How Random Food Ingredients Can Be Used To Create Your Own Robot

Nonsensical Introduction 

Much to keep track of in today's blog article, so I would suggest you just closely follow the sections on Spielberg and McCartney, and if the evidence regarding my influence on them makes sense to you, then keep it simple, just take my word on everything else!  Right?  Because if the Spielberg and McCartney stuff is right, then it should follow that SNL's Lorne Michaels would, as I essentially state, behave in a manner aligned in spirit with McCartney's and Spielberg's behavior re Steinhoff, which would make it more likely that I am correct regarding Spader's and Fox'es behavior aligning with Spielberg's, McCartney's and Michaels' re Steinhoff, even should it have been the case that Spader's behavior re Steinhoff would not have aligned until SNL and American Horror aligned, unless the other one should align before that one should be expected to align, as when they were trying to put together the cast of "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," or was it "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington".... in any event, you should now be able to see why the universe has come to be MINE!  Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Table of Contents:

1. Nonsensical Introduction 
2. STEINHOFF AND SPIELBERG
3. STEINHOFF AND MCCARTNEY
4. STEINHOFF AND PARTY
5. STEINHOFF AND SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
6. STEINHOFF AND SOME RECENT TV SHOW EPISODES
7. The Dead Time Traveling Derelict and The Ancient Indian Prophecy
8. Loose Ends

 STEINHOFF AND SPIELBERG

Without wanting to take anything away from the value of endless discussion and the social pleasure it can bring, I believe it would be correct to say the above videoclip is obvious in what it demonstrates and is beyond discussion.  It proves, as I have often proven before, that I am a major influence on the work of Steven Spielberg. 

This videoclip from "Lincoln" is slightly less self-explanatory, in terms of being another example of my influence on Spielberg.  

We often see the faces of video/film characters against a black background.  What is special here is that Spielberg conspicuously shows the audience Lincoln's visual context dramatically changing, within the same shot, from the conventional one, of being in a room with several people, to being in an abstract, non-actual/non-specific space, alone.  This is more in line with the step back from the immediate that history provides Lincoln.  A black background image is developed elsewhere in the movie to varying degrees, but I believe the subtlety of Spielberg's intention for the effect in those moments is established in this moment.

Those familiar with my "Mall Man" video will find this same application of the black background, also to provide the character the benefit of being a step back from the immediate pulsating river of energy that is a shopping mall - apologies, this could be a negative side effect of referring to Lincoln and Mall Man in the same breath (which is part of why I recently quit my job, in a way, but I digress).  Though this is obviously not the first time a black background has ever been used, or used to achieve a similar effect, nevertheless, it is rare enough to make significant the fact that it occurs in both "Lincoln" and "Mall Man", in light of other, cumulative "Mall Man" references in Spielberg's work.  (Had I not posted my video, "Steven Spielberg and The Mall Man Factor," in 2009, or posted "Mall Man" in 2005, having made the video in 1993, I would not have found this correlation worth trying to explain.)

 "Mall Man":

http://archive.org/details/JonathanDavidSteinhoff_0

"Steven Spielberg and The 'Mall Man' Factor":

http://archive.org/details/StevenSpielbergAndThemallManFactor

"Lincoln" may additionally have included inside references to my Steinhoff's Dostoyevsky's "Uncle's Dream" video (1990/1992, posted at archive.org), however, these at best would be inside references, not influences, I believe, and are far too neither-here-nor-there for me; I will want to stay away from detailing these, perhaps out of fear of dragging down into an explosive ocean of ignorant skepticism my entire, buoyant ship of easily demonstrable influences on Spielberg (have to think- do I normally word things in this way, or is it the Lincoln influence again?).

STEINHOFF AND MCCARTNEY

• CONSISTENT WITH NEARLY EVERY PAUL MCCARTNEY WORK IN THE PAST 25 YEARS

In addition to similarities in conception and execution, both obvious and subtle, between the two above images, there are other significant bases for believing it possible my above artwork, "Finding Life"*, is a key influence on the above McCartney image (which is being used as the booklet cover for the just-released McCartney album, "New", as well as being the lead image of an animated ad posted on the Internet promoting this album).  I would recommend "McCartney and Steinhoff, An Introduction", posted at archive.org 
(http://archive.org/details/JonathanDSteinhoff_7)

*From "Go Eyes, Go!", a 1993 self-published book of my (very rough) artwork, collages, etc. posted at archive.org, which I have previously referred to with regard to my belief that it contains various things that have influenced other McCartney album cover artwork, as well as works by others of note.

