So I've been watching The X Files... As TW puts it, I'm great at discovering useless connections. I'll show you what we mean. I was watching Season 1, Episode 21: Born Again. Mulder was perusing someone's house, looking for clues, and he comes across a painting that I'd never really paid attention to before:

I recognized it immediately as something we had hanging on our own wall:

Tada! Only we've got a big frame... I mean, the picture itself is 100% identical, it's awesome.

Then, I was watching the Season 1 finale, and it opened with a shot of Mulder sleeping with a movie playing on his TV? I recognized the thing immediately... It's a movie I grew up watching over and over. We'd check it out from the library and I'd overkill the thing. It's something I'll never forget:

See? Mulder's TV... Now here's the same (close enough) screen from the widescreen DVD I have:

It's the original 1959 movie Journey to the Center of the Earth! I'm really impressed with the DVD release, by the way. They even made a little side-by-side restoration comparison clip... They managed to digitally recover the original quality of the negatives before releasing it. I remember the poor color quality, like what you see on Mulder's TV, and while that would be nostalgic, I'm impressed with the restored clarity. The sound kinda needs work, though, but it could also be my soundcard running some odd software 3D positioning. Plus, the sound is perfect in mono mode, which is probably what it was even recorded it, hah.

Plus, then there's this guy from the first episode of the latest season of Heroes: Governor Malden. I didn't recognize him at first, but the voice... Oh man, the voice I totally knew:

Any guesses? It took some digging on my part, because I didn't know the name of the guy until the second episode, but once I got his character name, it was simple. Well, I'll save you the trouble, since you probably think you're too awesome to bother seeing it, but if you've seen Babylon 5, you'll remember this fellow:

John Sheridan, anyone?

And here's one I just remembered as I was looking through my pictures folder... This, too, is from an episode of X Files. Season 1, Episode 14: Lazarus, to be precise. Mulder and Scully go to talk to some specialist who deals with people having experienced briefly being dead and being brought back:

Recognize him? Anyone? Yes? No? Probably not... Then again, if you're an avid fan of Stargate, you might very well remember this fellow as one of the quirkier aliens SG-1 encountered... Does the word "comtraya" ring a bell?

Tada! Harlan! From Stargate SG-1 Season 1, Episode 18: Tin Man...

Am I good?

YOU BET I AM!