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Xanatos from NYC on 2001-09-12 03:01 [#00030890] | |||||||||
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9:00 AM They make the announcement at my school, its fucking chaos, kids who no longer have dad's and mom's are running through the school screaming, me and my friend Matt start hearing more and more about it, were like OH SHIT, independence day...we're not missing this. We Bounce from school, skate 200 blocks to downtown, change into our shoes. WE WERE 2 BLOCKS AWAY. I Snuck passed several baracades of cops and went through alleyways and got about two blocks away. It was one of the most singular amazing things I've ever experienced in my fucking life. Has anyone ever seen 12 Monkeys? Where I was was just like that. Everything was covered in 4 inches of soot. Me and my friend with our videocamara in hand were wearing medical masks to protect us from Asbestos. The sky was dark grey in the middle of the day, there was noone around except cops with scary fucking gasmasks covering there faces. People had written apocalyptic messages in the soot on cars and store windows. Everything was abandoned. I filmed a place where there was once tables with umbrellas over now all knocked on their side and covered in dust, the plants in the garden were grey covered with a grey snow. Everything was in black and white. While I was filming the scene I wrote my website's name in the dust on one of the tables with my finger and while I was doing it a cop with a gas mask came and started talking to me through the gas mask, he took my video camera out of my hand and asked for my ID. The conversation I had was fucking surreal, the whole experience was. It was like talking to a Siberian Guard in an outpost in the middle of a Blizzard. He confiscated my tape as well as my fake ID. I don't know how the fuck he could see it we could hardly see each other 2 feet away. After the talk I realizes that things were getting worse, It was getting harder for me to breath and my friends eyes were burning. I told him, "we have to leave now or we are going to die." We RAN uptown, leaving footprints in the ash. There were office papers burning in the streets, other amateur photographers who had gotten past the police and were struggling against the dust filling their lungs. I can't describe this to you, unless you have seen the movie 12 monkeys, that's about as close as it gets, it was whatever I pictured a Nuclear Winter to be. This was a fucking mystical experience, I can't put it any other way. Since I've gotten home I've just listened to Boards of Canada and been on this insane trip...the whole thing is impossible to describe... Although I don't have the tape I saved some souveneirs and put them up on my website (the one I wrote on the table) I wish I had the tape to put online My life is changed... |
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Xanatos from NYC on 2001-09-12 03:02 [#00030891] | |||||||||
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I will have the link up with pictures of the souveneirs I have in about 10 minutes. |
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digi from hoji on 2001-09-12 03:05 [#00030894] | |||||||||
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I am with you man.. I am sorry you had to go through such a terrible ordeal, maybe you can knock some sense into these idiots who think this tragedy is nothing and should not be dealt with, maybe if they saw first hand people falling out of windows they would think before typing such insanity. |
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Xanatos from NYC on 2001-09-12 03:09 [#00030896] | |||||||||
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I'm in shock, this thread is pretty much about my experience, I'm going to start one about how people feel politically about the situtation, which is something I would like to discuss seperately. As for the actual tragedy, I wasn't feeling sad...it was something entirely different, almost as if the physical bounderies of my world were collapsing, along with the building...there was like an invisible force drawing me closer and closer to my death, I felt several times like I was at total peace and that I wanted to lie down on the sidewalk in the soot and meditate, or die, or I don't even know. It was seriously a religious experience...that part I can't explain in words |
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afro from jupiter.. on 2001-09-12 03:19 [#00030900] | |||||||||
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I feel sad and I wasnt there... it not a good thing its bad.. too many people had to die, and none of us have the right to say anything about it bar those involved, vitims, family friends.. not the couch potato sitting at home with iggnorant opions...including me... |
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Sepix from european realm on 2001-09-12 03:50 [#00030911] | |||||||||
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just wanted to say good luck or something ... i`m really far away from you but i think i can imagine somehow .. only the best wishes; greetS |
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Dave on 2001-09-12 04:04 [#00030918] | |||||||||
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Xanatos, did you see the second plane crash? i can't imagine actually being there, i don't know what i would have been feeling. anyway, bro, i hope you've taken something positive out of it, whatever it may be...i've been watching CNN for like the past few hours and they keep showing it over and over and over and over and over again, and they keep showing it from all different angles and they keep inserting footage of everyone running like mad through manhattan, i mean it looks like Godzilla or something, it's so utterly unbelievable. |
