You're On My Radar, Now You're Not, And There You Are Again

I will be running through this rundown of things I'm recently impacting, as it all seems quite a bit outside of me, yet in need of reporting at the same time. I'm impacting, but not wielding, in areas where one really wants to wield. What a drag.

SNL Update
Once again fragments from material I submitted for SNL found their way onto the show. This is consistent with what has been going on there regarding me for years and years, though there's no money, no apparent agreement, nothing that would make me legit by a certain very common standard.

Those who have created a database of my material posted at Archive.Org, and regularly update their database by periodically doing a search there, will have noticed exactly two new things added prior to the February 4th Saturday Night Live edition:

Shut Yor Song (published to Archive.Org 1/21/12 GMT)
Death Kills Me (published to Archive.Org 1/28/12 GMT)

They didn't use anything from my "Death Kills Me", however, fragments from "Shut Yor Song" can be found.

The instances where I was an influence this time around can be recognized based on the cumulative context. To make an analogy, imagine each show containing a lottery number digit, and prior to each show I guess the correct digit appearing on that show, for years and years and years. If you contextualized it wrong, and saw things only in terms of one show where I guessed the correct digit, it would seem that I had exaggerated the significance of guessing one digit in a larger lottery number.

• Both the 2.4.12 SNL and "Shut Yor Song" include, as an unexpected event, a celebrity hanging out in an ordinary bar

• Both the 2.4.12 SNL and "Shut Yor Song" include a group of people in a bar who are nonplussed no matter who takes the stage (on SNL, the middle-aged Asian women in the strip bar)

Additionally, in my previous blog I observed how my sketch idea, "Dear Whoever Gonna Blow Up The World," had a major impact on the 1/14/12 SNL by influencing how they discussed the new North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un. At the end of my sketch idea is the image of the Earth seen from outerspace.... exploding. This same image, of the Earth seen from outerspace.... exploding (seen from Newt Gingrich's space station) occurred on SNL's opening sketch on the 2/4/12 show (which was the SNL immediately following their 1/14/12 show).

I submitted nothing for the 2/11/12 show, and nothing of mine could be detected.

Smithers Reborn
Those familiar with my material may know that one of my works that I regard as more significant is "Gosk", which is a 1993 screenplay, two self-produced videos made from the screenplay (Part 1 in 1994 and Part 2 in 1998), a trailer for the videos, and a shooting script for Part 3. I additionally regard "Gosk" as being a significant influence on a great number of well known works by a great number of well known people.

A few may also be aware that "Gosk" originated, in part, from a short story I wrote in 1986, "Claggers and Smithers":

http://www.angelfire.com/blog2/jonathandsteinhoff/page13.html

["Claggers and Smithers" (copyright 1987 Library of Congress, as part of my collection of stories, "Inventing Air"); "Inventing Air" also includes "The Coin That Came In Second," which I have described as leading to Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" following my sending Sean Daniel a copy to give to Spielberg after speaking with Sean Daniel who said not to send it after I described it after he asked me to describe it.]

This brings me to Liam Neeson's frequent references to Smithers on recent talk shows publicizing his new movie, "Grey". Smithers, we learn on each Neeson TV show appearance, is the town used for their film location. In recent blogs (my previous two) I have discussed Neeson, for very particular reasons. Also relevant here is that I believe, and have written about how I believe, that Neeson's wife's death was committed in a manner that involved people who insidiously, deliberately devised a way to intertwine their action with something I had blogged three days before. As bizarre a statement as that is, I see this over and over and over and over over. My premise relates to my often-evidenced secret super-importance in relation to Spielberg (and others, such as McCartney, Sting, the Stones, SNL, etc., etc., etc.), that (as should be expected if one believes the premise) this attracts certain elements seeking this subtle "gateway" that I somehow am (among my million hats), through which they might access the attention of that super-high strata of the world's citizens. Center of the chessboard stuff.

