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Subject: Re: job offer
Yes, I am interested.
Please call me on 07768144951
Regards,
Zaida
e ZAIDA RODRIGO PEREZ
<zaidarp@yahoo.com>
10 Dec 2002 15:12:56
     
e CO10PI
<patata10@arquired.es>
9 Dec 2002 20:12:13
Subject: Re: In the flesh
You're quite mistaken about me and my preferences. In the first place, I like what I like, and have many reasons to do so. Full stop. Except for the fact that I'm not using the language I know, so I have to express myself using terrific periphrasis just to get to the same point. Anyway, thanx for reminding me that I manage to muddle through, despite all my efforts. That's awfully sweet of you. Were you a gentleman, I wouldn't be going through all this, English included -by the way, this is my last try; either you find a latin-based language to use (preferably Spanish), or else I quit.
In the second place, I'm not at all bothered by anybody's age -though we all have ours. So much so, that it's the least of what calls my attention about you. I'm a lot more concerned by the fact that you are using me as your psychiatrist, once stated you don't want to show your colours by any means. I'm starting to think I'd better stop wondering who you are, and start running from somebody who lives in the backstage, playing "Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde" fundamentalistically for himself. I don't care for people who see life that way.
In the third place, you should try harder and read "Cien años de soledad". It's one of the essential books in modern literature and one of the best pieces of all times. It's not just a matter of "magic realism", but of sensibility, and sense too, and life, and human kind, and love and sex, and all that matters. It's almost as great as "El Quijote". And sorry for you, but U is far behind. If you ever try Böll, you'll understand what am I talking about: you needn't be a bore to be a great writer. Ok for Wolf and James. Very well for Camus and great for Borges. But you should try non-oscurantists to let some new oxygen into your life!
Thanx for the post-card (is that how you feel?), and for the second lesson on "eclectic & good" I receive in 48 hrs. If you open your mind a little and try not to think in a Manichean way, you'll see that I say things clear and simple. Don't try to find arguments there are not.





From David Still:
Your English is just fine. It is though your trying to come to grips with distinctions about what is eclectic that is a bit--dare I say this: muddled. Why not simply: I like that which strikes me as good, no matter genre, period, author, etc. Clearly this seems to be the case. And no: the South American writers are nice but I get quickly bored with magic realism, including 100 years of who cares about solitude. sorry. The one major exception goes beyond mere geographical borders. Borges. Calvino, goodie goodie too. And U by Joyce linked by David Lodge in his recently published critical essays along with Virgian Wolff and H. James as dealing with consciousness, and so linked with what seems the major thrust of cognitive science these days (for which see Pinker, The Blank Slate, just out)..and a fun read is David Lodge, Thinks, a novelized attempt to deal with Ideas of congnitive science but muddled in the world of sex and relationships etc that seriously detract (though great fun) from what he is after in his more tendentious part of the novel.
Louis Armstrong: It don't mean a thing if it anin't got that swing. Ah: I promesi sposi (The Betrothed)--wonderful in encompassing the Plague as in a much more limited but overly obvious way
Camus, The Plague.
write me. I adore you. and why worry overly about Young/old? we all age. No one gets out alive. meditate.
     
Subject: RE: job offer
All right. I'm intrigued. This 'David Still' beard is very inventive, although I'm not sure I really understand the point of the guacamole facial.

When was our "first message" and what was it about it that impressed you? More to the point, who are you? This nameless, faceless communication feels a bit naughty.

Please write back.

-Catie, who is Curious
e Catie Marshall
<CMarshall@timessquarebid.org>
9 Dec 2002 18:12:28
     
e Rumiana Kutzarova
<harmony@elits.rousse.bg>
9 Dec 2002 17:12:35
Subject: Re: job offer
Dear Mr. David Still,

Thank you for your letter and I am writing to tell you that waters are positively tasted. I would like to get some more information about what has been offered to me. That is why, I would appreciate it if you tell me in details what it is all about. I thank you for the interest and hope you give more precise information.

