in Bangkok last week i bought a fake watch….on purpose….just to see how it would work….the genuine Panerai diver’s watch sells retail for $6,800. (guaranteed for one year to go 300 feet underwater with no leaks)….i overpaid a street salesman 30 bucks for my fake Panerai (not guaranteed for any amount of time or to even last one run through the shower)….still, as i rolled it over in my hand and looked closely at the apparent precision , i could not imagine how even a fake as good as this could be made to sell for such a low price…the "fakes" of many products sold in the streets of Bangkok are quite impressive..
however, i also bought another "fake"….or, i should say, "bought into" another fake….but, not on purpose….a fake person ….looked real, but turned out not to be….please do not try to guess who…this is nobody you know or who has ever been mentioned on this forum….and this is about biz , not love…
the fake watch will amaze me for every day that it lasts…the fake person is gone in my mind forever….i try to be a flexible man…i can take all kinds of abuse…and i often make friends with people that others may find not so "popular"….but, to be dissed, betrayed or manipulated by someone leaves me cold and disillusioned….i just hate the feeling…
i am sure that most of you, at one time or another, have had this feeling of being betrayed…..something like the helplessness one feels after being robbed or vandalized…you want to shake off the negative vibes, but they are slow to go…how do you deal with these feelings ?? do you just shake it off or are you more paranoid the next time around??
by the way, the fake watch just keeps on ticking….matched with my plastic "satellite timed" Casio, it is keeping very good time…and has survived four hot showers!! will it go down to 300 feet underwater?? i will never know…but whatever happens to this "fake" watch, i will never be disappointed….i wish i could say the same for person x……
It has happened to me many times. The first time I felt violated. Now it’s “here we go again”. I don’t take it personally anymore.
I don’t lie to people or pretend to be anything I’m not. And I assume others to be the same. Of course they’re sometimes true, sometimes false. You can learn to spot the obvious ones.
The only real protection is to cut yourself off completely, which is what I’ve done. But that isn’t the way to live a meaningful life.
David:
It is, given the nature of your remarkable generosity and heart, not a surprise to me that you’ve been washed by someone who needed you to clean their skin. The truth is, sadly, that the world is filled with fakery and honestly, at some point or another, each of us has not only been fooled by someone, but have also fooled someone, purposefully, deceitfully, hurtfully. In truth, this is most often about the chasm, the welling hole that cracks inside each of us, we broken, lost, hunger-mad humans….
Though I have always tried to be a standup person, I too have struggled with this (who hasnt) over the course of my life. Having always felt as if I were an honest and generous and loving person, it wasn’t actually until I met Marina that I realized the depth of what real honesty and truthfulness is.
In the end david, as painful as this is, as angering as this person and perpetration and perfidity is, please no that you are NOT alone: that you are thought of and cared for and supported by many. when I have been “burned” by people, I try to let it go and swallow and and, as Rilke reminds, be transformed by it (though in truth i’d prefer and rather love to put a nice size 10 leather-soled shoe up their ass instead) and let it be another part of all the bullshit that defines us….
without personalizing this, i once spent 4 long, long-hard years with someone that cost me nearly all (life, spirit, family) and yet, from that time, a new life opened, that lead, eventually, and directly to the two finest people in my life: marina and dima. Thus: the swing and saddle of our lives….
David: the truth is the world is a fucked place filled with creeping sadness and betrayal and lies, death and starvation and fucking selfishness and injustice, and it is because of all this shit, that I prefer to swallow what light enters around….because in truth we are more fucking priviledge than most of the world…more fortunate and more easied and I want you to remember this….
you are a good man Charlie Brown (ummm, i mean david alan harvey), allow the anger and the sadness and all the rest to bite but then just remember, u’ve got a hell of a lot of light, fucking magnificent light in your life brother, and that’s what counts….
for joy: dima says this: “hello david alan havey.” (then just said: “dad, who is that?”)…
that’s all that matters….
hugs, big ones
remember uptown :))
running (this time to eat paella)
bob
I agree with Luke, that cutting off completely is the only real protection… being of Irish descent, I tend to ostracise those who I feel wrong me quite easily…
I have also been betrayed to the extent that I lost my footing; the fact that it came at a time my wife was in hospital left me all the more stranded, and sadly, less likely to forgive (as I always associate that person’s betrayal with that terrible memory.)
As to dealing with it… well, I am always more paranoid, but I also have taken to blowing off steam by blogging about it, without too many specifics.
This used to leave me feeling guilty as hell, but I must say, seeing it on your blog makes it all a little more human. Guess we all react… but yeah, I also hate that feeling, and the imbalance that comes with it.
Incidentally, I misread the last line, and got the impression you wanted to take person x to 300 m below sea level!
Hope the vibes wear off soon,
L.
ps. can u get someone to send another watch for dima? ;))))
b
Hi David, funny how coincidences love company. I’m writing this from a hardware store as I’m buying anti burglary measures. Our house was broken into today. It is disappointing but it would feel worse if I was betrayed by a friend. Looks like it happened to you. I’m sorry.
This happens to me more than wish, certainly, and it gives me a terrible feeling. I think everytime something like that (?) happens, it changes you, makes you less open, less loving, less…
BTW, did it feel like someone dropping a bomb?
All the Best,
Michael
In 2001 my laptop, program disks and archive was stolen from my baby son’s bedroom which doubled as a computer room for a couple of hours daily. We were all asleep while the intruder entered and took the stuff. The weird thing is that at any time in the night my wife or myself could have gotten up to attend to little Eoin who was only a few months old at the time and still on the breast. What would have happened had either of us happened upon this creature? I dread to think.
The next morning we were due to attend a cousin’s wedding. Needless to say we were grounded. We subsequently realized that our cards were also stolen.
I was completely gutted for this was the second time I was temporarily put out of business by theft. It took ages to be put right by insurance.
For days I was immobilized by wild, vivid fantasies of doing extraordinary violence to this unknown creature of the night and dreadful thoughts of what might have been.
Finally I was calmed by the realization that we were all unharmed and that that was all that mattered, ultimately.
The police found a screw driver by the window behind the spare bed that was about 16 inches long. The thing was huge and was most likely a weapon, apparently. Terrifying entirely.
It’s always a huge personal blow when one is taken for a ride by someone David. I hope you recover quickly. I’m glad you have your watch to attract your attention away from this “person X” if only for a moment.
Bob may be correct about what the world is but I’ve managed not to know that for most of my life…as least as far as my own life is concerned…I see it out in the world but have led a very, very lucky life.
HOWEVER…it is such a coincidence you mention this subject at this time. I recently had the opportunity to meet and interact with the most horrible person I’ve ever run into in my entire life. I just deleted the tale of what has happened between us because she is the type of person that might try to sue me if she saw my comments here…that’s how angry and aggressive she is. The bottom line is that it feels a lot better when you can stand up for yourself which I did yesterday after months of not being able to and yes, I will be more paranoid the next time around…but sometimes it’s good to be paranoid…it protects you. In re-reading my comments I see that I’m so paranoid I can’t even tell you what happened! Which makes me wonder what the difference is between paranoia and just plain good thinking?
David,
Speaking of paranoid…I asked you a question for Jim in the last thread and at the end said I wouldnt have the chance to ask him because my workshop with him was cancelled. From your reply about cancelling things and being busy it seemed like you thought my question was about that? Cause my question was about bringing him to Santa Fe and your reply to me had nothing to do with that. Just paranoid you may have misunderstood.
Are you saying that Jim Nachtwey has a body double? :-)
ALL PARANOIDS: They might still be out to get you, and it might be a weather low pressure front that makes you feel bad about it.
