There is an art, or rather a knack to flying.*

[bending_sickle]

Here's a totally random - and totally fake in that there is no downloadable music attatched (there's some streaming) - music mix. I'm not entirely happy with either the track selection or order, and think maybe I'm lacking a quote or subtitle. Also, am slightly jilted that they're 9 tracks, when 10 would be so much nicer. Help on any of these fronts?





The Waiting Lounge of Airports

1. Leaving on a Jetplane - Chantal Kreviazuk

All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go
I'm standing here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye

[...]

Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe I hate to go

Now the time has come to leave you
One more time, let me kiss you
Close your eyes, I'll be on my way

2. Airport Parking Lot - Richard Goldman

Now I'm walking around the rooftops with the one I love the most
In the middle of the night I'm screaming of her and the holy ghost.
As you start thinking that your number is odd**
You're looking for your car in an airport parking lot.

3. To the Airplane - Drew (aka Dog Traders)***

We will go back to the airplane
You will find us and embrace us there
We will go back, but not stay back,
With the airplane and the landing gear.

4. Leaving New York - REM

You might have laughed if I told you
You might have hidden a frown
You might have succeeded in changing me
I might have been turned around

It's easier to leave than to be left behind
Leaving was never my proud
Leaving New York, never easy
I saw the light fading out

5. Fly by Night - Rush

Airport scurry flurry faces
Parade of passers by
People going many places
With a smile or just a sigh
Waiting waiting pass the time
Another cigarette
Get in line - gate thirty-nine
The time is not here yet

[...]

Fly by night, away from here
Change my life again
Fly by night goodbye my dear
My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend

6. Skymall - Jonathan Coulton

O’Hare is nice this time of year
I check my bags and find my seat and buy a beer and settle in
Such is my life here on the road
Now my seat back is up, tray table stowed and there’s nothing to do
I gotta get myself through

So I am shopping in SkyMall
That five-mile-high mall
That always has just what I need
When I get to the gate and remember too late
I should have brought something to read
I’m OK, cause I know that I’m gonna shop SkyMall

7. Like it or Not - Darren Hayes

Now I'm standing at a terminal waiting to connect to another plane
If I told you I just cancelled my flight to America
Would you call me insane?
Everything I am has been neatly contained into
the contents of a Samsonite bag
Me, a laptop, 2 suitcases and I'm coming to see you
Whether you like it or not

8. I Miss My Sky (Amelia Earhart's Last Days)- Heather Nova

Sometimes I wonder
Why we're always coming down
And why we need to touch the ground
And why I didn't keep on heading
Right on up to heaven
I miss my sky

9. Airplane - Imogen Heap

Just flying in my airplane.
Peaceful colours everywhere
Purples and deep blues
Feeling so at home here oh
As if up here i grew

It's so beautiful up here now,
Oh I think I might just stay
All alone and by myself
So free and far away
I'm with my aeroplane

ETA 11:17 pm: Worked a teeny tiny bit today - some 1100 words. Bought tickets for ma'n'pa to come visit (with their money, o'course). Computer did its little "Lalala I can't hear you" total freeze-up for a good long while. I want to punch the wall in and run down the hallway screaming. Instead, I'll try and do a happy flail because OMFG PRATCHETT'S THE COLOUR OF MAGIC ON TV. Well, fake TV, and not yet. Ought to track down TV-Hogfather.

PS: *points up* Comments will not go amiss!


* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by DAdams
** My best guess.
*** The ToothpastForDinner.Com comic artist

Comments

[blizzardcake.livejournal.com]

Wow, nice job!! I think the 9 tracks actually suits it quite well! All my CDs seem to have an odd-number of tracks lately :) The order also looks fine to me; I'm digging through my brain storage to see if I can think of any other songs that would fit in with the theme (which I really like btw <3)

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

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