Friday, 14th of September, 2001

I found out about the events in Manhattan and Washington of September the 11th at the end of a marvellous gig by my old friends Monsieur Camembert, launching their new album supported by Double T (gypsy jazz on guitar and cello).
I couldn't even bring my mind to understand it until I got back to Ange's place at about 1:30am and saw the images on TV of two aeroplanes smashing into the World Trade Center. It's utterly horrifying and evil, words cannot describe. Not a pleasant way to end an otherwise excellent evening.

For an alternative view, Indymedia always have something to offer, and on this tragedy Robert Fisk (Middle East correspondent for the progressive US publication The Nation), writes this highly moving and thought-provoking article.

Nothing can possibly justify this act, and terrorism and war it certainly is. This article shows, though, some of the reasons why such an act could occur. When the mainstream media does its best to blinker us from the manipulative acts of the US and UK (who are still routinely bombing Iraq, and whose sanctions against that country have killed probably millions of innocent Iraqis), we should look for some slightly more free information. The polemics about America as land of freedom and justice are more sinister than laughable when put in context. There are a lot of people and indeed peoples in the world with a justifiable hatred for America and its hypocrisy.

And boy-oh-fucking-boy I hope we don't have a big ol' World War Three soon. Israel seems pretty bent on it at the moment too. Nice world we live in.

Yes, so I'm blogging again. I hope I have enough time and dedication to overhaul this entire page soon, updating all the Recent Listening and Reading (of which there's fuckloads, to coin a phrase) and re-jig the look an' all. Here's hopin'! Drop me a line if you think that'd be a good idea.

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