My sister, the therapist, told me that the reason I’m paranoid is because of attitudes passed down through Russian lineage. Of course those relatives were running away from Stalin, so their paranoia was accountable for. Is that the same as justified?
Regarding broken into houses: Where I live (still, but not forever) there isn’t a locked house in the county, probably. When I leave, all the vehicles have their keys in them.
My point? Uhhh…
From the Prairie,
Michael
Etched in my head as a kid was this philosophy:
“Be friends to anyone who comes along, you never know who they may turn out to be.”
At least you will sleep all night long. Your so called friend, not so lucky.
Hi David
Sorry you had to deal w/ some raw BS. I hope it won’t affect your optimism. I guess time is the healer, but hopefully it was nothing to heavy, just meaning that I hope it does’nt take to long to shelve the negative and return to the positive.
chin up mate.
I guess there are lots of fakes. Some you expect (tuk tuks in BKK or pickpockets in Rome) but the worst are ones you counted on to be genuine. Just move on and forget them, David. No use giving yourself a headache.
“I’ve been stabed in the back so many many times, I don’t have any skin. But that’s just the way it goes”
Morrissey
On the other hand, David, it appears as if you have more “real” friends than most people I know, and you’ve worked with some of the best people around, too.
Tschüss
Michael
David,
It shakes me to see a person like you writing a subject like this. In the very short time that I “know” you through following this blog, it seems to me you are a person so very flexible. It says to me that the problem must have been very important.
Something like this has happened to me a couple of times. Really am not too much familiar with this kind of things. I think is a logical reaction to become paranoid with a person that hurts you. I’m quite naïve and I forgive easily, but I admit that for me is also very easy to be betrayed again. My nature is to be “medio pendejo” (I’ll explain you this term if you come to Caracas some time).
But to me, what you can’t do is to become paranoid with other people because of what certain person did to you in the past. In that case, I prefer to be naïve that to risk to isolate myself.
In all cases, if you don’t have to be in contact with that person in the future… lucky you!… because I have a friend, very kind woman, who was strongly betrayed by a person who works with her every day… what a f… nightmare!
Un abrazo,
LUKE…
i am not the type to cut myself “off” completely….i will go on as before…this negative vibe will pass…
BOB…
as usual, you articulate so so well…and, as you so correctly point out, who among us has also not betrayed at some point…most likely, a “love betrayal” of some sort..brutus looms large over us all…
i too prefer soaking up the “light” rather than go “dark”…and i very rarely go dark…this event will certainly not change my attitude overall one iota…i got most of the dark “out” just writing this little story!!! isn’t that what writing is for???
i will see “uptown” tomorrow…yes yes there is some light….
now, i just knew i should have bought another one of those watches for someone…dima of course!! although , wait a minute…how old is dima?? this watch is pretty big and heavy…how large is his little wrist?? well, show him the picture…if he likes it, he can have mine…i will get another the next time i go to bkk…
RENE…
my oh my, both you and cathy scholl with coincidental parallel negative events!!
i will not leave this post up too long!!…i do not want to start out the holiday season with “downer” stories…
anyway, welcome all your friends into your home…then, lock them inside!!!
CATHY…
i suppose i did mis-understand…i thought jim had cancelled santa fe, but now i realize it was julia dean he had to cancel…got the two things mixed up…i will talk to jim soonest and will ask him about santa fe…by the way, he and i both taught together at santa fe several years ago…where were you???
perhaps some form of “paranoia” could be “good thinking”…however, i think that somewhere between being totally naive and totally paranoid is where most of us should be…flat out paranoia would freeze most of us up to the point where we would not take creative risks…and risk taking is where so much artistic growth comes from…and risk taking is also how you can get hurt…just goes with the territory…
MICHAEL…
yes, running away from stalin would create enough paranoia to last a few generations to be sure…
and yes, i am blessed with many real friends…more than my fair share…and for this i am thankful and blessed…my little negative story cannot be compared in any way to the truly serious consequences of mass betrayal…
CHRIS…
i always liked that line…do you know who said it???
