Is it any coincidence that Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s claim that there are aliens in space comes 1 day before the new X-Files movie opens???

I wonder… Maybe this fan video (with super cool Blink 182 music) says it all:

More on Mitchell after the jump

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It’s almost X-Files time again - the new trailer is out!

I have always been a big X-Files fan, I even went to the first the screening on opening day of the first movie back in high school. It may not be the most overt show about social action - but one thing is for sure, The X-Files (while being fun, creepy and entertaining) does encourage folks to look beyond the obvious and to seek out the truth. And more often then not, the first step in political action is to look past what’s in front of you to see the reality of a situation. So watch the new trailer below:

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Armin Mueller who? While at MOMA a few weekends ago to see Laura Dunn’s powerful documentary The Unforeseen, I got into a conversation with a gentleman about the year in movies and we got to talking about David Cronenberg and his film Eastern Promises. The man claimed that the actor who played the head of the crime family did a really good job and he tried for a moment or two to remember who the actor was that played the old man.

After a moment I said - “It’s Armin Mueller-Stahl.”

The man shook his head, and said “no no, it’s not him”. I reasserted my position that it was in fact Armin Mueller-Stahl and the man again told me I was wrong. We talked about it until we got let into the theater and my friend decided to look up the answer on his I-Phone.

It was in fact Armin Mueller-Stahl. I resisted the urge to find the man and tell him I was correct and instead thought back to my introduction to the actor.

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