All The News That Has A Feeling Of The Right Amount Of Newness

A few notes, presented here in a manner devoid of all insight or perspective into how this might all affect the state of humanity some day! And while I essentially just feel myself to be wearing my reporter's hat at present, I totally see where it does look a little more like I'm actually trying to make a crown of sorts appear upon my head. Okay, well, I get a kick out of wearing crowns! (have I neutralized the deep tension that has subtly plagued mankind over what hats go where for all eternity? not yet?)

THE DAILY SHOW
In my previous blog (12/11/11), I was pushing for SNL (Saturday Night Live) to use material from one of two recent writings of mine for their last show before Christmas. They invariably work stuff I "submit" for that week's show in, though usually in fragments too different or small to be recognizable for what they are, unless one is clued in. Though I don't see how anyone making the effort could fail to appreciate the evidenciary nature of what I generally submit, when I can. They aren't always vague in their reference.

One of those two writings of mine, "Dostoyevsky's 'A Christmas Carol'" (published to Archive.Org by me on 11/27/11), did get used - however, not on SNL, but on another favorite show of mine, "The Daily Show". As I have occasionally described in my blogs, both "The Daily Show" and "The Cobert Report" occasionally find ways to incorporate my material into theirs, sometimes in a very big way, and most likely things aimed by me towards the next SNL.

In this case, I refer to their segment with John Hodgman, which aired 12/14/11. And if I may boast, this was their second to last show before Christmas, and unlike SNL, Daily Show's second to last show before Christmas is only a day apart from their very last show before Christmas. New Year's Eve too, for that matter, so thank me for your Daily Show holiday send-off, or one part of it. Or don't thank me, though it is the holiday season, you might want to thank me just for anything at all. Happy Holidays!

In my above-referenced writing, we find a reworking of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," with the anti-Capitalist message specifically removed as a chief part of the amusing convolution of things. John Boehner, one of the hosts of the movie presentation described in my writing, is seen to be tearful with emotion at viewing the story's new non-anti-Capitalist turn (it is for this reason that I edited in a little special emphasis on Hodgman's tearfulness, in case you somehow missed my point that their 12/14/11 bit comes from my 11/27/11 bit initially meant for SNL's 12/17/11 show):




SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
While SNL apparently passed on the two writings I hoped would make their way in some form or another into their 12/17/11 show (though perhaps it is too soon to know these have no use to them), I did notice that they picked up on at least one thing contained in my previous blog (12/11/11). Those who read that blog prior to their 12/17 show will know as a certainty that I was several days prior to that show referring to how in my "Gosk" video, "One finds a montage in which a violinist is getting set up to play classical music, but the montage is coordinated with a Motown song." On SNL several days later, we find a sketch in which Beethoven conducts an orchestra playing Motown music. I have previously mentioned that SNL occasionally evidences that they follow these blogs. I might further add that their sketch on Spielberg's "War Horse" immediately followed this sketch, which I believe SNL did apropos of what came up in my previous blog, when I was discussing something Spielberg recently said on TCM.

I noticed something else on SNL's 12/17 show as well, though it is more obscure and requires great experience and knowledge in these shorthands to appreciate, perhaps. Or maybe you can pick it right up. I refer to the end of my 12/11 blog, where I pretend to plea, on little Tiny Tim's behalf, that SNL include an idea contained in a writing of mine, as it could help Tiny Tim. That sort of approach to creating something for SNL - do it for Tiny Tim. Then, on SNL's 12/17 show, Adam Sandberg calls to host Jimmy Fallon as he's creating a song, to please include something in it for the Jews. Fallon then obliged Sandberg, which had itself sort of been Sandberg obliging me, in trying to get an idea through about getting an idea through. God bless us everyone!

STEVEN SPIELBERG
For this next section, I will begin with an analogy to that thing on "LIVE With Regis and Kelly" (back in the day), where they have a number selected at random by the person on the phone means a person in the audience with that same number gets something. Because: this isn't that, despite looking like that. I've confused you already....