W.ROBERT….
thanks amigo….chin up…moving forward
SOPHIA…
yes, “that is the way it goes”….still, i truly believe there are many more good people than bad…and even this “bad” person i wrote about has, i am sure, some very good qualities…perhaps even rationalizing inside his/her head something other than what i am thinking…quien sabe???
cheers, david
CARLOS…
i did not see your comment until after i posted ….sounds like i am a bit like you…but, of course, i will not change….this was a relatively small “bump” in the road in the big picture of life…as i told bob, writing about it got most of the anger out…as you point out, i do not have to see this person again…your friend sounds like she is in a terrible predicament…she will need to change her environment somehow…
saludos, david
PAUL…
sorry, i missed your story the first time through.. now, that is flat out scary… LUCKILY you only lost your computer and some credit cards !!!
cheers, david
David: Have you been up all day? Or was it all night?
Did you get an email from me today about trips, dates, etc.?
Michael
It was told to me by a Native American Indian from Supai Village in the Grand Canyon. Not sure where he got it from. Maybe he said it?
I always embraced it.
MICHAEL…
i have not seen an e-mail from you…but, i have two accounts and have not checked the other…but, will do soonest..
i have been up all day and all night!!!
CHRIS….
hmmmm, bob black will know for sure who said that…sounds like will rogers or mark twain or ???? ok, bob, who was it???
cheers, david
Hey you guys, it was my parents. They told me that when I was old enough to make enemies. I never remember it though.
MAS
Hi David,
Awful story with fake mr. X… but if I know people… it’s happen… sometimes. We should have eyes wild open, but I rather trust people. I know many crazy wired people but any fake person… I hope…
And about your feelings… this is human experience… try forget and forgive yourself. Go forward… or just try…
Enjoy your fake working watch and morning coffee… call to friend… remember… you are lucky man…
Martin
Bob Black
I want see more your work! Do something with this!
:)
Martin (BobBlack’s work little Fan)
Sorry to hear this happened to you David.
You are such a warm, open and genereous person, and sadly this can happen then.
Good as well that you are such a positive spirit and are already dealing with this in your own way and moving on.
To the light, to other warm and great people in your life and that come on your way.
That is how I deal with it too. Just try to forget about it as fast as I can, and enjoy the great people around me even more.
Avoid negative persons as much as I can and enjoy the people who really are worth it, who I respect and respect me back.
Wendy
PS. I will be in NY from the 14th till 23rd. If you feel like going for a coffee and talk, let me know. Would be great to see you again.
PS. Is L in town as well?
David,
I hope the loss has not caused any more damage around you, with other people inolved that could threaten their relation towards you. For you to make an entry of it, the sense of betrayal must be acute, and weirdly enough I am going thru a bit of a betrayal too, though it may not be so quite yet. The signs are very strong though.
From someone I have known over 25 years, and I seem to have become someone to avoid like the pest to the people who were, so to speak, between us. I deal with it by thinking all the choices in my life have always been not to be pinned down the ground by bitterness, hatred or pettiness.
Since these people are into photography, Your blog is one of the refuges too these days, and basically, all the positive things around us, our own undying belief in goodness at our core, and the love from the people who have taken the pain to find out who we really are and gratify us with their friendship, even though for a lot of them, they had less than 25 years to make up their mind ;-).
At the end, for people like you and many of us here, The spirit wins, every time!
The worst betrayal is love and frienship. If you really believe in the person you think is your friend or loves you, if you trust this person and then you discover that everything is a lie, then you just feel small, ridiculous and with the need of cutting yourself off. But if you do so…. then you will not have the chance to find the right person, the right friend, the right love…. Not long ago I felt betrayed. I cut myself off because I was scared of feeling. But if you don’t feel, you don’t live. So forget about the fake person and keep on living with the honest people you have around. You’re alive and you have lots of good feelings to share with nice people!!
