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THE TWITTER PAGE Busting the limits of a 140 character world
I am going to type this the way I think. Fast and unthinking so be prepared for non punctuated and misspelled stream of consciousness.
First here is an email for readers of this page andrea coughman at yahoo dot com This is the name of the character that will appear in If I faked it. That will be the story of how the not so real death of me was accomplished.
I am going with a woman instead of a man to confuse people over 30. except those of you over 30 like myself who have not grown up which is why assume you are reading this.
As far ast the puzzle. Anything that seems like a puzzle up to this point has really just having fun and playing games over the years. A hidden phone number is nothing more than a way to get someone to sya “hey I called it and it rings into graceland” which then gies me an opening to tell the story of how I used to call people from graceland knowing they would call the number back. I also use to call the number and when a curious tourist would pick it up I would say hi this is andy kaufman is elvis there? and other such nonsense. You have to understand to them this warranted a chuckle or a slam of the receiver but to me it was a hoot. The real andy kaufman asking a grieving elvis fan to speak to elvis, I would smile for days!
In other words there have been no great mysterious puzzles up to this point and I have no real plans for any in the future. Referring to my work as a puzzle or puzzlementary simply gives it a label that people can understand and identify with. I could call it my mystery ooooohh scary or my labarynth. But it is what it is and the observer attaches whatever meaning they wish good or bad.
This is A perfect example. I created this page because my brain was going to explode not being able to talk more freely on twitter due to the character limits. So I invited people here. It is that simple. But soon someone will find this page by searching something or digging or whatever and then they will think they found some cryptic holy grail because they did not see how it evolved. To me that is awesome but never really intentional.
If I started typing this babble onm the main page it would turn new viewers off. You have to understand it is a very fragile proposisiton when making new friends around the world in this way. At that moment they they are saying, hey what is this? If you come on too strong they bail and never come back. The next time they think about me they say oh yes I remember reading this hore shit and they move on.
That is why I keep the quotes from the books about me talking with people about faking my dweath at the top of the king page. It grab attention. King never really implies he is me until much later in the site. Nothing turns potential friends of quicker than shouting hey im andy. That is because it is very old and tired and thousands have said at one time or another hey I am andy! And since I am andy I always had context in reading what they had to say and loved it. I use to engage in conversation with them on the internet for un. Step back and think about that. I am a very real person, I enjoy very simple things,I just don’t have the “jaded” gene in me so I see simple pure things for what they are. So when im am chatting in a chat room with someone trying to convince me they are the real andy kaufman when I know full well they are not _________________________________________________________________________________________ 8-30-08 About the puzzle “the French Connection” I have decided to abandon this puzzle. It was a puzzle that was going to announce that I was looking for volunteers to be involved (via internet) in my movie “If I Faked It” How I would fake my death had I really done it by Andy Kaufman.
Instead of messing with the puzzle I think I want to go ahead and start moving on the project. I will be announcing how to participate soon.
As far as the puzzle “The French Connection” here is how it was going to play out. As some of you know I mailed a message to a person named Kat on the allusion forum. It was attached to the back of a mad magazine. The letter had creases in it ready made for folding. She posted a picture of it on the forum and matt posted the hidden message by circling how the message would read when folded. See the image here
I was going to mail a book on code breaking to Zen Nun in France. The book would have a few pages highlighted. The pages were interesting in that they said both king and man in the moon which I thought was a funny coincidence.
I knew Zen Nun was a female but I played dumb in an email and said “oops I thought you were a Frenchman”
This was to help lead everyone jump to a conclusion. The conclusion that Zen Nun was the Frenchman with the key to the code but in reality she was not. I would then mail the puzzlementary 10 coded messages. It is safe to assume you would have been harassing Zen Nun to figure out how to break the code. In reality Sara in Canada would have the key to the code. I was going to send sara ca opy of the diving bell & the butterfly (both the book and DVD) I still have them sitting on my desk and plan on sending them just because they are great.
I had mentioned to sara in the past that I would be happy to send here the book and dvd because I really wanted here to see them. It is fairly safe to assume nobody would have realized at the time that the Frenchman was Jean-Dominique Bauby. The key to the code appears on page 19 of the paperback version of his book “the diving bell & the butterfly” and repeatedly throughout the movie. The code is a rearranged version of the alphabet the he used to communicate by blinking his left eye.
I would have eventually steered you to sara to figure out the code. The 10 of you would have received puzzles wth a message on the back. Once the puzzle was put together and the code was cracked, you would have had to work together to get the whole story by putting your individual messages into one big message. That would have been the invite to participate in the movie “If I faked It” which is the story of Andrea Coughman ( a childrens entertainer) who faked her death.
By making the main character a woman no body could really confuse it with me. Everyone will understand I am just saing “If if aked it” this is how I would have done. Kinda like OJ
My plan now is to send sara her book and movie, send the remaining personal messages. I believe there are 5 or 6 left. don’t worry I keep very good records.
I will announce fairly soon what my plan is for if I faked it and how you guys can participate.
Speaking of the personal messages, I told sara this on the phone but I will share it with you guys now. I do not live in aruba. I vacation to the islands regularly but that is it. I was on the Bare-naked Ladies cruise last January when I mailed your messages from Jamaica.
Te way me living in aruba story got started is I was down there 7 or 8 years ago and created some mischief. My good friend Lynne Margulies (Courtney love) added fuel to the fire by telling the La Weekly (bottom page 7) that is where I planned on moving “if” I ever faked my death.
This Jack Kerouac style of typing has worn me out. Have fun with the typos and grammar. Its bedtime.
