Actually, most of the Hughes flicks were. Home Alone, etc. The Breakfast Club was about my highschool.

For your original comment: prop aircraft do have mufflers. Check out this listing of Cessna mufflers. Lots of the noise from a prop aircraft come from the actual propellor cutting through the air, just like a helicopter makes a hell of a racket…planes just move faster.

And don’t forget that jet engines are way louder than prop aircraft…this is the current reason why jet aircraft can’t land at the Toronto Island Airport (not because of runway length, but because of noise abatement requirements.)

i love how you trash American stuff the way i do, even though you don’t have to endure living here. i know that catalytic converters are not exclusive of America, either.

but seriously. on my LJ, let me take the lead on trashing this really fucked country for everything it isn’t worth. i’m the one who has to make the most of this “right to dissent” thing. follow my lead. *smile*

on the muffler bit: it just doesn’t make evolutionary sense, that’s all.

Anyway, lean-burn engines are better for the environment than catalytic converters, because they don’t require the same warmup time. A catalytic converter is only needed on a bad engine or with bad fuel.

As for the muffler thing, it’s probably because they only take the pilots view into account, and the thing’s damned noisy anyway, so the engine noise plays a very small role in the overall racket.

and yes, be very afraid. i also remixed and extended the following:

Bruce Cockburn’s “Lovers in a Dangerous Time”
Madonna’s “Live to Tell”
New Order’s “Vanishing Point”
Duran Duran’s “Serious”
Towa Tei’s “Batucada”
Lindsey Buckingham’s “Go Insane”
Scritti Politti’s “Perfect Way”
Pat Metheny Group and David Bowie’s “This is Not America”
Hubert KaH’s “Wenn Der Monde Die Sonne Beruhrt”
The Human League’s “Don’t you Want Me”
Billy Ocean’s “Loverboy”
Paris By Air’s “C’mon and Dance With Me”

now you can be scared of me. *grin*

fourteen? fourteen?? that makes me older than you. but no wiser, likely.

and i <3 John Hughes.

i like his early stuff, before he turned into a bitter little hack.

now, pardon me while i go back to my “life”, listening to Device’s 1986 one-hit wonder, “Hanging on a Heart Attack”, which i personally re-edited in 2001 to make longer than the previously long version commercially available.

i’m afraid.

talk about not having a life? i’m it.

i bet my life is more no-having than yours.

did i just say ‘more no-having’? i’m going to bed.

and i <3 John Hughes.

now, pardon me while i go back to my “life”, listening to Device’s 1986 one-hit wonder, “Hanging on a Heart Attack”, which i personally re-edited in 2001 to make longer than the previously long version commercially available.

talk about not having a life? i’m it.