(a) I found that a surprisingly happy-making video.
(b) Sunglasses chick?
(c) Hey, is that Martin Starr?
That is Martin Starr. There are credits on the youtube page. Sunglasses chick is Yelle, the singer depicted on the cutout at the beginning.
An earlier happy-making Nathan Barnatt video.
That's odd. The gardener lady is a dead-ringer for a friend of my wife's.
That was a really good music video.
About the A-B thing, yes, I have had this happen. Actually, sometimes it happens the opposite way. Once I picked up a guy who closely resembled an actor I've never paid any attention to, but now I sort of look for things he's in and find him appealing.
How did the date with the hott paleo badass go?
I'll let you know after it's taken place, Halford.
I was hoping that the date was the reason behind the post, and was also hoping that the person the date resembled was someone insane. Vladimir Putin?
Speaking of videos, and specifically videos that have been embedded at Unfogged, this post gave me the thought to check in on the "Pound on My Muffin in a Camaro in Schenley Park" phenomenon. Sure enough here is an "official interview" with her in which she responds to various aspects of the response to the video and which people can interpret as they see fit. She was apparently in a fairly serious car accident (at one point asking her off-camera lawyer father if she "can say that"--I'm guessing with an eye toward potential lawsuit program-related activities) and is wearing a neck brace.
But the best thing I discovered was that old dude driving the Camaro (whether dad or someone else) has seemingly decided that his appearance in the video was in fact not cool and he is now obscured by the word "muffin" being strategically displayed on the screen.
That's impressive how they appear to be greenscreening in the middle, but there's appropriate shadow with the darker backgrounds (and not just silhouette).
They claim it was done without greenscreens at all.
re: the A-B thing.
A sort of girlfriend of mine when I was in my teens, once picked up a guy because, and I quote, 'He looked just like my brother.'
Rather expensive, then. Is it promoting Yelle or something?
Considering both this and an overbowling video I saw FB the other day with a Norwegian guy literally gliding down the side of a mountain, I'm wondering if pre-Super Bowl *viral stuff is polluting the video world.
Lyle Lovett is familiar with the phenomenon in question.
Also, on the A-B thing, when my wife and I were living in separate countries I used to [and this is a sad admission], when pining, sometimes watch Dawson's Creek, because Michelle Williams has a fairly strong resemblance, or did then.
I'm partial to the Buster Keaton version.
Is it promoting Yelle or something?
One presumes?
It was amazing how when the guy started wearing the tight jeans + vest + hat combo, he immediately started looking like a douchebag showing off in an annoying way. As soon as he was back to the baggie pants + turtleneck + sneakers, I was again amused by him.
Jimmy Stewart is also familiar with the phenomenon in question, or at least a closely related phenomenon.
16 is like the most adorable thing ever.
16: Marginally less ridiculously, I get a little thousand-yard-stare-y when Rosemary's Baby or Breathless is on television.
A sort of girlfriend of mine when I was in my teens, once picked up a guy because, and I quote, 'He looked just like my brother.'
The tendency of some people to be attracted to people who look like themselves is a slightly creepy commonplace; among heterosexuals this often resolves itself into copping off with an opposite-sex-sibling lookalike, given that there's a family resemblance. I've noticed it frequently.
I always wanted to resemble my future spouse. (Did not happen whatsoever.)
Huh. I was recently the object of some attention from someone who looks a great deal like my brother, and I feel terrible but I just can't feel anything for him because of the resemblance.
I definitely had borderline-romantic feelings for my brothers. Not that I pictured kissing them, but they were fast and exciting and I got an adrenaline rush when I was allowed to tag along.
I would not be sad to look like either Mia Farrow or Michelle Williams, I tell you what.
24: My parents were repeatedly mistaken for brother and sister when they were dating. This probably should have tipped them off that marriage was a poor idea.
27: But Jean Seberg is right out of the question?
23: My sophomore year in college I was involved with a woman who was involved with a lot of other boys on campus. I found her choices random and puzzling. Then I met her father, and discovered that we all, in one way or another, resembled. him.
Re 23
Yes. This friend was prone to dramatic emo statements about fancying both her brother and another relative. I'm sure it was largely a calculated pose -- look how shocking I am -- but the guy did actually look like her brother, so there was that.
I think it is hilarious that Woody Allen has cast Owen Wilson in the Woody Allen role for his newest movie.
I watched a girl hit on her brother once so extensively that none of us could tell if she was kidding or not. To complicate things, she was stunningly gorgeous and he was a bit dorky, so everyone could project that he must have had some lust, somewhere.
I was completely fascinated by the slowly unfolding piece of performance art, as best I could determine.
