Nothing extraordinary to report, nevertheless, a few things I consider worthy of mention:
End Of The World, Part 12
Thursday the Iranian President is scheduled to appear Larry King, and Friday will be the season premiere of the final season of "Smallville". No possible connection, unless you've been following my blogs. I will see if this possible connection takes on significance.
Look Both Ways Before Smashing Into Something
Recently someone who may have been Sheryl Crow behaved in traffic a little like the person I recently mentioned in a blog article for having looked like Eric Clapton on the day his new album was announced. You may want to put on the brakes here, go to Archive.Org, search for Volume 4 of my collected blog articles, then search for Sheryl Crow and Eric Clapton there (you may particularly want to note that Crow will apparently be big on Clapton's upcoming new release). But back to the recent traffic thing - I was at the light to the on-ramp to the 134 on my way to work, the light turned green, however, up came Sheryl Crow (or someone one would think of as her) in the on-ramp diamond line and so didn't have to stop. I behaved appropriately, but I always see that protocol as an accident waiting to happen. I'm glad it is incredibly rare when that on-ramp diamond lane car that doesn't stop vies for the road space of the car that did and then got a green light. I first got my driving license by practicing driving in the car of and accompanied by a woman whose image Clapton put on the inside album jacket of "Slowhand" on my account, so it is important for me to assess the driving of these people, you understand. She also knew (knows?) Paul McCartney, who drives well, last I saw, but I believe I digress.
I recently was provided an opportunity to join in on a Facebook discussion that had Will Lee as a participant. Will Lee is part of Letterman's houseband. This is interesting in that a recent blog article of mine referred to Sheryl Crow in relation to Letterman. I had nothing to contribute to that discussion, and for some strange reason I allowed that fact to be the basis for my choosing not to say anything. I do enjoy Will Lee's impression of a person tortured by Dick Cheney that we occasionally get to see on Letterman. Will Lee also played on a Lennon recording. (I imagine this is a digression for those appreciating the generally non-Beatles quality of this blog article.)
Always Place The Fork To The Left Of The Bishop
Recently Regis on Fallon did his usual secret inside reference for my benefit regarding someone I once knew who is also someone to whom Regis once introduced himself. Fallon participated in it (Fallon is a friend of Drew Barrymore, whom I've mentioned in blog articles, recently, in fact) and I think it was quite entertaining all around.
File Under Bulletin Board
I recently noticed that the woman I once knew whose image was on Clapton's "Slowhand" inside album jacket on my account (she's not the one in the photo showing Clapton kissing, that's Linda McCartney) has on her Facebook Info page something I recognize as being part of a line from the title song of my "Enough To Eclipse" CD (available at CD Baby). She seamlessly worked part of my song line into something about something, and you'd never know. Clapton once married George Harrison's ex-wife (could be I'm digressing again). I merely wish to acknowledge something that jumped off the page as far as I'm concerned, and don't believe I'm expressing an opinion.
Why Don't You Pour It In Jar
And finally, this videoclip regarding the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man" in relation to my 1990/1992 video, "Steinhoff's Dostoyevsky's 'Uncle's Dream'" (posted at Google Video in 2005, and later posted at Archive.Org) requires an appreciation of the fact that certain ideas can emerge from a collective effect that aren't visible when seen with a piecemeal perspective. You might actually feel I'm dreaming to think this videoclip has anything serious, in response to which I might actually feel you can't be serious to believe I'm dreaming, and there we are, at the beginning of World War III.
Showing posts with label Eric Clapton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eric Clapton. Show all posts
Monday, September 20, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Just As Long As They Spell Your Nickname Right
Was I in any way "included" in the January 22nd Conan O'Brien (aka "Coco") farewell to "The Tonight Show"? Not as much (or at least, not in the same way) as when Craig Kilborn (who may or may not have driven by me January 22, 2010) and Johnny Carson included me in their farewells to their late night television shows (see my May 30, 2009 blog, which can also be found posted with a solid timestamp in November 2009 at Archive.Org in the first volume of the blogs I've timestamp posted there), and not in a manner I would ever have chosen.... but yes, I was "included".
1. An Eric Clapton phone commercial, excerpted here with Eric Clapton saying "Buddy", debuted January 20, 2010 (according to a published article), just two days before Conan's finale (and which aired on Conan each night since its debut):
In the context of the commercial, "Buddy" is meant to refer to Buddy Guy. However, I believe it was worked out that he would simultaneously be saying "Buddy" in a different context altogether. I also believe walking and chewing gum are things Eric Clapton is capable of doing simultaneously. The man ain't stupid, and neither are you.
2. Excerpts from my April 18, 2009 and July 3, 2009 blogs (which also contain solid timestamps from having also been posted in November 2009 at Archive.Org):
April 18, 2009
"....It was a conversation I had with this girl that resulted in Tom Hanks' situation comedy, 'Bosom Buddies'. Furthermore, an Eric Clapton inside album cover once made another such inside reference (that suggest that girl in relation to myself)...."
July 3, 2009
"....I should add that the aforementioned personal conversation that found its way into 'Baker Street' was in relation to the girl with whom I had the conversation that resulted in Tom Hanks’ sitcom. She went through a period when everyone was this or that kind of buddy: her laundry buddy, her pool buddy, her clothes buddy – she once called me her Sudafed Buddy, because I once gave her some Sudafed sinus tablets. Hence, 'Bosom Buddies'....."
3. Tom Hanks was the guest on the final Conan O'Brien "Tonight Show," which aired yesterday. The actual ending of the show (last moment) had Conan playing lead on electric guitar.
4. I also refer to Eric Clapton (aka "Slow Hand") in my January 17, 2010 blog, which does not yet have a solid Archive.Org timestamp.
5. Pee Wee Herman (aka Paul Reubens, aka Paul Reubenfeld), who I also encountered at CalArts during the '70s, back when I "knew" the "referenced" girl (aka Sudafed Buddy), appeared on the January 21, 2010 Conan show (aka Conan's second-to-last "Tonight Show"), where Pee also made an inside-reference to something that happened regarding myself in relation to this woman, as well as an inside-reference to my 1978 video, "How Did The Future Learn To Play Monopoly." I also believe that it is Peter Beckman (CalArts alum, narrator's voice in my 1978 "Steinhoff's Monster") whose voice we hear as the announcer in the current TV commercials for Pee Wee's show at Nokia. (I emphasize the word "show" here for the obvious reason, obvious at least to those who have seen those commercials, that "show" is the "secret" word.)
I shall now place a big, black cork in it all. That is.... until the next exciting thing happens to me!
1. An Eric Clapton phone commercial, excerpted here with Eric Clapton saying "Buddy", debuted January 20, 2010 (according to a published article), just two days before Conan's finale (and which aired on Conan each night since its debut):
In the context of the commercial, "Buddy" is meant to refer to Buddy Guy. However, I believe it was worked out that he would simultaneously be saying "Buddy" in a different context altogether. I also believe walking and chewing gum are things Eric Clapton is capable of doing simultaneously. The man ain't stupid, and neither are you.
2. Excerpts from my April 18, 2009 and July 3, 2009 blogs (which also contain solid timestamps from having also been posted in November 2009 at Archive.Org):
April 18, 2009
"....It was a conversation I had with this girl that resulted in Tom Hanks' situation comedy, 'Bosom Buddies'. Furthermore, an Eric Clapton inside album cover once made another such inside reference (that suggest that girl in relation to myself)...."
July 3, 2009
"....I should add that the aforementioned personal conversation that found its way into 'Baker Street' was in relation to the girl with whom I had the conversation that resulted in Tom Hanks’ sitcom. She went through a period when everyone was this or that kind of buddy: her laundry buddy, her pool buddy, her clothes buddy – she once called me her Sudafed Buddy, because I once gave her some Sudafed sinus tablets. Hence, 'Bosom Buddies'....."