Smiles!
Hello David..
firsth of all i am very sorry you had to met such person… i know you are the person with (we say in Poland)”heart on your hand”… which means very open and friendly…and the problem is that some of the people can use it… but you can not do anything with that… the only thing you can do is just forget about that person…
I haven’t had any big problem with people in my life… i have some quite good intuition and from the firsth meeting i feel if i should trust or not and in 99% i am right but also i try not to trust people imediately…
What you can do now, is just to forget about that not nice situation and forget about that person… if you will still leave a space for him/her in your mind it will not be good
Always give a person the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise. My father told me this as a young boy and I’ve always carried this with me. The fact of the matter is that we live in a world of duality. I prefer to see the glass as half full rather than half empty. I suppose this is purely a matter of perception. One thing for sure their is a battle on earth between good and evil. We all make personal choices and we all intuitively understand the difference between + & -. Luckily for us humans we have free will. So row,row,row,row,your boat,gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream. Life is truly what you decide it to be for the most part. David you know best as you are really the LIVING PROOF. When life gives you Lemons then make Lemonade !! This to SHALL PASS> Already GONE.
P.S. Whenever i think i have it really bad i always turn to literature
ie..”Mans Search for Meaning,” by Dr.Victor Frankl or “The Torment of Man,” by Franz Kafka. Yes; both books have taken me right out of any vacuum that was hell bent on consuming me either physically, mentally,spiritually, and or emotionally. None of us exist in a vacuum thank; GOD. Rise above and say to yourself this will no longer lease any more space in my vessel – brain.
P.S. Count your blessings and if needed do a gratitude list. This always put’s reality into place for me. All the Best Mr. Harvey !!
Hi David,
I fully agree with Bob and some others who posted here… People are very complex in their behaviour, very special kind of logic mixed up with many other components of life. Constantly adding up to become even more complex. Actually it is quite fascinating, at least from the outside. And especially at those times when you are not affected yourself.
While in Brazil I learned a huge lesson: as long as nobody is physically harmed, try to look at it with humor. Not very easy to do, but as everyone around did it the same way, it became kind of a competing sport, which made it much easier. And of course, everyone was there to help, in case humor was not appropriate anymore.
It is amazing how things change when you manage to laugh it off! It is not about not taking it seriously, because very often it is damn serious, but it is a way to deal with what you cannot change anymore anyway.
About paranoia… well, I think it is good to be suspicious. But you do not have to let people know. Because sometimes (often) there is nothing to it and you will let good chances pass by. But … I have a looooong testing routine, that works in the back of my mind. And everytime someone manages to trick me I add a new test to the routine. But I try never to let it show, in order not to offend anyone who is just trying to be nice and help a stranger (or not so stranger).
Like buiding up a virus-filter for a computer.
Sounds very “abgeklärt” (German… damn, how do you say that in English?) “wise”? Well, I guarantee you that right after the incident I “cook in anger”, as we would say here, being terribly upset about myself for being so blind and/or about the other person, for not respecting me.
But I try to keep this phase short ;-)
Glad to hear you are fine. Very important.
Best to all,
Lassal
@ Paul
please do not get my “humour”-comment wrong. It is terrifying to thing about what could have happened to you and your family.
Very, very glad you are fine!
Please have these windows fixed!!!!
Um abraço,
Lassal
My second day in BKK, I found out there was a hit-and-run back home. My Car, new driveway, lots of new landscaping, all taken out by a runaway car. They neatly “cleaned up” and left… convenient since I was 8000 miles away.
Frustrated I told a local in BKK and , she mentioned the Thai philosophy of Jai Yen (cool heart). She was right, I tried to look at it from other angles. “I did lay those last few curbstones in a little crooked…”
Being taken advantage of, in your case (possibly??), was the direct result of being your true self… open, giving and kind.
It was a weak minded (hot hearted) person that saw those STRENGTHS as weaknesses.
