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Last night, driving to a friends house, I had Radio 1 on and when the DJ asked for people to phone in for requests, I thought, "I wonder if I rang up and asked for something by BoC if they'd have it to hand? It's probably all mp3s on a server nowadays and I'm sure they must have Dayvan Cowboy as someone said it was on MTV the other day." Then, coming back home, I turn on the radio and it's the start of Dayvan cowboy. My inital reaction is, "Oh I thought I'd taken the cd out?" Then I realised it was a CDr of Boc Maxima that I had previously had in the car and not TCH anyway. I glanced at the display and it said Radio 1. Odd eh? After the track they talked a bit about the video for it, giving warp's URL and also release date of Transcanada Highway, as well as recommending people check out TCHP. It was the first time I'd seriously thought about requesting BoC (or for that matter, any band) on the radio and it was also the first time (recorded peel session aside) I'd heard them on it. |
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those are always some of the best moments in life, imo. Makes me feel like the craziest things are sometimes possible. |
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yeah have you noticed that once you recognize one of these magic moments, they start happening more frequently over a period of time. |
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Yes, I remember you saying about the streetlight going out. It's funny, people will write them off as mere coeincidence, but I know what coeincidence feels like; I'll come across at least one a day, but when these sort of things happen it actually alters how you feel. I don't know, it's as if there's some outside force orchestrating it, but for what purpose? |
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I think your story outlines the timing factor of these sort of things. It's not like you think, when seeing something, "Oh, someone mentioned this the other week." It's typically; you think something and seconds later it happens or you see it/hear it. I think it's this element that makes it feel so strange, almost like a psychic experience. It's as if your thought made it happen. I know in my story there was a 2 hour gap from the start to close, but I was thinking about requesting it literally as I pulled up and turned of the engine (at which point the radio went off). Then when I started the engine back up when I came back to the car, the situation carried on, almost like a CD starting up again. |
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oh stop it - it is coincidence. you're focusing your attention on one particular thing. unless hearing a BoC track on the radio is your idea of God manifesting itself to you, but then you should be hearing God screaming around you pretty much all day long. |
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Has it ever happened to you? And if so, will you at least concede that it feels different to your common or garden coeincidence, which of course everyone experiences almost daily. The most marked example of this sort of thing I've experienced was when I was talking to a priest and thought "swear" and about half a second later, he said "Damn" (which in itself was very out of character for him). Now, nothing we'd been talking about should have annoyed/antagonised him to make him swear, so I had no way that I should have reasonably expected him to swear. Likewise, I'd not before, or since, "thought" wanting a priest to swear. As it happened, the cause for him saying "damn" was relating to something else that he just happened to realise at the exact moment I willed him to swear. As I say, very out of character for him and he looked as shocked as I was and he apologised profusely. Yes, you can write it and anything like it off as a coeincidence, and I realise that there are a million possible coeincidences a minute which don't happen, but when the timing is so bang on and the event is such a statistically unlikely one as this, it is a very, very strange feeling. |
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For example, last week, I was thinking, "Hmm I hope they play Gnarles Barkley- Crazy" and that was the next song on the radio. That just felt like a normal coeincidence. Why? 3 Factors, none of which are typically present in the other sort of coeincidences we've been talking about. 1. Reasonable statistical likelihood of x happening: In this case, Crazy is on the radio a fair bit and whilst it may well be only a 1 in 200 chance that it'll be on Radio 1 when you turn it on, it's certainly common enough that it's not easy to write it off as coeincidence. 2. Frequency with which you think of x; I've thought 4/5 times when listening to Radio 1 that I'd like the next track to be Gnarles Barkley. Compare this to the BoC on the radio or priest swearing thought that I'd only had once in my lifetime. 3. Timespan; it was a few minutes later, after the host finished talking, that the track came on; not almost immediately |
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qrter doesn't have feelings ;( |
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In 1, of course I mean the 1 in 200 likelihood is easy to write off as coeincidence. |
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ok now, stop it. it is spelled coincidence. |
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braindance coincidence |
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You're right. Sorry. |
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Whilst it's not quite as good as that, I've got 2 other cool coeincidences, but they lack the "timing" element in the others, but are still fairly interesting. My nan was in hospital and realised the woman next to her was australian. Now, my nan, God bless her, asks, "Oh person x I knew moved to place y in Australia years ago, do you know them?" As if this woman is going to even remotely have anything to do with the person. What's shocking, is that not only does she come from the same place, but lives next door to the woman concerned. Insane. The other one, is that my aunty (who lives 150 miles away from me and my brother) had a new next door neighbour. Invites her over for coffee and the neighbour brings some photos of her son's (who again, lives miles away) wedding. Bizarrely, my aunty spots my brother, in the background of one of the pictures of the wedding. What makes it even more mad is that the wedding was in New York and that my brother had only been there once; for the wedding the photos were taken at! |
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you said coeincidence again, but these stories are superb. keep 'em coming. |
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Right this moment, millions of people are discussing what strange coincidences they have witnessed. They are not rare, but they are fun. I'd say the chances of witnessing a coincidence every now and then, whether huge (and it's the bigger ones we make a fuss about) or small, are pretty staggeringly high. |
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not odd at all. any day now boc will be just like madonna and michael jackson! |
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Ha ha, I did actually reflect on that at the time. I was thinking; this would have been even weirder had it been 6 years ago and I was wondering if they'd play "Melissa Juice" and they did. :) |
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Things just happen. Thoughts just occur. Sometimes they just match up. Coincidence? Nay. Confluence. Although I will admit it's an interesting feeling you get. I've had it many times. |
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OMG WE ONLY LISTEN TO MUSICS NO-ONE ELSE EVER LISTENS TO! fun fact: Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Autechre and whathaveyou are rather big names and the likelyhood of either of them being played on the radio or the tv isn't that small... |
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maybe it was fate |
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i don't believe you |
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they actually played windowlicker at a local soccer stadium near me.. i dont know if it was a prank. |
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get outta here! |
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