Today’s the last day of the job. Afterwards, I will celebrate by returning home, not sleeping, taking a shuttle to the airport at 3AM, waiting for my 6AM flight, and flying to my homeland of Denver (while listening to Bright Eyes - “At the Bottom of Everything” and Sherwood - “This Airplane is a Ribbon“). At some point in life I’d like to watch the first episode of LOST on an airplane, but I’m not sure that’d go over well so I won’t.
So I’ll sleep sometime tomorrow and then begin enjoying my vacation. I CAN’T WAIT!!! Woooooo!
Update: Yup, I’m done done. I even escaped a couple hours early. Good thing, too, considering I haven’t packed yet. I’m rushing my laundry through during the next few hours and then I’ll be good good good to go.
Well, you could just load the first episode of LOST onto your laptop, but I’m guessing that’s not what you had in mind. I suppose having it on the main screen for all passengers to see would be quite an experience.
Maybe we should try to come up with a list of the all time best/worst movies to watch on an airplane.
Which of the lists would “Airplane”, “Snakes on a Plane”, and “Alive” be on?
I think Snakes on a Plane would have to be on the “worst” list. Mostly just because it sucked.
If I had a laptop or an iPod w/ video I would at least load the first episode on it. I have neither.
Sucked?! No - maybe misunderstood.
Ok, it had it’s good moments, but in general I didn’t enjoy the style or content. I enjoyed the idea better than the actual production.
Sucking and being misunderstood are not necessarily mutually exclusive Hermit. Take a good chunk of popular modern “art” for example.
“Oh…in high school I was voted most likely to be a mental patient, hillbilly or chimpanzee!” Homer Simpson (Mom and Pop Art, S10E19)
Not to worry Jake - no such implication was intended. I must admit I liked it far more than is sensible. Which is to say, of course, a tiny little bit.
I forgot to mention another great item to watch on a plane: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet — the classic Twilight Zone episode w/ the gremlin on the wing. It should be an obvious choice for the list. If you’ve never seen it, you should hunt it down and watch it.
Yeah, Nightmare at 20,000 feet is great. Gotta love William Shatner…
My nominee for movie-to-never-watch-on-a-plane-in-order-not-to-upset-fellow-travelers” is: “Fearless.” It opens with an aerial shot of the after effects of an Iowa 1989-like plane crash in a cornfield. It’s a brilliant character study from a transcendent Jeff Bridges as a man who comes to question his own mortality after surviving and the drastic steps he takes to bring a distraught Rosie Perez (whatever happened to her, anyway?) out of her funk after surviving the same crash but losing her child. I highly recommend it.