Synchromysticism

" Synchromysticism:
The art of realizing meaningful coincidence in the seemingly mundane with mystical or esoteric significance."

- Jake Kotze

January 11, 2020

Buck Henry Dies on David Bowie's Birthday ... Ain't Life Funny?

Starring Buck Henry as Oliver Farnsworth
Today, on the morning of January 11th in Australia I saw that on the fourth anniversary of David Bowie's death of January 10th, 2020 the BBC had a news story about the passing of Buck Henry who died on January 8th, 2020, which would have been Bowie's 73rd birthday, if Bowie was still alive today.
Buck Henry: Tributes paid to late screenwriter of The Graduate
Buck Henry in
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
The oddity here also was that Buck and Bowie both starred in the movie 'The Man Who Fell to Earth', a movie that had a big influence on PKD writing the novel 'VALIS'.
And the Next Day And the Next And Another Day ... ?
Starring Buck Henry as Father Serafim
Buck Henry also wrote and starred in the Nicole Kidman/Joaquin Phoenix movie about a weather woman, 'To Die For', which considering Kidman's latest role in 'Bombshell' and the Joaquin's latest Golden Globe winning award role as 'Joker', seems a little synchromystic in pop cultural/world news/current events terms, I think.
Especially when I see that 'Joker 2' has been announced on the Joaqu's IMDB page and that the last writing credit on Buck's IMDB page is 'Get Smart 2':-)
Buck Henry's biggest claim to fame seems to be (according to the BBC news) writing the movie 'The Graduate', which was directed by the late Mike Nichols, who ironically passed away in 2014 on my old wedding anniversary of November 19th, which Charles Manson would also die on in 2017, which kind of makes me smile since I was divorced from my bad life choice by then anyway:-)
God/Dog/Star/Rats/Wolf/Flow?
Remember, Remember the 19th of November ... Some Dates Are Made Not to Be Forgot?
You just couldn't make this stuff up if you tried, could you?

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