I took from a graphic artwork book of mine, "Go Eyes, Go!", (posted at Archive.Org) a specific image, and reproduced it beneath my signature line on all of my emails where I work, as sort of my logo. I did this from 8/10/09 to 12/28/10, and though thousands and thousands of such emails bear witness, I didn't gett around to emailing everyone who ever lived everywhere, my oops). The work, like it or not, is entitled "A Separate Thing":


Few images come closer to summoning a thought towards the new Steven Spielberg movie, "War Horse". The predominant focus of my signature line logo image is a photograph I took in the English countryside (Dorset), so, essentially the identical setting and subject of "War Horse." Furthermore, it does not simply bring to mind a random moment in the movie, rather, it tends to preserve the film's most innocent (almost iconically innocent) period.

I now abruptly must return to the above "LIVE With Regis" analogy. I recognize that invariably someone (or more than one) make prominent an image that connects to this or another movie or whatever at any given time, I do get that this is a statistical inevitability that someone has the number called out. What distinguishes my circumstance in a complete and total way, however, is that for Spielberg to be influenced in an important decision by something I'm betting my chips on is extremely consistent of him. I believe much evidence of this has already been presented by me from time to time, and would suggest interested predators and good people put in a moment and see my video, "Steven Spielberg and The Mall Man Factor", which can be viewed at Archive.Org). Of additional relevance in this instance is that, according to Wikipedia, Spielberg first announced in December 2009 that he was going to direct "War Horse". I began using this as the image at the bottom of all of my emails in August 2009. This was the image I had committed to, in a way, if you look at it that way.

• I have previously asserted that the DreamWorks' recurring opening montage was created apropos of the opening moment in my video, "Gosk".

• I have previously asserted that "Jurassic Park" began with the first thing I ever sent Spielberg, which was via a friend of his with whom I had spoken the day before, the title of which, "The Coin That Came In Second" (also posted at Archive.Org) alluding to the idea of occupants of a prehistoric artificial natural habitat environment somehow, perhaps ominously, escaping from there.
  

• Lots of other stuff
  

I also noticed stuff in the newly released Spielberg movie, "TinTin", and at the risk of appearing to see things (as I always do!), will just mention that I am certain of inside-references in that movie to my little music video, "Whatever Happened" (posted at Archive.Org). References to this music video of mine previously seemed the mostly exclusive domain of Joseph Gordon-Leavitt (who will be in the upcoming Spielberg movie about Lincoln), which I've discussed in earlier blogs.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, WORLD!

P.S. PAUL MCCARTNEY
The title of the upcoming (in February) Paul McCartney release has just been officially announced as, "Kisses On The Bottom". I researched it, and it comes from one of the songs on the album, and in context has to do with the bottom of a letter. I have long asserted and demonstrated (whenever possible) my great (or good at least) influence on Paul McCartney, particularly when we're talking about his album titles and/or album covers (not that there is direct communication where I'm concerned, in fact, well, I don't know exactly how it goes, actually, though I'm sure somebody has a good explanation for why I'm not a billionaire which just popped into my head and may explain why there's no direct communication). Continuing.... I cannot help but observe how this album title of Paul McCartney's conceptually connects, or interconnects, so distinctly with my observation about the signature line on my emails. Because I'm crazy enough to hope that one day everyone in the whole world will be on the same page, except maybe for the illiterates, those lousy bums, so pay attention in school and occupy your fingers, then your hands, then the universe, I'm probably leaving out a few steps. I'm going to have to leave things there for 2011.

Three Show & Tell Points Pending Approval of Review Board

Studying For The Big Show And Tell Exam
These two photographs of me are from over 50 years ago. I look older now.





Something Of Possible Interest To Those Who Go Overboard For Christopher Walken
Whether or not you possess the socks, or the IQ, or the proclivity for doing research, or the whatever that would be necessary to appreciate the point made in the first paragraph of my August 22, 2009 blog article ("Graffiti Is In The Eyes Of The Typesetter"), you cannot dispute certain things:

1. First, that this article definitely was not written apropos of recent events, as it was copyrighted at Archive.Org in November 2009 as part of a volume of my collected blog articles.
2. Second, that this article asserts that the "Gods Behaving Badly" project (an entertainment industry project that first manifested before the public via Marie Philips' best-selling novel of the same name being purchased for development as a TV show by Red Hour, the film company of Stuart Cornfeld and Ben Stiller) resulted from my "In Orders We Trust" project. (Again: appreciating that this assertion was made by me does not require that you concur with the assertion - the point here is simply that the assertion regarding this project was made at this time.)
   

