I have a folder on my computer named ‘music’ which contains nearly 2000 items. When I want to listen to music I right click on that folder in explorer and click ‘Play with windows media player’.
When MP has finished ‘working’ I then shuffle the list and double click the first item (because MP keeps playing the item it was playing so my new list is playing from somwhere other than the beginning)
The coincidence occured when it got to a song by evanescence. Hearing this song got me thinking about a different song of theirs which was of great significance to me two years ago (it was an ‘our song’) I got to wondering how likely I am to hear this song again tonight later in the sequence (unlikely, as this song is heard maybe once in 30 evenings of this habit of random play all.
Last year I got into a bad car accident a block away from work, because some knucklehead ran a stop sign. Both our cars were totalled.
Last Friday, a year to the day after my accident there was another big car wreck there in the same intersection, again because someone ran the stop sign. Again, both cars were totalled.
I read the title to this thread and I had an odd coincidence the other morning that immediately came to mind and I came in to this thread to relate. Coincidentally, it is similar to yours as it deals with music, and I swear I thought of posting this before I opened this thread and read your post.
I have a 30 gig iPod with about 12 gigs of music on it. I use it in the shower and usually put it on a playlist, but sometimes I put it on shuffle. I put it on shuffle the other morning and jumped into the shower. The second song that played was Madonna’s “Justify Your Love”. I haven’t heard that song in a long, long, time; as a matter of fact I don’t think I’ve heard it since I ripped that disc (Immaculate Collection) to mp3 format years ago.
Next, I get into my car and I’ve been using my iPod Touch (16 gig) in my car. Yep. I’m just getting on the interstate and “Justify Your Love” starts playing.
I haven’t heard the song in years, and it plays on shuffle twice within an hour?
A few months ago, one of my friends from high school died. In talking to the family, I learned that my friend’s younger sister, a girl named Jennifer, had been my sister’s best friend in high school. I am eight years older than my sister, and I barely noticed who her friends were, I’m sorry to say. It was strange and sad to learn that my sis and I had made friends with another set of sisters, and we didn’t know until one of our friends died.
Until she went overseas at the end of last year, my flute teacher taught at a number of different schools. I had my flute exam on the same day as a student she taught at another school who I didn’t know (let’s call her N). Her exam was directly after mine and she was playing some of the same pieces as me, so we had to organise what was happening with the accompanist, passing on of scores etc.
Coincidence #1: My best friend, a musician (T), starts going out with a girl from one of the big bands he plays in. I don’t know this girl, but he mentions her name, age and the fact that she also plays the flute and I realise that it could be the same girl who had her exam on the same day as me. He asked her and confirmed that it was.
Coincidence #2: At the same time, T’s closest male friend, S, starts dating N’s best friend, L. S has his own jazz trio which a completely unrelated friend of mine, K, absolutely adores. K only recently found out that I know S, and she thought that was a big deal. K also believes that I am hopelessly in love with T, who she doesn’t know personally. In an attempt to get her to stop hounding me about T, I tell K that he has found himself a girlfriend. She responded by saying that this was a minor setback (I’m sure she was joking). She didn’t know at the time that said girlfriend was actually one of her close friends. Turns out L, N and K are close friends and none of them realised we all knew each other.
Small world. I feel kinda sorry for K though. All her friends are casually acquainted with a group of musicians she apparently worships. Must be a bit of a blow. Then again, she gets to meet them through us on Saturday, so it’s also a stroke of luck for her.
Coincidences happen to me a LOT. I mention someone and the phone rings and it’s them - that sort of thing. What I think is I am aware that it’s about time someone make a call to our office and I have good timing, but not always.
But, most recently, my husband mentioned Joni Mitchell. I said I had seen her on TV recently and she looked ancient, just like some of those other old hippies like Judy Collins and Grace Slick. That very second a commercial came on that had an old Jefferson Airplane song with Grace Slick singing. It was a little spooky.
Music coincidence – Friday, I was bored out of my skull and text messaging with a coworker. I started “singing” a particular song to her that was stuck in my head. She messaged me back with “OMG, is my radio that loud?” Turns out the song that was stuck in my head was playing on her radio at the exact line I was “singing” to her in the IM.
I get a lot of music coincidences. Saturday, my daughter and I were going to the grocery store. On our way, I started singing a song that is several years old – so naturally my daughter turned on the radio to drown me out. The radio station (that is usually contemporary) was doing a ‘90’s hour’ and playing that song. We both got a good giggle out of it.
Looks like we all do! Yesterday, I was playing an old cassette tape in my car to find out what all was on it (for some reason, I never labeled any of my old mix tapes). One song was Mike & the Mechanic’s Silent Running, and I commented to the kids that I don’t think they ever play the spacey intro when you hear the song on the radio. A few hours later, I was riding in my husband’s car, and the song came on the radio, complete with intro! (He said, “What the hell is this, Christmas music?”)
The weekend before last, I was looking through a bathroom book full of “interesting facts” that my friend had, and on one page it said “Heath Ledger was named after Heathcliffe from Wuthering Heights” and on the next it said “The name Jeremy Beadle is now used in Cockney rhyming slang” (can’t remember what it is - needle?). I bet the page after it has something about Roy Scheider on it.
Another music coincidence here - I woke up yesterday morning and for some reason Elton John’s song “Levon” was stuck in my head. A few minutes later I was sitting at the breakfast table doing the crossword puzzle, and one of the clues was " ‘Levon’ singer ______ John ".
I posted about this when it happened, a few months ago:
Out of the blue, I got an email from my half-brother (on my father’s side). He’d found my website while doing a googling the family name. Now, the thing is, we hadn’t seen each other since I was around four years old- about 36 years ago, back in Alvin, TX. I couldn’t have even told you his name- all I could remember was a vague, tall blur.
Anyway, as I said, we hadn’t seen each other for over a third of a century. I now live in the Pacific Northwest, about 2500 miles from where I’d last seen him.
He’s moved, as well- he now lives in Bend, Oregon… the town I lived in until just a few months ago. For three years, we lived in the same smallish town (pop 70,000), halfway across the US from where we last met.
My wife and I met eachother when we both lived in Florida.
However we both grew up living a block off of the same highway in Wisconsin/Illinois about 50 miles apart.
Directions from my house to hers: Go one block east to Highway 45, take a right and go south 50 miles, take a right and go one block.
OK, so I was at a colleague’s cubicle going over something or other when his phone rings. He doesn’t recognize the name that comes up, but I do, it’s my wife’s work, so he picks it up and lo and behod it’s my wife. How did my wife know to call me here instead of at my desk. Apparently she called the wrong number (our phone numbers are just one off), that just happened to be this guy’s number where I happend to be at the time.
A few weeks ago I was hanging out at a friend’s house, and in walked his new roommate—a girl who had lived two doors down from me her freshman year in college (at a school 100 miles away).
Saturday morning, my girlfriend wanted me to help come up with a peom for her niece about becoming a woman. I suggested “Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses”. A few hours later, we were doing a crossword together, and Dorothy Parker was in a clue.