3. Tom Hanks was the guest on the final Conan O'Brien "Tonight Show," which aired yesterday. The actual ending of the show (last moment) had Conan playing lead on electric guitar.
4. I also refer to Eric Clapton (aka "Slow Hand") in my January 17, 2010 blog, which does not yet have a solid Archive.Org timestamp.
5. Pee Wee Herman (aka Paul Reubens, aka Paul Reubenfeld), who I also encountered at CalArts during the '70s, back when I "knew" the "referenced" girl (aka Sudafed Buddy), appeared on the January 21, 2010 Conan show (aka Conan's second-to-last "Tonight Show"), where Pee also made an inside-reference to something that happened regarding myself in relation to this woman, as well as an inside-reference to my 1978 video, "How Did The Future Learn To Play Monopoly." I also believe that it is Peter Beckman (CalArts alum, narrator's voice in my 1978 "Steinhoff's Monster") whose voice we hear as the announcer in the current TV commercials for Pee Wee's show at Nokia. (I emphasize the word "show" here for the obvious reason, obvious at least to those who have seen those commercials, that "show" is the "secret" word.)
I shall now place a big, black cork in it all. That is.... until the next exciting thing happens to me!
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Rocks, Sun, Etc.
Thick As A Rock
I don't know how they get me to do these things:
I would likely be remiss were I to omit the fact that Joseph Gordon-Leavitt, whose Fallon and SNL appearances are referenced in this videoclip, was a "Third Rock From The Sun" cast member, which starred John Lithgow, whose sister SJ was my best friend's girlfriend when I was in the 9th grade in Princeton, New Jersey (before Lithgow was an actor, though I knew of him as SJ never stopped going on about her brother).
Monday's On The Phone To Sunday
Someone definitely wanted me to think I was seeing Eric Clapton on my way to work Monday, November 30th. It might even have been Clapton, though one doesn't think of him as someone who would wear a cowboy hat. The siting was timed with my return from vacation (visiting with my sister's family in Texas), and it was while on vacation that I spoke with the one person I know who knows the "Clapton girl" I knew at CalArts, as referenced in my April 18, 2009 blog.
That Reminds Me
I don't know whether or not Paul McCartney, who frequently does things apropos of what I do, and Billy Joel, who sat next to me on a plane in 1978 right before I received a letter from McCartney, appeared together in a broadcast Thanksgiving night 2009 in order to make me think of the time I saw Lennon perform with Elton John at the Garden Thanksgiving night 1974 (Lennon's last concert appearance, a surprise appearance I had predicted, which was what prompted me to attend in the first place - this was a month after I had worked for close Lennon friend Howard Smith, his NYC guide as well).
I don't know how they get me to do these things:
I would likely be remiss were I to omit the fact that Joseph Gordon-Leavitt, whose Fallon and SNL appearances are referenced in this videoclip, was a "Third Rock From The Sun" cast member, which starred John Lithgow, whose sister SJ was my best friend's girlfriend when I was in the 9th grade in Princeton, New Jersey (before Lithgow was an actor, though I knew of him as SJ never stopped going on about her brother).
Monday's On The Phone To Sunday
Someone definitely wanted me to think I was seeing Eric Clapton on my way to work Monday, November 30th. It might even have been Clapton, though one doesn't think of him as someone who would wear a cowboy hat. The siting was timed with my return from vacation (visiting with my sister's family in Texas), and it was while on vacation that I spoke with the one person I know who knows the "Clapton girl" I knew at CalArts, as referenced in my April 18, 2009 blog.
That Reminds Me
I don't know whether or not Paul McCartney, who frequently does things apropos of what I do, and Billy Joel, who sat next to me on a plane in 1978 right before I received a letter from McCartney, appeared together in a broadcast Thanksgiving night 2009 in order to make me think of the time I saw Lennon perform with Elton John at the Garden Thanksgiving night 1974 (Lennon's last concert appearance, a surprise appearance I had predicted, which was what prompted me to attend in the first place - this was a month after I had worked for close Lennon friend Howard Smith, his NYC guide as well).
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