Best regards,
Kita Boncheva
     
Subject: RE: job offer
Hi David,

I'm very flattered by your interest in me, but I don't actually know who you are or what your company does, so I can't speak to whether it interests me.
Have we really been in contact before? I would be happy to hear a little more about what your company does and what you have in mind.

Rebecca

==============================
Rebecca Metzger
Public Relations Officer
New Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: 212-219-1222 x217
Fax: 212-431-5328
Email: rmetzger@newmuseum.org
e Rebecca Metzger
<rmetzger@newmuseum.org>
9 Dec 2002 16:12:01
     
e Carolyn J Coleman
<honeychildcoleman@nyc.rr.com>
9 Dec 2002 11:12:04
Subject: nutrasweet
aw shucks - thanks!
by chance - were you at Botanica this past Saturday?
I am into some sugar-free foods (when I can overcome the occasional submission to DONUTS and pecan pie) and my substitute of choice is nutrasweet (Equal and all of her knock-off sisters)

I chose the name Sugarfree because I started off spinning only '80's records and wanted a name reminiscent of the times.......


From: "David Still" <david@davidstill.org>
> you are the best dj I have ever heard! I'm really into sugarfree foods too. Do you like sacrin? I really like sweet and low, I heard it gives you cancer but it's so worth it!
     
Subject: Memory Gallery
Dear Mr. Still,

It is surprised to receive such an email through this way! First of all, thank you very much for your appreciation that you think I am a good communication staff and even invite me to join your company. It is a bit too shocked for me to know the news and I even do not know anything about your company. So, maybe you can send your company information to pamela_chc@yahoo.com.hk and we will see what to do.

Back to the issue of asking for your help, it is really helpful and grateful for you to send the emails back to us. So please do so and I am waiting for your positive feedback soon. Thank you very much for your kind attention.
Best regards.
Yours sincerely,

Memory
Pamela Chan
e Memory gallery
<memorise@netvigator.com>
9 Dec 2002 04:12:35
     
e Center for Education
<CET@newschool.edu>
9 Dec 2002 01:12:16
Subject: Re: Sorry
David,

This is Allen Jones, Director of the CET. I had a report of something happening on Wednesday with a faculty member, but people were not forthcoming about details. I would appreciate meeting with you about your frustration and discussing solutions that will get your needs for technical support met. It sounds as if I may have missed you while at lunch on Wednesday. Could you suggest some times over the coming week?

Allen Jones
Center for Education and Technology
     
Subject: Re: job offer
Hi David,

I must say I am very curious about your email and would like some more information about this position.

Also, I am not aware of previous correspondence between us - could you please jog my memory (it has been a hectic year).

At the moment I am certainly in the market for employment and your offer sounds very intriguing.

