trixietreats: seditionsgraphiques: are2: Screw Loose Today’s perfect blue September sky drenched the city in crystal splashes of light reflected off of windows and glass building facades—cool dark shadows gathered at the edges of fountains and subway entrances, where office workers enjoyed abbreviated cigarettes and attenuated cell phone conversations… If I squint my eyes the picture blurs and it’s 8 years ago…the see-saw of nostalgia goes up and down and I’m happy then sad then happy again…my love of life and this city rising high like smoke before falling back to Earth with a stomach clenching THUD… Everything seems the same but I know it’s not.  What happened to us on that day?  What happened to me? What have I become? [9/11 opened a door to another universe—hence the plethora of doubles (especially double “ones”—which signify a gate) surrounding the event itself and appearing throughout popular culture in the months preceding it.  A cursory glance reveals there are the two ones in the date of 9/11 and two planes that struck The Twin Towers, phallic skyscraper symbols of a capitalist power so great that it precluded all critique by already including its own opposition and meta-discourse, while at the same time resonating with the power of the greater two pyramids of Giza. There’s the phantasmal appearance of Frank and his twin rabbit ears in Donnie Darko (U.S. release date=1/19/01, an inversion of 9/11/01).  The ears resonate with the idea of the rabbit hole as a doorway to a magical dimension in Alice in Wonderland.  This other world exists within a surprisingly close proximity to our own reality, like Middle Earth in Lord of the Rings—a place described by Tolkien as being on our own Earth but “at a different stage of imagination”.  The cinematic adaptation of this epic was shot between the twin doublings of October 11, 1999 and December 22, 2000, the second installment (entitled, The Two Towers) was released in 2002 (a year of two twos) and includes a character called Gollum—a creation consisting of half real actor and half CGI.  Each of his scenes had to be filmed twice, the end result being a doubling of frames, a doubling of technology and humanity, and a doubling of fact and fiction.]

trixietreats:

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Screw Loose

Today’s perfect blue September sky drenched the city in crystal splashes of light reflected off of windows and glass building facades—cool dark shadows gathered at the edges of fountains and subway entrances, where office workers enjoyed abbreviated cigarettes and attenuated cell phone conversations…

If I squint my eyes the picture blurs and it’s 8 years ago…the see-saw of nostalgia goes up and down and I’m happy then sad then happy again…my love of life and this city rising high like smoke before falling back to Earth with a stomach clenching THUD…

Everything seems the same but I know it’s not.  What happened to us on that day?  What happened to me?

What have I become?

[9/11 opened a door to another universe—hence the plethora of doubles (especially double “ones”—which signify a gate) surrounding the event itself and appearing throughout popular culture in the months preceding it.  A cursory glance reveals there are the two ones in the date of 9/11 and two planes that struck The Twin Towers, phallic skyscraper symbols of a capitalist power so great that it precluded all critique by already including its own opposition and meta-discourse, while at the same time resonating with the power of the greater two pyramids of Giza. There’s the phantasmal appearance of Frank and his twin rabbit ears in Donnie Darko (U.S. release date=1/19/01, an inversion of 9/11/01).  The ears resonate with the idea of the rabbit hole as a doorway to a magical dimension in Alice in Wonderland.  This other world exists within a surprisingly close proximity to our own reality, like Middle Earth in Lord of the Rings—a place described by Tolkien as being on our own Earth but “at a different stage of imagination”.  The cinematic adaptation of this epic was shot between the twin doublings of October 11, 1999 and December 22, 2000, the second installment (entitled, The Two Towers) was released in 2002 (a year of two twos) and includes a character called Gollum—a creation consisting of half real actor and half CGI.  Each of his scenes had to be filmed twice, the end result being a doubling of frames, a doubling of technology and humanity, and a doubling of fact and fiction.]