Coincidence #3: Two references to the Wee Kirk O' the Heather within a few days.
A few days ago I watched Paper Heart, a nice little road flick about Charlyne Yi interviewing people about love while herself becoming loosely entangled with Michael Cera. One of the stops on her travels is the aforementioned chapel in Las Vegas. Yi (as played in the film) is sweet, low-key, and often childlike as she tries to get an explanation of what love really is; she's wary and tentative but not at all bitter. So is Cera (again, according to the film). They kid around in a let's-keep-the-stakes-low-OK? manner, never venturing too far from an exit.
Wee Kirk O' the Heather also appears on page 246 of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, which I am two-thirds of the way through at the moment. Around 1969 or '70, Larry "Doc" Sportello, a hippie P.I. in Los Angeles, is hired to locate a missing real estate developer. His frenemy is philosophical police officer Christian "Bigfoot" Bjornsen. The story rambles like The Big Lebowski, and Doc's cool reminds me of The Dude. I picture Inherent Vice as a movie (or better yet, a cable mini-series), produced/directed by David Lynch, with James Franco as Doc and John Krasinski as Bigfoot.
Coincidence #4 (weak): Inherent Vice also mentions Val Lewton, a movie producer praised in another book I've been reading, Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber. Check out Lewton's Curse of the Cat People.
Coincidence #5 (weakest): The real estate developer sought by Doc Sportello is named Mickey Wolfmann. This weekend The Wolfman opens in theaters. Based on reviews, I probably won't be checking the movie out.
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