Yesterday was one of those latter instances...to the nth degree. I usually work with Pandora radio going in the background, as I've mentioned before. And yesterday was no exception. I also take a bunch of mini-breaks during the day to catch up on the stuff in my feed reader. Yesterday was no exception there either.
I was doing that, reading White Rabbit's latest blog post about Bob Marley, This is England and ska. He even embedded a ska classic, 54-46 (That's My Number) by Toots & the Maytals. This one here:
Not a song that comes along in my life very often. If I wound up hearing it later this week or found myself reading an article about Toots Hibbert next month sometime, I would think to myself "Wow...that's weird. White Rabbit recently posted something about that song." I would find it odd because neither the song nor the artist come up that often in my life.
But as I was reading this particular blogpost, something was striking me as familiar. So I looked up at the TV (that's how I listen to Pandora) and I saw and heard "5446 That's My Number/Ball and Chain" by Sublime. A remake of the same song that White Rabbit posted on his blog.
Randomly playing on Pandora.
AT THE SAME EXACT TIME AS I WAS READING THE BLOG POST!!!
That, my friends, is some freaky cosmic shit.
I don't play the lottery all that often, besides the occasional Quick Pick when the jackpot reaches 9 digits. And I never play "the numbers". Pick 4 or whatever it is that it's called.
But I'm playing 5446 tomorrow. Oh yeah.
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Note: Remember to play the Badgerdaddy Trivia Challenge every day. Right now, somebody else has that number.
Holy carp! I mean catfish! And I was just playing Lena Lovitch, whose lucky number was 1.
ReplyDeleteYou're very bored, arent you?
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the numbers. That IS some freaky shit, but I think it'll probably STOP right there, lol !
ReplyDeleteWhy not play it today? Why tomorrow?
ReplyDeleteI haven't listened to Pandora in ages. I should. But if number songs come up, I'm coming back here, all creeped out...
Synchronicity, Jung called it.
ReplyDeleteNodnod.
RW - Ahhh...Lena.
ReplyDeleteSlyde - Just when I read your comments.
Heff - Prolly. Especially since it was yesterday, and that's the day I should have played the numbers.
Sybil - I meant today. I generally write my posts the night before they drop.
Wabbit - Classing up the joint with a Jung reference, eh? ;)
can you please tell pandora i no like RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!!!
ReplyDeletedoesn't matter how many thumbs down it gets, it keeps coming back up.
:(
good luck with your cosmic thing you got going on ;)
Holly - Consider it done! And nevermind...I forgot to play the numbers today. Ah well.
ReplyDeleteI think this just goes to show that the great spirit in the sky is fucking with your mind......and chuckling as he does so.
ReplyDeleteOkay - now *I* am playing this number. My junior high boyfriend just shared Toots and the Maytals - yep - same song - on FB. (This whole sentence may sound like I'm being facetious, but it really happened!)
ReplyDeleteCarraaazy!
Bruce - What spirit? What sky?
ReplyDeleteSybil - ::shivers::