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Lord of War & Snapshot Memories
Feb. 3rd, 2006 02:29 am
Watched 'Lord of War' tonight. Good movie. I like Nicholas Cage more & more. Sitting there thinking that the events in the movie seemed familiar, kept thinking about the whole sordid Iran-Contra affair.
How I remember stuff:
Sometime in 1986 I was at school in Glendora, CA, in biology class of all things, when the Challenger shuttle exploded. They lowered the flag halfway down the flagpole.
The Tiananmen Massacre happened in June of 1989. I was right there with MTV, in the den of my aunt's house in Tennessee, in the rocking chair. I think it was raining.
The Iran-Contra trials were going on over the Summer of 1989. Me & Anita (one of my dad's girlfriends) were sitting in a nail shop, getting manicures & pedicures, & the t.v. was on. We were all engrossed in Oliver North.
The Berlin Wall came down in November of 1989. Once again, I watched it on MTV, complete w/David Hasselhoff of all horribly-chosen hosts, sitting in the den in my aunt's house in Tennessee, in the rocking chair. It was raining outside again, and the den had that gloomy darkness that I really enjoyed.
The Gulf War was the tail end of '90 into '91. Sitting in the living room of the yellow house in Winlock, WA w/Liz (aka 'my dad's psycho-bitch girlfriend from Hell') & my dad. Strangely enough, I think they were playing Yatzee w/the t.v. playing in the background. I remember seeing tracers in the night-vision green & black...
September 11, 2001. I was at work. Someone came into guest services & said that a freak accident had happened - a plane crashed into the World Trade Center tower. All of us ended up in the breakroom to find out that it wasn't an accident. On the way home, me & Rob listened to the morning crew at KOMP utter noises of disbelief & pain as they listened to an AM news station. It's the quietest I've ever heard the KOMP morning crew.
Thinking to myself a lot lately about being a little kid in K-Mart & seeing a sign that said "We hire people with hooks". Now signs like that would be illegal, but back then they were quite the tribute to the disabled. Didn't matter why the person had a hook - they could have been a factory worker, a commercial fisher or a Vietnam victim - K-Mart would hire them. That must have been a comforting thought in the crunch times of the early 70's.
How I remember stuff:
Sometime in 1986 I was at school in Glendora, CA, in biology class of all things, when the Challenger shuttle exploded. They lowered the flag halfway down the flagpole.
The Tiananmen Massacre happened in June of 1989. I was right there with MTV, in the den of my aunt's house in Tennessee, in the rocking chair. I think it was raining.
The Iran-Contra trials were going on over the Summer of 1989. Me & Anita (one of my dad's girlfriends) were sitting in a nail shop, getting manicures & pedicures, & the t.v. was on. We were all engrossed in Oliver North.
The Berlin Wall came down in November of 1989. Once again, I watched it on MTV, complete w/David Hasselhoff of all horribly-chosen hosts, sitting in the den in my aunt's house in Tennessee, in the rocking chair. It was raining outside again, and the den had that gloomy darkness that I really enjoyed.
The Gulf War was the tail end of '90 into '91. Sitting in the living room of the yellow house in Winlock, WA w/Liz (aka 'my dad's psycho-bitch girlfriend from Hell') & my dad. Strangely enough, I think they were playing Yatzee w/the t.v. playing in the background. I remember seeing tracers in the night-vision green & black...
September 11, 2001. I was at work. Someone came into guest services & said that a freak accident had happened - a plane crashed into the World Trade Center tower. All of us ended up in the breakroom to find out that it wasn't an accident. On the way home, me & Rob listened to the morning crew at KOMP utter noises of disbelief & pain as they listened to an AM news station. It's the quietest I've ever heard the KOMP morning crew.
Thinking to myself a lot lately about being a little kid in K-Mart & seeing a sign that said "We hire people with hooks". Now signs like that would be illegal, but back then they were quite the tribute to the disabled. Didn't matter why the person had a hook - they could have been a factory worker, a commercial fisher or a Vietnam victim - K-Mart would hire them. That must have been a comforting thought in the crunch times of the early 70's.