• ADDITIONALLY BUT NOT NECESSARILY SECONDARILY

I posted my movie idea, "Footballless" (https://archive.org/details/Footballless), to archive.org on July 4th.  One might observe that a song just released as a single from Paul McCartney's "New" album, "Queenie Eye" (which is accompanied by a new video), contains in its song title line something very similar to my movie idea title, "Footballless":

"Queenie Eye, Queenie Eye, Who's got the ball? I haven't got it." 

I recognize that this phrase originally came from something McCartney and other youngsters liked to repeat over and over; and that not having the ball is not the most unlikely thing that can ever occur (someday I believe an entirely new style of communication will be built around people relating to each other those times they didn't have the ball).  However, I find it interesting to note that both Paul McCartney (upon whom I regard myself to be a significant influence) and myself made the artistic decision to attach no small significance to this idea at around the same time.  Mine is the title of my first movie idea in some time.  His is in the song title line for a song that is special enough to be released as a single and music video almost immediately following his album's release.

It is possible that McCartney came up with this song prior to "Footballless" (I do not know when it was written), making the suggestion of my being an influence on his using this phrase at this time completely ridiculous, if it isn't already, a suggestion I therefore should never have made.  It is only because of my frequently being a significant influence on McCartney that I nevertheless feel prompted to continue with this conjecture.  

I have yet another significant similarity:       

1. "Footballless" has a lot to do with the idea of being a celebrity (specifically, on another planet); 
2. Regarding McCartney's "Queenie Eye" video, the idea that it is a roomful of celebrities is central to the effect - the numerous celebrities are not just there in the role of being themselves, but in the role of being part of the celebrity social scene.

• WHAT CAN YOU SAY AFTER HAVING SAID, ADDITIONALLY BUT NOT NECESSARILY SECONDARILY?

1. Another song on McCartney's just-released album, "New", is about whenever he would be on his way to work (entitled, "On My Way To Work");
2. My below Facebook posting from August 16th (purple font), which may or not have preceded the creation of this song (there is no available information at this time to suggest that McCartney's song came first, and no proof of my FB posting for those who aren't my FB friends), describes whenever I am on my way home from work, and I specifically refer to Paul (McCartney ) in this FB posting;
3. The timing of this similarity, and the fact that it's Paul McCartney in relation to whom the similarity appears to have occurred, causes me to look upon this as yet another possible Steinhoff influence on Paul McCartney (which I am putting directly onto his tab in order that I might be able to afford to go neither to nor from work, focusing instead on making dumb video stuff and so on that dumb people use in their work and so on so that dumb people can watch and receive my great wisdom through intermediaries instead of doing their laundry).

FB 8/16: There's this one particular spot on my route home from work every day where either somebody's sending me certain look-alikes or where my imagination suddenly becomes overactive: yesterday on Sean Daniel's birthday I saw someone who looked like him there; the day before, someone resembling his friend Paul; the day after my recent blog that referred to Ringo, someone resembling Ringo. Now I look forward to when I can go home from work every day!

STEINHOFF AND PARTY

A friend from where I worked for six years (I quit my job Sept. 2013 to be broke but free for about a year when the money runs out including my savings and pension) invited me to her friend's party in August (special thanks to Theresa Flynt - the blonde - for handling the video-ing for a little bit so that Elliot Gould could be seen next to me!):

Ever since I saw the movie "MASH" on the very first day it could be seen, a premiere on a Sunday in NYC in the early '70s (while on a visit with my NYC friend while a teenager), I have enjoyed watching Elliot Gould in movies and TV over the years.  In fact, his role in "The Long Goodbye" has been a secret, major influence on those occasions when I pace around my apartment muttering to myself, "It's okay with me, it's okay with me."

Nevertheless, being a most unobtrusive type, I might not have felt it appropriate for me to seek to include him in the above, had it not been for a most complex series of occurrences that preceded the party:

1.  Jennifer Aniston (to whom I've referred in my blogs on several occasions, mostly regarding inside references) brought a box of eggs with her on her Thurs., Aug. 8th guest appearance on Conan O'Brien (a show upon which I also consider myself to be an occasional influence, as also referenced in my blogs).  

2.  Helen, who invited me to the party, was Flynt's nurse after he was shot, becoming a close family friend (Larry Flynt first met his wife Liz when she and Helen both began working for him as his two nurses).  

3.  Helen would occasionally bring to work boxes of eggs for "everyone" (apparently there exist egg farms, I believe they came first, or something....).  

4.  In advance of the Aug. 10th Flynt party, I had to see Aniston's Aug. 8th egg behavior as bringing Helen to mind (even posting an "I Am The Walrus" YouTube video on FB the morning of Aug. 10th, it so inspired my inner "I am the egg man").  

5.  Elliot Gould is often remembered for his extended role as Jennifer Aniston's father-in-law on that extremely important sitcom (a show on which I also regard myself as having been an influence), "Friends".   

6.  Therefore, video-ing Elliot Gould next to Helen seemed the appropriate thing to do, as it may somehow influence farming in America, though no one's ever put me in charge of seating arrangements for my concepts.

7.   For those who were going through all of the above Flynt-related stuff for something more Hustler Magazine-ish, the best I can do is offer this photo from several years ago (I guess my recollection that this photograph borders on being pornographic may have been slightly exaggerated).  Depicted are myself and my friend Helen, in a section of a group shot taken some time when we both worked together for six years (I recently quit my job to live off of my pension until it runs out in about a year - which I may already have mentioned, yet it is worth repeating, but I digress....).

 STEINHOFF AND SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

I have long maintained that nearly every SNL for years, years and years uses pieces of what I submit for that week's show (sometimes more important pieces of mine, sometimes less). 

To summarize my influence on the new SNL season thus far, with the exception of one sketch idea (Oct. 23rd, "Kent Country Club Polo Team Death Squad"), I have not submitted (i.e., posted to archive.org while referencing post on FB) anything new since the five sketch ideas I posted during the summer, when SNL was between seasons (one, "O U SPYU Tablets", from June, was mentioned in my previous 8/4/13 blog).  

It seems to me unmistakeable that substantial pieces from two of these five ideas have been used/referenced in three separate SNL sketches, including the first minute of the opening sketch of the Saturday Night Live season premiere, as well as that opening sketch's basic setting:

• Joe The Hippie, Joe The Cop (August 30, 2013)

https://archive.org/details/JoeTheHippieJoeTheCop

You need watch only 1 minute, 20 seconds of this video from the Sept. 2013 SNL season premiere to recognize the influence of "Joe The Hippie, Joe The Cop":

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/obamacare-cold-open/n41321/

The following "School Visit" sketch from the Oct. 26th SNL is also significantly influenced by "Joe The Hippie, Joe The Cop":

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/school-visit/n42348/

In both SNL's "School Visit" sketch and my above-referenced "Joe The Hippie, Joe The Cop" sketch, the kids in the classroom completely run with the subject matter of a visiting cop's reason for being there, causing the visiting cop to completely reject their understanding of the subject. Additionally, and very humorously, the teacher is completely in the kids' camp rather than the cop's regarding the convoluting of the subject matter of the visit - which occurs in both SNL's sketch and mine, and is used FOR THE ENDING PUNCHLINE of both sketches. 

• O U SPYU Tablets

https://archive.org/details/OUSPYUTablets

"O U SPYU Tablets", my June 28th (post-May 2013 season finale) suggestion for an SNL sketch, revolves around the conventional exaggerated fantasy of imagining somehow becoming a James Bond type, suggesting the absurdity of actually applying this to a genuine life-death situation.  I believe those living in the real world and not some exaggerated fantasy world would have no choice but to see the Oct. 12th "Black Ops" SNL sketch as having much in common with this:

 http://www.nbc.com/.../video/black-ops/n41901/

• Kent Country Club Polo Team Death Squad (October 23, 2013)

https://archive.org/details/KentCountryClubPoloTeamDeathSquad

"Kent Country Club Polo Team Death Squad" was my first new sketch submission for SNL since their Sept. season premiere.  SNL appears not to have used this Oct. 23rd idea for their Oct. 26th show, however, I believe other material of mine did make its way to Oct. 26th (as I indicate above).  I remain hopeful this comedy idea of mine will take on greater appeal / value in the eyes of Lorne Michaels in the coming months, as Senator Cruz and his delightful selection of the U.S. and world economies for his hostages takes on greater relevancy.

The three of my five summer sketch ideas that I don't believe have been referenced on SNL:

• Custom Tailoring And Alterations For Outerspace Aliens (August 14, 2013)

https://archive.org/details/CustomTailoringAndAlterationsForOuterspaceAliens

• Frankie's Newest Movie Rating System (September 1, 2013)

https://archive.org/details/FrankiesNewestMovieRatingSystem

• Those Inconsiderate Buttheads (September 5, 2013)

https://archive.org/details/ThoseInconsiderateButtheads

And also:

• MISC.

SNL has also recently been referencing numerous other miscellaneous pieces of mine from here and there, however, someone less involved with the meticulous and extensive research required might easily come away with the characterization that those I have in mind for this category are not here and there, but rather, neither here nor there.  I do not generally plan on getting more specific about these more obscure little SNL moments, however, if I should ever have an extensive staff of my own, who knows, perhaps these details may yet be unburied for posterity!

