Unauthorized Bio

Jupiter7 came to earth from Jupiter7, a dimension he says, right next to ours. According to him, he landed on earth a few years ago. Here people sometimes call him Charlie. Here's what he said about himself.

"When I landed here – earth, that is – I felt pretty much right at home. You know, like you feel when you land in some foreign country that just suits you. Sure, things are different, but they are okay. You can deal."

"I landed down in Chaco Canyon, this jive scene you call New Mexico. At exactly midnight. Earthtime. I was five years old – in Jupiter7 years, that is. We don't age at the same rate as earth people. I'm nine years old now. We only live to 20. Then we pass on to Jupiter8. We don't know too much about Jupiter8. There aren't many backvisits from there. Ghost Prophets, and so on. Likewise Jupiter One through Six. There are legends about them. "

"You are probably curious about Jupiter7. You aren't? That's normal. Earth people aren't very curious, are they? There is so much they don't want to know about. I'll tell you a few things anyway, since you asked. Or did you? Sometimes my hearing is fuzzy. I speak all earth languages. That can be confusing."

The following is excerpted from a recent interview:

Q: Where is Jupiter7?

A: It's right next to earth, dimension-wise.

 

Q: Like another planet?

A: It's not a different place or thing. It's a different dimension from this one. It's a different version of earth, maybe.

 

Q: Are some things the same as earth on Jupiter7?

A: Some things appear the same. Only they aren't. They diverge from what's on earth.

 

Q: How did you get here?

A: It's hard to explain without a detailed understanding of complex inter-dimensional geometries.

 

Q: Why are you here?

A: I'm a kooky guy.

 

Q: Were you chosen to come here or something?

A: Or something.

 

Q: How long did it take to get from Jupiter7 to earth??

A: A little less than a picosecond. It's not a long trip.

 

Q: What do you do here?

A: I import images from Jupiter7. I hang out. I travel.

 

Q: Can you travel back and forth to Jupiter7?

A: In theory. I haven't been back. There are some other Jupiter7 citizens here, too. I see them sometimes. There aren't many. Earth isn't for everyone, you know.

 

Q: Do tourists come from Jupiter7 to earth?

A: No. Maybe someday, but I doubt it. Earth is a bit strange for tourists.

 

Q: What's the weather like on Jupiter7?

A: It's always good. All weather is good weather.

 

Q: Does everyone from Jupiter7 look like you?

A: Here on earth you think we look like you. Don't we? On Jupiter7 we look like us.

 

Q: Is there anything you don't understand about earth?

A: People are hard to understand. Some Buddhas come to live on Jupiter7 after they stop being people. I can understand them. Money I don't understand. I don't understand violence. Politics. War.

 

Q: Is there money on Jupiter7?

A: No. Your money idea is a very strange concept. Living to get money is hard to figure out.

 

Q: Do you watch TV?

A: Can't do it. Recorded existence scrambles my brainwaves.

 

Q: Is Jupiter7 perfect?

A: What's the phrase you use. . . "Are you shitting me?"

 

Q: Are there animals on Jupiter7?

A: Oh yes, many, many animals. And many, many toys. There is no duality of alive or not-alive. Everything is. Animals, toys, rocks, plants, the sky. Everything. Some things simply choose not to interact with other things very much or do it on frequencies you can't intercept.

 

Q: Are there any Jupiter7 animals on earth?

A: We sent some. The ringtailed duckwallah is a Jupiter7 animal, for example.

 

Q: Do they have music on Jupiter7?

A: We have musician animals. Some live in the sea, like whales. You can hear their songs everywhere. Most flying animals are musicians. They sing all the time. Like birds here.

 

Q: Are there machines on Jupiter7? Do you have computers? TV?

A: No machines. When I first got here, earthwise, I tried to deal with machines. It's strange how people love their machines. We don't have computers on Jupiter7. No TV. No phones. No cars.

 

Q: Can earth people or animals go to Jupiter7?

A: We do have some earth animals. Animals are full citizens. There are quite a few cats. Elephants. Whales. Gorillas. Others too. Some humans come to Jupiter7. You call them Buddhas or Boddhisatvas, and other names. They get there somehow.

 

Q: You have religions on Jupiter7?

A: Sure. Not like here, though. Religions express value for other living things. Since everything is alive, religions celebrate everything. Temples are happy places, kind of like zoos but without the cages.

 

Q: How do you get your Jupiter7 images to earth?

A: I get regular transmissions from Jupiter7. Then I have to paint them.

 

Q: Are they some kind of joke?

A: Pretty much. We like to joke around.

 

Q: What do you do with the images?

A: People take them home. They show different things than here.

 

Q: How many pictures do you paint a year?

A: It depends on the transmission quality of the images I get from Jupiter7. Sometimes it isn't so good and I have to interpret a lot or wait for a new transmission. Lately the transmissions have been slow so I'm painting Jupiter7 scenes from my own memory. It's difficult to translate Jupiter7 colors into earth colors. We have wavelengths people can't see here. Also I don't paint very fast. I paint a couple dozen a year if I'm not traveling a lot.

 

Q: Would you mind commenting on a few of your pictures?

A: I'll try.

 

Q: This one you title The Relatives.

A: Everyone on Jupiter7 is related, so everyone is our relative. My relatives sent me this image. It's not really them, but it's the best I can do, considering. It shows a holiday on Jupiter7. All we have for time is holidays. I am struggling to understand the concept of work. It makes no sense so far. We hang around a lot.

 

Q: How about this one – Cambodiana Jones.

A: I looked up Cambodiana Jones in Cambodia. I painted his picture. SouthEast Asia, earthwise, is good for Jupiter7 citizens. It's not that hard to find J7s in Asia. They are pretty mellow. They like visitors. Cambodiana Jones lives at Ankor. Ankor is an old Jupiter7 building project, started by some Jupiter7 explorers back in time. He sits all day on top of coconut trees. He lives on coconuts and bananas.

 

Q: What about Jimu Biju?

A: Jimu Biju came over from the Jupiter7 image bank. We have citizens like Jimu Biju that live on cold islands. They are a lot of fun.

 

Q: Winged Boddhisatva?

A: I met the winged Boddhisatva just before I came here. I painted it from memory. You see them now and then on Jupiter7. I haven't ever seen one here.

 

Q: What about the Strawberry Pixies?

A: Pixies are frequently sighted on Jupiter7 but nobody really knows where they live. Pixies just appear and disappear. Maybe they come from another dimension. They don't speak any known language, so nobody can talk to them, and they don't seem to want to talk. They come here too, but not often.

 

Q: Nuclear Family?

A: I got a message asking me to look for a relative that came over a few years ago. They never heard back. This is a family portrait they gave me to give to their relative. I haven't found their relative yet. If I do, I'll give him the picture.

 

Q: What about Temple Lions?

A: Temple Lions hang around the entrance to religious buildings. Every temple has a pair of temple lions. They shoot the shit with folks going in and out.

 

Q: Where do you live, here on earth?

A: I hang in the Santa Cruz mountains. It's more like Jupiter7 than most places. The Jupiter7 transmissions come through pretty clear most of the time there.

 

Q: Thanks for the update. Mister, uhhh. . . . .? Do you have more than one name?

A: My name is Jupiter7. We all have the same name. You can call me Charlie if it makes things easier.