Damn! Did I learn more than just how to take a better picture, down there??!!
Luckily there are witnesses, Insurance agencies, and police in my corner… Jai Yen.
Luckily there are true friends, kind strangers, and indebted students in yours… Jai Yen.
Be Well, David
P.S. Do you think the quality of those fakeys are better than those on Mulberry street?? ;-)
MARTIN…
so nice, as always, to hear from you!!…i have been traveling so much and we have not had time to chat…you always have great words of wisdom…and this so so interesting to me because we have never met and yet have been talking to each other for almost a year…i will go check the archives to find out for sure, but i think you were the very first person i responded to on this forum….
in my travels now , i always meet someone with whom i have been writing on this blog….this time i met both tom hyde and lisa, who were students in bkk, and ‘pong , who came by to see the show…martin WE just have to meet in 2008!!!
did you already post a link to your cuba work??? maybe you did and i missed it…i will go back and look or please post the link again…or, it is probably on your website…anyway, i will see it…
somehow, without even meeting you in person, i think you are REAL!!!
WENDY…
yes, i should be here in new york until the 20th or 21st….please stop by!!!! it will be great to see you…no, “L” is in london, but we were just together in bangkok..please call me as soon as you arrive….
HERVE…
one of the things i can easily see here from the comments like yours, is that so much positive energy can come out of bad…i think you know by now, that i just do not post normally anything negative….and even this little “rough edge” has led to so much “care” from the writers here…you are certainly among the most prolific and articulate writers who have assembled themselves on this forum….i can only say many thanks to you…..and yes yes…WE WIN!!!
ANA…
well, one person i know who is always smiling and it is you!!! you are even making me feel a little guilty at writing my tale of woe because this did not involve the betrayal of a long term friend or love….that is so much worse and sticks around maybe “forever”…many thanks for your letter and i assume we will see each other again in the spring in Valencia….big hugs…..
ROBERT WIEDENFELD..
i have the same outlook as you..occasionally i slip into “self pity” for brief moments and then slap myself in the face and say “hey dude…get real..get on with it…do not let one little bad moment fog up the whole picture”…
now whistling “row row row your boat…” damn, can’t get it out of my head…gee thanks!!!
LASSAL…
“abgeklart” i do not know…sorry, i could not get the two little dots over the “a”…yes, well, if it means “wise” then that just makes sense…wise does not have to mean paranoid…wise is just wise….i will keep my “virus filter” clicked on!!
cheers, david
MATT…
you posted while i was writing…
jai yen…i will try to remember that..by the way, don’t you live close by??? if so, come on over when you have a chance…this workshop is never over!!
these “fakeys” are pretty good, but i am sure one sharp eye from mulberry street could pick it right out…maybe i should change the word from “fake” to “copy”….
i miss hanging with you guys….and i will try to post your essay soonest….maybe by monday….
peace and jai yen, david
The word abgeklärt probably is the past participle (or something like that) of the verb abklären which means to filtrate.
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Michael
Well, actually “abgeklärt” has this a little shallow taste to it. It is not “wise” in a completely positive sense. One likes to use it, when a person sounds wiser than he/she probably is.
It is most often combined with a dramatically raised eyebrow.
;-))
Well, there goes the scientific approach. I really did look it up.
Michael
Oh, hi Michael,
sorry, I did not see your post …
Yeah, “klären” means something like “to clarify” or “to clear”….
But then there are these slight differences in the way these words are used … ;-)
But actually, when you raise BOTH eyebrows, it could mean real admiration, when you say, someone is “abgeklärt”. Meaning, that he actually and really could BE wise. So you see: it is all a matter of eyebrow-use.
:-))
David
Don’y take your watch down too deep or the little beetle inside will drown…………you can probably hera it coughing after a shower……..
