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like an angry old man, shaking a fist at the sky...
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
old videos
i've got shitloads of videos in my house. stacks and stacks of movies, and then even more stacks of vhs tapes with various tv things recorded on to 'em. the other day, i don't know why, i was motivated to go searching for one of those videos so i could find an old unsolved mysteries episode about a man named DB Cooper. in broad strokes, he skyjacked a 727 back in 1971 for 200k. he jumped out of the back of the plane, and disappeared into history. pretty cool, huh?
db cooper to me is one of those stories like the titanic -- you know, fascinating in its own right, but what makes it so much moreso is first person accounts of the incident. you've got the words of a pilot, the flight attendant, the FBI man, a witness who may have seen his white parachute land in a cold lake. then, you've got the most interesting parts: dramatizations, theories as to what happened to this lone crackpot. they showed him shivering in his black business suit, trying to start a fire with his zippo. and thus was born my love for zippos and my belief that they can save your life.
i probably saw this unsolved mysteries segment when i was about 7, and for the longest time i tried to watch UM as much as i could, in case they had an update about mr. cooper. plus, my sister and i had this ongoing theory that one of the flight attendant was in cahoots with ol' DB if not himself, post operation....she just traced her face so neatly when describing the man.
plus, when you think about it, as the only unsolved skyjacking in american history, he gave a pretty killer fuck-you to the FBI. so in that right, he at least makes me smile.
yeah, i haven't really gotten past that imaginative stage in which i solve the case. robert stack would love me. you know, if he weren't dead.
feeling: hungry. smelly.
thinking of: my mind's a blank
song of the day: don't think twice, it's all right - bob dylan
i ain't sayin' you treated me unkind. you coulda done better, but i don't mind. you just kinda wasted my precious time, but don't think twice, it's all right
i've got shitloads of videos in my house. stacks and stacks of movies, and then even more stacks of vhs tapes with various tv things recorded on to 'em. the other day, i don't know why, i was motivated to go searching for one of those videos so i could find an old unsolved mysteries episode about a man named DB Cooper. in broad strokes, he skyjacked a 727 back in 1971 for 200k. he jumped out of the back of the plane, and disappeared into history. pretty cool, huh?
db cooper to me is one of those stories like the titanic -- you know, fascinating in its own right, but what makes it so much moreso is first person accounts of the incident. you've got the words of a pilot, the flight attendant, the FBI man, a witness who may have seen his white parachute land in a cold lake. then, you've got the most interesting parts: dramatizations, theories as to what happened to this lone crackpot. they showed him shivering in his black business suit, trying to start a fire with his zippo. and thus was born my love for zippos and my belief that they can save your life.
i probably saw this unsolved mysteries segment when i was about 7, and for the longest time i tried to watch UM as much as i could, in case they had an update about mr. cooper. plus, my sister and i had this ongoing theory that one of the flight attendant was in cahoots with ol' DB if not himself, post operation....she just traced her face so neatly when describing the man.
plus, when you think about it, as the only unsolved skyjacking in american history, he gave a pretty killer fuck-you to the FBI. so in that right, he at least makes me smile.
yeah, i haven't really gotten past that imaginative stage in which i solve the case. robert stack would love me. you know, if he weren't dead.
feeling: hungry. smelly.
thinking of: my mind's a blank
song of the day: don't think twice, it's all right - bob dylan
i ain't sayin' you treated me unkind. you coulda done better, but i don't mind. you just kinda wasted my precious time, but don't think twice, it's all right
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