Saturday, November 7, 2009

Twitter Just isn't the Same...

Twitter just isn't the same since a number of musical friends, associates and complete strangers began an exodus out. Initially, there was something to read, something to inspire people and then - Miley Cyrus and Courtney Love left. In the latter case, moving to New York and meeting up with the Bono crew led Love to mourn having been too revelatory on a platform like Twitter, which the platform itself tends to encourage for lack of much actually happening on it...

...and there is the truth about Twitter.

It is a limited platform, a bit too limited for more than inspiring quotes and jokes. Courtney turned it into a self revelatory journalistic wonderland is what she did, complete with strings of Tweets...rather than the occassional impersonal grunt of Buddhist self affirmation from Russell Simmons and Billy Corgan. God bless them both, but there has got to be more to Twitter than just reading through Leaves of Grass as if it was a stack of business cards and ads.

"I am the body electric"... I can't recall where Whitman wrote this, but this is what I mean by the downside of Twitter - you want to read more than brief inspiratory self knowledge and ads for acai juice diets.

You want to be the bystander witness to a war of words, a nervous breakdown, something that really shakes us awake and makes us rethink our life path at 2am. For Miley, it was more like...2pm, but for Courtney it was 2 am - Pacific Standard, then Eastern, once she split to New York, making it 5am.

Agitation is always present at the moment of a life affirming change, in the wee hours of humanity. Change, and real revelation, never come without suffering, and in the case of myself, while not to under emphasize the monumental nature of the estate fraud in the Cobain case. You might want to read about the estate fraud in the Cobain case on her Facebook, particularly if you have any real aspirations in music publishing and the music business. A late night cry for help surrounding what may be the most extensive case of probate estate fraud against a minor the State of California ever did ...little about.

Then again, the State of California has an awful reputation for the collection of child support, particularly during the 1990's - when its children were 17 times LESS likely to have their support collected than the children of New York State.

It's true - straight out of a Federally mandated study. In the case of Frances Bean Cobain, perhaps we aren't talking about a few hundred dollars for food and clothing here and there. But, we are talking about the inheritance of a child, an issue which has inspired admonitions of biblical proportion toward those who would "move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless"....

Frances lost her father to suicide in Washington State, and I have some cousins up in Kitsap who had the same exact experience just prior to Cobain's death if my date is right. They lost their father, Michael, my uncle. For those who would seek to move an ancient boundary stone...watch out.

Now to business, the cemetery in which my son John was buried at age 14, Grandview Memorial Park in Glendale, California is a similar...slightly different bag of tricks.

In this case, the cemetary was investigated by the State of California for doing just that and double burying children, such as my son in 2002 (and all manner of unseemly practices).

Now, the attorney, Paul Ayers, who claims to "represent the class action of persons" victimized in this debacle turns out to have been the attorney who represented the OWNERS of WOODLAWN Memorial Park in Compton !

Meanwhile, the co-owner of the cemetery was found dead on cemetary grounds during the investigation, in her home there.

I have a suspicion that insurance liability is at issue and (some) attorney's claiming to represent the "class" of wronged citizens happen to specialize in that area where it involves the other side of the cemetery table - or headstone.

Naturally, I am opting out: until my son is exhumed and moved to Forest Lawn Hollywood, into a proper family tomb at the cost of a good half to one million... where the Molien Family name is concerned... I shall never assign my right to discovery of the fact of his double burial, or that his body is missing. Never.

The Psalms admonish - Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, in almost those terms exactly. For those who have already done so, or for those who seek to play double agent to the mother's of the dead - like myself, it is best that this should happen at a time when the Internet is available to publicise the stories of person's so affected.

On our You Tube - we have up a video of various of the families affected by the Grandview Scandal cleaning up the cemetery themselves ...in the wake of continued neglect by its surviving owner Moshe Goldsman, and while they were under the impression that their interests were being shepherded before the court by an attorney claiming to represent class interests.

The decent care of the dead would be foremost on that list, and it did not happen in a way that honors those interests. For your viewing pleasure...a video of these families attending to the graves of their loved one's themselves- at Grandview Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Edna Purviance, Chaplin's leading lady is buried there...by the way. This is Hollywood history by a long way...

Who's representing who ?

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