I’ve built up a big backlog of songs. Here’s a bunch of them (I’m pretty sure they’ve all been submitted to Tagworld as well):

Snakes on a Plane by The Reverand Jody Hicks

We Are Snakes and We Hate You by Inverted Silence

Snakes on a Plane by The Codenames

Snakes on a Plane by Jamal Cuervo

Snakes on a Plane by Futuristic Sex Robotz

The Reverand Jody Hick song is a new version of this one I posted a long time ago. The rest I haven’t yet gotten a chance to listen to, how are they?

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RegretTheError.com points us to this gem from the Chicago Tribune:

A story on the front page of Tuesday’s Tempo described the title of an upcoming movie, “Snakes on a Plane,” as a tell-all plot spoiler that can get the idea across in Spanish, too. However, the writer’s offering of a possible Spanish title of “Serpientes en un Plano” was intended as a spoof, not an accurate translation.

Heh. If he would have checked my list of foreign translations, he would have seen it’s Serpientes en un Avión.

Actually, while we’re on the topic of the list I’d like to point out that I’m now up to 39 different languages (including Old English and Kikuyu). My new goal is to have translations in languages representating each letter of the alphabet. The only letter’s I’m missing currently are: Q, U, X and Y. Now, I know there aren’t many names of languages that start with these letters, but maybe someone out there can help me. Do you think Quebecois counts?

MTV has a short interview up with Sunny Mabrey who plays a stewardess. She does a remarkable job of restating the premise of the movie:

[The mobsters] see him and they’re after him, and Sam Jackson is a FBI guy sent to protect him. He’s going to L.A. to testify against this guy, and [Jackson] tries to throw them off the track by putting him in the first-class section of a passenger plane. Somehow, a mafia guy gets these black-market deadly snakes and he finds a way to get them on the plane and mayhem ensues.

I wonder how putting a witness in first class will “throw them off the track”?

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More fan graphics from around the web. The first two are courtesy of my frieng jeremybgg (it’s sort of a one-two punch):

And here’s the rest:

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A few new bits of comic-style fun today:

The second one came from Fandom-Foolery’s LiveJournal.

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A few weeks ago I filming an interview for CNN’s Paula Zahn, and it aired last night (4/13/06) at 8:00pm.

Snakes on CNN video captured/edited/encoded by Andrew

The video is encoded in Xvid (download the codec and follow the instructions on the website if you’re having trouble viewing it). You can also apparently get a streaming video of this from CNN, but you can’t link to it from other sites so you’ll need to dig for it yourself. Also, here’s three screenshots for those of you not interested in downloading the whole video:

I’ve never seen Ask a Ninja before, but I like it. The premise is pretty much what you’d think… somebody asks a Ninja a question and he answers it. Question number 18 dealt with midgets, but at the end we get a small bonus question about what a ninja would think about Snakes on a Plane. His answer is really good:

Ask a Ninja

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Bartender’s are smarter than me:

Just wanted to inform you that my friend Michelle Schutte, who is a bartender at Cap Hansen’s in Bellingham, WA has invented a new drink called (you guessed it) Snakes On A Plane.

The “snakes” consist of a mixture of (mostly) Midori and (just a little) Jagermeister. They are then stacked in groups of two-to-six which resemble a snake. The “plane” is a pint glass of 7-up, which the bottom two snakes are submerged in, boilermaker-style. Michelle wishes to stress that the “plane” is optional, and the omission of the “plane” makes it much easier to share the drink with friends (after all, you don’t really NEED to drink six shots to yourself, do you?)

Here are some pictures that Hollie Huthman took of me enjoying a Snakes On A Plane:

Thank you James.

Two comics today. The first is from Alien Loves Predator had a little Snakes on a Plane line, the second is from Carzorthade:

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4 year-old Jack Hanniford has made his own Snakes on a Plane trailer. It’s about as straight-forward as the title, and for that reason I’m a big fan.

Snakes on a Paper Plane by Jack Hanniford

Jack also took time out of his busy schedule to record this behind the scenes interview about the film:

Snakes on a Paper Plane Interview

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The monthly recaps continue. My first one was two months ago, the second one was one month ago.