Now that this exact same "Gods Behaving Badly" project is to become a movie starring Christopher Walken, its very title, "Gods Behaving Badly," will tend to automatically bring to the mind of the public the current mystery surrounding Walken's possible involvement with relation to the recently reopened investigation into the death of Natalie Wood. Which was huge in the news during Thanksgiving, and which one expects will continue to "resurface" (with apologies to Natalie Wood) with like intensity.

My larger point becomes:

Here we have yet another instance where a huge story in the media contains a component of considerable interest that leads back to me - in this case, the upcoming Christopher Walken movie, "Gods Behaving Badly," the title of which will unquestionably prompt one to think of the Natalie Wood death; it will furthermore become obvious to one and all that this movie is prompting this thought, owing to the enormity of the news story and the wording of the title. The news story generating a shadow over Walken, how far his negative side may have gone in real life, and a similar shadow suggested by the words, "Gods Behaving Badly" - how far do the Gods entitle themselves to go?

I Hear That
Those who saw Steven Spielberg's recent appearance on TCM discussing music in his films may recall his description of how, on set, he might occasionally address his music director, John Williams, out loud but in his absence, when particularly cognizant that he has done something that will get interesting further down the "assemby line" when it becomes Williams' turn to contribute something to the material.

This was a rare television appearance by Steven Spielberg, therefore, a special appearance. Therefore, those who have followed me on the subject of my being a secret, significant influence on Spielberg may, like me, have had their receptors up and running, ready to detect that which might lend itself as something to further support my contention.

In this one must first recognize that at no time will Spielberg ever look directly at the camera and state, "Jonathan David Steinhoff is the most amazing person in the universe." No, not directly. All things communicated by Spielberg to express this thought about me, or perhaps only a diluted version of this thought, would occupy a form on some other level, and only via a more subtle means would simultaneously contain this. For we live in a cold realm, where people are only somewhat effusive with regard to one another. I once actually saw an award show where the winning actor only referred to his director as a phenomenal genius, rather than referring to him as the most incredible genius who ever lived, which would have been more correct, at least in my view. However, I was discussing people recognizing one another.

So to continue, yes, if one were looking there was something there.

It is an often seen event, in instances where one finds a work that makes reference to me/my material, that:

• There is something contained in the material of another that suggests one is being alerted to the specific place in my material that is in relation to the influence or inside-reference
  

• Alongside the similarity, an additional component that further connects that same material
  

The moment in my material to which I was alerted while watching Spielberg on TCM is in my video posted at Archive.Org, "Gosk, Part 2". Vinkalert is by himself, yet says out loud, "Dockert, I can see the car." A moment later, he drops his pail because it changed from being a bluegreen pail to being a purple pail. That's when we hear the song by Procol Harum, "Whiter Shade of Pale".

So, not only was a specific moment in one of my works brought to mind while watching something that I pre-anticipated would contain something regarding my work (it being that Spielberg does this frequently with regard to me/my material). The subject of Spielberg and Williams talking on TCM was all about music in film. And what could be additionally said of the moment of mine Spielberg brought to mind? Of all the moments in all my work, it is the singular moment that takes the whole idea of music in film and cracks a joke about it - without compromising the mood of the moment. Throughout "Gosk" I was interspersing the idea of music as something to be heard from "outside the box", but this moment was the most direct.

Other music related moments in "Gosk" that I also would have found sufficiently relevant, had Spielberg brought such moments to mind:

• One finds a montage in which a violinist is getting set up to play classical music, but the montage is coordinated with a Motown song.

• Women from the planet Klug are automatically mesmerized by Earth music, therefore, as we watch shots of the musician intercut as part of the scene, and hear him playing, the music as we hear it transends its traditional role in such a scene.

• Following a montage I use to introduce a scene, the same song heard playing as part of the montage completely changes in significance by the song itself becoming the initial focus of discussion when the dialog in the scene begins (the introduction of the spacecraft interior in "Gosk 1").

