That’s the name of a song by Elvis Costello. I hadn’t heard it in many years. In fact, I don’t think I’d heard any Elvis Costello songs for a very long time. But a couple of days after the Paris terrorist attacks, I heard ‘What’s so Funny…’ on the radio and realized it fit well as an answer to terrorism.
Later, as I headed to the gym, I decided to create ‘Elvis Costello Radio’ on Pandora on my iPhone. I did so and plugged in my earbuds. Oddly enough, in the hour I was at the gym, I only heard one Elvis C song before the Pandora program switched to other songs that supposedly fit well in style and ‘era’ to Elvis C. The song I did hear was ‘Allison – My Aim is True.’
But that wouldn’t be the end of Elvis Costello for the day. That evening, Trish and I decided to watch an episode of the television series, Minority Report, which is based on the Stephen Spielberg movie of the same name. We’d been looking forward to this new series this fall because we’re working on a book about precognition and that’s what Minority Report is about – specifically three ‘precogs’ who detect crimes before they happen. In the TV series, however, the program has been shut down. I guess solving murders before they happened raised some irritating civil rights issues. So ten years have passed and one of the male precogs starts working freelance with a female police detective.
Unfortunately, we haven’t found the series too interesting. I guess we’re not in the proper demographic since the detective and her female buddy are both in their 20s and seem – to us – way too young for the roles they’re playing. But maybe in 2065 the detectives are young and hot. We watched the third episode that night, hoping it would get better, but basically watching it because it deals with precognition.
So in this episode the suspected killer at the climax is about to kill a young woman named Allison and as he aims his gun at her forehead, we hear – yes – Elvis Costello singing ‘Allison – My Aim is True.’ Fortunately for Allison, the would-be killer is interrupted before he fires. You don’t need to know anything more about that episode…or any of the others, for that matter.
For me, the sequence of events were an Elvis Costello synchronicity and a precognition – an unconscious one. So I experienced a precognition that involved a television series about precognition, which we were watching because of our book in the works is on precognition.
I don’t think we’re going to use this story in the book, though, probably because it’s one of those stories that’s really only of interest to the person who experienced it. That’s what I realized after read what I wrote here. But now I’ve already written it…so here it is.
Interesting how music can be many things: synchronistic, precognitive, messages from loved ones and so on – and often meaningful.
Trish,
Robb,
Well i saw Elvis Costello back in 1980 , (oh oh, ) well we do get older. As to this precog stuff there is a very strong software dev for predictive analytics. Mostly used for long term trends and neighborhood crime prevention. It takes a bit of computational horsepower but you can see data sets that help in policing strategy.
I had the same type of “young and hot “vs “experienced and real life detective / intelligence work ” conversation with a former AFOSI Officer,and we came ro the same conclusion. No way younger than 35 yr old will have these type of jobs. It takes years of constant skill honing to get proficient.
There is a 4 part British tv series from the mid 2000s about an intelligence ( never revealed where in the universe this being existed ) sending images to a satellite that were clues to an catastrophic event in the future. It was, with each new episode getting closer to moral judgement of who lives, who dies … Very intense…
Funny how today is the 35 year anniversary of John lennon’s death. Scott Weilands recent demise ( stone temple pilots ) and the whole sense that we stopped as a culture moving forward with civil rights and guarantees post Reagan.
Sorry, sort of in a weird “where did we go wrong in the 80s ” mood.
Be well
Laurence
I remember sitting in front of the TV 35 years ago, watching the news coverage of Lennon’s death, and just sobbing…What was the name of that british series, do you remember?
Trish,
Robb,
The show is named “Paradox”, got hammered by the critics. I love BBC TV, though it must be because i can not relate to american TV.
Right now i am really into the Terry Prachett discworld movies on youtube.
Be well,
Laurence
Will check it out. Thanks!
This story strikes me as one that should be of interest to anyone who experiences or is interest in synchronicity. It’s an odd one and precognitive, too.
I agree, Rita!