That Elvis Sure Can Play The Piano

The Movement You Need
Those who remember all the way back to my previous, July 28th blog article may recall that in the "Unreal Dream" section, Item 6, I characterized Stevie Wonder as having a negative reaction to Paul McCartney's hand on his shoulder (as always, this was part of a larger statement I was making, as opposed to being a personal exploration on my part into hands and shoulders of celebrities). I have reviewed this McCartney and Wonder moment, and though I continue to regard it as significant in terms of the statement I was making, it was far from the race riot I might have seemed to have been suggesting. The following videoclip, I believe, reinforces the idea that, when taken cumulatively with the other observations I was making, that other context, through which one might see that moment, loomed in proximity:



With regard to the above photograph showing the two American Presidents, which is also from that same event, I believe it might be added to Item 2 of that same section of that same previous blog. It was a recurring image throughout that show for there to occasionally be this portrait of Washington and his outstretched hand seemingly hovering behind various people onstage. Thus, significant in the context I was trying to get across.

A Little Colder
Those who can remember even further back than my previous blog article, all the way to my July 20th blog article, "Let's Pretend I Think We're Both On The Same Page", should recall that I announced there my newest little video project that I'm working on, "Down The Hatch". I have subsequently found something done by Stephen Colbert to be worth noting in relation to this.

I have previously pointed out from time to time in my blogs how Colbert and The Daily Show will sometimes include things in relation to my material (I have also explained how I am responsible in a big way for Colbert's bear sketch with Elvis Costello in Colbert's Christmas special a few years ago. I suspect my influence in those parts has a little to do with someone I once knew, producer Stuart Cornfeld, crossing paths from time to time with much that is in connection with Daily Show alumni (I have also in previous blog articles gone into how I am a continuing influence on Stuart Cornfeld's work).

So anyway, my "Down The Hatch" video project announcement came while Colbert was on vacation. He is just two days back from vacation (i.e., on his second show following my announcement), and Colbert happens to open his show by doing something that is among the things that occur in "Down The Hatch", a moment of the sort Colbert might be expected to pick up on. From my "Down The Hatch" comedy sketch idea (posted in 2006 at my website; posted in June 2010 at Archive.Org ):

"PENNY, her back to the audience, opens up her blouse to STEVEN."

From "The Colbert Report", July 27, 2010:




His World
Having had the chance to see the 2009 movie, "Planet 51", it being that the Starz Channel recently began featuring it as an "Early Premiere", I was pleased to discover the influence of my 1998 video, "Gosk 2", stretching way over there:



I wish to add, that I appreciate their faithfulness to my underlying idea, which was to have someone all agitated that an outerspace alien is in his midst (correlated in the audience's mind to a relatively racist disposition), the character anxious to get everyone else as agitated by this as he, then cutting to the actual source of the agitation - an alien anti-climatically conspicuous by his innocuousness, and an implacable resistance by the other characters to share the agitated character's discombobulated feelings, despite the accusation from him that their disposition reveals them to be crazy/sick rather than he.

Make It Better
In my July 6th, July 13th and July 21st blog articles I refer to how the same nine-second section from my 10-minute 1993 "Mall Man" video (posted at Archive.Org) has very recently been focused in on, in pieces, specifically with relation to the TV show, "Memphis Beat" (and one time when Memphis was important on a David Letterman show). One really does have to do the research, however, in order to appreciate that a special context brings together what one would otherwise tend to see as random, separate moments.

The nine-second section from "Mall Man":



With relation to this, I have found that key occurrences in the August 3rd "Memphis Beat" should also be tuned in on with this same context in mind. I have done a little extra (easily recognizable) sound editing with the following videoclip from that episode to drive home my point:



Take A Sad
And finally, a few things have occurred that I regard as being in connection with a matter I've occasionally been referring to in my blogs, which pertains to the Pakistani Taliban, the Iranian President, the American President, Tim Burton and Smallville in relation to inside-references to me/my material (a matter I have expressed as being something I regard as the result of my secret super-importance). However, I don't know exactly how much most people can truly appreciate how there can be occasions when even a single syllable can clearly belong as a piece in a puzzle. Or, for example, how a single word can clearly be meant to be associated as part of the Beatles song, "Hey Jude", rather than it merely being one's imagination to believe that one is to associate a word as part of that context. Not that I'm saying I would necessarily win anything if I were to be a guest on "Wheel Of Fortune".

I don't know that including the public-at-large in this matter will keep the world from blowing up, though it could, or perhaps the opposite, who knows what's "better"? Probably, it's a mistake to think anything really comes down to one person, or ten people, or a million people, or whatever. I'd prefer not to think that, anyway. Yet perhaps at some point I'll get around to rendering something about these new things that have occurred just the same. It's just a matter of figuring out what's good, better, better, better, or....better.