Viola the elephant bolted into the streets of Butte, Montana, because she got spooked by the sound of a car backfiring. When I saw the name of the street, I shuddered. Yes, the elephant in the room with me as I write this is the person intent on destroying me with her exploitation of the legal system, and this past week the 24 hours I spent in jail emphasized how successful she has been.

Viola’s escape from captivity happened on Tuesday, the same day I exited captivity thanks to a friend posting $500 dollars for my bond. Though rattled, my work to uncover what’s happening in this town remains undeterred, like SPOOKY Fox Mulder, who travels to North Texas in the X-Files movie, which I watched on Thursday.

I didn’t realize the film opened with a Federal building getting blown up like Oklahoma City, but that’s how our story kicks off. And what date on the calendar am I writing this? Today is April 19th, or the 29th anniversary of the bombing in Oklahoma City. Ok then.

Before watching the X-Files movie, I watched another film that recently popped up on my radar, and that’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the movie Heath Ledger was filming when he died. There’s a strong homeless/street-performance vibe to this movie, which makes the connection between it and the Fisher King much more interesting. The connection? Tom Waits, who plays the devil in Imaginarium.

Another connection to another movie that includes homeless characters in almost mythical roles is via the actor, Andrew Garfield, who has the leading role in the movie Under The Silver Lake. In both these movies acts of creation are challenged or undermined by nefarious forces. With Doctor Parnassus, it’s the devil who stops the stories of the monks from being told. In Silver Lake, it’s the songwriter who claims to have written nearly all the popular songs in existence over decades of time.

The role of writers is also a prominent theme in movies like Silver Lake, Doctor Parnassus and even the X-Files movie, where a conspiracy writer is the one who tells Fox what the building being blown up was REALLY about. In Silver Lake, it’s a local writer of zines who ends up being killed by a mysterious owl-type figure that he’s been writing about, and this occurs after he shows Garfield’s character the hidden owl in the dollar bill.

Which brings me to Philip K. Dick.

The book Dick was writing when he died in 1982 was called The Owl In Daylight. From the link:

Dick viewed the novel as his Finnegans Wake. The idea was inspired partly by an entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica on Beethoven that referred to him as the most creative genius of all time, partly by traditional views of what constitutes the human heaven (visions of lights), and finally by the Faust story.

Beethoven? Yeah, that comes up in Silver Lake as well.

Sam has the Balloon Girl and the two Shooting Stars lead him to the Songwriter, a very old man who reveals that he has encoded many songs with secret messages over the decades. He claims that he wrote most of the songs that Sam grew up with, including Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, which was written in the 1820s.

Yeah, interesting.

As for the idea of the scary “virus”, a recent article from the supposed “real” world shows how important a little town like Missoula is when it comes to the long years of research that goes in to poking us with new methods of medical fuckery. From the link:

Jay Evans, the director of the University of Montana center and the chief scientific and strategy officer and a co-founder of Inimmune, a privately held biotechnology company in Missoula, said his team has been working on a TB vaccine for 15 years. The private-public partnership is developing vaccines and trying to improve existing vaccines, and he said it’s still five years off before the TB vaccine might be distributed widely.

It has not gone unnoticed at the center that this state-of-the-art vaccine research and production is located in a state that passed one of the nation’s most extreme anti-vaccination laws during the pandemic in 2021. The law prohibits businesses and governments from discriminating against people who aren’t vaccinated against covid-19 or other diseases, effectively banning both public and private employers from requiring workers to get vaccinated against covid or any other disease. A federal judge later ruled that the law cannot be enforced in health care settings, such as hospitals and doctors’ offices.

Yes, lots of interesting things swirling around on this infamous day in history. And more interesting things, I’m sure, are on the way, so stay tuned…