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| Baby, I'm a little bit amazed |
Last night I was in the kitchen
making dinner and listening to music on my iPod, on shuffle as usual. While the
stew was simmering, I read the latest film reviews in the Washington Post. In
the review of the new Queen Latifah/Dolly Parton feel-God vehicle Joyful
Noise, I read the following sentence: “And to ease in non-believers (or those
apathetic toward religious ditties), many of the early ballads – Michael Jackson’s Man In The Mirror and Maybe I’m Amazed by Paul McCartney – are
crowd-pleasers.”
When I read that sentence, the
song playing on my iPod was Maybe I’m Amazed by Paul McCartney. As there are
over 21,000 songs on my iPod, that was quite a ‘Ha!’ moment.
I know a few people who would immediately
read more into it than just pure coincidence. A sign of something. Unlike the thousands of other times when I’ve heard a
song on my iPod and haven’t come across a mention of that song in whatever I
was reading at the same time. Or the several dozen times I’ve heard Maybe I’m
Amazed in my life, but wasn’t reading a newspaper article that mentioned the
song at the exact same moment.
5 comments:
But it will be a sign when you read an article in the Washington Post about frogs, and "We All Stand Together" comes on the iPod (especially if, as I suspect, you dont have that song on your iPod).
It's what Koestler called a "shower of coincidences". Happening all over the place. Once I sober up I'll explain. It's 1441 here. Time, not year.
AMD - your suspicion is correct- no frogs on my pod. But your scenario has got me thinking about other possible McCartney-related coincidences. The ex-Beatle crashing into my kitchen driving a Land Rover just as 'Helen Wheels' comes on. My uncle Albert coming over with his friend Admiral Halsey just as I'm making a pot of tea (except I don't have an uncle Albert). 'Let 'Em In' playing just as someone rings our doorbell (which has the exact same chime, and starts that song off in my head for hours every time someone comes round). All the members of Wings ringing that same doorbell one night while being hunted down by a police search team...
Boyo, I'll look forward to your explanation upon sobering up, in whichever year that may turn out to be.
These moments certainly have the power to spook. Maybe it's a message to jolt you out of your current mind state - don't hang up your boots!
Nicely put Ian. I'll take momentary amazement over the lack thereof every time, regardless of the source.
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