Will Chatham

I had one of those strange series of coin­ci­dences today. This woman from AFLAC was at work today and was tak­ing my infor­ma­tion for some insur­ance crap I was enrolling for (the one where they pay you like $5000 for each fin­ger you lose…hmmm). She was ask­ing me my birth­day, and I told her when it was. She said that was her father’s birth­day too. A moment later, she asked my address, and she said, “Wow, my mom and dad live on your street”. So the next thing that made it all really weird was when I looked at my watch to see what the date was, and I noticed it as 2:22 on 2/22. Far out, d00d.

Aside from those types of things hap­pen­ing, I went and saw Mastodon at the Orange Peel the other night. I was mostly excited to go out and see a show in the first place, but these guys rocked the jams, which made it even bet­ter. I’m not usu­ally into metal, but it was great nonethe­less. The only down­side was that the sound was not mixed very well at all, and often, it was really hard to dis­tin­guish what was going on.

That brings me to my next coin­ci­dence, which hap­pened when I first got to the show and was min­gling through the crowd try­ing to find a good spot to stand before the band started. This guy walked up to me and stopped, point­ing at me. My first thought was it was some­one I knew from Louisville back in the day, but I didn’t think that was very likely, so I dis­missed it. I was like, “Dude, who are you?”

It turned out my first impres­sion was cor­rect. It was Andy Tins­ley from Louisville, a guy that was part of the Bard­stown Road crowd back in the day. I asked him what the heck he was doing there, and it turns out he was the sound engi­neer for Mastodon. Go figure.

I promise I won’t wait for more strange coin­ci­dences to hap­pen before I do some more writ­ing here. I’ve been slack, I know.