Looking forward to discussing this further

Tracey Benson
e Tracey Benson
<tracey.benson@anu.edu.au>
8 Dec 2002 22:12:30
     
e CO10PI
<patata10@arquired.es>
8 Dec 2002 21:12:23
Subject: Re: In the flesh
When I say I'm not eclectic, I mean that I have a clear and neatly defined view of life and facts which makes my principles clear and straight, no matter if they don't suit me. I'm none of the kind that selects from here and there. When I use such expresions as "open minded" I intend to say just the opposite to being eclectic: I explore, I chose whatever, as far as my age allows me to do, and go for it: what you call eclecticism is but young people's curiosity. I'd be dead if I wouldn't eclectisize a little!
Eclecticism is a tolerable tendency in someone my age. Otherwise, I'd be an oldie, though I like things pure and defined, not horrible mixtures of who knows what. But it might just be a matter of the language used. My mother
tongue, as you well know, is not English, so you can't expect me to be as accurate using it as I might be using mine. I will never be able to express myself as deeeply in English as I would in my own language, ¿no te pasa a
tí lo mismo, merluzo?. But if it's enough for you, it's ok with me, though I often miss a part of the message.
Of course, I don't like all of Polanski, and here comes the concept "good". Obviously, when I say good I mean my own concept for good, which might be coincident with that of many others, but has got it's foundations in my readings, studies, travels and ways of looking at things. That is exactly why I don't like making lists, and I'm not doing so any more. The moment you have a picture of something the others like, you tend to focalize anything through that vision of yours, instead of understanding it's your own vision that's being projected through the picture. Therefore, I'd rather you told me why do you like what you like and why do you think we've got so many things in common, instead of having me write useless lists, that by the way are always an amputation of my reality. Have you read Tanizaki's "Éloge de l'ombre"? It's very short and may reveal a lot more of what I think than I could show myself. Of course you want to re-read Proust! But what is that
new translation? There are some exeptions to "the Russians": "Crimen y castigo", "The Mother" and "The Karamazov Brothers". They are not easy, but must be read, don't you think? Gogol is a bore to me. I haven't had yet the
presence of mind to read the U. I've read "Dubliners", and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". One of my greatest passions, though, is Heinrich Böll in all his forms. I started when I was fourteen by reading "The Lost Honour of Katarina Blum", and never have been able to stop since then. And the same with Stevenson, Twain, Kipling, I. Calvino and García Márquez. Most of their works I've read more than twice. Have you tried the Southamericans?
Ahora ya me he cansado de este petardo, y de escribir en inglés.
Motion is something that has always attracted me: futurism had a fascinating vision of motion, very Italian connected. You sound like Forrest Gump when talking about your passion. I think now I understand why you walk so fast!
De acuerdo en lo de que parecemos dos lenguados, más lenguado tú que yo, so what??? We'll go on smashing our lives in the next chapter. Bye, bye, happiness.





De: "David Still" <d.still@davidstill.org>
> open minded has to do with be willing to look and explore many things; eclectic, by contrast, suggest a taste that is willing to take from, explore many different visions, departments, areas, ages, etc but insists always on applying a sense of sorting out that which is good from that which is mere trash. You like "good" but all people like good; depends on what is good for each person, no, though your likings in film and directors, Polanski
excepted, strikes me as nice, well gathered (and yes eclectic)... Realm of the Senses was a Japanese film I much liked; and Tanzazi's novels I cherish (he rings a bell in me), and so I guess that in most lit I too am eclectic,
though of late I don't ever think I could reread the Russians, except Gogol and Turgenev...ugh to Dost. and I haven't the patience fo Tolstoy. But I would like to read the new trans of Proust, though it has not got the best
reviews; and I do intend to reread (4th time) Joyce's U. French? after Proust, Flaubert and a thumbs down pretty much for Stendhal at this point in my life.
> Running: I love to run and have done this a number of years including NY Marathon and many half marathons...am readingWhy We Run, by Heinrich (Bernd first name) a fascinating book by a strange man who runs ultra marathongs (over 50 miles) and is biologist and zoologist--he explores locomotion in animals to see how it connects to human running, which he believes to be an art form and a grand simplification of life... very odd background on the
author too.
> we are soul mates or sole mates or something... but clearly have something in common on tastes.
     
Subject: Re: job offer
Dear David Still,
I got very intrigued by your e-mail and would therefore like to find out more...
Please let me know what this is all about, and if you really have a serious job offer.
Also, how did you get my e-mail address? I am not aware that we communicated before ("Since our first message..."), and your name doesn't ring any bell for me.
Curious...
Looking forward to hearing from you,
all the best,
David
e David Krippendorff
<dkrippendorff@thing.net>
8 Dec 2002 19:12:09
     
e Patrick Lichty
<voyd@voyd.com>
8 Dec 2002 19:12:57
Subject: Re: job offer
David,

I see you have also queried Scott Petersen.
We are all tracing your queries online and remarking at your ambition.

