I want to meet my Google Twin

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

I've had a fair amount of Google Twins over the years. A video editor, a comic book inker I've never met, and some guy that calls himself J-Rod and hailed from Tijuana (he's my favorite). But one true Google Twin has risen from all the noise - Jason Rodriguez, stuntman extraordinaire.

What makes him a true Google Twin? The fact that comic guys ask me if I'm doing stunts in the new Iron Man movie, that's what.

We're like the Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger of Google Twins. He's this death-defying stuntman. I sit at a computer and edit comic books. But he's a stuntman on all of the movies comic guys like: Spider-Man 2 and 3, Constantine, Iron Man, Pirates of the Carribean, Mission Impossible III...um...COUGH Hulk.

I feel as if our lives are linked in a way we don't understand yet. Like I'm going to witness a drug deal one day and he'll be the only one that could keep me alive so I can testify. Doesn't it seem like some great fourth-wall cinema? You know Spike Jonze would kill on this project.

One day, Google Twin, our paths will cross. And when they do, I feel like we will come up with an idea so awesome that’ll it’ll blow David Lynch’s mind when we pitch it to him.


Even more amazing...I realized recently that someone likely confused me for this Jason Rodriguez when I was editing Western Tales of Terror. I got a phone call out of the blue - on my cell phone, no less - from some woman in Arizona saying she saw my western on TV and wanted to know if I'd read her husband's manuscript. I told her she has the wrong number and to never call me again, obviously, but lo-and-behold my Google Twin directed this movie.

Could it be the one the random woman was talking about? Likely.

Google Twin - our paths have been crossing for years, it seems. Amazing.


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