Entertainment On A Long Flight

[LarryG]

(The following is shamelessly adapted from another forum ... found it interesting there, thought it'd be fun to do here.)

You've booked a flight to the other side of the world from where you live. You'll be traveling alone, and the seats next to you will be empty.

You're allowed to bring one book, one newspaper or magazine, and three CDs and a portable player. The CDs have to be commercial purchases: no home-burned CDs, no MP3 players, etc. Greatest hits compilations and boxed sets are okay but you have to count each disc as part of your maximum of three.

It's going to be a long, boring flight. What will you take?

[Thom2]

any Harlequin Romance, Better Homes and Gardens magazine, and the Barry Manilow boxed set of greatest hits.

If I can't sleep thru the entire trip with those things along, I'm hopeless!!!!!

[bigsteel15]

Book - Stephen Kings IT.
Newspaper - daily from my destination
CDs
- Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (this is really the only one I would need)
- Led Zeppelin II
- System of a Down Mezmerise (current fave)

[Tom Slick]

I don't need anything.
The curse of being a former airplane mechanic is that I pass out as soon as the engines start and we push back from the gate. it's like pavlov's dogs.

[JR]

It's going to be a long, boring flight. What will you take?

Ambien!

[Ken Massingale]

It's going to be a long, boring flight. What will you take?

Lot's of strong drugs and straps for tying me down!

Massingale doesn't fly anymore!

[cabinetman]

To think I used to jump out of perfectly good airplanes, but now, get into a sealed tube, go to 30,000 ft, 500 mph, by someone I don't know - NO WAY.



"I'M NEVER WRONG - BUT I'M NOT ALWAYS RIGHT"

[SHADOWFOX]

Books would be:
Truman by David McCullough or,
Samurai by Saburo Sakai or,
Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins, and Donna Sinisgalli
Any Nicholas Parks Novel would do as well

CD's would be:
Soundtrack to the movie: Dying Young (it relaxes me)
Bee Gees Greatest hits
Suffjan Stevens: Illinois

[Jeffrey Schronce]

[QUOTE=Ken Massingale;218246]Lot's of strong drugs and QUOTE]

Book : Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson

Hendrix : Greatest Hits which of course includes the greatest song ever written, All Along the Watchtower

Doors : Absolutely Live (2 disk)

Newspaper/Mag : Sunday NYT

[Popeye]

To keep this on track:
Any Elmore Leonard novel. I could read them all over again.
USA Today
Glen Millers greatest hits
Deep Purple- Purple Passages
Someone already said Dark side of the moon so...
Dr. Hook.... Greatest hits and more............................... Pat

[Mrs. Wallnut]

Well mine would have to be any book by J.A. Jance, love her writing...
-Any home decorating magazine
-And CD's would have to be Cher's Greatest Hits (1 CD), and then The Man From Snowy River soundtrack (very soft classical type music) and Gretchen Wilson, Redneck Woman.

[BearPipes-1]

CDs
Jethro Tull, Heavy Horses
Model Engine, The Lean Years Tradition
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue

Book
C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

I'm going for a mood/tone with the music, and matching it with the book, which I've only read once (bad memory = enjoy books lots of times).

Motion sickness has built up over the years, but I have fond memories of reading The Hobbit lying on the bunk over the cab of a rented RV driving into Sequoia National Park for my grandparents' 50th anniversary. Thrilling, time-killing, and seemed to take as long as a trip around the world...

[leehljp]

Having made over 30 flights of 10 to 14 non-stop hours, It makes no sense to take a newpaper or magazine to me.

If this were the first, second or third time, the media you mentioned would be OK at best. I have done that and found that a newspaper/magazine is only useful for about 3 hours max and more of a pain to keep up with in the long run - it becomes trash too quickly.

They have had DVD movie players here in Japan for the last 6 or 7 years and I have seen several on plane flights, so they would make a good item to take. I can't figure out what the people had in mind when they mentioned "CDs". Portable CD players and "3" CDs are kinda like carrying around a cassette player and 3 cassettes. Too limiting and too big for the benefits when an MP3 player are more easily obtained and hold hundreds of CDs.

All the long flights and (short flights too) have made me weary of bulky things that are too limiting in their "entertainmant " value.

Now, if the question was" What are your favorite book, CD or newspaper," that would not be too hard to do. LOML says that I overdo the "practical" side of things far too much.

[crokett]

any Harlequin Romance, Better Homes and Gardens magazine, and the Barry Manilow boxed set of greatest hits.

Yeah right. We all know you curl up on the couch every night with your bonbons and the newest Harlequin book.

anyway I'd bring a book by Tom Clancy. He is one of the few authors that still takes me a while to read. Any one of Discover Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, etc would be the magazine. Music would be any Evanescence CD, Dvoraks New World Symphony and Van Halen 5150

[Thom2]

Yeah right. We all know you curl up on the couch every night with your bonbons and the newest Harlequin book.

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