Speaking When Spoken To

If one picture is worth a thousand words, the number of illustrations I plan for this edition of my blog ought to leave me speechless (by the way, "ought to leave me speechless" is the kind of phrase one shouldn't expect to be too literal, the word "ought" being your secret clue).

I begin with a videoclip that follows-up on one contained in an earlier blog (Dec. 9, 2008), and should put the lie to those who claim I lack hard evidence of what I say:



I thank Will Smith for being involved in "Hancock", which allows proof of my veracity to manifest as something easy to follow, at least when seen in conjunction with Smith's "Tonight Show" appearance (as contained in the videoclip). I also have a few points to give out for "Hancock" being so incredible a movie as well. This is not the first time Will Smith has been influenced by me. From the fact that the movie, "Independence Day", featured a character (played by Randy Quaid) who gained his knowledge of aliens from "The National Enquirer", a concept I originated in my "Gosk" screenplay, I gleaned that another similarity to "Gosk" found in that movie shared the same origin: a character making his way alone in an alien-invaded world, comically muttering to himself about his situation. In the case of "Independence Day", this character was Smith as he dragged an alien's body across the desert. I thereby made particular note of this, and consequently was particularly aware when the character Smith later played in "I Am Legend" seemed born of this same "Independence Day" character (which, as I've stated, I see as having been born of my "Gosk" character). Given all of this, it may seem more likely to appreciate my implied conclusion regarding origin of an idea that one finds in this next videoclip:



Without knowledge of the aforesaid regarding my influence on Will Smith, the context of the immediately preceding videoclip vanishes, my point obviously losing a degree of its acceptability.

Unfortunately, a good portion of what I have to report relies on context.

This past week I identified Paul McCartney making an important shout-out to me, though I do not feel inclined to go into specifics here. If you are interested in some of the McCartney/Steinhoff context, I invite you to visit:

http://www.archive.org/details/JonathanDSteinhoff_7

In other "Beatles News", I would like to publicly thank May Pang (John Lennon's girlfriend during his estrangement from Yoko Ono) for responding to my email. For a considerable amount of time I had been aware that someone I knew growing up as an occasional houseguest, my mother's close friend Geraldine Lust, was responsible for bringing the Jean Genet play, "Blacks", to off-Broadway during the early '60s. This play launched the careers of people such as James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Godfrey Cambridge, and many others. When I learned that a Sid Bernstein was the play's off-Broadway producer, I had to wonder whether this was the same Sid Bernstein who brought The Beatles to Shea Stadium and Carnegie Hall during this same period. Geraldine Lust knew many well known people, in fact it was she who started the Stella Adler Acting Studio (along with Stella Adler, of course), the acting studio credited with being a starting ground for many people. I had tried contacting Sid Bernstein (The Beatles' Sid Bernstein) to learn whether he had any involvement with "Blacks", but was unsuccessful. And then this week I learned that Thursday night (June 11th) there would be an event celebrating a Beatles artist named Shannon, which was to be attended by both Sid Bernstein and May Pang. It occurred to me that perhaps John Lennon would never have chosen to be close to May Pang had she not been a particularly nice, reasonable person (this is not always a good system for making logical deductions), and I emailed May Pang asking if she would consider my request to get an answer for me from Sid Bernstein. This is exactly what she did, though it turns out that it must have been a different show bizzy Sid Bernstein. I also believe something else occurred on June 11th pertaining to both May Pang and myself. Were one to visit something I posted in August 2007, Lennon and Steinhoff, An Introduction, one would read how I came to conclude that a line found in a Lennon song from his "Walls and Bridges" album, "Sweet as the smell of success" (from a song reportedly about May Pang, "Surprise Surprise"), was there for my benefit. "Sweet as the smell of success" being a phrase I look upon as significantly in common to both myself and May Pang, it becomes most interesting that one heard the following coming from the mouth of Conan O'Brien on the June 11th/June 12th show (technically June 12th, his show airing past midnight, though taped on June 11th):



I have come to believe that, when one exists more directly in the realm of McCartney, Spielberg, etc. (as I believe I do), one should not be surprised when there seems to be an information network about one's activities that makes its way to other high profile show biz folk at the speed of buzz (and with my special power to come up with amazingly hip, useful phrases like "speed of buzz", you can easily see why!).

Ever since the former assistant to directors Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, Terrance Williams, had an important role in a video of mine, "Gosk, Part 2", the Scott brothers have been significantly influenced by me/my material, Denzel Washington movies directed by Tony and Ridley included. Therefore, because one of my major works, "Mall Man" (video made 1993, posted September 2005) uses the character's socklessness as an important element, I paid particular attention when I saw the following:



As the new Tony Scott/Denzel Washington movie is "The Taking of Pelham 123", I thought to myself, "Why don't I go see that movie? The worst that can happen is that I'll just see a movie." As it happened, I did not just see a movie - I saw a movie that appeared related to the Terrance Williams scene in "Gosk, Part 2":



My problem in expecting others to see eye to eye with my correlating of these two is that it is generally a somewhat enormous idea that Tony Scott would involve me to such an extent. Were one ignorant of my importance in relation to people such as Spielberg, Lennon and McCartney, I could easily appreciate why even an intelligent person would have great difficulty with this idea. Over time I have offered quite a lot of proof that I am not imagining things, therefore, I consider this correlation worth presenting, if only for the intelligent and/or those who know the truth.

Perhaps some would expect me to limit myself to non-lightning bolt-like revelations, such as the idea that recently Kelly Ripa on Jimmy Fallon did something regarding me/my material. If I saw no value to preserving the truth, I very well might set up such perimeters around what I find worth reporting.