"In-Flight Movie"
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Greetings, m'friends! Here we are with this month's sneak peak at the new album. You have your boarding pass - let's go airborne for a few. :-)
Inspiration comes from the strangest places. The initial idea for "In-Flight Movie" actually occurred to me while watching the Jodie Foster movie, Flightplan. I found myself pondering the imagery of aircraft and flight, and thinking that it might be interesting to use a person taking off on a deserted airplane from a deserted airport at night as sort of a metaphor for those who have lost the joy of being alive and are in danger of "drifting out of the world" if someone doesn't intervene.
The "disillusioned dreamers and the weary with care" are taking one-way flights out of life every day, of course. The "dreamers" around us can be more susceptible to these unexpected departures than many realize. They expect so much from their lives and feel everything so intensely that when things appear to have gone all wrong, making a seemingly romantic exit like a character in a tragic movie can become an appealing notion. Better to be dead than to live a failed, mediocre life and all that. I'm not endorsing that line of thinking, mind you (if I did, I would have been gone long ago after the many disappointments I've weathered, and I never would have been around to see things get better).
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the clip (the song itself is 5 1/2 minutes long, this is just the first 2 1/2 minutes or so). As I just told a friend, I really need to do a more upbeat, happy song after this...I do gravitate to the moodier side oftentimes, but I don't want to get all depressing and start having people trying to label me as "emo" for heaven's sake. :-)
As a side note, I also set up a camcorder in the home studio during the recording of this song so that I can include a few brief snippets of the recording process in a "making-of" video that I'll put online when the new album is released. Don't worry...contrary to rumor, I do NOT record my vocals in the nude, so the vid will be entirely work safe, LOL.
Hope you enjoy your weekend! Write me when you get the chance and tell me what's new. The Internet goes both ways and I always enjoy hearing from you guys. :-)
Dave
