The World Is Going To Love This: Up From The Basement With The Strokes by Gordon Raphael

Author:Gordon Raphael
Format: epub

26: Good To Be Home

It was marvelous to be home after such a satisfying summer vacation. Now that I was back in New York, I called a lawyer to find out if we could fight our studio eviction. If it was not going to be possible to keep the studio, I would just wait until the next plan or possibility came to me. This was the first time in ten years that I wasn’t actively playing in a band. I also hit up my manager to see if he could kick into gear, securing me high-paying production jobs and a record label to sign me as an artist.

There was one person who I had been thinking about during the summer, and I decided that this would be a good time to get back in touch. This was Terrah, whom I’d met at the Longwave/Strokes gig at Maxwells. I remembered finding her very attractive and we had a great shared interest as keyboard players, so I used that phone number she had given me. I called Terrah, and we had a few flirty emails back and forth. She dropped into the studio after her work one night and we just talked about music and smiled a lot. A few nights later, she invited me to a concert featuring new songwriters at The Cutting Room up around Times Square.

I wasn’t so inspired by the performers that night, but I was super impressed with Terrah and her ever more magical smile. We went back to my apartment at 161 Rivington Street and just had the best sex ever. She was not only charming, but she reminded me of two girlfriends I had really loved, earlier in my life. Terrah told me she would spend the night but that she had to wake up early and get to work in Midtown.

The next morning, I was, needless to say, feeling amazing and woke up with her much earlier than I would normally, to walk her to the F train at Essex and Delancey. We kissed goodbye and I headed over, in very high spirits, to Clinton Street, entering one of my regular breakfast spots, Il Paradiso. I ordered coffee and a bagel, choosing a seat in the back corner, by the open side door and big window. It was a gloriously sunny, warm day outside.

Glancing at a small TV above the bar, I saw a curious live news report showing thin plumes of black smoke pouring upwards from one of the World Trade Center towers. The sound on the TV was off but the words at the bottom of the screen said something about a plane hitting the tower and that they were investigating.

I imagined that a seaplane had accidentally hit that tower on the way to a landing area on the waterfront. Just then, I stared at that TV and watched something very BIG flying into the towers again.

I simultaneously heard the giant BOOOM echoing in through the open cafe door, coming from 1.5 miles away.

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