Something more for guys maybe...

Do guys like gossip too? Of course! They love gossip and hairdressing and makeup and big wigs and all that jazz. Bob Dylan is trending for some reason, and it is because he was there singing his heart out during the youth movement in the 60's and people never shut up about the 60's and how the music was so much better than today.

So I was there at age 12 in 1968, but at least when I read something like Carol Channing doing Hello Dolly and that being a hit on Broadway, about a Jewish match maker from the Bronx and she was not even Jewish! Close enough to make that a huge Broadway hit. Same with Fiddler on the roof. I have a more keen insight into it like Frankie Avalon played me in Panic in Year Zero! A movie about end of the world sex, which is what the entire thing was about for many people who went to an off planet university who used this data and shared it for eons.

The lighter side of the end of the world as we know it. we tend to focus on Greenwich Village and Laurel Canyon, but it was much larger than that. As people say 3 TV stations will definitely get everyone on the same page. and once they are on the same page, their references through innuendo are universally understood, based on some show or film or song, that everyone has heard or seen. Or some event even. Cultural reference and hidden meanings and between the lines.

Inspiration for great music. Led Zep used Lord of the Rings. As inspiration. The film Strawberry statement is a must watch. If you want to know what it was like to be there.

But 2005 through to 2015, was bigger and better than 1963 in a lot of ways. Since we had been to the mountain and crossed the mountain pass beyond was a new country and we were living in it by then. Do you understand that innuendo or cultural reference that is an example. Today we have A.I. so you can just ask it, what is he referring to?

That will get the Martin Luther King Jr. but it will not get the older quote about the mountain pass, for that you need Oppenheimer...

"The atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. It has made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country."

Notice he even says turn of the screw going back further as a reference.

“If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw*, what do you say to* TWO children—?”

In literature, the phrase is synonymous with Henry James's classic ghost story. James used the phrase right at the beginning of his novella as a structural metaphor

so you see in the 60's you had poets, and so classical literature, and intellectuals like Allen Ginsberg, who would use innuendo that included things from literature and poetry, and Bob Dylan, who would use innuendo from all manner of sources including stream of consciousness.

So when we were in Hollywood, I will tell you a guy story that was funny for us since I was hanging out with Zac and Vanessa. So Vanessa goes to pick up Zac at a house in Hollywood where he was getting some acting instructions from a tutor and she has 15 paparazzi cars following her car, she knocks on the door and this guy wearing nothing but a towel, opens the door and he is clearly gay, and then Zac walks outside, and freezes, Oh MY God, he thinks to himself, what to do what to do??? So they walk backwards to his car. To make it look like they just arrived. It was brilliant.

Mick Jagger a friend of ours was in Hollywood and right away he was on the street yelling I want some of that! You can fool some of the people some of the time but you know the rest. News was instant then even before instagram thanks to the paparazzi and a thousand gossip websites telling it as it happened. And even guys loved it. Since it was all so much fun. For people seeing the stars come down to earth and walking on the street and approachable it was never seen before. They were only seen in limos before all that. And the music thrived. I asked Rhianna not to go to the Grammys with Chris because everyone would think her album was about her and him instead of her and I, and when she told him, he beat her down in the car.

That affected all of us, like Charles Manson invading Laurel Canyon.

and I was sleeping with Megan 3 nights a week, at that time, so of course guys were going to say what business did you have telling her not to go with Chris when you were sleeping with Megan? So they get Megan to do that music video, and instead of me, they put in a psychopath. In the bed where we laid.

Love the way you lie.

Beautiful liar, that's me, not because of that but because I was dating so many women, when they would call I would say things like OMG, the baby turtles just escaped from their cages and one is heading under the couch I will have to call you back!

Those are the kind of lies I told,. Or I love those shoes are those pirate shoes?

I was charged with the duty of fashion police for the Academy awards one year and so I said no labels period, and had everyone checked by models who were assisting me, and I saw Hilary Duff earlier in the day wearing pirate shoes, that had Chanel logos on them and I thought she had glued them onto her shoes.

So after I complained about it Karl Lagerfeld said to me I designed those shoes for your group those are pirate shoes, since we were playing pirates and poets like other people at the time in our secret meeting places.

All the designers became billionaires then when women had to search to find out who designed that dress, and the designers could name their own price.

Lady Gaga showed up and I said "I just want to be friends", she was wearing a tapestry. and I heard she was looking for me.

And she came out with Bad Romance.

These are hit songs that will be around for ages.

And one from Avril, more than one she wrote for me, she wrote I don't like your girlfriend when I was dating Adriana. Avril and I had dated until her mom made her marry Deryck because the stalkers would not stay away from their house until she did.

So that got us When You're Gone, another great song that will endure.

Maybe that gives you some perspective and how difficult it is to look into the past and read something and understand between the lines.