if you want to find out what your namesakes are doing in the rest of the world, one google search of your name and the mystery’s solved. but when i was younger, actually meeting someone who shared your exact name was always so magical and fortuitous. i used to try and force the coincidence by looking up my name in phone books when my family traveled, and then calling my namesake from the hotel phone. i wanted to find out what it was like being whitney alexander for that person, what the name ‘whitney alexander’ sounded like reflected off them, and whether, frankly, they deserved to be called whitney alexander. imagine my shock when i got my first male whitney alexander on the phone: FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
in this film, a dude named jim killeen contacted a bunch of other jim killeen’s that he found on google, and they all got together and made a film about it. i haven’t seen it yet but the concept sounds pretty interesting, assuming the jim killeens of the world aren’t a bunch of boring-ass tools.
why not watch it and let me know! love you, guys, whoever you aren’t!