I might additionally note that the actor in my "Gosk" scene who speaks out loud to Dockert in his absence was Joni Mitchell's art director in real life. Mitchell goes way back with David Geffen, who, together with Spielberg and Katzenberg, run DreamWorks. I might also mention that it was ONE WEEK after I told a group of my "Gosk" actors, "I don't recommend using the park's restroom, I would suggest if possible waiting until later when you can use a restaurant bathroom," just one week later, one week I tell you, that George Michael had that scandal where he was caught beating off in a park's bathroom and somehow wound up as a result being David Geffen's houseguest for a week according to the papers (had to remain in town as a result or something, who remembers exactly?). Admittedly, the Joni Mitchell art director/"Gosk" actor wasn't in the specific "Gosk" group I addressed on the subject of restrooms in parks, however, he specifically told me on a separate occasion that he had previously worked with one of the actors who was in that "Gosk" group, so with that kind of cross-pollination, and the kind of attention I generally secretly receive, I think this is putting two and two together, from all that I've seen in the past. Oh yeah, and Sean Daniel, to whom I refer from time to time, once ran Geffen's film production company, though what that has to do with me, well, actually, I suppose it has something to do with me, I just don't quite know what. David Geffen was in the physical presence of John Lennon when Lennon was shot, though Lennon is not known to have called out to him, or to Yoko, or to Dockert. But I'm sure I digress.


SNL, PART 1 OF 3.4 MILLION
I should begin by explaining, SNL is secret code language for the television show, "Saturday Night Live".

Below are my Facebook posting of a photograph with my comment, plus another comment from me regarding it below that. I believe these suggest to those who have been following things that, as a more significant part of my ongoing substantial influence on SNL, two consecutive SNLs had political opening sketches which had as their basic idea something I had days before brought up "on the record". One might have to appreciate the context of my being quite (that's right, I said quite) the influence on SNL over the years (as conveyed in numerous blog articles I've written), in order to appreciate my reading of things - please read more, at your leisure, in earlier blogs of mine, be my guest (you may want to go to archive.org, make a single document from the 5 volumes of postings there of my blog articles, and presto, you'll have a searchable database of all of my blogs posted to archive.org thus far).


Jonathan Steinhoff
Herbert Lamm on the left, then my mother (Herbert's cousin) and my father. My understanding, though you didn't hear it from me, is that Mom and Cousin Herbert were great Communists together in their youth, in the Bronx. Herbert later married the sister of Sidney Buchman, who wrote "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington," "Holiday", "Talk Of The Town", etc., and was the head of the Screenwriters Union during WW II, etc., etc. (I therefore credit my mother with every bad thing said on-screen about Hitler during his reign, though it could be said I have an exaggerated belief in my mother's influence on the world, especially when I was a youth, etc., etc., etc.)
December 1 at 5:50pm

Jonathan Steinhoff
Those who caught my subtly ambiguous use of the word "reign" here (Hitler's or Buchman's?) may further notice SNL's taking this very concept further in their opening sketch last night. I've previously referred to my influence on their previous (11/19/11) show's opening sketch as well. My continuing thoughts on this will be next appearing in an upcoming blog!
December 4 at 8:11am

I would add, the SNL sketch to which I refer had Obama explaining how we are not living under his rule, he is only five on the list of the most powerful people in the U.S. Certain show biz individuals came ahead of him, though the application of the exact word "reign" did not literally materialize with regard to a show biz name. It was there, however.


SNL, PART 2 OF 3.4 MILLION
On last night's SNL, there was a sketch about Al Sharpton's political TV show on MSNBC. At one point, as if to represent the idea of an obscure political theory that has been fixated on, Sharpton over and over repeats the idea of the GOP having rocks in their heads, until the phrase appears at the bottom of the screen, "GOP: Rocks In Their Heads?" He further tries to interconnect with this phrase, the idea of "stone walling", the words stone walling said repeatedly, Sharpton saying, "Stone walling? You know, stones are just a variation on rocks. So they have rocks, big old roley poley rocks, in their head?" He finds numerous opportunities beyond these to say "Stone Walling" and "Rocks in their heads". My previous blog, and therefore my last blog before this show, gave the word "stone walling" the importance of being included in the blog title: "All I Want For Christmas Is A Stone Wall". My blog article immediately previous to that blog article refers to the idea of rocks in someone's head, using the phrase several times, while I specifically discuss a previous SNL reference to me/my material. This discussion about rocks in the head goes back to a previous thing I came up with about Larry, The Geologist Of The Mind.

