memories of 9/11

alot of 9/11 anniversaries come and go and you cannot even remember where you were during most of them... can remember riding on a bus in L.A. during 9/11 2006... not much of an event.... just a electronic signboard on the bus said it was september 11... no-one in LA seemed to remember or care about it at all

during the original 9/11.... we remember arriving in america a few weeks beforehand and being surprised by the recurrence of a real deep, drawling australian accent... coming from spain, where an australian accent is virtually an impossibility... being an improbable language where all 't's are meshed into 'd's so that waiting becomes wading and starting becomes starden and so forth, ad infinitum....

we remember visiting nyc a few weeks after the attacks, the place was still smoking and hot molten steel was still reported weeks and weeks after that, due to the supernatural event....

we remember the looks of shock on the people at a subway station mouth and thinking, well welcome to my life, we can understand that.... shock, attack, defeat... the people rubbernecking by ground zero were quiet and sombre - get bent gringos, go make me an x-box

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0U0AlLVqpk&ob=av2n
(listen to simple plan's 'welcome to my life' here)



in a book shop in manhattan, we especially remember a nice american girl, possibly a yankee or speaking like a yankee finding my demeanour and manners (including speech) amusing... no wonder....... u really have to give it to these americans, if they can do one thing properly it's speak english correctly with excellent enunciation and modulation.... they never or very seldomly say 'd' instead of 't'.... they always speak clearly, sometimes so loudly you feel challenged by them.... they are certainly a people that can challenge you....