Just Another Clue

Those watching "Monk" on Friday received word that the show will be airing its final season this summer. The word was apparently already out, yet it seems to have escaped the attention of most of us until Friday through only being carried in trade papers and obscure Internet places.

One wonders how much the concept of death should be applied, though we know intellectually that, as the characters were never truly alive, they can never truly die. Perhaps we should apply the concept of "etc.", and imagine we are already sufficiently informed of what these characters are up to even when they go outside the physical range of our perceptions. I am not one who sees the creation of fictitious characters merely as part of our need for entertainment. I believe characters we thusly create can exist but in some undefinable way, that our souls are not always physically confined within the parameters of our own bodies, that we sometimes provide each other with special vehicles for the collective souls of groups of us.

My weekly Monk/Steinhoff videoclip places the 2.20.09 "Monk" episode in relation to my 1978 16mm film, "Steinhoff's Monster", to which the "Monk" people have referred before, the 8.22.08 episode of "Monk" being the most recent occurrence of this, I believe (see my "Monk Takes A Vowel Of Silence" on YouTube). And so here is the latest:



In other news, I have been giving some thought to ways in which I may have contributed to The Beatles beyond those ways of which I am already aware. I know already that, if not for me, there would have been no "Yellow Submarine" or "Paperback Writer" or "Eleanor Rigby", at least in their present forms, and with no "Eleanor Rigby", perhaps no "Sargent Pepper". Now the song "Rain" appears to me as one I may possibly have overlooked. Additionally, the connection between the ominousness of the journey in the opening, title track of "Magical Mystery Tour", followed by the next album's opening track, "Back In The U.S.S.R.", a long-awaited return to a destination ominous in nature by many standards, followed on "Abbey Road", the next album (in terms of being a Beatles "concept" album), by the cover image showing a journey both amazingly simple yet amazingly dramatic. I don't believe these newly considered connections will ever be judged with certainty, short of Paul McCartney himself coming forward to state whether I share any amount of responsibility in these other creations.

Knowing might contribute to my understanding how it came about that I have had such an enormous influence regarding the post-Beatles work of the four ex-Beatles.