I Was A Prisoner of A Cop Who Wouldn’t Let Anyone Leave The Office Christmas Party Until He Found Out Who Brought The Pot As A White Elephant Gift For 50 Hours
Yes, all that is the title of my newest comedy sketch writing, or for short, "I Was A Prisoner Of A Cop". And as with the one before it ("Dostoyevsky's 'A Christmas Carol'"), it would be most appropriate for their very last SNL before Christmas, and I don't know why I haven't seen a single trace of either one of these ideas on an SNL show yet (I ask but a single trace of one of these ideas, Mr. Michaels, spare a trace if you can, happy holidays to you and yours, sir! It's Tiny Tim, sir, he hasn't been at all well! spare a trace of my sketch idea that'll say something to help poor Tiny Tim!). Oh yes, and on this subject, SNL's last show before Christmas will be taking place this Saturday, or the one after it, or possibly next month (I'm never sure about anything).

http://www.archive.org/details/IWasAPrisonerOfACopWhoWouldntLetAnyoneLeaveTheOfficeChristmas

All I Want For Christmas Is A Stone Wall

Two things worth noting since last time - my sketch idea submitted for the Nov. 19th SNL, "Talking Dirty Cups On A Dirty Kitchen Counter At Thanksgiving Time":

http://www.archive.org/details/TalkingDirtyCupsOnADirtyKitchenCounteratThanksgivingTime

and my sketch idea submitted for the Dec. 3rd SNL, "Dostoyevsky's 'A Christmas Carol'":

http://www.archive.org/details/DostoyevskysaChristmasCarolcomedySketch

Those who saw (or will see) the Nov. 19th show will notice in their opening sketch the idea of Romney cleaning a teacup was used to represent the opposite of a sleazy type; in my sketch, a dirty cup is used to represent a sleazy type. This fact, combined with SNL's ongoing references (for years and years) to material I submit for that week's show, says a mouthful (not just a sipful). In the neither-here-nor-there dept., there were other possible references on that show. A sketch about a mattress ended with the image of a glass of wine, it NOT spilling being the essential meaning of the image - my sketch has a cup bemoaning that his new crack will result in liquid spilling from him. Another sketch took place in a bar called "The Empty Glass" - if seen in the context I describe, it is related. And finally, in my previous blog, I state (in a discussion relating to SNL) that crude is often regarded as a surefire approach (that blog is not yet copyrighted, so if you didn't read it before the show, you might admittedly consider it had been written any time, though it was not). This idea was central to their opening Romney sketch, wherein he wishes to compete with the edgier personalities of Cain and Perry by appearing more crude than he is.

Those unfamiliar with the degree of my impact on SNL may have difficulty accepting the idea that I should have had so powerful an effect on that show.

COMING SOON:
Something for Christopher Walken and Steven Spielberg fans, or not, depending on your point of view.

Lawrence of Wherever

From The Ridiculous
SNL (secret code language for Saturday Night Live) has, for the millionth show in the past million years, made some kind of inside reference to material I provided for that show, specifically, something I (officially) posted to www.archive.org on Monday, Oct. 31st, 12:39am Greenwich Mean Time (Sunday, Oct. 30th in California): "We Do That Too".

"We Do That Too" is my comedy idea specifically meant for the Nov. 5th SNL. Throughout the bit, the action of wetting oneself flows through it like a beautiful river (as the prejudiced author, I may have waxed a little too poetic in my description, but the essential thing makes it through: wetting oneself is the predominant action of the bit).

The Nov. 5th SNL included a bit all about pooping oneself (the Dr. Oz takeoff where the person who poops himself is the focus of a magnificent demonstration that one can't forget, though perhaps someday I can charge people to read "We Do That Too" as a possible remedy that might assist one in forgetting to some degree anyway, but I digress).

