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August 20, 2020

Just before his bad behavior spell, in late 2013, Justin Bieber wrote a song called " Backpack " about an alien hiding from the world in his backpack. It was a foray into psychedelia.

Note: "Backpack" is from the album "Journals," from late 2013. No wonder it's my favorite on the album; Bieber joined with writers and producers Nasri Atweh and Adam Messinger (among others) on this one, the team which also co-wrote and co-produced "Pray" and others of my favorite Bieber songs.

The alien, named Wayne, was Justin's only friend in this difficult time in his life, but Wayne wanted to get back to his spaceship. He had come to teach peace on Earth. But the song never said whether he stayed, or whether he went back to look for his spaceship and continue his mission. It was like The Clash song, Should I Stay or Should I Go. So I'm here to finish the story.

Before telling what happened when he ventured outside Justin's backpack, let's review where the alien came from. It was from another galaxy, on a planet called Bingo. They really spoke cool lingo over there on Bingo, and they loved to paint dots everywhere.

They loved revelations from the divine, and whenever they got one they would shout "bingo!" It is a very cool planet, with very advanced quantum entanglement skills which allowed them to visit Earth many times. They gave many musical song ideas to Justin and to The Who, The Beatles and The Clash, and even to Beethoven and Bach back in the day. It was a real Bachpach of blockbusters that they brought along! They came secretly in the night and whispered tunes in their ears while they were asleep. They secretly taught a few earthlings the game too, long ago, and so people here love to play with dots now too. Back on Bingo, they would write cool songs and symphonies and poems all day long. They were a real band of writers. Their technology by now had allowed them never to have to work, chase after money or make war. They decided it was time to come to Earth and share their wealth of wisdom with us. But when Wayne arrived, his spaceship crashed, his family died, Wayne got lost and was scared, ducking suspicious men trying to capture him, so he hid in Justin's room and in his backpack.

One day while Justin was out skateboarding with his friends, Wayne crawled out of Justin's backpack and ventured out. Wayne was a strange lookin' alien dude. Actually, as he says, this appearance was a disguise. We don't know what he looks like back on Bingo. But here, he had black skin and hair, and when he talked he swaggered and sounded as if he were rapping. But he could already speak English; after all, we know he did, because he spoke English on Justin's record! This alien race had made a thorough study of Earth, and had tuned into Justin Bieber records and The Clash and all the rappers on you tube, and sometimes they thought all earthlings had become rock stars who sang in English, and so they picked up the lingo. As you can see, Wayne soon became one of Justin's skateboarding friends too, and became a rap star himself.

So Wayne ambled down the lane outside Justin's place in Hollywood. Wayne had been somewhat distressed after losing his family in the wreck. Soon he remembered that he would see them again someday, because the gang on Bingo all knew how to visit the Other Side and knew about reincarnation. But was there another spaceship from Bingo that landed here on Earth, and where was it? Saving the Earth would be a tough job to do all alone. Later Wayne found out that it was here and had gotten stuck in the La Brea Tar Pits. They finally managed to get out, but now the ship was all black. So they hid in Jed Clampett's cement pond for a while until Wayne telepathically heard and found them there beeping away and persuaded them to come out and land over at the Hollywood Bowl. Wayne then put up some posters around town saying "aliens in concert, you don't want to miss it." They even invited Justin to come over, and put that on the flier too. Well, it didn't take much for the word to spread around about that! They could hardly keep the overflowing crowd at bay. Star power really helps when it comes to a project like this!

So, the Bingos and Justin and his friends performed Backpack and Pray and Baby and Boyfriend and lots more of Justin Bieber's cool songs, and even performed The Beatles' Let it Be and John's Imagine too. And they even invited Cameron Carpenter and his friends including Gert van Hoef (the Justin Bieber of organists) to play Bach's Toccata in F #540 on a hundred organs!

