It's Been A Hard Eight Years

Stuff here regarding Pet Shop Boys, 9/11, Monk, and Ridley Scott!!!! (one exclamation mark each, each exclamation mark interchangeable)

As always, the things worth reporting this time around put me in a chain-gang with numerous other things. That's my eloquent way of reiterating that, unless one connects the statements here to other dots, the statements get into trouble when seen all by themselves. For example, with this week's Monk/Steinhoff videoclip, I refer to my comedy sketch, "In Orders We Trust", posted verifiably at archive.org on August 11, 2009, and unverifiably (as there is no timestamp from the site) at my Angelfire website on May 15, 2006 (it was also sent in an email May 15, 2006, but who's counting). One who has not checked my other Monk/Steinhoff videoclips (some viewable in my previous blogs, some at YouTube where I'm Zoomsteinhoff), wherein I usually get to point to postings of my work that were verifiably made years before the episode, might skeptically (or seemingly skeptically, if they knew better but have ulterior motives in this power situation) argue that the August 11th posting might conceivably have had benefit of inside word on what the episode would contain. Those who have seen the other Monk/Steinhoff postings, on the other hand, would sort of have to give me more credit than that, would they not.

So on with the show.

Sit
My Autumn 1993 collection of my graphic artwork, "Go Eyes, Go!" (most created pre-1993), though (as I've stated before) comprised of works that are not in any way slick/indicative of a refined technique, nevertheless has been a significant influence on a number of significant works by a number of significant people. I have long held that Pet Shop Boys not only named themselves after a work it contains, "Say Please", but also named their CD "Please" after it as well. Having seen them perform their new song "Yes" on late night television this past week, which also included a video as part of the backdrop during the performance, I now add both the song and its video backdrop to the category of Pet Shop Boys work upon which "Say Please" has been a significant influence. I include "Say Please" here so that you also can have the opportunity (without having to bother to click a link) to name your band, CDs and songs after things it contains:


The resolution in this rendering makes it difficult to tell, but a bottle in front of the woman with the dog-like nose reads, "Dog Food" (I suggest using the "Go Eyes, Go!" link to read these magically insulting words that may be responsible for provoking her tears). The quality of the print in the hard copy goes further, and reads, "Dog Food for dogs in....", and the original has another word or two after that (I did this in the early '80s, don't remember). Maybe I'll go to the trouble of "locating" it someday and finding out. (Thought I was going to say, "retrieving it" or digging it up", didn't you? Well, you don't know me as well as you thought.)

9/11 Clue Never Investigated Because Then They'd Have To Admit I Was Enough Of An Entity In Relation To Spielberg, McCartney, Etc. For The Terrorists To Choose My Doorstep To Leave It On
Here are the cover of my aforementioned, "Go Eyes, Go!" (Autumn 1993) and the title page that immediately follows:


















What makes me regard these as part of a clue (as indicated in the heading of this section) are the cumulative implications of the following:

• Since 1993, "Go Eyes, Go!" was being sold on consignment in a store in NYC called Printed Matter. Eight years later, approximately half-a-year before 9/11, they asked for and received from me my current address to return those copies that were unsold, yet didn't actually send them back until Sept. 2001. They were mailed several days before 9/11 and reached me several days after 9/11.
  

• The image on the cover, deliberately simple/abbreviated, a rectangle that is near the sun, easily lends itself to the interpretation that it is a very tall building, as in a child's drawing showing a house with simple geometric lines, referenced/defined by the sun above. The arrow towards the top of the rectangle suggests a diagram of some kind in relation to the top portion of the tall building. The following title page, which features myself in Superman attire, puts the image into a more literal context of involving the sun, the arrow therefore being aimed at the sky, and, though this may be stretching it, we all know the phrase they used at the start of each Superman TV episode, "Able to leap tall buildings....". Show me someone who utters the words, "tall buildings", and I'll show you ten people who immediately hear that whole phrase in their head.
  

• The importance of "Go Eyes, Go!", though clearly not widely known, is enormous, containing works that have greatly influenced works by Spielberg, McCartney, Starr, and others. Therefore, it is narrow-minded to assume that an occurrence important to the history of that work couldn't have been significant on anyone's "radar".
  

• Other major terrorist acts of our time have also come with clues left on my doorstep (still uninvestigated), including the first bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993.

I do not believe even for a third of a second that the NYC store, Printed Matter, had any kind of knowing involvement in a terrorist act. I think it is a well known concept that people are often made unknowing accomplices in things, pawns set in motion without any kind of idea what the larger picture is. As an example, I even believe it possible that someone working for Printed Matter could be led to believe that her distorting information regarding her end of what happened would be a "white lie" serving the interests of someone such as Paul McCartney, but shh, don't tell anyone why we want you to tell this "white lie". I have held back from being too explicit about clues that have come my way, to avoid sending a clear alert to those who might bury such clues. It has been quite some time. How long am I to wait for an investigation, an investigation that will only seem worthwhile to the powers that be once it is understood that I am an entity of sufficient note as to show up on the radar of those geared towards messing with those at the top in the first place - i.e., why would big league terrorists (or a mole on the inside) even bother with "involving" me by leaving clues on my doorstep, and so why investigate anything from my doorstep that I reported as being part of a larger puzzle?

Ridley Me This
Here is a videoclip reflecting my latest extremely significant influence on extremely famous director Ridley Scott, whose "Body of Lies" just came to a television premium channel and was just seen by me for the first time (other Scott-related blogs of mine were posted on June 14, 2009, March 15, 2009, and September 21, 2008):



Weekly Monk/Steinhoff Videoclip
Before I post this week's Monk/Steinhoff videoclip, there is one thing that, well, I won't say it fell off the radar last time, it's just that it didn't fit, and, you know, everything has to fit, not symetrically necessarily, that would be neurotic, but, well, anyway. Those well familiar with the Beatles movie, "Help!" (I include not only those who are merely well familiar with this movie, but also those who are actually extremely well familiar with it) couldn't help noticing that the previous Monk episode (August 28th) borrowed a comedy bit from that source. Of course I refer to the co-scientist in "Help!" reporting into his hidden mic, "Now I'm moving my left foot, now I'm moving my right foot." When this is met with a recrimination from his co-scientist, he mutters, "He'll thank me for this in the end." And sure enough, this week's (9/11/09) Monk episode gives Monk the line, "You'll thank me for this in the end." I have previously observed Monk episodes making inside-references to a Ringo Starr anecdote I used to tell, after someone who was a friend of mine while I was attending CalArts reported it to me (my then-friend was there when it happened). In this August 28th and September 11th Monk instance, we have references from "Help!" to one of the two co-scientists who was involved in trying to shrink Ringo's finger to remove the ring. This makes significant the fact that, also in the September 11th Monk episode, Randy tries to see if his hand is small enough to fit through a hole in a glass window (injuring both hands on the jagged glass in the process as he wanted to test it with each hand). I now therefore consider these, in their cumulative context (and alongside innumerable other references to my material on Monk), as being a deliberate reference to my January 2009 "Teddy Tinyfingers" comedy sketch (to which I've made numerous previous references in earlier blogs, including mention of President Obama using the ending of the sketch at the end of his first week in office, giving the media their soundbite for the week).

As indicated in the following new Monk/Steinhoff videoclip, one may also want to visit my "In Orders We Trust" posting at my Angelfire website, and/or at its posting at archive.org, and/or my August 22nd blog wherein I announce that I had begun on making a video of it (progressing nicely!) and/or one of my many blog references to Stuart Cornfeld (such as the videoclip posted with my August 13, 2008 blog). And finally, this week's Monk/Steinhoff videoclip!