So in conclusion, while people have been pooping and wetting themselves ever since they first began wearing animal skins (not that there are any cave paintings where they admit it, but what do you expect), and also making references to same ever since as well, this is not the proper context in which to scrutinize what has occurred here. Here we have the upteenth example of me submitting a comedy sketch idea for that week's SNL, and them taking something from it.

I would just like to add that the core of my idea was not used. My idea includes a concept in addition to the.... other stuff. I was going for how big business will try to co-opt a true group spirit (Occupy Wall Street) by latching onto something irrelevant they have in common with the movement and running with it. I do not normally go for the crude (though it is for many a surefire approach), but in this case, wetting oneself struck me as the obvious common ground for co-opters to exploit. In the '60s, we saw people grow their hair long without having any true belief in the spirit of freedom it connoted at the time, ultimately co-opting real change. So I say, beware the..... beware the..... perhaps you should read "We Do That Too" for yourself.

To The Not Ridiculous Enough (But Close)
When it came to the Nov. 12th SNL, I offered my comedy sketch idea, "It'll Shake Your Head". I posted this one to www.archive.org on Tuesday, Nov. 8th, 4:30am Greenwich Mean Time (or Monday, Nov. 7th California time).

SNL did an incredibly minor reference to it on their Nov. 12th show, would not begin to count as a reference, if not for the aforedescribed context that has developed over the years, as well as a shorthand.

Specifically, "It'll Shake Your Head" is about a Glen Beck-type named Larry, The Geologist of the Mind, who explains all things political with a crazy concept having to do with invisible Tectonic Plates in the sky that act on the human mind.

The Nov. 12th SNL had a game show sketch in which the characters had to guess the secret word without the person prompting them saying it. Kristin Wiig said the name, "Scientist Kate". It was not a secret, so it was okay for her to say, "Scientist Kate". Had she said, "Larry, The Geologist Of The Mind", that would have been a different matter - so, "Scientist Kate" in, "Larry, The Geologist Of The Mind" out.

An additional thing, though I attach little to it, was their opening, wherein Rick Perry is shot in the head but the bullet bounces off. This could be said to bring to mind the idea of having rocks in one's head, or a plate in one's head. If this did bring such a thought to mind, well, rock's in one's head, geologist of the mind, plate in one's head, Tectonic plate affecting our minds.... who knows what was going on inside their heads!

And now it gets scary. Glen Beck was looking at me contemplatively in traffic several weeks ago. So then, on the night of Nov. 8th on his show, Glen Beck guts a fish named Larry as part of a symbolic attack on mainstream media. I don't enjoy watching people defecate, and so never watch the Glen Beck Show, but apparently this was noteworthy enough to rate a Huffington Post article. I did a little further research, and found that the last posting on YouTube of Beck and his Larry the Fish was 2.5 years ago, in March 2009. So Larry the Fish returns after over two years in order to appear within less than a day of the appearance of the Beck-like Larry, The Geologist Of The Mind. A character created by me (a secret perpetual influence on the often political SNL) prompting a reaction from Glen Beck. Nope, wouldn't be at all surprised to find this is the Republicans remembering my influence on SNL when the 2008 election was getting into full swing.

In Other News
There's been other stuff worthy of mention, however, I don't really have the energy (did I mention I still don't have a 9-5 that takes into account my solemn duties as one of the most secretly influential people in the world at a time in history when that could make a real difference, and so my energy gets sapped by non-solemn duties? still waiting for Spielberg, McCartney, or somebody to call and tell me I can officially be seated upon my throne....).

I originally was inspired with the Tectonic Plates concept in "It'll Shake Your Head" as something for an animation of some kind. I saw it as containing huge possibilities. Now I see Glen Beck gutting a fish, and somehow, that messes with the whole thing (hopefully I'm mistaken). I mention this so that Spielberg or McCartney will feel compelled to call before another fish pays the price!

Fish Credit (or Addendum To The Last Thing)

Addendum To The Last Thing (or Fish Credit)

After a careful review of my description of the Klein/seasick in fishing boat cabin description found in my 11.8.09 blog, "The Price Of Freedom, And The Free Of Pricedom" (also published to Archive.Org 11.10.09 as part of the 1st volume of my collected blogs), which preceded the reference to same in my 10.23.11 (most recent) blog, "Chosen Leader In Reserve", brought up at that time while on the subject of a movie about credit for spotting birds ("The Big Year")....

