Serenity @ 25,000'

Serenity @ 25,000'

For anyone taking a flight in the foreseeable future I recommend two things. Bring a Grant Morrison graphic novel with you and have Badly Drawn Boy's Have You Fed the Fish? in your playlist.

I was so fucking Zen on my way from LA to St. Louis. Maybe it was the caffeine withdrawal. Maybe the jet lag. When I was coming in over St. Louis and saw the lights abstracted because of distance I started wondering if that was what space looked like from the fourth dimension. There was a baby (and her parents) sitting next to me in my line of view out the window, and she seemed to fit right in with the abstracted 2D space light. Maybe my guts understood what a natural match that was (babies and outer space) in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but my brain still can't quite figure it out.

While on the ground and in the terminal, listen to The Postal Service's Give Up. Shit moves in slow motion, man. If you have a connecting flight, make sure you fit in a good meal, too.

A must, must buy is a pair of noise cancelling headphones. I wouldn't recommend the cheapy Maxwell pair I got from Best Buy, but they work well enough. I've got mixed feelings about crowds. I don't like my personal space being invaded by strangers, but I love the feeling of anonymity that being in a mob lends to the individual. Put on a pair of noise cancelling headphones, and it's like admitting yourself into a plexiglass prisoner that moves wherever you do. Shutting out the sounds around one's self goes a long way to promoting introspection.

Like I said, my flights were fucking Zen today. Now I just have to find a pair of noise cancelling headphones that completely shut out outside noise. I would never take them off once I got off of work.

So I'm going to figure out tomorrow how I'm going to see as many people I know in this part of the States as I can in the next two weeks. I'm going to try and make it up to Champaign sometime soon. Holla if you're going to be in the area so's I can meet up with you and have a few drinks with you.

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