Lose Sleep Over It

Do you believe there exist certain crimes that, if they could be solved, there would then be other crimes, previously unsolved, that would thereby come into a new set of clues and ipso facto become solved as well? This is an obvious statement. It is elementary.

In recent blogs (4.8.10; 4.11.10; 4.18.10) I have discussed a connection I made between certain recent television inside-references to my few music videos, in relation to inside-references to me/my material contained in a recent statement by the Iranian President, about President Obama and with regard to nuclear weapons. The gravity of his involving me in this way is enormous. And he has done this before.

The following still is from my music video, "Dream", posted at archive.org in 2005:


Next is an excerpt from a news story that was on TV today (this incident was also described in an article in today's LA Times, though at the time the article was written it did not yet include the part about sleeping on train tracks):



I have often acknowledged in my blogs how the timestamp on this blog site can be manipulated, which is one reason why I periodically post the text of my blogs at archive.org so as to copyright them/prove they were created prior to certain points in time. I have not yet done that with regard to the above-referenced April blogs. However, the easily demonstrable significance of why I brought up in those blogs my few music videos transends whatever date I chose to write about it. The connection I made in those blogs shows that it was relevant, prior to this April 24th sleeping-on-the-train-tracks news story, for me to bring up in April my few music videos.

Thus, this news story happening to so unmistakably bring to mind yet another one of my few music videos during this same period demands serious attention - it relates to what I said regarding an action by the Iranian President. Consider where an investigation might lead, if one follows my theory. Theories are essential to investigations, they suggest where one should look. What the significance of what one finds might be.

Now someone who doesn't appear to be the non-entity that I appear to me (due to people having ulterior motives to bury my importance) had better step up to the plate. Because on the strength of a long-winded, detailed explanation from me of a theory of what this could be connected to - well, who would begin to listen, if they don't already accept that I am of sufficient influence to have caught the attention of the Iranian President? Burying the truth about my importance has long become the same thing as burying important clues in a matter that may prove most serious of all.

Midnight Approaches

1. Paul McCartney (or someone - it was probably McCartney) got practically EVERY star at the Golden Globes to make an inside reference for my benefit (including himself). Don't believe it? I wouldn't expect you to. However, I would expect you to. Sorry, this happens whenever I address more than one person at a time. Everybody see my recent Spielberg video, it should at least make a believer out of the smart people.

2. I have one more idea that could affect the outcome of tomorrow's Massachusetts Senatorial race, which in turn would likely affect whether or not there will be healthcare reform. Now it's almost too late for this idea, but I've thought it through, and it's totally do-able. I know you're reading this, McCartney!

First, what better way to play off of the Jay/Conan battle than, on the very same night that Ringo Starr is a guest on Jay (tonight, according to the schedule), Paul McCartney is a guest on Conan? Too late? Wrong. Conan shows a "pre-taped" segment, a phone conversation with McCartney. At the beginning of the phone conversation, strangely, it is McCartney who is seen on video, with a still image of Conan as if he is the caller (this is the standard manner used when one person is on the phone but not in the studio). At a certain point in the conversation, Conan says, "Excuse me, uh, I think I'm the one who is supposed to be on camera, you know, with your still image shown?" McCartney agrees, and instantly it is Conan who is seen on video, with a still image of McCartney seen for the remainder of the conversation, as he is the caller. Thus, a humorous way to convey the sense of them actually having a real conversation over the phone, in the style of a caller on a TV show.

And what does the phone conversation touch on? Healthcare. How is it in England, and how does McCartney feel about the healthcare debate, and, oh, by the way, that election in Massachusetts, what about that? Well, I sure hope things work out for healthcare in the U.S. Thanks so much, Paul, for showing up like this on my last week on The Tonight Show! Do you think you could actually come to the studio in person if I get another show? Well, Conan, first let's see how things go in Massachusetts.

3. I'll let you know if I have any more ideas that could affect tomorrow's Massachusetts election - though I have to say, I may be running out of time.

Paul McCartney and Denny Laine: Give Barrack Obama Your Vote

Let’s suppose that those who have been keeping an intelligent, careful eye on American politics would not be completely convinced by the current polls, which at present indicate that the election is Barrack Obama’s. Things continue to change at the drop of a hat, in spite of each new configuration of the way America “feels” being initially perceived as written in stone. And so, let us suppose that, just as a McCain presidency would place Palin dangerously close to the highest office in the land, perhaps the world, so McCain is dangerously close to winning the presidency. To sit back with the sense that nothing need be done about this, were one in a position to do something, might therefore be the highest form of irresponsibility.

In 1975-76, Paul McCartney and Denny Laine did a song called, “Must Do Something About It,” which was based on a communication I had sent to Paul McCartney at a time when, like now, I was of significance to Paul McCartney. My communication immediately followed a McCartney radio interview, in which he said that on his upcoming concert tour he was likely to do his songs note perfect to the version heard on the recordings, as that’s what the people wanted. My communication stated that it (the communication) should be regarded as my vote, that it would be more real if he felt at liberty to change the notes, and that if he should ever wish to visit my school, CalArts, I would be delighted to show him around (i.e., “hold your coat”).

