Under My Skin
Once something bugs me, that’s it.
Last night I was sitting down with Wife to watch Lost, surely a highlight of anyone’s television week. And there in the writing credits was the name Adam Horowitz. Hang on, I thought - “Adam Horowitz AKA MCA, the husky voiced Buddhist rapper of Beastie Boys fame?”
Except what I said was: “Fuck! Um…. Horowitz. Adam Horowitz. You know. Ad Rock!!! No. Hang on, MCA. No. Yeah! Adam Horowitz! The Beastie Boys. What the hell?”
It bugged me for about two seconds before I was out of my seat and onto the computer trying to find out if MCA was co-writing scripts for runaway smash Lost, even though it cost me the first four minutes of the show.
Turns out Adam HoroVitz is in the Beastie Boys, Adam HoroWitz with a W is a Hollywood script writer. But I had to find out and now I know.
I rarely let things like this lie. And now because we’ve always got information at our fingertips, things don’t stay unknown for long. At least not with me.
Plus I love a Fun Fact. Here comes one right now.
The Cenotaph in Whitehall (that’s the WW1 memorial London’s Whitehall) is 1801 feet and eight inches around if you were to go around it and measure every edge and side. And the sides don’t go straight up. They look like the do, but they are slightly slanted but you wouldn’t notice unless someone said. It would actually form a point it if were really, really high. How high? Like 1801 feet and eight inches high.
Yeah.
How cool is that? Like it would make perfect sense if it was all there, but it does although it doesn’t because it’s not. And it’s even cooler that people don’t know how much sense it makes because they don’t know that it’s part of the design, except now they do.
July 12th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
I can definitely empathise. I have the same thing, but with faces.
I’m forever saying things like. “I’m sure he played a baddy in Die Hard II”, or “He plays JD’s brother in scrubs too, I’m sure of it”.
The only problem is, I have to wait until the end of the program where I can get the actors name and google them, which invariably ends up with me going, “HA! I told you he was a baddy in Die Hard II”, or “HA! I told you he played JD’s brother in Scrubs!”
I am a great deal of fun to watch TV with.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Boys are all like that. I’ve just spent a train ride home trying to remember the names of two people who are friends of friends and we are never likely to see them again. I think I’ve got it now; Wife thinks she couldn’t care less; but we have no way of knowing, other than phoning up said mutual friends. And I can’t be arsed.
Anyway, don’t like Lost; don’t like the Beastie Boys. I do like Die Hard 2 and Scrubs, though.
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