Can't Completely Rule It Out

Here are a few things that belong in the category, "the more weight I attach, the more others will feel compelled to make light" (I've got to start writing about things that fall into a different category). Well, I guess I can stand the short-term break-even (or worse) that comes from this battle between attaching heaviness vs. being made light, in that matters of consequence endure and so I shall be vindicated for though fools may seek to rule the world.... I think I've already begun the making light process on my own. And so now, to be serious about what's serious (it is too). Or, as the title of this blog article states, here are some possibilities I cannot completely rule out, having experienced the strange things that I have (have too).

We've Got To Get Ourselves Back Off The Sofa (by Joni Mitchell)
In my previous blog article I mentioned how Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" apparently drove by me Saturday (admittedly, no fingerprints to support this conviction). I also took the opportunity in that blog article to repeat my oft-made assertion that I am an influence on him (and Colbert as well, as I've also oft-asserted). Older blogs of mine copyrighted on Archive.Org confirm that I didn't just start saying this yesterday (this Blogspot site confirms no chronology of when I said what, as one can attach any date to any article, and so I refer to what is copyrighted to Archive.Org).

In this context, one might consider, as a possibility, that there is greater significance to the following videoclip than merely being an instance of like minds thinking alike (then again, perhaps it could strike you as confirmation of same, or perhaps, different minds that haven't the slightest to do with one another, or, that Steinhoff sure hit the nail on the head this time, or, I wonder why he's talking about Colbert, that looks like Stewart):



I believe the upcoming event Stewart and Colbert allude to in the videoclip could ultimately prove to be the biggest event of the year, or something along those lines. Humor is a medium, and what these two do in that medium is most serious, in my view. Yes, I am serious about the seriousness of humor even if many make light of the weight of.... but some might say I digress, and the opinion of those who feel that way is what matters most to me in the whole world.

Some may feel the need for me to spell out how it is that I believe the Sept. 3rd comment I made on Huff Post as JonathanDS fits in with the direction in which Colbert and Stewart are taking things. It's simple. I reacted to the idea of a Colbert rally with the idea that it be juxtaposed as completely separate yet alongside a Jon Stewart rally, both essentially vying to occupy virtually the same space, despite the expectation that, if anything, it should be one big rally. And that is precisely how they are playing things out at this point. Easily possible I am making too much of a like minds think alike idea, limited in originality, no big deal. Also very possible that this, the biggest event in the history of mankind (I'm only quoting Colbert), in terms of the way Colbert and Stewart are handling it, sprang from my pen. Can those who have followed my influence on things, both in general and specifically, completely ignore this possibility? Would someone pay for my plane fare so I can attend? Or maybe, go to CD Baby and listen to my songs so that, penny by penny, I might at least make it halfway across the country, where I might watch the proceedings from a TV in a dingy hotel room, muttering to myself about the people who wouldn't pay to listen to my songs at CD Baby, that I might afford to be a few miles closer to where things are happening? Don't I deserve at least that, enough song money to be within a thousand miles of it? By the way, I recommend my song, "Whatever Happened" (which is also available for free elsewhere on the Internet in higher quality than mp3, as well as the music video, I didn't just say that, I wonder if Jimi Hendrix' ghost is laughing at me for that, which would be quite an honor).

Stop Pointing That Erasure At Me
Also difficult for me to ignore: In my August 22nd blog article I correlated the book burning in Ray Bradbury's "Farenheit 451" to the suppressive mentality of Iran's president. Now in the news we see this Terry Jones character suddenly causing an international stir with his vile plans to have a book burning of the Quran. I am not pleased by this (please note my use of the word "vile"). Nevertheless, of all the book burning the world has seen, rarely has the idea of such received this level of attention, including in this instance condemnation from the Pentagon, the Pope, and most importantly, Hillary Clinton (unless you're Catholic and/or militaristic, please don't put me in the middle of this). All this less than three weeks after my book burning referencing blog article. I do recognize that only those who read the blog article upon its publication could testify to this, it being that, as mentioned earlier, this Blogspot site makes it possible to fiddle with dates. Nevertheless, for those who know what I am saying is true about my having posted a blog article on August 22nd that makes significant anti-book burning mention, and also for those who have by now learned to believe me: this is far from the first time the right-wing has used me to springboard their crap onto center-stage. I suppose they would consider it their true crowning achievement if I permitted it to silence me, or bug me. Well, I can recognize a bright side. You see, when one plays pool, one often aims for the bank, it is well known that this is how to hit certain balls into certain pockets and leave oneself well-positioned. I think it extremely possible that, after Terry Jones is finished playing the antagonist in this little drama, the larger story that emerges will be a positive one. People who might otherwise seem aligned against all Muslims showing their repugnance at such conduct. Etc.

I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing Like Jimi Hendrix
And finally, on Sept. 6th, immediately following my Sept. 5th blog article about seeing words of my song show up in somebody's Facebook posting (seemingly inadvertantly), President Obama used words from a Hendrix song in a speech, as if inadvertantly ("they talk about me like a dog" - "Stone Free" by Jimi Hendrix). Okay, not enough here to necessarily construe that this had anything whatsoever to do with my blog article the previous day. How about the fact that the same blog article of mine held back from observing Hendrix song postings by Facebook friends who presumably don't know each other, in that they coincided with my Dwight Hendricks ("Memphis Beat") blog articles? I held back on including mention of those Hendrix incidents, though it would have been germaine to my blog article, owing to the fact that many see posting a Hendrix song on Facebook as being as common as using the word, "the". I would generally concur, if not for the collective significance when seen alongside the other stuff to which I was referring. But it was too obscure a point for me to make in my Sept. 5th blog article, so I held back - now, perhaps, things are different (too late!). I have also indicated in previous blogs that I am an occasional influence on what the President of the United States says. And that he is an old friend of someone I know at work.

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.