April 29, 2006 12 noonish
Waiting in the Brendan Theater to watch the movie Flight 93 which was just released in theaters. Maybe 8 of us here.
Just before the movie began, a song plays “My old friend, we’ll meet again"
CNN: Judy Woodruff “4th plane crashes” (On 9/11/2001, four planes crashed: two in New York City, one in Washington DC and the fourth, Flight 93 in Pennsylvania.
Disaster film (I love 1970’s disaster films like Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno and Earthquake)
Mark Bingham, a gay man, died on flight 93. He was a hero on board.
We lived through that horrible morning of September 11, 2001. The Skys went silent overhead as all plane travel was suspended. We thought that the attacks were headed our way, to the West Coast. The West bound flights headed for the San Fransisco Bay are flew over Modesto where we lived at about elevation 10,000feet I think. Flight 93 probably would have followed that course had it not crashed.
2:27pm (after leaving the theater having watched the film, I made the following journal entries:
United 93 film: fairly stunning
At the end of the movie one of the theater audience members cryed.
Flight 93 still haunts 5 hours later.
They would have landed here about 11:30am.
They crashed 4 I/2 hours before: 7:03am Pacific Standard Time
It was not a crowded flight
“But when you think about what people are actually under going in our civilization, you realize it’s a very grim thing to be a modern human being.”
Joe Campbell to Bill Moyers on PBS From the book Sacred Selfish p.333.
End of this part of the entry
Joseph Campbell was an author and a expert in the area of mythology and comparative religion.
Bill Moyers has been involved with Public Broadcasting and has produced documentaries including one in which he interviewed Joseph Campbell.
