Special Thanks To Washington, Obama And McCartney

Unreal Dream
My July 23rd blog ended with my stating:

"I'm sure that, whatever specific elements might someday get glued together through the development of this concept, those elements will eventually find some way to unglue themselves from it."

My July 25th blog began with:

The image of the sword in the stone (Excalibur), which was followed in that blog by an allusion to the legend regarding it, which is about only one person being able to remove the sword from the stone (King Arthur).

So on the one hand (7/23), elements that, though they might one day become glued together, someday they will find a way to unglue themselves from each other. On the other hand (7/25), two things bonded together that only one person can separate.

I shall now bring together things that should unglue simply by breathing on them, or sneezing on them, or chewing on them, or whatever you feel like doing to them. I do so for your amusement, and also on the strange, remote offchance that it has been dictated to me to do so, by Paul McCartney and/or President Obama, via things regarding tonight's fantastic broadcast of McCartney being honored at the White House. And may I take this opportunity to say, that broadcast was a golden moment, and I have no desire to pull apart what came together there. I have nothing but thanks for their having done this. I would give them both an award to go with the Gershwin Award McCartney was given by the President, if I had one, not that I could do more to make that moment hold together than what has already been done. The specialness of the evening was remarkable.

I won't be backing up any of the following statements which, combined, comprise my theory that I might have been meant to see a connection in this McCartney/Obama event to my "Steinhoff's Dostoyevsky's 'Uncle's Dream'". So many of my previous blogs already go on at length to prove to the intelligent that I am a secretly super-important person to whom things happen that are far beyond normal experience, if you put pieces of puzzles together left by people who don't wish to speak too loud. I know this must appear to a newcomer as totally audacious, crazy, etc. Did I say "newcomer"? You could imagine yourself to be well familiar with what I have contended in the past, however, if you never bothered to follow the details, for lack of intelligence, inclination, ulterior motives regarding certain powerful situations, etc., then that which I do in these here type things will always be new/unfamiliar to you.

1. Paul McCartney has on innumerable occasions said and done things intended to be in relation to me. I have known many who know him, and I have been a very significant influence on him over the years, going back to the '60s and continuing to the present day. On my first few days ever in London in 1983, had I run across the train tracks at Baker Street Underground Station to be on the same platform as he, when we both were nearly the only ones in that station, we may even have shaken hands. Several days following our not shaking hands, I was invited to a dinner party by his next-door neighbor during the '70s. Unconnected events, perhaps....

2. A number of years ago, a song McCartney wrote with Elvis Costello (who appeared in tonight's broadcast of McCartney being honored by the President at the White House) contained a line, "She wants to shout at the back of his head." I interpreted the origin of that lyric as coming from something I came up with for my video, "Steinhoff's Dostoyevsky's 'Uncle's Dream'", wherein a character hallucinates that a woman is shouting at the back of his head.

3. A recent interview with McCartney about playing at the White House had him choosing to characterize the experience as being very comfortable, where one felt one could say anything, like when one is speaking to a cousin. In my "Uncle's Dream" video, a character is specially advised not to feel free to say anything when in the presence of a particular important individual. My cousin and his wife appeared in my "Uncle's Dream" video.

4. In my "Uncle's Dream" video, there are many references to the power someone has over a most important person due to her playing music before him. The nature of this idea is not totally unrelated to the nature of tonight's McCartney/Obama broadcast. (I certainly do not mean to infer anything, I am simply making an objective statement.)

5. When President W had that whole front-page episode over putting his hand on the shoulder of the German Chancellor and her responding with apparent revulsion, the incident occurred one day following my having emphasized the significance of an identical act (as described in my "Back To The Political Future" pdf at Archive.Org) that occurs in my "Dostoyevsky's 'Uncle's Dream'" video being used on a "Monk" episode (almost all episodes of "Monk" made inside-references to my material, which I attribute to my having once known the former President of USA, which made "Monk", having some kind of hand in it, it seems to me. He's always doing stuff like that in relation to me, seems to me. And at some point after that W incident, when W stated that his reading tastes were very epileptic, I believed this related to that previous situation, in that Dostoyevsky is one of the world's most well known epileptics, despite it obviously seeming to be that W meant to use the word, "eclectic". Paul McCartney was widely quoted as having said, while at the White House, that it was nice to now have a president who knows what a library is (PBS today defended not editing that into tonight's broadcast). This was McCartney touching on the subject of W's reading.