I’ve been online for 90 days. I’ve had about 265,000 visitors. I’ve posted 185 stories. There have been 770,000 requests for pages, and a staggering 18,100,000 requests for all files (these are mostly people hotlinking to images and comics that I’ve hosted and posting them on other forums around the net). I’ve transferred 375 gigabytes of data (slowly approaching a terrabyte!). The most popular day of the week is Friday. The most popular hour of the day is between 1pm and 2pm.

I’ve gotten seven free t-shirts, one free hat and one free button (more please). A fan started petition requesting I be allowed to attend the premiere is currently standing at nearly 600 signatures (more please). There are currently 31 translations of “Snakes on a Plane” into foreign languages (more please). I’ve been interviewed by two TV crews. According to Google, SnakesOnABlog.com has appeared in 34 newspaper stories, been linked to by 521 blogs, and over 6,500 other webpages.

But my goal was not to build stats. My goal was not to get free t-shirts or high hit-counts. My goal was to attend the Hollywood premiere of Snakes on a Plane. If that doesn’t come to pass, then all the rest of this work was for nothing. Read my first, second and third pleas to hear more.

My goals are looking pretty good at this point. David Ellis, the director, has said that I’d be coming to the premiere in several interviews… but the quest doesn’t end until I’m standing on the red carpet.

Things are looking good, though. Thanks for everyone’s support.

I received an email tonight describing a math problem being prepared for a journal geared towards ‘fun’ math problems for undergrads by Dr. Dan Canada & Dave Goering. I wonder how long it will take the masses to answer it correctly:

There are 100 Snakes and 100 Passengers on the Plane. Each Snake can bite One Passenger (at random). What is the Probability that a Given Passenger - the Target - Does not get bit?

The authors have set up a webpage for the question, that includes the solution (but don’t look, it’s cheating), as well as this harder version of the question:

There are n Snakes on the Plane. There are k Passengers on the Plane. Each Snake will Bite One Passenger at Random. What is the Probability that The Target, Mr. X, does not get bit?

How does the probability compare for different values of n and k?

The authors say it’s not obvious to solve… and I’m not going to try. But you will. Please show your work (and don’t look at the answers… you’re smarter than that).

McSweeney’s is a webpage for people with a level of intelligence higher than my own. If you’re smarter than me, you probably already read it religiously. It can be quite the wit (I’m partial to Pirate Riddles for Sophisticates, but that’s a topic for another blog). Anyway, today they have a post up entitled Possible Surprise Endings to Snakes on a Plane. Here’s a taste:

Scenario Two
After single-handedly killing all snakes on board and landing the plane, Jackson steps onto the tarmac and removes his trench coat only to reveal that he is, in fact, made entirely out of snakes.

Check out the rest, it’s a pretty good read.

There was an article about me and this blog in Saturday’s Washington Post. I missed it entirely, they snuck it by me on a weekend. I hate the way my spoken words read when they come out on paper. I guess I’m more eloquent in my head than I am out loud. I should start tape recording myself and transcribing it to see how it looks on paper. Additionally, they give me too much credit for starting the phenomenon or creating the internet interest. For example: “When the director went back to do more filming, he says he incorporated some of the blogger’s ideas. At least the tone of them.” The ideas that were incorporated were certainly not mine. I’m just cataloguing, nothing more. Anyway, here’s the most important part of the story for me:

Ellis says he should stop worrying. His tickets are ready. “We talked about Brian in the marketing meeting, and we have got to fly him out,” says Ellis.

Cool.

“You got a problem, take a number and a name, ’cause we got snakes on this motherfucking plane.”

I don’t think I’ve posted a rap song before, and today I’m posting three. The first two of these were submitted to the Tagworld contest. If these are indicative of the quality of the Tagworld submissions, I’m really looking forward to hearing the winners.

Serious Problems by Zachary

SoaP by Geoff

Snakes on a Plane by F16

I’m really a big fan of the first one, which I know was submitted to Tagworld. The second one makes use of real Samuel L. Jackson dialogue from both his NPR interview and the unofficial/official trailer. I haven’t had a chance to listen to the third the one yet… any good?

