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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.

Water, Hot Water, Wet Paint, Etc.

Death Is Like A Carwash
I am pleased to announce that I recently published my new movie idea, "Death Is Like A Carwash" at Archive.Org. I should caution, however, that I do not actually know that death is like a carwash, and therefore, those particularly fond of carwashes risk being seriously disappointed should they choose to end their life out of a belief in this apparent assertion on my part.

Monk/Steinhoff Videoclip, 10.9.09
First, what is NOT in this week's Monk/Steinhoff Videoclip: As was the case as described in my 9.27.09 blog accompanying "Monk/Steinhoff Videoclip, 9.25.09" (they skipped a week, no show 10.2.09, so no Monk/Steinhoff Videoclip for 10.2.09), potential terrorist clues have again resulted in Monk including reference to same without delay. This week's came from what I described in my Oct. 4th blog (Item 6), and this extremely expedited response on their part again indicates to me their appreciation of the gravity/potential gravity, which I in turn greatly appreciate. Suffice to say (who all this is "suffice" to may actually leave out almost everyone), they showed they had followed-up to the degree of uncovering inside word regarding the IQ-Lithgow's sister thing. No, the inside word wasn't contained in the part of the Monk episode where someone was stalking, or killing. That's all I choose to divulge. But it does not make me look bad. No, really. Seriously. And that's all you will get out of me. As it is, what is sufficient is already almost too much.

Second, what IS in this week's Monk/Steinhoff Videoclip:


Letterman, Regis, And Why Steinhoff, Jonathan Suspects Something Though It Makes Him Sound Crazy (Including Another Potential Terrorist Clue)
Prologue-Type Stuff
As you will find by looking in on my 8.30.09 blog ("Boston Crane Shot" section), my 6.7.09 blog ("Delano's Speed And Tinted Window Limit"), and my 5.10.09 blog, I assert, without any doubt whatsoever, that the few things (all non-illicit) that passed between myself and a woman I once worked with at the same NYC company for six years, a woman who Regis Philbin once introduced himself to in an NYC restaurant, are part of specific inside-references that have occured EVERY TIME that Regis has appeared on Letterman for approximately the past ten years (not to mention some of Regis' Ripa's Letterman appearances). Those who watch Letterman know how specially important Regis' appearances on his show are (this is not a subjective assessment). I attribute their involving me, at least in part, to my secret great importance in relation to people such as Paul McCartney. There is also evidence that Spielberg has been at some end of the "doings" pertaining to this woman and myself (I cannot emphasize enough the fact that they seriously made very much out of virtually nothing, and my addressing it all as noteworthy should not be regarded as confirmation that their actions have a substantive origin in a relationship worth going on about, though naturally there is a part of me that enjoys it all).

More Prologue-Type Stuff
There is a strange coincidence in that this same woman first met her husband while working for the same company as my father, a company an hour outside of NYC, my father acknowledging that he knew her husband (though not acknowledging that he remembers her). I have sometimes wondered whether she wasn't secretly instrumental in my having been hired (thru a job agency) by the company we both worked for in the first place (I was there ten years). It had previously occurred that a NYC job agency placed me in an office suite in NYC next to my sister's. I do not mean the building next to my sister's, I mean an office suite next to my sister's. It seems obvious someone set up that job that put me so near to my sister (in that instance I was a temp for Harley Lewin, famed rock lawyer who handled the Jimi Hendrix Estate, a Rod Stewart matter, a Billy Preston matter, had a fist fight with rock promoter Bill Graham described in Rolling Stone Magazine, etc.).

Stuff Probably More In The Epilogue Category

• This same woman (not my sister, please try to keep up) was depicted in a painting as the mother of the Alicia Silverstone character in the Amy Heckerling movie, "Clueless" (produced by Scott Rudin, who worked in the same building we were in). I had encountered Amy Heckerling years before, in 1975, when we both worked on an AFI film shoot.
  

• This same woman had on her wall at work, as the only non-business image, a photo I had taken (of a lobster truck, as she had described to me being sick on New Year's Eve but having been provided a lobster dinner by her husband). In the movie "Clueless" there is a whole emotional thing relating to whether it's about who took a photo versus what a photo depicts, and all of the emotional confusion this generates.
  

• There's also a bunch of other Heckerling and Silverstone and even Batman stuff I'm not describing as well (who has time for these endless details that help elucidate important things?).
  

• The painting in "Clueless" depicting this woman, I learned thru investigating, was by an artist named Rinaldi.
  