I find that I feel exactly the same as I have always felt about credit deserved regarding that fish.  I shall always feel this way.  Case closed.

Chosen Leader In Reserve

Idiot-Proof Evidence Of Something-Or-Another
For those who might feel a vacuum from there not having been a Saturday Night Live last night, and/or if you're nostalgic for several SNL shows ago, or/and you're looking for proof of some kind of something or another relating to my blogs occasionally pointing at Stuart Cornfeld/Ben Stiller (who run Red Hour Films together, Stuart being someone I once sort of knew going back to 1975 and later and then back to 1975 then go to 1993), or whatever, then perhaps you will enjoy this little videoclip*:
*"The Chosen Leader of Florsheim Shoes" can be found at:
http://www.archive.org/details/TheChosenLeaderOfFlorsheimShoes




In Totally Minor, Unimportant News
That sketch they did on SNL (Oct. 1st I think it was), where they regard Hidden Valley Ranch Salad Dressing as a food to be consumed obsessively rather than as a mere salad dressing: that must have resulted from my mentioning to someone at work that Hidden Valley Ranch Salad Dressing is so great it should be treated like a main course in itself. How? In previous blogs I've touched on how my "secret" super-importance has led to my workplace environments invariably becoming infiltrated as if I was at the center of some kind of Hollywood (and more) chessboard (which I am). Obviously you weren't there, and so those who don't check out the evidence of my being truthful (e.g., the above videoclip) will not want to give me any credibility here.

I more recently have seen additional references to me/my material in a number of things: "Unstoppable"; "The Rite"; "The Green Hornet"; probably lots of other stuff, can't recall off-hand.

I surprisingly didn't notice anything in connection with me in the excellent new Cornfeld/Stiller/Black/ Martin/Wilson movie, "The Big Year" (please note- appreciating why the word "surprisingly" applies requires years of research).

It happens I once did a conceptual collage, "Finding Life" (below) that touches on the subject of "The Big Year", however, this would not "count", by my standards, as something to be regarded as a deliberate act on their part. They also had a character getting seasick and having to sit in the cabin of a fishing boat, as happened to me over 40 years ago when I was with the family of the then-future senior editor of "Money Magazine", Bob Klein (my family and the Kleins were old friends, and so went on a joint family vacation together in Cape Cod in the mid-60s). This also does not "count", as Cornfeld/Stiller provided no tie-in. Bob's daughter, Amy, did photograph me now and then during the '80s, but, nope, doesn't "count", as I was not a bird (and never will be). I nevertheless reserve the right to return to this as I may yet find something. Can't understand why they suddenly left me out, I don't get it....

Finding Life"

from "Go Eyes, Go!", copyright 1993, posted at Archive.Org June 2007

If I Was Cool You'd Be In Trouble

Well, there is quite a bit I might point out about my influence on last night's season premiere of SNL (Saturday Night Live). It's a detail-oriented job, but somebody's gotta do it. I do not revolve around this kind of thing, but do consider it all the type of stuff someone ought to be noting. And I also wanted to remind you, SNL has been thought to possess some kind of influence on the American Presidential campaigns, therefore, for five dollars you can tell me which candidate you want me to send in a joke about (or two dollars if the candidate is unlikely to win to begin with).

In the past I have asserted that my influence on this show (and on many others, such as Paul McCartney, Steven Spielberg, etc., etc.) is ongoing, and for the most part my SNL influence has involved just-written material of mine that didn't even exist at the time of the preceding SNL show. This has gone on for years and years, and there are times when I appear to have considerable standing around there - though it is for some reason forbodden for them to acknowledge or pay me. C'mon everybody, admit I'm a major influence, no one will get mad, we all know how it goes, the public expects there to be some sort of secret person behind the scenes who has some sort of magical, non-direct relationship with all, even more people than believe in the Easter Bunny.

Given the many things I've established in past blog articles, apparent to those with intelligence willing to invest the time and effort, I do not consider it presumptuous for me to ask reasonable people to weigh those things also included that I cannot specifically prove through readily available Internet resources - such resources do make available evidence of enough things to make the conclusion that I am a significant influence obvious to all.