From the LA Weekly Answering Machine, the next morning, 2004: "Hi, it's Lynne Margulies. Hey! It was Aruba! I just woke up this morning and thought of it. Aruba. That's where Andy used to talk about going. Just jokingly, I think. I don't know where Aruba is, and I don't think he did either. But it sounds good. AH-ROO-BAH! And also I was thinking, if you're, you know, searching for the meaning of all this, for why this is all continuing, why Bob continues with it, and why I, too, willingly, continue along with it — it's just because it's fucking fun. You know? That's all. That's all Bob and I really care about in life, and that's all Andy cared about in life, was because it's fun. Everything else was secondary. We keep trying, we keep trying . . . AH-ROOOO-BAH!" _________________________________________________________________________________________
9/1/08 the scavenger hunt.
When reading this please bear in mind this thought is not final. It may change but it is pretty close to what will happen. It will be official when I put up a page called scavenger hunt on this site. This is not a tricky puzzle or a mystery, Im kinda tired of that and listening to frank nora talk about it on his podcast made me realize it is kind of dark. So this will be a very straight forward scavenger hunt that most can participate in. I say most because some of you may not have access to some of the books or movies I will reference in the hunt. If you are in another country or cannot rent an r rated movie you may have trouble but maybe your internet friends can help you.
Gonna upload this right now. Spooky2b on twitter just pointed out that the twit page is not up on the site. I will continue and upload more after awhile.
Im back. I got sidetracked emailing frank and lee. I am discussing the details of doing interviews with both of them The Overnightscape and Legends & Champions
Anyway the scavenger hunt will be things like finish this line from man on the moon. Or finish this line from andy kaufman revealed. Finish this line from eddie and the cruiser. Finish this line from bubba hotep. And so on I will roll out the questions giving people plenty of time to find the answers. Then on a final date probably end of September the fina questionand an email address will be provided. You can then email the completed scavenger hunt to that addreww. The first email to arrive will win the prize.
Like I said the rough draft of the prize package one person will receive is something like a copy of “god and other plays” first autographed book of illusions. Elvis album Autographed in may of 1978 by j slaven. And uncle andy t shirt if I can find them, I have looked everywhere I may have to not post that prize. The andy kauman and jerry lawler action figures still in the package. Then multiple copies of somr things like dvdss that you can givce to your friends who help you with some of the leg work getting these books and watching these movies.
I promise this will be posted in the next day or two and the prize will be awarded to someone toward the end of this month and will be fedexed out very shortly after the winning answer sheet is submitted and contact information is confirmed. I will ship it anywhere it needs to go, anywhere the winner is. I promise.
Want to get a head start? Start down loading ramplers #23– present. I love this show!! some of the scavenger questions will be based on things said in those audio files. Like what is the name of the ice cream shop frank and pete go to after setting up pete’s computer?
Hopefully this will be a fun learning experience for many of you and your friends. And hopefully someone will enjoy this prize package I am putting together. Even if you don’t win I promise you will get some great entertainment and fun information along the way. ________________________________________________________________________________________
9/2/08 I just watched a new video on AKGMNII’s youtube channel . Looking forward to see where this leads to. Lots of people ask me what KING means. Most have come To the conclusion that it stands for Kaufman Is Not Gone. I wish I could say you are right But that is not the case. KING came from my fascination with the word god. Thousands of religions have had gods. God of rain, god of water, god of fire, gene simmons was the god of thunder. God of this god of that. But the Christian belief superseded all other gods by saying our god isn’t a god or god is god. Our god is not god of blank, he is god god dammit. And you shall have no other gods. KING was based on the Same concept. I’m not a king, im not the king, im not the king of Memphis wrestling, im not the king of rock and roll, im not the king of all media, king of England, burger king, I am KING. That is how that worked it self into being. Bye for now
___________________________________________________________________________ CHIPOTLE INCIDENT
Writing this 6am Wednesday morning 9/3/08
I got a message this morning talking about the chipotle phone number incident on twitter yesterday Tuesday 9/2. this is the reply I sent them
cool... hey um i just saw that video on AGKMNII's channel about him calling chipotle... was that you that he talked to cuz it sounds like you? i really hope it is...
couldn't be. Although I bet it is interest. I will need to look for that. i gave the wrong number by accident. i called information and asked for the number to chipotle on 86th street. they gave me a number and i posted it on twitter. later in the day frank nora talked about the chipotle on twitter. he had used the numer to find it on google maps. he mentions a "Steak and Shake" accross the street. It was then that I realized i had posted the number to the east 86th street chipotle while i was at the west 86th street chipotle several miles away. I didn't even think about there being a chipotle on east 86th street. I would have said the eastside chipotle was on 82nd street. the reason for this is because 86th turns to 82 for some reason as you head east. i never remember at what point it becomes 82nd. so if you had asked me "where is the east side chipotle"' i would have said " i think it is on 82 street near castleton mall. i now know i would have been wrong. I have lived in at least 30 different places in and around this city and i still don't remember stuff like that. that is why i always map anything with an address if it is important that i be there on time. the othere reason i couldn't have spoke to anyone is that i was not even in the chipotle. i was eating in the parking lot when i sent the phone number via test to twitter. I wasn't saying i was inside, just that i was there, which i was. i wouldn't want to rick a hole resteraunt full of people looking around for andy kaufman, they would be awkward! "excuse me everyone, it there an andy kaufman here? and andy kaufman? they say he probably looks like the guy from taxi but older... andy kaufman? any one? anyone?" i just wanted to eat my burrito. |
