After writing extensively about synchronicities back in March, I almost wanted them to stop happening for a bit on an unconscious level. I suppose I thought the whole routine was maybe getting a bit redundant but unlike during a couple other focus lapses during the COVID years, this time they kept rolling in and most fascinatingly all fell right in line among the same patterns I've been tracking. In case you haven't been playing along, this would mean that they often involve tech malfunctions and some sort of anti-structural behavior. Something happens that disrupts my intended plans (often a tech freak out of some variety) and that's when the sync hits.
The first one involves both of those things and honestly, also involves an entirely novel tech glitch which has thusfar only happened a total of once. The story is this: It's a weekend morning and I get up a couple hours later than normal as per the usual. I'm trying to flip through the channel guide on YouTube TV to find something to watch for like 10 minutes while I eat breakfast but somehow the thing wigs out and just starts slowly auto-scrolling through channels outside of the guide. I try to pull it out of this phantom scrolling routine with remote controller button mashing but to no avail. The ghost channel flipping then goes on for roughly another 40 seconds before it finally stops on a "random" channel. The whole experience is so odd that now I'm like:
I am absolutely watching whatever the fuck this thing just chose for me.
What did it choose?
The end of a movie called In Like Flint. I have zero clue what this movie is or what the hell's going on, but I then proceed to watch a dude highjack a ride on a rocket, save the day in outer space before seemingly floating into oblivion, then somehow organizing a space threesome with 2 blondes on his way back to earth. That's how the movie ends and I had to look it up because I was so mystified. What the hell? How exactly do you line up a threesome while floating in outer space? It's a spy movie parody that involves feminist conspiracies and space stations apparently but that's neither here nor there. What's important is that I had just started playing Mass Effect 2 the day before, which is what? One of the only games I know of where you can get laid in outer space. Hell, you can sleep with multiple women if you so choose (or men if you play as a woman) and therein lies the bonkers synchronicity friends.
The next one happens the Friday after the Uvalde shooting. Look, I don't feel like I have to explain anything to anyone but I did in fact still have Netflix DVD up until early June. Not Netflix streaming either (which I canceled a year and a half ago), just Netflix DVD. I kept running the numbers on that shit and because they had literally everything (DVD licensing is way different than streaming), I was breaking more than even on it until just recently with what I was watching. Alas, once the 500th streaming service dropped, it no longer made any sense. In fact, I'd been telling my wife to cancel it for over a month before she finally remembered.
When she did, I realized I had a movie called Rudderless my boss recommended to me years back that had been sitting in my home office for nearly a month. Now, I did not for a second mean to get this movie next in my queue, I just spaced on paying attention after I sent back the last one. It had been sitting there unpicked for years. But fuck it, I'll finally watch this thing before I send it back, which I decide to do again, on the Friday after the Uvalde shooting. What's the movie Rudderless about you ask? The emotional aftermath of a school shooting. Did I know this? Nope. As a matter of fact, it's sort of a surprise and the IMDB write up of the thing doesn't even mention this is what's it's about on purpose (sorry for spoiling it but I really didn't spoil much honestly as far as plot goes).
So I accidentally watched an obscure movie about the aftermath of a school shooting that came out in 2014, right at the exact moment when school shootings were the only thing on the internet. I must confess I find the anti-structural series of events that caused the effect here almost more fascinating than the effect itself. Movie I had no plans of watching. Circumstances that were supposed to have happened far earlier than planned (cancelling Netflix DVD). Then my favorite: Is there another movie that's about a school shooting but doesn't bother to advertise that fact in the promo? Not many if any and that'd be the thing, I absolutely 100% would not have watched THAT movie on THAT Friday if I knew that's what it's about. No freaking way.
But hey, the syncs they keep a-coming. Because of all the new Star Wars series, I've been threatening to watch the prequels for the first time in 20 years and because of Obi-Wan, I finally find myself biting the bullet. Truth: The Phantom Menace remains shockingly terrible but I honestly enjoyed the next two which absolutely surprised me. That is also neither here nor there, what matters is that I'm finally getting around to watching Revenge of the Sith on a Saturday afternoon while working out. There's a problem though, which is that I'm running out of the Sativa I'm smoking and I don't really feel like heading to the weed store. I bet my wife has some Indica I can bite for the next couple of days.
She absolutely does and what's the strain called? Skywalker OG. The no shit factor is just so off the charts. Not just Skywalker, but Skywalker OG. Right before I'm going to re-watch the movie about the origins of Darth Vader (aka the OG Skywalker). Did I plan on running out of Sativa? Nope. I just smoked way more weed than I anticipated, which is sort of embarrassing honestly. I don't do this very often and if I don't this time, I don't take Skywalker OG bong rips while watching Obi-Wan cut off Anakin's legs. Funny how that works.
On a similar but not nearly as jarring note, I of course caught the new Dr. Strange movie in the theater the weekend it dropped because he's my favorite super hero of all time by a long shot. Has been since I was a teenager. He has the powers of astral projection for Christ sake so duh. Anyway, that's directed by Sam Raimi (and noticeably so). I of course loved the thing (although I fully admit I'm more than biased) but you know what I had zero intentions of doing? Watching literally anything else by Sam Raimi after that.
But as "happenstance" would have it, because of that new Elvis film, my wife wanted me to watch Moulin Rouge with her which I'd never seen (I hate it so much) and it cost like 4 dollars to rent. But, if I spent 3 more bucks they'd give me a full month of Prime video and Starz combined, so suuuure. I mainly did this because of season 2 of Undone which is in fact great and season 3 of American Gods, which as it turned out isn't included with Starz even though it's a Starz show. I don't get it either, but I paid next to nothing for a month of Starz so I'm like, what the hell else does Starz do?
Well, Ash Vs. The Evil Dead as it turns out. It isn't until roughly episode 3 that I'm like, wait, a director made a new film about my all time favorite super hero, then less than a month later I'm watching his most recent TV series that I was only vaguely aware existed (and is excellent btw), and none of this was intentional. I truly am a master of mysticism.
Funny thing on the Ash Vs. The Evil Dead front. Watching that lead me to a rather bizarre realization about why I apparently chose the form of a hyper-speed Wolverine as an astral combatant avatar (which is something that just came up recently for the second time). I've always been a fan of that particular X-Men staple but he's not even close to one of my favorite superheroes so I was sort of baffled as to why that's what I went with. Then it came to me while watching Bruce Campbell.
Why does Ash have a chainsaw arm? It's seemingly not a very practical weapon. Reason: He has to chop up the bodies of the deadites he destroys to fully eliminate the threat. So that's why I went with Wolverine. I do remember chopping off quite a few heads in that last arty skirmish. It tracks now. I was later told this would seem disconcerting from my perspective but its really more about breaking up spectral order than anything else.
What else? One day I was informed that in prolly the next 100 years weed meditation will become:
"An international pastime"
Which will rewrite society to the point that we'll barely recognize it anymore. Currently we're like:
"Dinosaurs"
And on a final note, one day while shifting from a deep sleep into a pleasant liminal state I'm informed:
"The body craves adventure"
Hard to argue with that.
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