Johnny Depp is on tour in the U.S. with Jeff Beck promoting their album 18, which is supposed to refer to music they grew up with a long time ago. I can’t say much about Depp’s singing from the YouTube videos of the concerts, but Beck is one of those “guitar gods” who gained fame initially with the British group the Yardbirds, and later with his own band, which introduced the world to Rod Stewart.
I have Beck’s mid-Seventies jazz-rock instrumental album Blow By Blow on CD, which represented his commercial peak in the U.S., reaching #4 on the Billboard album chart despite no single release; it flows easily from song to song, and certainly serves as a pleasant way to pass the time. George Martin produced the album, although for me his principle contribution was the orchestral arrangement on the album closer, “Diamond Dust,” which is easily my favorite song on the record.
So what is Amber Heard up to? Well, we already noted that far from “hiding out,” she has been making a spectacle of herself overseas, currently in Spain with her latest female partner using money she allegedly doesn’t have, but possibly being aided by Elon Musk if the child is in fact one he provided the sperm for the embryo birthed by a surrogate (odd how we never saw the child when Heard was hobnobbing with her previous girlfriend, Eve Barlow, in Israel).
Heard is reportedly going by a “pseudonym” in Spain, allegedly the birth name of the old “Wild West” figure known as “Calamity Jane,” which is rather ironic in more ways than one. No, we don’t know if Calamity Jane actually killed any Native Americans (today happens to be Columbus Day, although more politically-correctly called “Indigenous People’s Day”), but CinemaBlend’s Mack Rawden calling Heard’s choice “terrific," rather than "terrifying," is just more evidence of how Heard’s supporters remain gleefully uninformed, and indeed, referring to herself as such is not merely ironic but apt.
For example, we know that Calamity Jane was illiterate, and most of what we know of her life she dictated in sensational fashion in an “autobiographical” novella. Of course many Old West figures were the subject of sensational stories, but other than being a renowned sharpshooter in Buffalo Bill’s traveling show, most of her existence was, well, not unlike Heard’s. According to HistoryHit, reality isn’t all that kind to Calamity Jane:
She apparently worked for a time as a “sex worker.” The nickname “Calamity” may in fact have been derived from this time, when she would tell clients that “calamity” would befall upon them if they angered her.
She claimed to have been married and had two daughters. No marriage certificate or birth certificates exist to back these claims up. One woman who later claimed to be her daughter turned out to be a fraudster.
She supposedly had a romantic relationship with Wild Bill Hickok, and even had a child by him. Whatever her feelings toward Hickok, there is no evidence that he ever had anything to do with her except exchange wild stories about their exploits; in fact Hickok apparently thought she was such a nuisance that after she died, one story went that his “friends” thought it would be a joke to have her buried near him in a Deadwood cemetery to continue torturing him in the afterlife.
She was a life-long alcoholic, beginning in her teenage years. Her substance abuse would eventually find her living in squalor and dying in poverty, while managing to scrape together a few dollars selling the novella of her life to those who still cared (of course if Elon is in fact the father of that child, it is hard to see him allowing its “mother” to succumb to that state, no matter how much she deserves it).
But this is far from the most “interesting” story about Heard in the past week, and as usual she and her supporters' efforts to keep her “newsworthy” backfired spectacularly. Observe this photo of her obtained by TMZ (yeah, I know) where she apparently is trying to convince a senior citizen that her Spanish is pretty good, in her opinion:
But wait, what do we see on her cheek there?:
Isn’t that the same thing Heard showed us at that TRO appearance in 2016...
…and magically disappeared the next day?:
Note that given the right lighting and shadowing, Raquel Pennington appears have “bruises” on her cheek and around the eyes. Now take a closer look at the TRO photo:
Do you notice what looks like a “zit” in the middle of the redness? You know, the kind that this person is wondering how to get rid of, which actually looks a lot worse:
Some have suggested that the location of her "bruise" is where Heard has Botox injections; whether true or not, this image is from a website discussing Botox bruising:
Again, look “familiar”? This is what they call “reasonable doubt”—and Heard’s alleged bruises certainly do not look like how a real bruise does, with purplish blood swelling up under the skin:
Gosh, I wonder who that is. Of course someone who is vain about her appearance (let alone carry her own child) would cover up a zit or Botox bruise the next day and be full of fun and laughter when she didn’t need anyone to see it anymore, and forecasting she was going to get $7 million out of it that she wouldn’t spend a dime of it on “charity”—unless, of course, she sees herself as the one in need of “charity,” which a narcissist would do.
The point of course is that this is just more evidence that Heard told lie after lie on the stand, here about the phone throwing incident that allegedly caused that “injury”—just as the Australia audio indicated that she lied about the alleged three-day assault on her, and that bruise on her shoulder that was clearly a “random” bruise while the there was no marks on her face at all after Heard claimed that Depp had also hit her so hard that her blood splattered on the wall (or refrigerator; it was hard for her to keep her stories straight) during the same “incident.”
In the meantime, Heard’s appeal of the verdict remains based on one premise: the “freedom” to lie.
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