then, "Dark Shadows". This meant something to a kid (not that an adult should be thought childish were it to mean something to him). There were no other people of such note at the Seders, at least none of which I was made aware, and I was a kid. That is why I find it of particular significance that Tim Burton has now announced that he plans a movie version of "Dark Shadows". Remember, this is now Person A in a certain connection with Tim Burton, not just Person B. Presumably these A and B Persons come from different times in my life, if I may describe them that way.

Then there's the fact that the Facebook page of Person B, whom I have not friended (I cannot even say she was ever my buddy at any point in time), currently features, as her primary photograph, a depiction of her that is strikingly similar to this still from my 1998 video, "(Kalorping for) Gosk 2" (posted at Archive.Org in 2005). Only she is lying in the backseat of a car instead of in the front seat, and the door is most decidedly open rather than most decidedly closed. In my photograph, it is Robbie Cavolina, who played Vinkalert in "Gosk 2". He also was Joni Mitchell's art director on a large number of her album covers, as I was a secret but major influence on a large number of Paul McCartney album covers. The particular significance here is that, it is right during this several-minute section of "Gosk 2" that my influence on "Alice In Wonderland" takes place.

This also regards what the Iranian President hooked into, Lexicon-wise, when he was saying something about the American President a little while ago, but it would take way too many words to go into that here. [This might be a good place to again mention that I believe a number of strange things happen to me as a result of being secretly super-important in relation to the work of Spielberg, McCartney, Cameron, and many others of international note.]

All this and (fill in current amount of New York City subway token, not sure what that is these days) will get me a ride on the subway.

Not Beyond The Pail
Yesterday I became Facebook friends with someone I hung around with a little during the late '80s, David Peel, who is the same David Peel mentioned in the Lennon song, "Sometime In New York City". He is most known for the rock albums, "The Pope Smokes Dope" (produced by John Lennon) and "Have A Marijuana" (connected in subject matter to "The Pope Smokes Dope", but not produced by John Lennon).

Today I went for a brief drive, and believe I saw the guy who plays Kumar in "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle", a very marijuana-related movie. I also believe I saw the guy who plays Jay in the numerous Silent Bob and Jay (Kevin Smith) movies, a very marijuana-related movie character (I have also been an influence on the Silent Bob and Jay movies, here and there, sometimes more than other times). I am not aware of seeing anyone else I might recognize today. I therefore correlate these sightings (unless they were look-alikes) to my having become one of David Peel's many, many Facebook friends. I know myself well enough to know it was not the power of suggestion that caused me to imagine I was experiencing these sightings. If you would tend to want to infer that, you are not taking into consideration the evidence that does exist that these types of things are often set up for me to experience. I have to admit, I would have been just a little bit more pleased with it all if the person who played Kumar hadn't turned around, after the movie, and denounced pot smokers, saying he is that separate from that character. He seems like a nice type, and perhaps someday he will understand what respect for human autonomy really means. A lot of people still seem to have difficulty with that.