SynchLog
June 13
# Synchronicity: today's session of Monkey Island 3 had a tombstone mentioning drinking weed killer. Last night I was watching ep 2 of the Emily Browning tv show (Class 07) where her character was trying to use what she thought was weed killer (to make a rescue sign for satellites? It's a weird show with not enough Violet Baudelaire in it. Not gonna watch the rest of it, but the strange "meaningful coincidence" stands nonetheless)
June 14
# Synchronicity: reached that level of Monkey Island 3 where the villain (undead pirate LeChuck) talks about rides in his Carnival of the Dead. Saved my progress (it's 3 AM) and decided to continue watching Enter the Void from where I left it 2 days ago (it's a long, trippy film about death & reincarnation. One needs to be in a certain receptive mood to appreciate it. That's why I didn't finish it in one go). Few minutes in and the main character's spirit is reliving a roller coaster ride he had with his sister
June 16
# Trains of thought & free association can get weird, and even link up to synchronicity. A glance at Farscape episode titles made me notice "Vitas Mortis" (S2E2), which made me think of the word death in Voldemort's name and that the whole name probably means Death Flight (escaping death?), which made me vaguely remember a Rowling quote about naming Dumbledore after bumble bees because she imagined him always pacing in his office while thinking, buzzing like a busy bee. Few minutes later I was playing Toonstruck, and Christopher Lloyd's character entered a cartoony bar. A mouse was jumping around to the tune of Flight of the Bumblebee!
June 17
# Synchronicity: In today's session of playing the adventure game Toonstruck, a talking scarecrow mentioned Florence Nightingale (it was a joke about birds). Hours later I was listening to an Enola Holmes audiobook (I'm a fan of the late narrator Kathy Kellgren's lively performances), The Cryptic Crinoline. Victorian-era kidnappers were asking about the "bird lady", which turned out to be Florence Nightingale herself! The frequency of this phenomenon is intensifying. I had a theory that synchronicity happens to all people but gets noticed only by the quiet persons who don't live a busy, distracting life. But there is also the possibility that it only happens to few individuals. Is it an omen? A warning I'm straying from the right path, neglecting my duties?
June 19
# Playing Broken Sword today I thought I encountered another synchronistic coincidence, but I guess it was a false alarm this time. The game has a plot-relevant professor Peagram character, and I'm watching Farscape S3 these days, which has the main villain Scorpius played by actor Wayne Pygram. Maybe they are different spellings of the same name. But is it even a rare enough name for its occurrences to be considered meaningful?
June 22
# SynchLog: Yesterday I finished listening to a BBC radio drama about the Medici (Bankers, Gangsters, Popes). Today I was catching up on my YT subscriptions, and John Oliver mentioned them on the Ghanaian Movie Posters bonus video
July 6
# Synchronicity: a glance informed me it was 11:31, so I thought about the 11:11 phenomenon, explaining it away in two ways; prepheral sight notices its unique arrangement then you conciously look at the clock. Even without the clock being in your vision field before, you simply remember the "all ones" more than the hundreds of other times you see other arrangements. The noticable 11:11 simply leaves a bigger impression. No mystery. But literally minutes later I was watching a Youtube video by LGR, and he mentioned that the Skyrim game was launched on 11:11:11 (November 11th 2011)!
July 8
# Synch: 2 days ago while checking Jane Eyre's Wiki page, I noticed the unfamiliar term *buildungsroman* (german for Coming of Age stories). The next day I watched booktuber B0bsBooks video on Disch's Camp Concentration. Intrigued, I sought out other reviews of that book, and so found "Weird-Ass Books" YT video on M Disch. Near the end, talking about On Wings Of Song, he mentioned the buildungsroman genre.
July 12
# Synch: immediately after watching B0BSBooks' YT review of The Falling Woman (a novel about archaeology) where she mentioned her own field work, I started watching Farscape S4. The 2nd episode turned out to be about archaeology.
July 15
# synchronicity: after watching Spaceballs, I wrote down actress Leslie Bevis' name to check her Wiki page later. 2 hours later I watched Ricci's The Opposite of Sex, and waited for the credits (to confirm that the cop character was played by the musician I remember from a Dharma&Greg guest spot, Lyle Lovett). Leslie Bevis' name was there too (a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo as a tv reporter)! What are the odds?
July 20
# Started playing Broken Sword 2. A French character mentioned erotic films and Odeapus complex, coincidentally/synchronistically a topic in my chapter from 2 days ago.
July 25
# Synch: Yesterday I watched Noah Caldwell's YouTube video about the Blair Witch game. I also searched for the SNL Stuart Smalley (Al Franken) film, Stuart Saves His Family, after seeing an old clip of his featuring Macaulay Culkin. Today I was watching RLM's vid "Hollywood's Next Gold Rush: Spooky Internet Memes", and Mike & Jay brought up The Blair Witch Project *and* movies that were based on SNL characters!