The Williamsburg Spinners

Remember the basic premise of The Truman Show? Remember, next, the way he started finding out that there was a meta-existence beyond his own? He started seeing things that were too much…things that seemed to be too "neat."

Well, I believe I've seen similar things this weekend:

While performing in a Williamsburg Sinfonia concerts on Wednesday and Friday nights of last week I began noticing that all of the young men looked a lot like Tripp did at one point in his life. There was the mop-headed blond with the baggy jeans and the dark mustache, there was the blue-haired really skinny dude with the t-shirt apropos of his current musical and/or political thoughts, there was the pseudo-preppy with the wide wale brown cords and his semi-Scottish sweatervest… They were all there in Aroma's. That was weird enough to get me thinking as I walked back across to the theater where we were playing but then I really had something odd happen.

After the concert I got into my car and reached down and put in a copy of The Chemical Brothers songs that I've compiled and just as "Hey Girl, Hey Boy" was coming on I saw someone with an Amish-like beard walking by. Shivers went down my spine. Tripp introduced me to this exact song one evening in 1999. Now, last night, as I sat waiting for my principessa to come to the television for our movie night I found Comcast's On-Demand presentation of The Chemical Brothers "Live at Red Rocks: 1999" concert and played "Hey Girl, Hey Boy." I'll be damned if it didn't look like Tripp (albeit a twenty-pound heavier Tripp) was spinning on the stage. I've looked for a video of that to post, but the closest I've come is this little promo picture, notice the "puppet master" himself on the left.

You can see, perhaps, why I think there must be a meta-existence for me just like Truman. All I know is that it somehow involves Tripp and electronic music and 1999. Oh, and Williamsburg.