Pod Cast

Things To Do

The 23 Conspiracy

Over my life time I have discovered that chaos and evil have lways been around the number 23, I have no problem with chaos but with evil I do Here are a few examples feel free to emal me more

Film references

In addition to the films 23 and The Number 23, references or usage of the number in movies include:

In Serendipity, Sarah & Jonathan 'randomly' select floor 23 in the Waldorf Astoria elevators.
In Kate & Leopold, Kate has 23 minutes to jump into a time vortex before it closes.
In The Matrix Reloaded, in the opening code sequence, the final, most prominent number is 23, reversed as if looking from inside a mirror. The film was also released 5/2003.
In The Fifth Element, there is a reference to five in the title (5 = 2 + 3), and the story is set in the year 2263, the 23rd century.
In Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, when the raccoon attacks Harold and they almost crash into some other car and then find out it's Goldstein and his friend, Goldstein has a shirt with a 23 on it.
In Antwone Fisher, Antwone finds his mother at apartment number 23.
In Talk to Her by Pedro Almodovar, one of the women in a coma, Alicia, is shown in flashbacks to live in a building with street number 23.
In One Hour Photo, the number 23 can be seen prominently on a digital counter at a supermarket, and on a character's sports shirt.
In "The Number 23", this movie is set to be released in 2007, starring Jim Carrey. It's about a strange occurence of the number 23. The movie is set to start filming in November of 2006.
In the movie "The Big Lebowski", The Dude and his friends always play at Lane 23.
In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, The Truth tells Carl, "Do you know how many sattelites are watching us right now? 23. Do you know how many religious relics are kept at The Pentagon? 23. Seeing a pattern here?"
In the movie Airplane 2 the space shuttle disaster is caused on the x-2300
[dit]

Television references

23 is one of "the numbers" on ABC's television show Lost. The series is 4 8 15 16 23 42. The number 23 specifically is referenced in various intentional "coincidences" throughout the series, such as the number of the terminal Flight 815 leaves from. In perhaps the most obviously referential scene, Hurley is repeating the entire sequence aloud, and Kate picks out the number 23, asking what it means to him. When Hurley hesitates to tell her about the synchronicities he has experienced in connection with the numbers, Kate tells him that coincidentally the number 23,000 relates to a significant event in her backstory.
In episode 4 of Life On Mars (BBC, 2006), Detective Sam Tyler (who finds himself transported back in time to 1973), goes to the house where he lived as a child, which is number 23.
Purple 23 is the location where Kramer sets the air conditioner in the parking garage episode of Seinfeld.
The numbers 23, 6 and 801 recur throughout the recent series Doctor Who.
Network 23 is the name of the television network in the science fiction television series Max Headroom.
In the episode of the TV show Family Guy "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater" Peter has the number 23 on a bidding paddle.
In the 17th episode of the first season of Veronica Mars "Kanes and Abel's", Veronica is trying to find out who is harassing a girl named Sabrina. Sabrina lives on 23 Emperor Court. In the next scene Veronica knocks on a motel room door where Amelia, daughter of innocently convicted murderer Abel Koontz, is hiding. The room number is 23. The previous episode (Betty And Veronica) ended with Veronica finding an obituary dated May 23, 2001.
On the show My Name Is Earl, in the episode "Didn't Pay Taxes" Randy buys an electric scooter; while using the scooter he reaches a speed of 23 miles before swallowing a fly.
In the new television commercials, as well as on its bottles, cans, and boxes, Dr Pepper is said to have 23 flavors.
In the Futurama episode "The Farnsworth Parabox", Professor Farnsworth creates several boxes each containing a different universe. When at one point they fall from their shelves and onto the floor, the only box number visible is 23.

[edit]

Musical references

Hip Hop Emcee and underground legend Noah23 aka Captain Clark has a song called "Enigma of 23".
The electronica group The KLF, who have referenced The Illuminatus! Trilogy extensively, also contrived the appearance of the number 23 throughout their work, in promotional material, and in the cataloguing of their releases.
The sound system Spiral Tribe referred to the number 23 extensively. They held parties on the twenty third day of the month; their flyers, posters and artwork featured 23 imagery; their record label was called Network 23; and some music was released under the moniker SP23. Oddly enough, twenty-three members of the group were also arrested immediately after their Castlemorton party event.
The progressive rock band, Tool, named the last track on their latest album, 10,000 Days, "Viginti Tres" - latin for twenty-three.
The power-pop band The Posies named their second album Dear 23, because they were fans of The Illuminatus! Trilogy.
Progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria have 11 tracks filled with nothing (aptly titled by some as "A Lot of Nothing"), which leads up to the 23rd track, "21:13" on their album In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3. Given the military time 21:13, if the number of tracks containing nothing but empty noise (11) is taken from the middle of the time 21:13, 2:3 remains.
Musician John Frusciante recorded a track named "23 Go In To End", made using an electronic synthesizer, for his 2004 album, Shadows Collide With People.
The song "New Millennium Cyanide Christ" by progressive metal band Meshuggah with a passage in the time signature 23/16 (twenty-three 16th notes per measure).
The final song on Alternative Rock/Emo Band Jimmy Eat World's 2004 album Futures is titled "23"; the track is 7 minutes and 23 seconds long.
Former Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain was born 1967 1 9 6 7=23. He died in 1994 1 9 9 4= 23.
In the song "Gett Off", by the artist Prince, the lyrics read: "Gett Off! Twenty-three positions in a one-night stand".
Jamie Hewlett Uses the number 23 a great deal and also references the Church of the subgenius and The Illuminatus! Trilogy in his illustrations and writing for Tank Girl and Gorillaz - Also the number 5 occurs a great deal in his work.
The german gothic band Welle:Erdball has an song called "23", referring to "The Illuminatus"

Industrial group Psychic TV references 23 extensively. They even tried to release 23 albums in 23 months, but stopped at number 17.