utobiograph: September 11th, 2001

I am in the process of creating an ongoing project called "utobiograph" in which I am compiling old home films i have with music that I have made in the more recent past in the hopes of giving textures to certain memories I have.
I decided to create this one first because of the 9th anniversary of 9/11 which is this coming saturday. 9/11 was a very surreal day for me. NYC is so close to where I grew up (Long Beach NY) that the smoke clouds in the city where distinct and visible. There was an eerie calmness in Long Beach that day which is partly due to that fact that all air traffic was stopped after the attacks. It felt like the world could end at any minute and I felt restless as a thirteen year old boy taken out of school early because my parents wanted my brother and I to be home instead of at school where rumors could easily spread.
I eventually at around six o'clock at night went down to the beach to go surfing, for I legitimately felt at the time that if the world were to end any minute I wanted to be happy. Looking back at this tape I wonder what could have possibly been going through my mind as I waiting for each wave that I barely caught (i wasn't that great at the time). I must have behind confused and unnerved. However, very grateful to be at the exact place I was at each moment.

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