Old Zealand

Wow, it's been a few months since I've written anything. I've had my fair share of synchronicities and weird happenstances since my last post, but nothing so mind boggling that I felt the urge to run to the computer and blog to my heart's content. Until two days ago.

12/23/13: I'm sitting in my girlfriend's apartment, waiting for her to be off of work. I decide to pass the time with netflix. I'm a fan of Joe Pesci but I have only seen a small chunk of his filmography. One movie that completely passed me by was 1994's 'Jimmy Hollywood' starring Pesci and Christian Slater. Since it was available online, I gave it a shot, what the hell. The movie was okay. Nothing too funny or exciting. I only got about 30 minutes in when I got distracted by other things. 

12/24/13: While at my girlfriend's parent's house for Christmas, I decide to text my fellow movie-loving brother, Nick about 'Jimmy Hollywood'. I was curious if he had ever seen it.  He responds with,

"Yea. Best line: "Is there an Old Zealand?""

This line must have occurred in the movie after the 30 minute mark, because I didn't hear it until Nick said something.

Two hours later...

Nick texts me again. This time he tells me that his girlfriend just asked him, out of the blue, "Is there an Old Zealand?"

Mind = Blown. 

 And by the way, there is an Old Zealand. It's just called Zeeland and it's a province in the Netherlands. You really do learn something new everyday.

This will be my final post of the year of the snake (Unless of course something truly amazing occurs within the next week). 2013 started off a little rocky for me but ended up extremely euphoric. I can not wait to see what the year of the horse has in store. YEEEEE-HAAAWWW!

JUST FOR GOOD MEASURE:

'Jimmy Hollywood' was released in theaters on 3-30-94

-Dom

Write to your heart's content

-Dom

A Matter of Minutes

Sunday evening. September 29th, 2013.

I rented Twilight Zone The Movie earlier that day and when I came home from work, I wanted to watch a random episode from the 80s version of the show.

I searched YouTube for "Twilight Zone 80s". One of the top videos in the results was an episode called 'A Matter of Minutes'. To be honest, the main reason I chose to watch this one was because it was on the shorter side.

It turned out to be a pretty intriguing episode. In a nutshell, each minute is it's own place and a married couple get trapped in 11:37. You can watch the episode here: 'A MATTER OF MINUTES'.

While watching it, I was planning on posting it to this blog, but it was when a 33 popped up that confirmed it all.

Fun Fact: 

a 2013 also shows up on the screenshot

And then a second confirmation came up when I opened a new window on YouTube, only to see this:

On top of all this, it turned 9:33pm while it all went down.

Another Fun Fact:

The episode premiered on my Dad's birthday; 3 weeks after I was born. He turned 33.

-Dom

Lego

I was listening to a recent episode of 'The Joe Rogan Experience' last night while driving. The guest was Duncan Trussell. Brian Redban was also on. They all got in to a conversation about super gonorrhea and other things capable of killing humans. They went on to say that pretty much anything will kill at least one person.

Joe: Aspirin kills people-

Duncan: Pencils-

Joe: Peanut butter.

It was at this point that I thought in my head: 

It'd be funny if they kept going with this and either Redban or Duncan said: Legos.

Just as a joke of course.

Well it was about 30 seconds later when Duncan says the following:

"Guaranteed someone's died from Legos..."

Pretty weird.

Listen to the full episode here.

-Dom

Feeling a bit apophenic tonight

Holy Fucking Shit!

My Mother is a saint. I love her dearly.

But truth be told, she's usually in bed by 7 on any given night.

So to get a text from her at 9:42 her time, 10:42 mine, is strange enough.

So I'm sitting on my bed in New Mexico while she's in Lake Tahoe.

I'm listening to a song my friend John turned me on to called Clean Elvis by Dan Reeder.

I'm at the part where he sings the words..."I will always love you"

It's at this PRECISE moment in time that my Mom decides to text me out of the blue to say, verbatim: 

"I will always love you!"

WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?!?!?

-Dom

P.S. I love you too Mom!

Candy & the Green Chile Aroma

Long time no post, but have no fear, for this week was full of intrigue and esoteric goodies.

I recently got into Scott Onstott's work. A very enlightening individual.

I had the pleasure of downloading his interview on Red Ice Radio.

Something he mentioned that really piqued my interest was the connection between the speed of light and the location of the Great Pyramids.

It seems that no matter how hard you might try to ignore it, there will always be patterns, nearly everywhere.

So this morning, my Father and I are discussing a recent Area 51 disclosure. If you can even call it that. I mentioned how the really interesting aspects of all this "Hidden Information" is the stuff that people know but are sworn to secrecy. Either literally or just by their own fear or confusion.  I was thinking how the REALLY juicy forbidden fruit is truly unknowable. 

Fast forward a few hours. I'm at work, carrying some boxes to a woman's car.  Her name is Candy.

The grocery store next to my work is roasting green chile (A New Mexican tradition).  Candy, perhaps just making small talk, says: "You're probably too young to know this, but that's how San Francisco smelled in the 60s"  Now I assumed Frisco in the 60s smelled more like pot and jizz, but that's just me.  She goes on to say how she worked for the army in the presidio and attended UC Berkeley and briefly touched on how she knew about some military knowledge. Namely advanced technology. She told me how she would hear about government funded technology and then a year later see a film, featuring said technology.  The one movie she mentioned was "Meteor" starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood.  A movie I will be watching later tonight.  Candy goes on to talking about the original Star Trek series. Mentioning how they had doors that opened when you walked up to them, and now every business has the same thing. Candy: "Sometimes, someone has an idea for something but doesn't know how to physically create it. They put this idea out there and someone else is able to create it."  Back to her stint at UC Berkeley, of course she was an Egyptology major.  So this is when I ask her about the speed of light correlation. She had heard of it before and said, "There are a lot of strange things in the world. My husband and I used to own a ranch next to the desert where the "UFO" apparently crashed in Roswell. Sometimes you can't avoid it."

Yes, I had to use the poster that featured the WTC

It's always refreshing, being able to talk to someone about these subjects. My co-workers had little to no interest in my conversation with her and simply responded with a "Well, there's a lot of crazy people in this town."

The problem is, eccentricity is not necessarily insanity. I believed what she said. There was such a confidence to her voice and she didn't seem the least bit nutty. 

-Dom