Excerpt
from Either You're In Or You're In the Way: Two Brothers, Twelve Months, and One Filmmaking Hell-Ride to a First Feature
by Logan Miller and Noah Miller
Two Guys
Who Love Each Other
It's been said we have an unusual
relationship.
Bro is me and I am Bro. We're identical twins.
We share everything; it's been like that since the womb. Before that
it was an egg, and before that it's hard to say. We have one cell
phone, one computer, and one car between us. Not saying that it would
be a bad thing to have two of each, but right now money is tight. So
for now, we share. And are blessed to have someone to share with.
We've always been best friends and have always helped each
other, except when we tried to resolve our conflicts by punching one
another. We stopped doing that once we started breaking noses and
knocking out permanent teeth. It got expensive. So now our arguments
never escalate beyond "intellectual frustration," if we may
boldly say so.
Each of us would rather the other guy succeed.
If there's only one trophy, we want the other to have it. If there's
only one princess, then Bro can have her. We cook for each
other and serve more food to the other guy.
Thought
experiment: Let's just say that we -- the Bros -- only had 51 percent
of a brain apiece. Unfortunate, yes, but paralyzing, no, because if
we work together we have 102 percent, which is 2 percent more than
any human on the planet, beat Einstein if he were still around.
People often ask us, do you really share everything? Yeah,
just about. Then they'll usually say something stupid like, "Even
underwear?" Chuckle, chuckle. Yes, even underwear, smart-ass.
But it's not like one of us wears a pair Monday and then flips it to
the other guy on Tuesday. We wash them first. Then we flip them.
Then the most common question: "So what's it like being
twins?" And we usually reply with, "What's it like being
you?" It's our reality. It's what we know. What do you know?
Tough question, isn't it, it's rather broad. And the only answer
we've ever come up with that makes sense to us is: Bro is me and I am
Bro.
The above is an excerpt from the book
Either You're in or You're in the Way: Two Brothers, Twelve
Months, and One Filmmaking Hell-Ride to Keep a Promise to Their
Father by Logan
and Noah Miller. The above excerpt is a digitally
scanned reproduction of text from print. Although this excerpt has
been proofread, occasional errors may appear due to the scanning
process. Please refer to the finished book for accuracy.
Copyright
©2009 Logan
and Noah Miller, author of Either
You're in or You're in the Way: Two Brothers, Twelve Months, and One
Filmmaking Hell-Ride to Keep a Promise to Their Father