So then, my Smithers-related Neeson update: If one appreciates Neeson's connection to Spielberg, on whom I am an ongoing influence..... if one reads the story "Claggers and Smithers" and also sees the movie "Grey"..... etc., then I think that perhaps someday you (some of you?) may be able to consider that "Claggers and Smithers" was, in its own way, a real influence on "Grey".

And while on the subject of the person who was going to play Lincoln for Spielberg and now is not, happy Abraham Lincoln's recent birthday!

Please Continue Not Blowing Up The World For A Minute
A search of my old blog articles will reveal my repeated contention that, also as the result of my secret super-importance with regard to one of (if not the) most prominently known Jewish persons in the world (Spielberg), Iranian President Ahmadinejad joined the hordes of the well known who make coded references for my "benefit", when he makes speeches of note to the world community. I crazily believe this occurred again yesterday, something worked into his speech.

I will not to attempt to convey the basis of my conclusion here. You would not appreciate why I recognize a deliberate action. This stuff requires people committed to voluminous research of the context that reveals the significance of what otherwise appears invisible. It would be dropping the ball to let people think they had enough information to form a proper conclusion on this important matter, when they do not. Especially at this point in human history, when we are looking at the possibility of a showdown with Iran sooner rather than later.

If These Beatles Could Talk
I've often referred to my influence on The Beatles, and more recently, my great influence on McCartney's latest. That means, there is also a context in which to see this latest Ringo news: Recently, the day before Ringo announced Gregg Rolie (original Santana, Journey member) would be joining his tour, I brought up the name Gregg Rolie while talking with some people, not something that commonly occurs. There being substantial, ongoing evidence that what I say in practically any situation can find its way to the world, I expect I likely deserve a little credit for this one. Also possibly for something Paul said Feb. 9th when receiving his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame coming from something I said Feb. 8th, only a possibility.

Birthday Wish In A Bottle

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).

Happy Birthday, Paul and Ringo!

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.

Ten Fun Steps

Something to which I have occasionally made reference is the fact that it was I who originated the essential premise to the Jason Lee sitcom, "My Name Is Earl". You can read "The Fun Guy" at Archive.Org (posted May 29, 2009), the original idea for it which I sent in March 2002 to Sean Daniel, who had produced the 1995 movie in which Jason Lee had his first starring role, "Mallrats" ("Mallrats" itself was named after my 1993 video, "Mall Man", which is posted at Archive.Org). To dig a little deeper into this "backstory", you may wish to read my January 4, 2009 blog, "Bits and Pieces Strike Back". That blog article is copyrighted, at least the text, for I periodically post accumulations of my blogs at Archive.Org (so you can be sure I didn't just hatch all this within the past hour). As I have mentioned numerous times before, unfortunately, this Blogspot blog site does not copyright worth a dam, as one can come back and re-edit without changing the timestamp, which is why I periodically post the text of my accumulated blogs at Archive.Org.

As I blogged at the time, I found that the premiere episode of Jason Lee's new TV show, "Memphis Beat", like much of Jason Lee's work, also made some reference to my material, though relatively little. However: I am pleased to report that, with the July 6th third episode, I once again occupy, at least for the moment, a somewhat important role in Jason Lee's work. It does require digging deep to see this, and I know how so many prefer arriving at shallow conclusions. Nevertheless, I am not one who is obsessed with only playing to the lowest common denominator. Therefore, the following presentation is for the benefit of those willing to persevere in spending the time and energy required to get to the truth about this. For newcomers to all things Steinhoff, the following may perhaps also contain implications regarding how serious my statements regarding other matters deserve to be taken.

And one more thing: tomorrow, July 7th (the day following this episode) will be Ringo Starr's 70th birthday. This fact appears to have resulted in "Memphis Beat" working a memorable Ringo Starr moment into the Steinhoff/Lee mix. I'm not sure this makes the three of us a group, however.

