A few coincidences have come up for me lately, some larger than others. There's one that sort of *feels* significant to me, but I can't quite decide on how weird it really is.

I moved to a small town a couple of years ago. Since I moved here, the music that I've played the most (and I usually have music playing for a large part of the day) is by Craig Finn, a singer from New York (I'm in Canada btw). I was already a fan of his band, the Hold Steady, but for whatever reason, I've gotten into his solo music big-time since being here. Maybe because his lyrics are so specific and vivid, I sort of associate a lot of them with living in this house, since this is where I got into the music.

He has a podcast, and I think that anytime he has a new album or a tour, they get him to fire the podcast back up and put out a bunch of interviews with various musicians/writers/etc. I subscribe to it, and last week, I saw that he had a new episode. The musician he interviewed is from Canada, and when I saw her name, I realized that she is the daughter of the guy who used to live in this house. I met that guy once or twice, and I remember that when I had first walked around the place, there was a painting on the wall with her name signed to it (which I of course went home and googled out of nosiness).

So this feels weird to me - there's no geographical reason since the podcast/guy is from the USA, and there was no pre-existing connection before this. When I moved here, I had looked at many, many different towns, all over Ontario, and just happened to wind up in this one. I could have wound up 200km away, and the previous resident could have been a guy who worked at Home Hardware or something.

When I have mentioned this to people, they don't seem too blown away. I suppose it's weirder to me, being the one with the first-hand experience of all this. And I think the coincidence is maybe missing just *some* extra little something to make it inarguably weird. But still!