How Weird Is That?

Ever ask yourself that question as some coincidence crosses your path, and you just find something very difficult to believe is little more than such a coincidence?

I frequent the Internet Movie DataBase quite a lot. As someone who was involved with the entertainment industry, it has proved its worth to me time and time again, and I have been quite happy to have such a reference available.

I was over at IMDB this evening looking up on one of my favorite guys, William Gaunt, and accessing the new IMDB Pro, a premium area that I just recently joined. The new area includes the titles available on DVD that are for purchasing, and I was making notes of what I could buy. One of the titles was called "La Femme Musketeer" and I looked it up, and it mentioned the director was this stuntman turned director named Steve Boyum.

Flash ahead about 1/2 hour later, and I'm getting ready to watch the episode of Numb3rs which was on this past Friday. I am watching it as the credits go by, and usually the last credit before the credits go off is the Directed By credit, and my jaw drops lower than the floor when I see "Directed By Steve Boyum"! Okay, I've never seen this guy's name before, at least not consciously, and even if I had, what are the chances that I should see his name twice, on different projects just minutes in between?

Another time something like this happened, Steve and I were in the car, and I was telling him about this new book I'm reading, and how the bad guy is someone named Dr. John Dee. It's a fantasy trilogy about Nicholas Flamel and his antagonist, John Dee. Well, just minutes later, we go by a street named, I kid you not, John Dee Road! This had been the first time I ever mentioned the series to Steve, as I was reading the first book in the series at that time.

It could be read as a mere coincidence, or serendipity, but heck, I'd understand if it happened days, or ever hours apart, but not in those contexts, not in the way these kinds of things present themselves!

Anyhow, I'm flabbergasted, and have decided that something, somewhere exists that makes these kinds of events happen for some reason, though what that reason is, I can't even begin to understand.