Since the 2011 SNL season finale (i.e., since their last show), I have posted four comedy ideas at the site where I almost invariably post my comedy ideas, Archive.Org:

• "Amnesia Land" (6.11.11)
• "Investigations Into Why They Were Given Special Thanks" (8.5/11)
  
• "The Everywhere Crowd" (9.3.11)
• "Catcher In the None Of Your Business" (9.10.11)

[The dates are all copyrighted at the Archive.Org site]

1. On last night's SNL season premiere, a sketch about Susan Lucci had EVERYONE in the room raise their hand when asked if they ever individually had amnesia at one time or another on their soap opera. In my "Amnesia Land" sketch, EVERYONE in the room at one time or another is conked on the head to induce amnesia.

2. Not quite so obvious a reference to my "Amnesia Land" sketch occurred during SNL's last sketch of the night. A soldier comes to the side of another soldier lying on the ground dying, then must go a few feet away to cajole another dying soldier lying on the ground, then a third, then back to the first, and so on and so forth being the ongoing idea. In my "Amnesia Land," as each person in a room is one by one knocked down by a conk on the head, one of them comes to their side to cajole them back to "consciousness", this happening over and over as the ongoing idea.

2.001 SNL last night apparently forgot to include anything from the three other comedy ideas I posted since their 2011 season finale, and forgetting is something amnesiacs do (this is not a serious basis for correlation, and is instead a humorous remark on my part, humorrous for those who find it funny, that is - however, I may be explaining the obvious).

3. In the opening sketch, SNL had the Republican candidate John Huntsman asking you to vote for him while speaking in a (deliberately) poor Chinese accent. Earlier that day on Facebook, in posting a link to my video about Putin and Kasparov, "Bishop Pawn Forfeit Rule," my Comment was to use a deliberately poor Russian accent wording to ask you not to vote for Putin (as yesterday's news was the announcement that Putin was running again).

4. I have previously posted (and then time-stamped by reposting to Archive.Org as part of my volumes of collections of my blog articles) my assertion that Paul McCartney several years ago made a surprise appearance on SNL a week after I wrote to him through an intermediary asking him to be in a comedy sketch regarding my "Recipe For Fun" video (posted at YouTube, where I'm "Zoomsteinhoff") - I will not detail here the reasons behind that request. I am generally a major influence on a lot of Paul McCartney work, so I was not as surprised as I might otherwise have been when he appeared in a sketch with Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin and Martin Short, all about who had the poison in their drink. So you see, practically identical to the title of my video, "Recipe For Fun". Last night on SNL, Alec Baldwin was joined in his opening monologue by Steve Martin. They did a sketch not at all dissimilar from the aforementioned sketch that McCartney had participated in, in my view: it regarded what was in Alec Baldwin's urine sample, which Steve Martin drank in order to discern. In Alec's and Steve's sketch with Paul, again, a disgusting beverage (to the extent that a drink containing poison is disgusting). So it seems to me, this all comes back to me and my "Recipe For Fun".

5. A week ago I posted on Facebook a YouTube video of the Paul McCartney song, "My Brave Face" (a song on which I was an influence). That song contains the line, "I've been taking dirty dishes and throwing them away." On SNL last night, the Red Flag sketch has a character smashing one dish after the other, going through a whole pile of dishes. One could correctly use the term "throwing away" to describe what she was doing with the dishes. Yet they were not dirty dishes, one assumes they were relatively clean dishes. [I do not feel the cleanness of the dishes undermines my point; however, I see where the witnesses to my Facebook posting of the video are limited to people fortunate enough to be my FB friends.]

6. Alec Baldwin is known to be among Paul McCartney's friends. Additionally, my previous blog article showed (to anyone intelligent enough to know how to disseminate the information) further substantial evidence of my influence on the work of film producer/Ben Stiller business partner, Stuart Cornfeld. So now add in how Steve Martin has a starring role in an upcoming Cornfeld film about spotting rare birds; Steve Martin's recent banjo album, entitled, "Rare Bird Alert," includes an (excellent) song with Paul McCartney on lead vocal.