Unfashionable Discourse

    I went to Blockbuster yesterday.  It was the first time I had been there in some time.  I had a late fee from 228 days ago.  It was 80 cents and I paid it. 
    I was there for one movie, I Heart Huckabees.  I had seen it in the theatre and I loved it.  I had visited this Blockbuster twice a number of weeks ago for the movie, but it was out on both occasions.
    I watched it last night for the fist time since it’s theatrical release.  I find that a lot of people don’t like the movie.  Maybe it’s a cult film for philosophical wankers, which I admit to being, without the wanking.  Anyway, I quite enjoyed it.
    The film is set up around Jason Schwartzman’s strange coincidence.  He is an environmentalist looking for answers to the questions of the universe.  That sounds familiar. 
    It’s been raining all day today, and I have the day off.  I watched the Director’s commentary this morning.  Right now I’m watching the other director w/cast commentary.  Here’s the neat part.  David O. Russell in the commentary mentions a character with a very small role, who in real life is an environmental leader, the actually man who started Earth Day. 
    Guess what.  Today is Earth Day.  I even said to my roommate this morning, "happy Earth Day."  (I’m lame like that)  But isn’t it odd that the man who started Earth Day, who not otherwise an actor, is in the movie that I am watching right now, on Earth Day? 
    I’m watching a movie about coincidences, which has become part of a coincidence itself.  It can become fantastically dizzying.  Intellectual vertigo. 
    Jung said something about coicidences, didn’t he?  Synchronicity I think he called it.  He said that synchronicity is like an intuitive signal.  I Heart Coincidences. 

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