now and 60s (then)

Watching Franco Zifirelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet (with the stunning Olivia Hussey), you can't help but scream out "Zac Efron!" every time Leonard Whiting who plays Romeo comes on screen. He even captures that innocently hopeful, yet strained, presence Efron embodies in all his films. (By "all his films" I really just mean 17 again, are there any others?)

Behold:

One year later another ladykiller, Woodstock co-creator Michael Lang circa 1969, will debut the look that will make another New York native very famous 40 years later -Andrew Van Wyngarden of MGMT.

Behold:

Like Bang! But, I kept walking with the pictures.

Walking down concrete stairs at the train station, I imagined I fell; it was a picture so severe that I had to run my tongue along my front teeth. It would have been like: bang! No, it would have demanded it's own sound effect.

But I didn't fall.

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Anomaly because: I have an extremely demanding work schedule.



Let's go meta. When you have nothing saliently anomalous, talk about the fact that you don't have anything strange or odd to report (which is subsequently strange and odd given this world favours diversity). I feel a lot like this opening scene from Tom Hank's Joe vs. The Volcano: