Twelve years of 9/11

It is the 11th of September again. This year, I barely noticed it. Ironic, as the day was fittingly commemorative: cold and gloomy. I wrote my most important posts about it in 2008 and in 2009 already. I will commemorate it briefly tonight, by uploading first this drawing from webcomic Atheist Eve by Tracie Harris. I hope she doesn't mind. I deeply admire her work, this specific strip especially, how intelligent and compassionate it is. How eloquent too. Then I have decided to upload The End by The Doors. It was not meant to be a song about the end of times, but one cannot help feeling this association, especially with its use in Apocalypse Now, fittingly re-released back in 2001. Of course, 9/11 was not the end of times. There is no such thing, not by human standards anyway. Nevertheless, this reminds me of that day, of a certain state of mind that the world is in since that day. So here it is.

The Doors for a Saturday night

Sometimes I have music in the head. For some reason tonight it was The Doors. I thought about uploading The End (beautifully used in Apocalypse Now) but I will wait for warmer days (in a heatwave, just before the summer rain), right now it is too cold and nasty outside. And since it is Saturday night I thought something with a faster beat would fit better. So I decided to upload Break on Through (to the Other Side).I am not The Doors's biggest fan or connoisseur, but I do think it is a fitting song.

In the eye of the storm

So far, as I have been planning, I am having a lazy weekend. It rained a lot this morning and I stayed in, read and browsed. And now we are in that particular place during a storm, where it is sunny and dry. So we are in the eye of the storm again, albeit briefly. So I am going out soon to enjoy that moment of calm. Then back in to enjoy indoor's little pleasures: reading, watching movies, listening to music, etc. I am reading at the moment Heart of the Hunter, a crime fiction novel with road movie elements. When I was reading it earlier on and the rain was falling, I got Riders on the storm in the head. The Doors is not my favourite group, but there are some songs I really enjoy, including this one. It fits this day, so I am putting it here.