Step 1
Excerpt from the script for the Beatles movie, "A Hard Day's Night":
Ringo has an idea and does a Sir Walter Raleigh with his large Mac, spreading it over one of the puddles…. He spreads the coat, without noticing what he is doing, over the hole. The girl steps on the coat and disappears sharply.


Step 2
What Step 1 meant by "a Sir Walter Raleigh":
According to a famous legend he (Raleigh) once laid his plush and expensive cloak over a mud puddle so that the Queen's feet would not be dirtied.


Step 3
From the July 6th episode of "Memphis Beat":




Step 4
From the July 6th episode of "Memphis Beat":




Step 5
From my 1993 video, "Mall Man" (the title of which led to "Mallrats", Jason Lee's first starring role):




Step 6
From my 1993 video, "Mall Man":




Step 7
From the July 6th episode of "Memphis Beat" (with some sound from the Step 6 "Mall Man" videoclip included):




Step 8
From the July 6th episode of "Memphis Beat":




Step 9
From my 1993 video, "Mall Man":




Step 10
From my 1993 video, "Mall Man" and from he July 6th episode of "Memphis Beat":

The Boy Who Cried Don't Sound The Alarm

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

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

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

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

Thank you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Indoor Table

Brief Note:

In my January 19, 2009 blog I stated, "I will leave these Spielberg - Sutherland - Shaloub - Pitt - et-al connections for you to interconnect...."

Tonight, less than one week later during the SAG Awards, we were shown Sutherland and Shaloub (as well as Shaloub's wife, Brooke Adams) sitting together at the same table having a conversation. Prior to this, has anyone ever mentioned these two in the same breath? I might also add that Mr. Sutherland had the honor of being the first presenter of the night.

How McCartney Can Solve The Whole iTunes Puzzle

We all know the story of King Solomon and how two women each claimed a baby to be theirs. How King Solomon, to determine the identity of the true mother, said he would therefore cut the baby in two and give each woman half. How this was intended to provoke the true mother to change her story and deny that the baby was hers. How this would reveal the true mother, who would be willing to give her baby to the other woman, if this was the only way to keep her baby from being cut in half.

This does not perfectly correlate to my solution to a problem currently faced by Paul McCartney regarding Beatles songs and iTunes, nevertheless, follow me, or Paul McCartney, follow me.

If Beatles songs become available on iTunes in the normal manner, what will happen to the artistic wholeness of Beatles albums? The songs on Beatle albums are not just packaged together as so much Beatles product; and Beatles albums are not merely artifacts of ways in which the songs were once packaged. They are artistic creations.

To strengthen the glue that holds these songs together as parts of specific Beatles albums, after the songs have been released into an iTunes song - at - a - time world, it may require more than a money incentive approach, a cheaper - by - the - dozen/ cheaper - if - you - get- all - of - the - songs - on - a - particular - Beatles - album approach.

I have an unusual plan for eliciting appropriate respect among the masses for the artistic wholeness that the Beatles albums possess. I do not know if Paul McCartney or iTunes are ready for my idea - in fact, I'm sure there are those for whom even the King Solomon story is considered profane (try pitching a movie where a major moment involves the idea of sawing a baby in half).

Sell Beatle songs on iTunes by the half-song. Each half-song would cost half as much as the whole song. From this there would emerge an ethic, a mentality of "You only bought half of that Beatles song???!!! What a ___ you are!" Song samples are one thing, where you know you aren't legitimately experiencing the entire work, but the idea of Beatles half-songs will touch so deep a nerve, provoke so extreme a reaction from those who respect the artistic wholeness of the entire Beatles song, that this disposition would emerge as a basic ethic. People would inwardly rejoice when they learn that, despite the option of purchasing half-songs, invariably the same number of both halves (i.e., whole songs) would be purchased (this is my prediction, as is the idea that this statistic would receive much attention).

I believe this new, basic ethic would have a ripple effect, reinforcing the glue holding together the sense that these songs are parts of whole Beatles albums. It could even become the foundation of a more widespread respect for artistic autonomy.