Five years on.

There's nothing much to say; words diminish the whole thing and it's hard to speak of it without putting a left or right bias on each sentence. Instead, prayers for for the people who died that day and prayers for everyone across the world who has died this very day in 2006 because of what happened five years ago. This date embodies how we have had to grow up and face the realities of the world - whether we've actually done that successfully is entirely another debate. Terrorism certainly didn't begin with that day, granted, but despite the rude awakening, there still seems to be the same confusion, the same dark panic that 9/11 inspired as it happened.

But that's to go on about politics, isn't it? Politics, wars and spin mean little when confronted with the eerie black aeroplane, caught on television cameras around the world, hurling innocent people to their deaths. I'm marking this day less out of sentimentality than because it feels entrenched in history. It feels epoch-making because it was a watershed moment in history. It's just a pity we don't have a true historical perspective with which to judge the 11th of September, 2001 and its far-reaching consequences yet.

Oh, Loverboy...

I think I could spend my entire life on Youtube, watching chav fights and beloved old cartoon series and homemade music videos. There's so much I want to link to and be all, 'LULZ! Lookit this!' but, you know... it'd take over my LJ and stuff.

In the meantime, can I say how thrilled I am to have found this? It's one of the most enduring memories from my childhood - Ewan McGregor dancing down some street thinking about shagging the local bike, though alas, it's one of his few roles where he didn't whip it out. My parents were quite liberal - what can I say?

If you have any funky Youtube links, pls to be posting them. >:)