In Case You Weren’t Already Afraid of Flying, Read About Circa Survives Flight
Awesome: Your band gets to fly to the UK to play!
Not Awesome: Flying there on a cursed death-plane
hello all. writing to you from glassgow, scotland. yes, we made it here in one piece. not without some slightly terrifying flight complications on the way over but PMA* overcame all. we got to the JFK airport right on time last sunday. we prepared for an 8:30pm departure after having to rearrange our pedal board packings to meet weight restrictions we went thru security and sat at the terminal. we were told that our flight was to be delayed because they were having technical issues that couldnt be fixed and were to be getting a different plane. so around 945ish they loaded us onto our flight to be. upon being seated the pilot informed us that this plane was going to need some tinkering with as well before we could take off… so we sat for an hour on the plane. we could hear them drilling and hammering on the new part or whatever it was. we were all slightly unnerved at this point. flying is scary enough without having to be present for repairs. ok so they say we are finally cleared to take off. and so we do. in the air for about 100 seconds and there is obviously a very loud and strange vibration coming from the front of the plane. sitting in tense silence all eyes are on the seatbelt sign. this is because once that goes off and you hear a bell noise, you pretty much know its all okay…. im not sure if that is true i just had learned it at a young age after watching Llyod Dobler tell it to Diane Court**. needless to say 35 mins later the sign is still on. another ten minutes goes by and we are all beginning to look at each other now with those big eyes that just say…” i hope this is gonna be ok but deep down im not so sure anymore.” the pilot then comes over the loud speaker again….” you may have noticed that loud vibration coming from the front of the plane… and well to be honest, there is nothing normal about it… it would appear that we’ve been struck by Murphy’s law this evening and we will have to return to JFK to fix the problem.” Now there are probably two things you never want to hear a pilot say to you in mid flight… I’d have to say “we’ve been struck…” is one of them and “by Murphy’s law” is the other one. but alas… this pilot found another phrase i would assume not say… “there will be ambulances and firetrucks on the runway waiting for us so don’t be alarmed its standard procedure.” at this point i was practically going to laugh myself to death before we landed anyway so i wasn’t worried anymore. the landing felt especially shaky but i’m sure our heads were switched to “totally fucking with you” mode. this was followed by yet another announcement by our genius captain. ” we will sit here for about 25 mins while the mechanics work on the problem and tell us whether or not this plane is out of order.” next announcement…. “this plane is out of order. please exit into the terminal and await the plane that your luggage is being transfered to.” to cut this short…. we eventually wound up leaving JFK for the second and final time around 130am. believe it or not i feel like i am officially over my fear of flying. either that or i’m over my fear of death. they may in fact have been the same exact thing i suppose. id like to hear all of your irrational or even rational fears. so won’t you please tell us?
love you all
colin
ps. we shall return to the states in 3 days. hope you are all ready for the ON LETTING GO tour. if you don’t have tickets yet you better get em before they’re gone. woop!
*PMA- positive mental attitudeÂ
**reference to the Cameron Crowe film “say anything”…you are instructed to watch it , know it, love it.
–Posted on the Circa Survive Myspace Blog Sep 15 2007
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