STEINHOFF AND SOME RECENT TV SHOW EPISODES 
("AMERICAN HORROR STORY", "BLACKLIST", "THE MICHAEL J FOX SHOW", "BLUE BLOODS")

As occurs from time to time, I have recently observed there to be several TV shows making inside-references / being influenced with relation to me/my work.  

For the most part, describing these would get extremely involved.  I will be skipping over putting together detailed explanations, and will instead focus on making a few general remarks.  Nevertheless, I will be providing specifics on several.

• AMERICAN HORROR STORY

This video regarding Lily Rabe is self-explanatory:

•  BLACKLIST; MICHAEL J FOX SHOW

Regarding myself as having been an influence on the James Spader TV show, "Boston Legal," and also an influence on various Michael J Fox things, it feels a little bit like familiar territory to find myself to be influencing "Blacklist" and "The Michael J Fox Show".  Without going into details, in one instance, "Blacklist" referenced a specific scene from my "Gosk" video (my three "major" self-produced videos are "Gosk"; "Mall Man"; and "Steinhoff's Dostoyevsky's 'Uncle's Dream'").  That same week's "Michael J Fox Show" also brought to mind a specific moment in that same, exact scene in my "Gosk" video.  I must wonder - could this be related in some way to the fact that both shows are on NBC - perhaps they have coffee breaks together?  In any event, it seems to me that, among the many TV shows that have at various times included Steinhoff references / influences, it occasionally occurs that, repeatedly, the same two different shows have their installments each week referencing the same specific bit from my work (e.g., "Smallville" / "Medium"; "Friends" / "Seinfeld").  

On the subsequent week's "Blacklist", they had something that clearly referenced my "Mall Man" video (and was very much in relation to a major aspect of that week's episode).  That week's "Michael J Fox Show" did not follow suit as it had done the week before.  However, that week's show did go into something that directly related to the thing I had observed regarding my work on the previous week's Michael J Fox show (which also was very much in relation to a major aspect of that week's episode).  

•  BLUE BLOODS

1. On the "Blue Bloods" episode that aired Oct. 18th, Bebe Neuwirth of "Frasier" fame (see earlier blogs wherein I describe how the theme song on "Frasier" was influenced by me, as well as other things on "Frasier") was introduced as a new character;  
2. On Oct. 18th, Bebe Neuwirth in real life was in my hometown, Princeton, NJ, watching onscreen interviews of me, her father (as I understand it), and others, in the premiere of the Brad Mays movie, "I Grew up In Princeton" (see my Dec. 25, 2012 blog, section entitled, "I Oughta Be In Revolutions"); 
3. In the Dec. 2012 trailer for "I Grew Up In Princeton" (see link in my Dec. 25th blog), I describe my recollection of soldiers not just having rifles but bayonets (I was not at the premiere and have not yet seen the finished movie, and do not at this time know what I am shown saying there; additionally, I understand the movie is being slightly reedited after the premiere as well, therefore, no one actually knows at this time what I am saying there, nevertheless the Dec. trailer includes me saying this);
4. On the Oct. 18th "Blue Bloods," a key moment in the episode occurs when Bebe Neuwirth finds she failed to recall how a person had a knife, rather than a gun, as she had remembered it.

Based on my strangely extensive experience at being an influence / inside-referenced, I am randomly judging this the perfect starting point of a discussion that will someday lead to Iran having to give up its quest for nuclear weapons!

The Dead Time Traveling Derelict and The Ancient Indian Prophecy

 (1st Draft Video Script) (September 24, 2013)

https://archive.org/details/TimeTravelingDerelictrev.9.24.13

I am currently working on the above video script for a self-produced, no-pay, meager, rough-edged, little video project, wherein I am the auteur and everything else that goes into it.  I have developed it considerably since when the above was posted, which itself was built upon something I wrote and posted a few years ago, "The Dead Time Traveling Derelict" (as reflected in the differences between the titles, there was no "Ancient Indian Prophecy" in the original version). 

I believe I may be over-ambitious with this project, and am not completely confident I will actually be creating a video from this, as it would seemingly involve too much - but for now the hope is that I can magically summon the strength needed (famous actors, you may also feel free to consider yourself summoned if you like).  

Loose Ends 

Let me end by stating that the title of this blog article is completely misleading, perhaps, even deliberately.  Okay, I simply thought I might make a special effort to attract to my readership people who are particularly interested in robots and/or cooking, as part of a larger effort to interest a complete cross-section of today's young professionals.  Thank you all for joining me here today!