Best from Antigua
Clive
MICHAEL, LASSAL…
abgeklärt…ok , got it…thanks for the tip…¬√©®†¥¨∫√øπµµµ∂≈®…dangerous info in the wrong hands!! but, how are you supposed to know what is where???
michael, i just answered your e-mail…sorry about that…i have 3,000 unanswered e-mails on that account, most of them comments from the blog, so some private messages can get a bit lost!!
cheers, david
David…
:)
Ha, ha… yes almost year… I thought this myself last time.
When you started you have only few comments… and now! 100-300s!!
I apologize for my absents last time but I have many work and some problems, but I’m here as always.
I’m almost sure we will met in 2008, maybe when you will be in England or Paris or rome and I will have enough money for quick trip… hmmm… rome I’ve never been in rome…
My wife said me last time in anger that I’m very asocial person (I agree with her) so I’ll be nervous…
And the link to cuba pictures… http://www.marcinluczkowski.com/cuba1.html
I have no time to create slideshow
this is still first preview… is very simply just click on photo. You must use browser’s “back” button to back. And no thumbnails… sorry.
Martin
DAVID – new email!
MAS
David :))…see u’ve got a million friends of light :)))))…
just read all comments: :)))))….
im not sure but i think that quote about “be friends to anyone who comes along..” is eleanor roosevelt, but not sure…though, it totally sounds like Twain too, but i dont know, im not a complete walking literary quotable library ;))))))
dima: he’s now 13 and almost as tall as I am and, wrist: getting bigger/stronger indeed ;)))….
martin: :)))…if we meet, i’ll give u a print :)))…thanks so much…u can see more, u can send me an email and i’ll send u some pics :))))…by the way, im a big martin fan too :)))…
enjoyed reading all the comments above:
david: uve got a great book out of this blog, some lovely wisdom and reality dose too :))))
Jai Yen :))))…
giving
abrazo :))
running
bob
David
In havana I bought casio watch…
http://www.marcinluczkowski.com/what_new/dsc_2113.jpg
i think it is no fake… 40 pesos convertible… and not so pretty as your…
peace Martin
Paranoia is not altogether a bad thing, of course; if it weren’t for raging paranoia about almost everything, I wouldnt have any personality whatsoever. I have the they’re out to get me bug so bad that when you said you’d been conned by a fake person, I thought you were talking about me (you weren’t talking about me, right? Okay, now I’ll be obsessing about this all night long, which is something that paranoiacs do really, really well). However, there are good things about being paranoid, although I’m not sure what they might be at the moment, beyond helping you save your money. Paranoiacs tend to be pretty miserly, because we think everyone’s out to steal our money, and while this does not make us happy, it does guarantee that we get visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and yet to come on a regular basis. Now if I could only figure out why Typepad won’t identify me, all will be well. I think they’re out to get me…
The bastards, they didnt identify me again! Anyway, this is Akaky saying both this and the long paranoid raving above. (Okay, Typepad, try pulling my name out of this one, if you’re so damn smart!)
http://lassal.de/2007/12/08/no-watch-no-light/
:(((
BOB…
yes yes, we do have a book here…at least at some point…already there is too much material…but let’s give ourselves a bit more to edit from….how in hell do we split up all the royalties that will be rolling in??? hmmmmm, would not want to ruin a good thing by turning it into a real business!!!
MARTIN…
nice cuba work amigo!!! some very haunting pictures…all of your best work is haunting…you should just eliminate anything “normal” and go for your “dark side”…actually, you are not dark, but many of your photographs suggest a deep mystery…just go for that!!! it is unique and YOU…at least , the artist YOU…
there are no fake casios…they are inexpensive to begin with….and maybe they are not pretty, but they do one thing really well…they keep good accurate time!!!
AKAKY…
hey dude is that you?, trying to come through, wow your face is getting blue, what you are doing wrong i haven’t a clue…
LASSAL…
some cool books you are doing…i want to see close up…
cheers, david
Akaky, I thought it was me! How dare you say it was you!
Not running
Michael