6. There was a moment in tonight's broadcast when Stevie Wonder appeared to respond negatively to McCartney putting his hand on his shoulder by pulling his hand off (as if it was overdoing it, as it followed McCartney kissing Wonder's head).

6. Once many years ago when McCartney was a guest on Saturday Night Live, he played a butler character who did a few things relating to the butler character in my "Uncle's Dream" video.

7. The female star of my "Uncle's Dream" video, my friend Sandra Church (former Broadway star and Brando's wife in a movie), once mentioned to me going to Thanksgiving Dinner at Judy Collins'. Judy Collins was a very close friend of Linda McCartney.

8. Tonight on a separate show, a nightly news comments show, someone appeared with comments whom I've never seen before, and I've seen this nightly news comments show a lot. She had the same, somewhat uncommon last name as a person I know who is a friend of Obama from Chicago. Obviously not connected to the other person with the same last name, yet interesting that this person should be there to bring the other person to mind today of all days.

9. I have occasionally noticed my influence on things said by the President the day following my putting something out. This was also true of W and Clinton.

10. Now unglue everything in items 1-9 for future use elsewhere in other contexts. But do me a favor and find some place to store these elements in the meantime. You could rearrange the letters, I think they could all write out something from Shakespeare (though you may need to add or subtract a few punctuation marks). I promise not to sign the above with anything other than a pencil, so it should all be simple to unglue.

From Last To First
In my previous blog I referred to something I wrote 30 years ago, "Two Hours In The Life Of George Washington". I have since then posted a pdf of it at Archive.Org.

Doesn't Count
Nothing to report regarding any influence from me on Tuesday's "Memphis Beat", unlike most of their other episodes (which I proved/demonstrated in previous blogs).

[Unless you count the fact that Tuesday's episode showed the influence of "My Name Is Earl", an earlier Jason Lee TV show that first originated from something I had sent to someone I once knew, who was the producer of the first movie Jason Lee starred in. "Earl" references on "Memphis Beat" shouldn't really count, though, as "Memphis Beat" stars Jason Lee, so if his references to his own earlier show have to be thought of as automatically coming back to me, all of our lists of who we might owe credit to would be endless.]

I'll Buy That

Is there any better a time than now to tell the story of "Two Hours In The Life of George Washington"?

TWO HOURS IN THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
Back in 1979-1981, when I was living in Denver, a few years before I bought the book about George Washington at the used book/map store in NYC near to where I worked (see my October 31st blog), and about 15 years before the President Clinton/Monica Lewinsky sex scandal (a tale perhaps forever silenced from David Letterman's lips in light of his own "sex scandal"), I tried to make a strange little movie called, "Two Hours In The Life of George Washington".

The idea was, it would be a 45-minute, real-time movie, except for a missing hour and 15 minutes left to the imagination when George Washington goes to the barn for a secret sex rendezvous with a woman who wasn't Martha. The rest of the movie, George and Martha would be sitting next to each other on a cheap, ripped upholstery couch, Martha knitting in a manner that occasionally caused George to quickly duck his head away. One sensed unexpressed tension. Perhaps Martha was even angry about something. And so 45 minutes would pass. I was perhaps influenced in part by my knowledge of a Warhol film where one watches someone sleeping for hours in real-time.

I called up Carl Zucker, who once sat in a two-person office area with me, back when we worked for Lennon's friend and NYC tour guide, Howard Smith. Carl had been Woody Allen's locations manager on "Interiors". Carl said he liked my idea, and thought that a place he knew in Tennessee might be appropriate. A little bit later Woody Allen made "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy," and based on the substantial degree to which I have been an influence on Woody Allen, I have to think his movie started with my movie. Or the movie I wanted to make, that is.

