Crossing time zones is a funny, disconcerting concept – I’ve always enjoyed arriving… & then savoured the psychological adjustment of actually arriving. A few hours of time lag is fun – you can instantly stay up (or get up) a few hours later/earlier without effort. A six or eight hour shift is a challenge, but beyond ten or twelve hours things just start to get weird. Los Angeles is a -12 hour shift from here and I remember returning home years ago and consciously questioning whether I should be driving on the motorway: I was more used to enjoying REM during my lunchbreak, than avoiding life-threating non-indicating lane-changers.
But shifting 24 hours? Isn’t that time travel?
I gain exactly a day on the way to Samoa, and lose a day on the way back. Other than that (& the lack of a Dolorean 4WD) everything is normal. While I’m away I won’t be doing much/if any posting here – I’ll definitely try & upload a few photos & sounds but that depends on access… So rather than there be a two week silence I thought I’d try an experiment of shared experience. I’ve set up a series of automated daily posts, with each being a single question – some literal, some philosophical. Answer them as & when you see fit, via a comment, But, there is one proviso for this to work….
Through necessity I have all first comments set so they must be approved by me before they appear – you would not believe how much spam would otherwise appear here! I’m not sure which is more annoying, obvious spambots, or spambots that pretend to be human by writing stuff like “great post, I have learned so much on this subject. By the way have you heard of vi@gra?”
So if you have already commented at any time on this blog then you’re fine, but if you haven’t and you want to participate while I am away then you better comment on this post now, so I can approve you for any future comments. Otherwise if you suddenly decided to stop lurking & participate your first comment will sit for 2 weeks waiting for approval…. which would be a little underwhelming in terms of shared experience!
This isn’t one of the sonic questions but it will do as a starter for any first time commenters:
What is the first film you ever remember seeing, on film, in a picture theatre?
Mine was either The Wizard of Oz or Charlie & The Chocolate Factory – in psychedelic technicolour at the Ashburton Picture Theatre during school holidays with my Gran (thanks Irene, RIP)
You?
Cool post!
The first film I saw at the cinema was Short Circuit 2…”Johnny Number 5 is alive!”
In true 80′s style, it’s full of classic one-liners.
Mine was “E.T.”.
I was so shocked when he came out of the cornfields.
For two weeks I could not go to my bedroom on my own because of that scene …I was five years old.
I wish you a nice timetravel!
Mine was the original Muppet Movie! It was fantastic if I remember correctly…
Hmm… I remember my dad taking me to see Braveheart when I was a little kid. Don’t think it was appropriate for my age at the time but still a pretty good movie.
I’m pretty sure the first film I ever saw was “Bugsy Malone” at the Ngaio Town Hall in Wellington. I would’ve been about 6, I think.
Have a great time in Samoa!
From the always wonderful ‘Information is Beautiful’ site
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/time-travel/
You can click on the image to get a larger, readable chart.
I hope this doesn’t reveal my age, but the first one I can remember was either Beauty and the Beast or The Little Mermaid.
The first movie I watched on Television I remember was Star Wars – A New Hope. I remember vividly the first scene with the white stormtroopers invading the Princess’s cruiser and then Darth Vader – I must have been 3 years old.
The first movie I remember seeing in a movie theatre was Bambi!
My first was either Return of the Jedi or ET. Probably the former. I was 4 and I didn’t like the ewoks
I can’t remember my first but I do remember being amazed at age 11 as Sensurround (sp?) bounced the popcorn out of the box while I watched Midway.
Not sure if this is correct or not, but it was feels like it was either 101 Dalmations or The Princess bride. That was definitely the first one I went back to the cinema for anyway.
Great post btw, and looking forward to the questions. Funny about the Vi@gra stuff….. But seriously, have you heard of it?
The first movie I’ve ever seen in a movie theater might well have been “The Land Before Time”. I remember that I was excited seeing this movie, when I was 6 years old.
First movie I saw in a movie theatre was probably Godzilla (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087344/). I was 3 years old in really sad at the end of the movie.
Have a nice trip to Samoa!
Star Wars Episode IV New Hope… late 70′s so I would’ve been 8 by the time it got to the local picture theatre in Waimate (South Is)… around that same time, my beautiful Nana took us nippers to see Christopher Reeve/Superman rescue Lois from… well… every catastrophe you could pack in a 2 hr flick.
Star Wars ep.IV in the theatre. I was 4. My parents say my eyes were as big as saucers during that first imperial ship pass over. Those films are why I’m in sound.
I think my first “big screen” was a drive-in, since we lived in the middle of nowhere. Do they still have drive-in cinemas? The sound was awful, but it was fun for us kids cause we’d get out and walk around looking in all the other cars… hence I can’t remember a single film I saw there.
I clearly remember “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, outdoor movie arena in the summer of 1990.
Have a nice trip! “Flux Capacitor… fluxxing!”
my first was ‘Jaws’ – country girl moved to city (well…Hamilton) spent a lot of time annoying step-sister with ooohs and aaahs about the whole experience – i don’t remember being freaked by the movie but should’ve been thinking back on it now!
First film I remember in a theater was “Lost World” with stop motion dinosaurs and all; probably in the late 50′s. Wow, do I feel old.