When one considers that Denny Laine became Paul McCartney’s main musical collaborator following John Lennon, it seems something of a contrast to, in any manner, juxtapose that song’s “must do something about it…. or not” persona within proximity of Lennon’s “I sure as hell will do something about stuff” outward persona.

And that brings us to the stage that has now been set. Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel (who sat next to me on an airplane Easter Sunday 1978, the year the Pope would have wanted to be sitting next Billy Joel, owing to his recent hit about a Catholic girl hiding behind a stained glass curtain counting on her rosary; Easter Sunday 1978, three weeks before I received a letter from Paul McCartney regarding my upcoming graduation from film school; Easter Sunday 1978, six weeks before Rolling Stone Magazine’s June Random Notes piece about Lennon considering a part in a movie called “Street Messiah”, which I followed up on, and might have succeeded in working on had it ever been made) will be performing for Obama on October 16th, with surprise guests.

There is a great, wise expression: “It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it.” I would not want McCartney publicly supporting Obama if it were to be done clumsily, in a run of the mill fashion, as a typical celebrity endorsement, or tainted by seeming like an upstaging, or as something pointedly alienating to anyone not of like mind. But what I would love to see would be if McCartney could find a good way to fuse a Beatle-like feeling (from when they suggested the group persona of a social movement) together with the kind of support for Obama that is like being part of the rising spirit of a new social movement.

The suggestion I would like to make, as simple as it may sound, would accomplish a lot, in addition to meeting the only real criteria – it feels “right”: I would like to suggest a reunion of Paul McCartney and Denny Laine as part of the Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen Obama event. It would provide the perfect proximity to present times for the “ghost” of John Lennon’s activist spirit; it would contain the promise of musical chemistry yet unexplored; it is the right time, as Denny Laine’s new book about Paul McCartney could be seen as implying that their famous relationship could now finally be in the right place for such a musical reunion.

Obviously, I am far outside of the real inner issues McCartney and Laine would have to address in making such a decision. So: let this opinion of mine just be seen as.... one vote.

An Open Letter To Paul McCartney Calling For His Public Endorsement of Obama

The title of this blog entry would seem to say it all. Yet I would like to throw a few things into the mix, things impossible to believe for some, things already known to others, things to think about for a certain number of people (how many people? I don’t think I will ever devise the method for figuring out precisely how many people should think about these things!).

1. Back in 1978-1979, when Robert Rickles and I worked for an environmental company called, WAPORA, I asked Rickles what had become of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It had been the longest period yet in Lennon’s “career” (to use the most simplistic term) without music from him, and Rickles seemed the person for me to ask. Rickles was a buddy of then-Speaker of the House of Reps Tip O’Neil; Rickles had been Bella Abzug’s right hand; Rickles hung with some very well known, very left liberals. No more than one week later John and Yoko took out a full page ad in the New York Times, “An Open Letter To Those Who Ask What Became Of John And Yoko”. I was extremely important in relation to John Lennon back then, even if it was through middle men.

2. Paul McCartney, I am and have been extremely important in relation to you. May I say, people sensing that you are the type who would support Obama is not the same as rendering it tangible. Palin doesn’t even believe global warming is man-made. You cannot pass on taking sides when the failure to do so could mean another eight years (McCain could drop dead any minute and Palin would then be president) of matters discussed in “An Inconvenient Truth” (to reference the nightmare facing the Earth in the most abbreviated manner).

3. When I came up with the words and ideas for Lennon that were then formed by him into the opening of the song “Starting Over”, my words and ideas touched on ideas contained in words from the old song, “Walking In The Sand”: “Whatever happened to the life I gave to you, what will I do with it now?” Though I never said those words, I spoke of all the people who existed as a group because of something precious that Lennon possessed, and that now he had to do something with “it”, what could he do with it now, the life they gave to him. Thus it was a thing, an it, that Lennon possessed in my way of putting it, a thing that he had to (or should, whatever that means or meant) do something with. Lennon put the “Walking In The Sand” phrase into an early version of “Free As A Bird”, and I recognized from past experience his keying in on the thought I expressed to a middle man. I also used the word “precious” a million times in my little speech, a reference to the opening track on “Walls and Bridges”. And here is where we find a fundamental, recurring difference between Lennon and yourself. In your “Beatle-ization” (excellent in almost every way) of “Free As A Bird”, you essentially made the “whatever happened to” into a bemoaning of the loss of a feeling that “always made me feel so free.” At some point in his life Lennon tried to give tangible substance and shape to the power given to The Beatles, a power beyond a feeling. You do this too, but to a lesser degree. I once worked for Howard Smith, who introduced Lennon to Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, and others of their socio-political orientation/disposition. This almost led to Lennon’s involvement in protests at the 1972 Republican Convention, but Lennon opted out, an action taken (or rather, an inaction taken) because of his not wanting to lose his fight for American citizenship. Now you took Lennon’s counterpoint to the idea of being “home and dry” in “Free As A Bird”, the countering undercurrent against just being a complacent animal, and you turned it into bemoaning the loss of an important feeling. An endorsement of Obama would, in my mind, help restore this thing of Lennon’s that you neutralized in making (that great Beatles song) “Free As A Bird”. We are not bemoaning the loss of an important feeling, we are needing a thing of tangible substance that can make a difference in people’s lives. We have empowered you - now use it.