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The sketches I'm surest of sharing in 2007 are the ones I saw as YouTube clips of television programs years later. I saw all of the Saturday Night Live ones in one sitting. I recall seeing a lot of sketches that were made out of my commercials. As a viewer who at the time had no conscious memory of having created was he was watching, I enjoyed them. But they didn't make me laugh. There was an eerie suspicion holding me back. George Carlin, on the other hand, had me completely fooled, for I had even less of a memory of the earlier erased work he took from me than I did of the erased show whose commercials Saturday Night Live took from me. I laughed out loud for Carlin's HBO specials and I praised the comedian online, right up to his demise. With Carlin out of the picture, I need only explain how I can still call my work original after seeing it on Saturday Night Live as one who did not remember authoring it. This is quite simple: I forgot seeing it on Saturday Night Live. By the time I got around to rewriting those sketches, my mind was simply reaching for them from their original source. I had a roughly similar experience with my songs. I don't listen to the radio at home so I forgot hearing them on the radio outside of my home as I rewrote them from my personal life. It took the reconstruction of each of my original works to recover the memory of seeing it on TV or hearing it on the radio after I voluntarily departed from the internet in late 2007. |
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Unforgotten
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