# Art Imitates Life? Life Imitates Art? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 1, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-imitates-life-life-imitates-art/342436 "2006-02-01T00:01:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-imitates-life-life-imitates-art/342436/1 "2006-02-01T00:01:35Z")
A friend of mine recently said I should be watching the show _Surface_, because there’s a lot of similarity between one of the characters and I. [ul]She’s a marine biologist[/ul] [ul]I’m a marine biologist[/ul] [ul]She lives in Sausalito, CA[/ul] [ul]I lived in Sausalito, CA (until June 2005)[/ul] [ul]She went to Berkeley for school[/ul] [ul]I went to Berkeley for school[/ul] [ul]She is fascinated by X-Files type conspiracies[/ul] [ul]I am fascinated by X-Files type conspiracies[/ul] [ul]She’s been attacked by genetically engineered creatures[/ul] [ul]I’ve been attacked… well, I guess it had to end somewhere 😉 [/ul] Have you ever noticed peculiar similarities between people in TV/Movies and people you know in real life? How similar did it get? ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-imitates-life-life-imitates-art/342436/2 "2006-02-01T02:28:14Z")
The wierdest one I ever saw was (movie) A Mighty Wind. Then a few days later the local Public TV station ran the folkie reunion with the Smothers Brothers hosting. It was so like the movie it was creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-imitates-life-life-imitates-art/342436/3 "2006-02-01T02:54:06Z")
> [@wevets](#): > > A friend of mine recently said I should be watching the show _Surface_, I have to stop you right there and say this person is not your friend. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-imitates-life-life-imitates-art/342436/4 "2006-02-01T03:08:12Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I have to stop you right there and say this person is not your friend. OK? I’ve been reading the Capote biography that \*Capote \*is based on, and the detailed coincidences between Capote’s early life and my early life are weird and uncanny. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-imitates-life-life-imitates-art/342436/5 "2006-02-01T03:54:32Z")
Art Imitates Life? Life Imitates Art? Maybe, but _Art is long, Life is short,_ and there the comparison must sadly end. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-imitates-life-life-imitates-art/342436/6 "2006-02-01T05:42:35Z")
Lie imitates Fart. Immolates it, too, if you’re not careful. :eek: