Seven years have passed since 11/9, or more specifically since the one where all that stuff happened with those planes in America. Do you remember it? It's getting so long ago that you can probably do some nostalgia based comedy about it. "Does anyone remember those planes flying into the world trade centre?" - some "oh yeah"s of recognition from the crowd - "All the people running down the road, covered in dust, falling out of windows! Do you remember? What was all that about? It seemed like such a big deal at the time, but now no one really remembers it."
Maybe it's too soon, but in maybe five years time enough people will have forgotten about it in order to find it amusing to be reminded of something they thought they'd forgotten, but hadn't forgotten.
It's hard to believe how long ago that all was - it even predates Warming Up, which seems almost impossible. Was I even alive that long ago? There is little to no evidence.
Still I enjoyed the documentary on Channel 4 tonight
The 9/11 (11/9 surely ed) faker(which I handily Sky Plussed as I was gigging in Brighton) about the woman who pretended to have escaped from one of the towers and to have lost her fiance in the other one, when in actual fact she was in Spain at the time. You tell one little lie and slowly and surely the whole thing spirals out of control. It was not only interesting to work out what on earth would possess someone to do such a thing. I mean I am desperate for the attention of strangers, but would draw the line at this kind of thing, mainly because of the inevitability of discovery - if I thought I could get away with it... actually thinking about it, I was actually on one of the planes that day, but got miraculously thrown clear. Put that in the Daily Mail, lazy journalists. No need to check the sources (as if you would), I promise it's true. I hadn't really ever thought that my story would be interesting to anyone before.
More interesting though was that through her lie she managed to unite all the 11/9 survivors and to get them the recognition they deserved in a world where people only cared about those who had died. So was it ultimately a good thing to do? She apparently made no money from her madness.
I wish she'd come forward to try and explain herself. I'd love to know what was going on in her crazy head. I think you can only feel sorry for her. I mean she dicked around with the emotions of people who had been through a terrible trauma, but apart from that....