Even Virgil Fox came back from the dead to join in! (Carpenter version above)

Then it was time to get serious, and humble. How were all these fans going to bring peace to the world? They decided to ask President Obama to come over, and he hopped right onto airforce one and flew to LA, and came right on stage. He brought Stevie Wonder over with him too, and Paul McCartney, and Michelle too. They weren't about to miss this! They all sang Sir Duke and Let It Be and Michelle, and President Obama and the gang all had a wonderful time. They even got the Hollywood orchestra and choir to perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

They even invited Donald Trump to come. With all these special guests, the concert went way overtime into the night, but nobody left. They just had to see The Donald and his daughter Ivanka and Jared and all the gang arrive from Trump Tower. The Bingos had some idea of what was to come. It was one thing to persuade Obama to work for peace, but what about Trump? They decided to try to convince The Donald not to run for president. He had been thinking about running for years. But the Bingos knew that circulating conspiracy theories about Barack Obama and stoking xenophobia was not the way to world peace. Let alone letting Donald rev up the greedy quest for money. So being experts in alchemy, they conjured up some gold and gave it to The Donald, and he was so blown away and impressed by this that he took their advice and stayed up in his golden penthouse, and he ran his business like a good guy from then on and stayed away from politics, and was happy just to be a TV star. Hallelujah.

By now the whole world knew about the Bingos. All the world's leaders came to the Hollywood Bowl to listen to Justin and the gang sing "Backpack" and "Pray" and "Imagine" and the other songs day after day, and they were all convinced. Even Vladimir Putin decided since Trump was no longer available to collude with, what was the use of makin' trouble?

But how were the aliens ever able to convince the world that they didn't need to make money, and that they could share all the world's possessions? That's a hard one. After all, rich people want to hang on to their dough. Well, since the aliens had proved to Donald Trump that they could conjure up as much gold for him as he wanted, the world's leaders decided to have the Bingos teach them all to conjure up gold, and they all invited Andrew Yang to oversee the distribution of universal basic gold to everybody, and that solved the greed problem, and peace came to Planet Earth.

P.S. I've "connected some of the dots" for you in this essay, but you can also imagine and connect more of them on your own.

Backpack video, uptempo with Justin, and here is the original uptempo recording, with the rocketship emblem of the piece showing the Bingos' dot!
The Who, Beads on One String, we gotta get us together (original version, but released and posted Oct.6, 2020). I discovered this song after writing this essay, but I like the version below even better:
Beads on One String, WHO album version, Dec. 2019
Note that in the notes to the original version above, Pete Townshend the composer of "Beads On One String" refers to "God whoever we take her/him/both to be."
Fly Away: The Who and Our Generations
Round Table Escape
My Band of Writers Essays
Whenever I picture a world coming to new life, I think of Bach's Toccata in F
Another Cameron Carpenter performance of Toccata in F #540, and enjoy all the dots! After writing this essay I saw Charles Davis' comment on this video from 4 years before: "....Hope you set up your organs... your choirs... your synthesizers, your orchestras... and play them all at the same time. Playing around the entire world... is now possible and you're the man to do it. First time... for all time! Don't stop for anything less than your highest imagination can realize..."
Definitive performance of Bach Toccata in F 540!
Connect the Bach Dots! Sinfonia to Cantata 29, new synthesizer version
Justin Bieber sings Let it Be
Rude, by Nasri Atweh and his group Magic!
Leonard Bernstein quotes and comments on Ode to Joy and connects the dates. It's all about peace! Comment on another version of this video, now deleted: "last words of the poem by Schiller in the ode to joy, you have to look BEYOND THE STARS!!!" (or at least beyond our galaxy!) (Did The Who see this interview?)
So many dots and synchonicities to connect! I notice that the end of the final coda of the 9th symphony quotes exactly the theme of this Fugue by 17th century composer Dietrich Buxtehude that I myself recently recorded. It is a simple theme that probably occurs in many pieces, so I don't know that Beethoven copied this Fugue in F, but ya never know!
By tone numbers, this theme goes 3,4,2,5.....1.... Coming very near the end of the symphony, it harks back to the first movement, in which four notes from this theme are a key motiff, and which conclude the movement: 4,2,5,1. (5,4,2,5,1)
visual fireworks, rainbows and Trump accompany the Beethoven's 9th coda with the Buxtehude theme at 1:10
Bernstein, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, finale Ode to Joy
Bernstein, Beethoven's 9th first movement notice the 5,4,2,5,1 motiff in the theme
Alchemy may not have been the pseudoscience we thought it was
Scientific panel concludes some UFO evidence worthy of study
Pentagon UFO investigation still going on
The case for taking UFOs seriously
I decided not to put up any links here to Donald Trump or The Apprentice; you can connect the dots and find them yourself.