Digression
For a very long time Woody Allen's girlfriend was Mia Farrow, who lived in The Dakota in NYC, where John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived, a fact almost certainly of no relevance here. On the same day that Allen's public problems with Farrow first broke in the papers, I was sitting in my co-op living room talking with Allen's then-locations manager, Drew Dillard, who was considering it for Allen's next movie. Outside the window about a block away you could see a little restaurant called El Faro, and also the restaurant sign. You might want to zoom in. Or not. I mean, it was a reasonably nice restaurant sign. Dillard told me to expect to see Diane Keaton replacing Farrow. According to what I later read, even Keaton hadn't been told of this at that point in time. However, I digress. Let me travel back in time and label this paragraph accordingly.

Back To Our Story
For the George Washington part I called up Ken Hanson (Hansen?), with whom I also used to sit in a two-person office area, back when I worked for a company that distributed on the college circuit "Magical Mystery Tour," "The Beatles At Shea Stadium," and other movies. Ken's brother had been a good friend of Yoko Ono's before she met John Lennon, and according to Ken, John and Yoko once gave his brother a tape recorder and a camera. Ken had been the right hand of Peter Max, until someone spiked his drink with LSD and he didn't want to be around anymore, and so said goodbye to Peter Max. Ken went on to run a seven-story art gallery in the Wall Street area, where he displayed the original artwork that was used to advertise Ridley Scott's "Alien," as well as the original artwork that was used for the album covers of a group called, "Slave". Ken agreed to play George Washington.

I now needed to raise about $25,000. This was the part that had doomed the project from the start. I really didn't expect to get an actual backer. And I was right. Nevertheless, I called up Harley Lewin (see my blog of October 11, 2009), a big rock lawyer I had worked for. He sounded interested (not interested enough). However, he did stay in for five phone calls or so. I think he must have thought I might eventually get other backers involved as well. I called up Harley a few years ago and mentioned "Two Hours In The Life Of George Washington". I wasn't still trying to raise money, I was calling for some other reason. He still sounded interested in that movie.

And that was as far as it went.

Perhaps some day the world will truly be ready for a president with a sex scandal and Lewin and Hanson and Zucker and me and so on. Or maybe not. I was perhaps more happy than anyone when the day did finally come where you didn't need a lot to put together a movie.

Jolly Fun

I am pleased to report that, as occurs from time to time, Bill Maher has again found space on his show, "Real Time With Bill Maher", for making inside-references for my benefit. I will let the videoclip included with today's blog speak for itself.



Additionally, I found that the June 25th "Tonight Show", which was the first "Tonight Show" to have the chance to react to my June 25th blog (which included my reaction to the June 22nd "Tonight Show", which included their reaction to my.... I think I've done enough recapping), contained inside-references to my June 25th blog. These particular inside-references are far from self-apparent to those who haven't carefully followed things. However, once one tunes in on the history of this (which goes back years and years), one accepts that there is a shorthand, and so one doesn't require everything to be spelled out.

Specifically, my June 25th blog, which discussed "The Tonight Show" of June 22nd, featured me on video speaking with some kind of strange New Jersey accent, and then an English accent, breaking character with wild abandon. On that night's "Tonight Show", both Conan and Max did their New Jersey accents. Later, a guest (English) discussed how his daughter starts sentences with an English accent and then breaks out of it, due to exposure to the U.S. and us what talks without English accents. While I am fully aware that discussion of accents is common, nevertheless, owing to the proximity in time to my Jersey and English accents, and "The Tonight Show" being where these particular references to accents occurred, I believe I am recognizing an actual and not an imaginary shorthand. Add to this the idea of an accent strangely fading in mid-sentence - again, something which I recognize comes up here and there, but exactly how often?

This has all led me to an important idea, which you must tell everyone about, yet keep secret, yet tell everyone about, I'm not sure how: Everyone in the U.S. must start speaking with an English accent, in order to can confuse the North Korean President Kim Jong Il. If we are convincing enough, he will wonder where the U.S. has disappeared to, and imagine us to be Great Britain. He will not bomb us if we all disguise ourselves, by which I mean, if we all disguise who we are through how we talk. Furthermore, as the 4th of July approaches, the 233rd anniversary of our victory over England, no American should still be harboring ill feeling towards the English, or at least not their accent. One loose tongue and it may doom us all.