You just don't know what's real today and what is "reconstruction". You know how they reconstruct old buildings to look like they alledgedly did when they were new. Of course I'm not really sure whether the sattelite antenna on that California mission is authentic. I guess Williamsburg, Virginia was "restored" in such a manner in the 1920's to how the city looked in colonial days. Now they are restoring classics like the Apollo 11 first landing on the moon, and I must say it looks much better. They can do wonders with picture and sound. They got rid of all the pops in "Live At Leeds" I don't know how. Of course even Vince has shown how you can "erase objects" from a photograph and let electronic logic fill in the hole. This is how all that stuff works. It recreats what should have been there to begin with. Of course you know you can erase clothes off women's bodies in Paintbrush, using background and color matching. You can also do the whole cut-outs thing with photographs. I've done that a few times with photographs, but it clearly looks like a siscors and paste job.
Of course now they say that NASA has a major one inch reel to reel tape shortage in the 'seventies, and began erasing "classic" space walks and such, so that there remains very few of them. These would have been invaluable. Of course I have an in-law who every time she checked out one of my Dad's VHS tapes she would cover the tabs and erase the movie after watching it. A number of family members got on her case for this, and I don't think she does that any more. I myself have a lot of reel to reel audio tapes from the 'sixties and early 'seventies- - that are probably gone now. There are a lot of items besides my telescope, lamp, lamp table, kitchen utensils of all sorts, that are gone now. It's a particularly disturbing thing to contemplate that some of your writings may be lost. Today I have to back up my computer because tomorrow it's going to Staples to have an anti-virus installed.
But it seems that people's memories of things gets airbrushed. As you know I have a number of memory conflicts with "the official version" of things. I remember the death of John Bonnum, and the release of "Gaucho" by Steely Dan as being a whole year before the "official version". Just now there were two "memory divergencies" with a Beatles show. They are now saying the Beatles trip to Austrailia was a big success. As I remember it from a prior report, besides all of the rain, and having eggs thrown at them, there were numerous scheduling difficulties and other stuff that went down such as all four Beatles agreed that touring Austrailia was such an awful experiance they never went back. Also in terms of that little song they sang, I remember one of the verses as being different, the George one. It was "Keep playing those groovy chords, George" or something, they left out. In terms of Beatle releases, there is a week or so disparity in the release of "I'm The Walrus", I remember it being earlier. I remember Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields being released in late January, and I remember Sgt. Pepper coming out on May 29th. In fact I have recordings from the album on that date. That is- - I used to. The tape is probably gone now. The same thing is true for the Imagine album. My recordings date from late August of 1971 and not October, as it says right on the album. Also with Jumping Jack Flash, in May of 1968 I remember the song being an "endie". The song came to a difinitive end and didn't fade out. But just recently there are divergences, like when my Uncle was taken ill. I remember the last time I saw my Uncle was Thanksgiving and a few days later he was taken seriously ill. But everybody at the funeral talked of how they saw him on Christmas, including my brother. I remember Christmas and I remember my Uncle was already hospitalized and couldn't come.
One funny thing that struck me today is the fact that in the olden times often inventers would come up with identical inventions months or weeks from each other, yet one inventor knew nothing of the other. If that could happen then, why can't it happen now. You know, I think our patent laws are too generous in the protections they give one inventor or author, to monopolize the market and keep out other ideas. It would seem to me inventions should be coming at one hundred times the pace now. Maybe they've already found a cure for cancer and other ailments and they aren't telling us, because it would adversely affect some drug already on the market. (Selah)
Hillary Clinton is a much more seasoned woman than she used to be. She has finally found her nitch. She's proved a responsible and able spokeswoman for President Obama's foreign policy. She's now the sort of woman I could trust, and would not mind her as an attorney advocating my causes. In terms of Health Care- - I've looked at the "Flow Chart" of the leading Health Bill, and it's so complicated it would give a computer programmar a migrane. At times I'm inclined to say just forget the whole thing. But I know we need to ballance the market by getting a publicly supported health care plan out there to compete for business with the private insurers, and may the better man- - - or woman, win. If Hillary wants to try and take the President on again in the next election, personally, I have an open mind. The next blog posting will be in the blog "Karmic Suicide". See you there.
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