I’ve also decided not to post submissions to the Tagworld contest that don’t include vocals. As good as many of those submissions are, they really aren’t Snakes on a Plane specific, it’s the lyrics that really make these songs hit. So, if you’ve submitted a song wtithout lyrics, and I haven’t posted it, don’t think I wasn’t impressed… just that I’m narrowly focused.

UPDATE: Links fixed.  

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And you thought one Snakes on a Sudoku was enough? Well, of course it wasn’t. From Heaneyland, the guys who brought you the first Snakes on a Sudoku, here’s number 2:

From their site: “Each row, column, and deadly deadly snake in this sudoku puzzle contains the numbers from 1 through 9 exactly once.” He also posted official answers to the first Snakes on a Sudoku.

Fan art from around the web:

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I’ve got three new videos for you today. No screenshots, becuase I’m running short on time, but here they are:

Snakes on a Jet Plane	SOAP Trailer	Snakes on a Plane Remix
by Drowin Turkey Studios Direct Link YouTube Link	by SubThermal Studios Direct Link YouTube Link	by Jason Eppink Direct Link YouTube Link

The first two are fan-made trailers. The first using a collection of young actors to act out scenes. The second using still footage, the music from Requiem for a Dream and footage from several different feature films. The second one is pretty good.

The third one is the biggest file (50 megs, be gentle with my server please) which is a remix of the original unofficial/official trailer. It’s as if a DJ had scratched his way through the trailer, going back and forth quickly. It’s interesting.

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I’ve been quoted in this week’s Entertainment Weekly, but I don’t really like how it turned out. I must have stumbled through my now standard answer to the “has the publicity already peaked” question. What I apparently said was “I feel bad, because this has hit a plateau, I don’t know if it will keep going up.” What I normally say is something about how it’s unreasonable to expect publicity for any event to build in a straight line from zero to extremely high, peaking right when the event occurs. You have to expect peaks and valleys along the way. No, I don’t think the media attention will stay as sharply focused from now until August as it has been for the last two weeks, but I do think that there will be peaks again again in the future… for example when they release the official poster, or trailer, or when the actors start doing real PR. This was but one peak in a long process. That’s how I meant to answer.

But then again, they really shouldn’t be asking me for publicity predictions. I don’t work in Hollywood and I know nothing about how to publicize a movie. They really should be asking “buzz” questions to New Line, or someone on their own staff. They’ve dealt with this kind of thing before, I haven’t.

Anyway, for those of you interested here’s a link to the Entertainment Weekly story (subscription required) on their website and here’s scans of the two pages from the actual magazine (no subscription required):

I am a big fan of their graphic, it looks great. They also mention in the story that to make the movie more ‘R’ rated they’ve added “blood and breasts” as well as gorier death scenes.

Every time someone quotes David Ellis, he sounds really excited about the movie. I wonder if that’s just something you do with every movie you work on, or if it’s genuine?

FWFR.com is a user-submitted film review site that only allows reviews of four words or less. It’s high concept. They’ve already gotten in on the action with Snakes on a Plane reviews. There’s currently 29 reviews, and here they are:

• Boeing constrictors.
• Flying hissassins.
• Makes aviation hiss story.
• Cobra(ir).
• Rattlers inhabit Southwest.
• Pythons’ flying circus.
• Rept-aisle.
• Coach passengers experience constriction.
• PSA ASPS? ASPCA ASAP!
• Samuel Jackson kicks asp.
• Water moccasins inhabit Delta
• Snakes on a plane.
• Anacond-air.
• We’re clear for snakeoff.
• Fang you for flying.
• United. Snakes.
• Puts ‘BOA’ in BOAC.
• Coffee, tea or anti-venom?
• Con(strictor) Air.
• Snakes, motherfucka’!
• The winged serpents.
• Flight Taipan.
• Pilots flying serpents.
• Airborne assASPins.
• Ophiciophobia at 30,000 feet.
• Terrorists using snakes? Cool!
• Dodge vipers, flying.
• Cobras in the cockpit?
• Plane with snakes on.

This is very reminscent of the taglines in the comments a few days ago. Go submit some new ones there and post them in the comments here.