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Xanatos from NYC on 2001-09-12 04:08 [#00030920] | |||||||||
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Actually it's a lot like Godzilla. No I didn't see the second plane crash but my friend who goes to Stuyvesant highschool which is in the neighborhood heard the announcement in his school about the first crash looked out of his window in class and saw the second plane go right into the second tower. My brother also watched it live on TV. The reporter was standing there talking about the first plane crash into the twin tower, saying it was a freak accident or something, and right while he's talking you see a fucking jumbo jet fly through the background right into the other tower, the reporter didn't see any of it, he said "what just happened, can somebody fill me in?" |
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leftrightronic on 2001-09-12 04:23 [#00030932] | |||||||||
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New York Police Department Live Radio Broadcast http://www.policescanner.com/PoliceNYPD.stm |
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Xanatos from NYC on 2001-09-12 05:24 [#00030940] | |||||||||
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Well I have the picture but there is something wrong with my webhost it won't let me upload, I don't feel like setting up a whole tripod account just for this so I guess I will put it online tommorow... |
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Xanatos from NYC on 2001-09-12 05:35 [#00030944] | |||||||||
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I have the link working. Here are some souveniers I took home with me when I went to the location of what was until recently the twin towers. Wish that video hadnt been confiscated |
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what from me on 2001-09-12 05:41 [#00030947] | |||||||||
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I do not care if you were there right now.. I do not care about your souveniers... that is CRAP!!! I care about people who died and tried to jump out of a 100 story building because they didnt want to burn, I care about the people who had to see people dying today, not becasue they wanted to but because there are sick people in this world who live to terroize the innocent. |
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THE BASTARD SON OF THE BITCH from YOUR MOTHERS ASS on 2001-09-12 14:12 [#00031029] | |||||||||
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xanatosser more like! what sort of morbid fucker collects the burning embers from the remains of one of this new centurys major disasters! anyhow you know that they were just the pictures of your gran nude that your father found under your mattress, you just happened to rescue them from the fire in your fucking cave! |
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Xanatos from NYC on 2001-09-12 16:02 [#00031042] | |||||||||
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If you want to flame me you can post under your usual names, I'm not going to get angry and hurt you over the internet... |
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Xanatos from NYC on 2001-09-12 16:02 [#00031043] | |||||||||
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If you want to flame me you can post under your usual names, I'm not going to get angry and hurt you over the internet... |
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thanksomuch from over yonder on 2001-09-12 21:57 [#00031139] | |||||||||
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X, i know that personally i would have grabbed little chunks of the building myself. i do not consider that morbid, unless you have some ones blow off fingers.. another thing, if i lived in nyc, i would volenteer, mostly becasue i am too afriad of needles to give blood... i would not mind sifting through rubble to find survivoirs or bodies, even. i think i would just be doing my part... |
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Chrispy from the UK Plains of Noise on 2001-09-12 22:37 [#00031149] | |||||||||
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I would feel the same!!! Everyone is coping so well there considering everything thats happened. People are giving blood that isnt needed, just to show their support. The world wont be the same anymore... But I feel that there will be great unity. Do you dudes feel that to? |
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Saman Perera on 2001-09-12 22:48 [#00031151] | |||||||||
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Xanatos: could you give examples of the apocalyptic messages? Were they just in the vein of "The end of the world is nigh" or more cryptic, bone-chilling stuff? |
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Chrispy from the UK Plains of Noise on 2001-09-12 23:21 [#00031163] | |||||||||
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Give it some time and we will al be stronger... Im gonna make a topic on that. |
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never forget |
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"While I was filming the scene I wrote my website's name in the dust on one of the tables with my finger" |
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