Complicated Lives Of Rich People

There are people who have the reputation of being rich, and then there are those who really are rich across many facets of their lives.

One such person is Jean-Christophe Novelli.

Novelli started out in his long career as a celebrity chef, with Keith Floyd. (Floyd, as you know, Bill Smith, owned one of the fairly limited run examples of the great V8 Aston - the really fast one; was fastest production car in the world at the time, and hand-built, you recall...).

Novelli is a really wonderful person who has given a lot to charity, and mostly, under the radar except that eventually, he got found out and the Queen awarded him an MBE.

Aston Martin V8 Vantage

He also has several Michelin stars to give some pretty serious credibility to his 'celebrity' name.

...Actually it wasn't him I wanted to discuss here.

It was his daughter Christina - who has been for a long time involved with Australian music producers and composers 'Cosmic Gate' and Emma Hewitt - both of whom are good friends of our 'JES' whom we feature here quite a lot - that I wanted to play some music from.

Christina is another who survived a major accident (not totally similar to Paul Van Dyk's accident though just as potentially deadly) and lived to tell the tale.

Anyway...

...see, there's a lot that goes into a really rich, connected person's life and lifestyle. They meet people that you and I would likely not easily run into in ordinary 'urban lifestyles.'

These are people who truly are beneath the radar.

How do you know which 'light...?'

And what they do and what occupies their time are things that the ordinary member of the common public is not likely to either credit or to endorse.

Just today one of my friends was scolding someone who was accusing them of being 'rich middle class people laughing at the poor (people).' Well, real rich people do not do that.

People think they do that but they don't do that.

And she told him off - she said he was a 'snobbish, crass, prejudiced loon.' And I said to her, 'hey hey, wait on, I've just scored 2.5 on that list already!' 'Snobbish' - yes. 'Crass' - very often yes. 'Prejudiced' - absolutely and it's only my personal opinion that I'm not a loon. So - '2.5.'

Hehehehe.

Some 'ultra wealthy' people are so disconnected from reality that it isn't like they really mean what they are doing - like Barbara Broccoli, they have no clue. Believe me, they are really out of the loop and residing in some bizarre world made up entirely of mirrors reflecting back their own faces to them.

Those of you watching the news will be aware that there are suggestions this week that the person out in the public as 'Tom Cruise' is really not actual Tom Cruise.

...And all of you who have been reading here and paying attention realize that that is likely to be the case; it's a body double. And the plan there, is not to get the body double killed, but to let the story get out that it is a body double and so the hit squad is going to be 'wrong-footed' for a while since they won't want to be 'hitting' the wrong person after all you wouldn't think.

And that's a wise thing to do by the authorities and the security people.

I'll be interested to see or hear down the 'pipeline,' what their reaction is now. It's such a shame but unfortunately we do live in a dangerous world - and the danger mostly comes from other people.

If you go back to say the guy who killed John Lennon, or the fellow who killed Robert Kennedy, you are left asking even after a long time if or whether either of those was really ever able to make a cogent case to themselves - objectively - as to what the source of their animus actually was.

Charlie Manson was an ever so slightly different thing there. There was stuff going on, with Manson, again - 'underneath the radar.' I think so.

Novelli is 'good people.' She can come across as 'different' but you would begin to look that way too if you started to get a glimpse...

This track is going to be the first of two. It's the one in which at least you might be able to make out the lyrics clearly enough, because once we get to the 're-mix' version, the words have secondary importance. They have primary importance in reality though. Hear the words first. And then we can play around with the sound strata of communications...

I know what you're thinking Bill. If you just had the several hundred millions, then we could also try and see if we could handle the 'life.' You know, all the attendant 'rich people problems,' 'rich people issues.' 

We could drink 'rich people water' and we would still be fine, quite fine inside, and go to sleep knowing there are the homeless, and starving and disabled, other human beings. It would be all fine.

Not.

'You have stolen our dreams with your lies!'

LOLz - now that, is seriously funny to me.

'Dreams.' Yeah, and?

What's that supposed to even mean?

A little kid imagines they have 'dreams' and but then - those are not going to be realized.

Well good!

Martin Luther King: 'I have a dream...' 

Well you had considerably better verbal delivery, at least, Martin.

'Some people dream dreams and say...' (JFK).

Human beings hang a lot of their consciously actively important ideas and beliefs on what they are happy to call 'dreams.' And what they mean is stuff that is or seems outside of their immediate power and grasp.

Greta's dreams; MLK's dreams, JFK's dreams. 

Barbara Broccoli never had a dream at all. 

To have a real dream you have to possess the faculty of creativity.

Not many people have that. They think they have it, but they haven't got it.

They think that maybe, they left it in a back room somewhere, or in the attic, or down in the basement. But they haven't got such a thing at all.

'If I only had a hundred million dollars, I could dream a dream!'

Idolatry, part of its real meaning, is when you make the hundred million the god ahead of the actual god.

Of course, yes I understand, you need to see the god first before you believe. Because after all, everyone is showing you the 'hundred million dollars,' right? So that's real. Right? Right? That's the thing for sure you believe...

But god is 'not real' and you haven't got a dream.

Still though, how many people do you know that will swear black and blue that they know all about life?

What about every single self-important twit who claims to be a scientist and a physicist?

They are sure they know.

And people give them awards too.

There is too great of a gulf between the practical reality of their lives, and their abysmal lack of perception about real life - and the mindsets of those who have actual genuine answers.

Don't worry. By and by, you will see. You will live to witness 'strange things,' my friends. And maybe only even you and a handful of others will even know what's going on then...

I hope you will be able to make out the words in the lyrics here, enough of them. Because next time, you won't be able to make them out clearly.