Some­times, things hap­pen that are so amaz­ingly ran­dom, it’s hard to believe it actu­ally hap­pened. So here’s my cur­rent exam­ple. On cam­pus at work today, the film teacher walked by me, and was say­ing to his stu­dents “wow, it’s hot. It’s like Texas hot.” As often hap­pens to me, this made a scene from a movie pop into my head. It’s from the 1988 Matthew Broad­er­ick movie “Biloxi Blues”. There’s a scene when the sol­diers arrive at basic train­ing, and Eugene is com­plain­ing about the heat, which he calls “Africa hot.” It’s actu­ally the open­ing scene from the movie trailer that you can see here:

Any­way, so I say to the film teacher as he was walk­ing by “Hey Mike, have you ever seen “Biloxi Blues?”

He gives me a funny look and says “Have I seen it? Yes, I was in it!”

I totally didn’t believe him, which I should of, because I knew he’s done a lot of act­ing, but some­how I thought he was pulling my leg. I actu­ally pulled a sim­i­lar stunt in col­lege, and had some of my floor­mates believ­ing I was in “Close Encoun­ters of the Third Kind”. So I looked it up on IMDb, and not only was he in it, he was one of the most crit­i­cal char­ac­ters! He played Hennessey!

So how ran­dom is this? Just think about this for a minute:

1) We’d be walk­ing by each other at that very moment.
2) He’d say some­thing that would make me think of a movie that came out 22 years ago.
3) I’d say some­thing about that movie to him.
4) He was not only in the movie, but one of the stars.

These are the ran­dom moments that make life so much more interesting.