Like, we were at a Denny's and she kept trying to sit in his lap, and had lots of secrets to whisper in his ear. It was both bizarre and mesmerizing.
Jarvis Cocker is also somewhat familiar with the phenomenon:
Oh, listen we were on the bed when you came home, / I heard you stop outside the door. / I know you won't believe it's true, / I only went with her 'cos she looks like you.
Though I disagree with nosflow's assertion that one is attracted only to a-as-b; I'm not sure if it's false or just an unhelpful way to characterize things, but either way, I disapprove.
C looks very vaguely like my brother (enough for LB to be confused I suppose) in that they both have long thin faces and short mousy hair. But they're not really alike at all, but then neither are my brother and I. However, when I first met him, I did tell my mum that he reminded me of my brother, saying, "He's just like K; you can't believe a word he says."
I was at a party with a friend once when some stranger we were talking to asked if we were boyfriend and girlfriend, as we were clearly close, or brother and sister. Brother and sister, we replied in unison. Ah yes, he said, I thought so, you have the same shaped mouths. (We don't.) "That's because we're always snogging!" we claimed, giving each other an unsiblinglike kiss. He went away then.
14, 18: Barnatt had previously done a dance video to a Yelle song that I don't think she was involved in. My understanding is that Yelle liked it and invited him to dance onstage with her when she was in LA and it led to this new more "official" video (via my daughter who has been a fan of Barnatt's for a while).
Probably both, but I haven't made up my mind.
I get this. There's a girl in my improv group who strongly resembles my high-school girlfriend, and I often have an emotional vibe towards her that resembles my feelings towards the teen love (not attraction so much as longtime fellowship, at this point, which is actually a weirder feeling to have towards the improv girl).
I also recently realized a strong resemblance between another high-school gf, a college fling, and my first wife. Although I only realized that long after the fact, so that's more just a case of having a type than the Curious Thing of the post.
(A lot of those links are to FB images, which may not work.)
How did the date with the hott paleo badass go?
Wait, what now? nosflow, did you finally put up a profile in your normal writing style?
I'm not sure what you think my "normal" writing style is, Josh, or why it would attract a hott paleo badass.
Anyway, if you're asking whether I made actual my plan to rewrite my profile as a single very long sentence, incorporating the various okc section headings smoothly into it, and perhaps making each section a lipogram in a different vowel—the answer is no, I have not done that.
I mean, that sounds really hard!
I thought that the reference to the Norwegian guy skiing down the mountain meant that apetor had made a new and even more crazy video. Alas!
The A for B thing is the organizing principle of Nerval's story "Sylvie", whose main character realizes that the actresses he keeps falling in love with are proxies for his true love from age 14 or so, and who then happens to meet his true love again, and realizes the she herself had been a proxy in turn for another girl who he had only met once at age 13 or so, and who had existed in his heart and mind ever since as the archetypal standard for femininity. In the end of the story, like a puch line, he finds out that she had died very shortly after the time he had seen her. This story was later plagiarized by Freud, Lacan, Jung, et al.
That's an inaccurate paraphrase but gets the gist of it. I will reread.
That was me.
I'm on the road using my sister's computer. Using someone else's computer is always annoying, for me anyway, but it's more annoying if you're using the computer of someone who doesn't know anything about computers, so she a.) pays the full retail price and b.) is overcharged for a cheap crappy slow computer because she can't afford to be overcharged for a computer that works.
The A for B thing is also HH's self-justification in Lolita, of course, which may be Nabokov's little joke at Freud and Jung's expense.
In other news, I was attacked by a juvenile muskrat yesterday. It was unseasonably warm and the muskrat was on the street right in the middle of town, far from its nest. It felt that I was approaching it in an unfriendly manner so it started hopping threateningly in my direction, sort of like a kangaroo. Mature muskrats max at 3 lbs but this one looked more like 8-10 oz. The long-term future of that muskrat is not bright, I fear.
The muskrat probably loved someone you resemble, a long time ago.
51: I know the canonical version was by the Captain and Tennille a few years earlier earlier, but this America cover adds the yacht rock smooth.
I have a thing about a certain nose-shape that goes back to the young woman I adored all through high school. But I don't think mine is an example of the phenomenon in question, though I might sometimes be attracted to A-qua-B-qua-C, where C is the high school crush and B someone else after whom I still pine.
Come on, admit it: you're all dying to know which nose-shape we're talking about, here.
If she is at all interested, Merganser, you should pursue it, even though she's not the original. I mean, if A-qua likes a duck...
Obviously Shape 14 has broken your heart.
Little-known fact: ducks have 31 different words for "bill".
I also have the hots for Gogol's nose.
"I am in love with a nose that has only been seen once in this world....."
59. It's in Israel, according to the link in 54.
