911
I am staying away from the media as much as possible today.
I just can't take how they swarm around a day like today as if it were Valentine's Day or something. It feels weird. I understand the need for some people to make or watch media about 9/11 ... I guess as a way to remember. But I remember it well enough without any help.
Anyway, I am going to go listen to my dad sing God Bless America at the town hall. I will videotape it, but he gets final approval rights-- right dad?
I guess I'm making media about 911 too... writing this post... taking that video.
I just can't take how they swarm around a day like today as if it were Valentine's Day or something. It feels weird. I understand the need for some people to make or watch media about 9/11 ... I guess as a way to remember. But I remember it well enough without any help.
Anyway, I am going to go listen to my dad sing God Bless America at the town hall. I will videotape it, but he gets final approval rights-- right dad?
I guess I'm making media about 911 too... writing this post... taking that video.
posted by Amanda @ 3:43 PM
5 Comments:
At 4:27 PM,
Kevin said…
Every year on this date, I go back and read what I wrote on that day and go between wanting to kick myself, delete/crumple it all up and throw it out or drink a growler of cough syrup. But I know it was a moment of awakening as much as anything else for a lot of people. Then I remember that things keep on going and I get inspired to create again. Nothing overtly political or opinionated, just a release of whatever steam is brought up after all of the sorrow and furstration and anger and solemnity of remembering.
This year I started this. It's nothing important, but the expression and playing around with the media around us helps to wade through the rest of it.
At 5:02 PM,
Joe C said…
Battling insomnia very early this morning, I found myself watching YouTube clips of Iraq military action recorded from both the American side and the insurgent's side. Let me tell you, it's very sobering stuff, and proper fare for today, 9/11, because we need to consider where we've been, where we are and where we're going.
Yeah, the media feeding frenzy over the fifth anniversary is regretable in one way, but it also might serve to make people think about the way we got where we are in the world today, and maybe how we can reclaim the moral high ground we've so obviously lost.
At 5:04 PM,
Peter Marquardt said…
I believe that 9/11 is being commercialized far too much. give us some rest, big media. give us some rest, blogosphere. give us some rest, rest of the world. I do not want to be forced to think about something, I want to decide myself when and where I think about it. That said I like ze frank's take on it a lot.
At 5:24 PM,
Unknown said…
I am not at all surprised to see how you commemorate this day. You get it. But then again, you probably lived it. Rather than turn this into a photo op, or a 'see how sensitive I am' you make mention of it, then let us deal with it as we will on our own. Thank you for that.
At 6:39 PM,
Steven said…
9/11 was a terrible and shocking event and nearly 3000 people lost their lives. I have the utmost sympathy for the people who died and their loved ones and everyone affected by it.
Asian Tsunami - 229,866 persons lost, including 186,983 dead and 42,883 missing.
Iraq - 60,000 - 150,000 lives lost (depending on who you believe)
9/11 - Almost 3,000.
All terrible events in the history of humanity. I don't want to be cold and calculating but if you compare the numbers of lives lost, 9/11 doesn't compare in the least.
Given this I feel 9/11 will still be remember more at least to America and the western world.
Do we really think our lives are worth more?
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