• The day immediately following one of Regis' appearances on Letterman, there occurred what became a major national news story: the abduction of children at a Jewish Community Center in Southern California. Specifically, Rinaldi Street.

• I concluded at the time that Letterman and Regis may inadvertantly have the worst people in the whole world somehow in their loop, as do all of us super-important and secretly super-important people (we're a magnet for certain types), but it seems most unlikely that it is any of their own doing.

• Now everyone's breath has been baited in anticipation of the fateful moment when Regis shows up on Letterman to touch on the tabloids' front-page subject of Letterman and his non-business relationships with his co-workers.

• Could this whole Letterman thing trace back to the Letterman-Regis-Steinhoff, Jonathan stuff? Hmm, but it looks like someone is going to jail, that's cooking with a human life. Yeah, but so was (in my view) the stuff that interconnected with the Jewish Community Center abduction. Here is where one needs theories, and I begin with the premise that it's all some kind of a pre-planned thing, with someone pulling the short straw, etc. It comes too close to the Letterman-Regis-Steinhoff, Jonathan co-worker business. One theory would be that, just as we know a person can die for his country, so a person can go to jail as part of a plan to end the endless Letterman sex jokes about Clinton, which were messing with our perception of the former president, thusly fueling the Republicans and thereby messing with the survival of the planet. Let's also remember that Stephanie Birkitt, the girlfriend of the blackmail villain whose diary was exploited as part of his blackmail scheme, shared the stage with Letterman quite a bit, when the pretense of deep-rooted animosity was just part of their shtick (she would pretend that his requests of her were tedious enough to warrant insolence and insults). This blackmail business can't also be a show? I have seen a LOT of front page show biz (and other) stuff regarding things that secretly began with major interconnecting to me. I have been making this point from the beginning. I'm sure Lennon knew how hard it can be.
  

"The Office", "Community", "Marley and Me" and Me


I make no mention in this videoclip regarding NBC Thursday night sitcoms that an NBC Thursday night sitcom that was canceled this year, "My Name Is Earl", was created by me. Otherwise, I will let the videoclip speak for itself.

Drew Barrymore and More
As Saturday Night Live often makes inside-references/usage of things regarding me/my material, a few things I saw last night on that show strike me as also belonging in that category, but only if seen in the context of SNL's history of doing such Steinhoff-related things:

• In a comment in relation to an article on Huffington Post this past week, as JonathanDS2U, I wrote something about scattershooting (about how the "convention" of making derisive remarks about pot smokers is a scattershot attack on a large number of people entitled to choose pot as their form of inebriation). On SNL last night, Drew Barrymore played a character who was described as chalking her cuestick in a scattershot manner.

• In another comment I made to a Huffington Post article, I wrote that, though the Taliban was cutting off people's hands for voting in the Afghan election, this is the type of thing that gets forgotten about in time as people look back on the election results, failing to factor in how this would have distorted the election's outcome. On SNL last night, in the Larry King parody, Kristen Wiig played a character who said that, in time, the only thing people remember about a news story is the wiener factor, failing to factor in things that were important in the discussions that took place when the news stories were first on the table.

• There was a sketch where a man was carried away by birds. Though this also occurs in my book, "The Coin That Came In Second" (which led to the creation of the Spielberg movie, "Jurassic Park"), I didn't clearly see anything else on last night's show that also connected to this work, which is generally how I judge there to be a deliberate reference. True, in the HBO premiere of "Marley and Me" (see second videoclip in this blog) they drive a car quite similar to one I used to drive (1985 Ford Escort), when my personalized plate read, "2 Coin"; and true, there was a sketch last night in which Drew Barrymore plays the author of a book; and true, Drew Barrymore starred in Spielberg's "ET"; and true, emphasis on the behavior of animals became relevant to the second videoclip in today's blog. None of these things are really enough, however, and I therefore mention them only to avoid omitting something intended by someone or another for inclusion here.
  

• I am quite certain that Cameron Diaz, close friend of Drew Barrymore, drove by me on my way to work Thursday. Although I do live in Burbank, 99% of my "celebrity sitings" have this degree of immediate relevance, and so are to be scrutinized as likely being deliberately designed to exist in such a specified context. Additionally, my June 25th and June 28th blogs both feature videoclips that include Cameron Diaz involved in things relating to me.

• Drew Barrymore's previous appearance on SNL included references to me/my material in nearly every sketch.

The Small Ones That Got Away
And finally, I'm building up a collection of more references on "Smallville" to my "Mall Man" video, and will put them together when I have enough to shout "bingo!", or maybe just "bing!"