Patrick
     
Subject: Re: job offer
David,

I see you have also approached many of my colleagues, including Heiko
Rechtenwald.
You seem to be very ambitious at creatign a marvelous team!

Best,
Patrick Lichty
e Patrick Lichty
<voyd@voyd.com>
8 Dec 2002 18:12:31
     
e Igor Lusic
<igor.lusic@inet.hr>
8 Dec 2002 15:12:39
Subject: Re: job offer
Dear David Still,
I did got your mail, so what can I help you?
And what kind job do you offer my?

Igor Lusic
     
Subject: Re: job offer
Dear David,

Thank you for your query. Although your intitial contact seems interesting,
my history has shaped the nature of my consulting practice. At the moment,
I am continuing to build a career as one of the world's leading emerging
technology-based fine artists. I recently returned from a tour of my video
work throughout Japan, and am currently working on projects with the Whitney
Museum, and the Louisiana Contemporary Arts Museum, among others.

My Interactive design/illustration consultancy (Lichty Studios) has served
the Fortune 500 for over 8 years, and is surely what I would call a
'part-time' business I employ to fund my art practice. I have been involved
in a number of start-ups, with mixed results.

Given this, I am interested in your query given the following provisions:

1: I no longer do work for start-ups who wish me to work for them on a
'contingent' basis. Our studio has lost over $35,000 in possible earnings
on labor and materials that could have been focused on our arts practice.
Start-ups with solid venture capital who are willing to pay under our
billing cycle for initial work are very welcome.

2: I do not, under any circumstances, wish to adopt any 'work at home'
pyramid system seen on the net. I get 3-5 inquiries for these a day, and if
I would have been interested, I would have employed one by now.

3: Our pricing begins at $50/hour for interactive design and web design, and
increases to $75-125/hr for animation, programming, and back-end server
work. Furthermore for international work, we would have to arrange the
ability for bank transfers from your account to our business' for labor
incurred. We operate on a 30-day billing cycle, with a monthly interest of
1.25% for late payment.

Therefore, I applaud your contacting me, and thank you for the kind words.
On the other hand, I believe that you should be aware of my company's focus
and services before moving further. The practices I have adopted are a move
to assure our survival over the past decade, and to continue in these
uncertain times. I apologize if my approach is a little 'hard-baked', but I
hope you will appreciate it as one that is forged from years of business
experience. If you are still interested in working with my studio to attain
your business goals, please let me know.

Regards,
Patrick Lichty
Lichty Technological Arts
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
e Patrick Lichty
<voyd@voyd.com>
8 Dec 2002 13:12:46
     
e steve danzig
<giznad@ozemail.com.au>
8 Dec 2002 11:12:30
Subject: Re: Sorry
Well it might take me some time to get over it but I think $500 a week for the next year should help the pain :)

Who in the f.... are you?
     
Subject: Re: In the flesh
Eclectic? I'd say rather open-minded, don't you think? You know me, its you who can tell all about my liking people in general or people from certain places. Are you "people in general" or "people from certain palces", and why do I pay any attention to this madness? It doesn't make any sense to go on like this, listing my preferences for lines on end. It should be enough for you to know reading is my hobby, but I wouldn't know were to start my list. The same happens with cinema. Any list would exclude many excellent directors and actors I like. I think it's a waste of time doing this. You're
finally going to come out with some cleverness of yours, like I'm eclectic.
Let me say it's not quite true, India has got but "religious staff", as you put it. I like good cinema, good literature and good art, no matter the time, place, artist or gender to which they might belong. [Pabst, Epstein, Lang, Eisenstein, Clair, Ruttmann, Fellini, Tavernier, Coppola, Polanski, Hathaway, Lubitsch, Wilder, Almodóvar, Chaplin, Allen, Buster Keaton, Marx brothers, Kubrick, Saura, Rossellini, Visconti, Chabrol, Malle, Welles, Greenaway, Erice, Loach.]
Favourite sports? That's easier. I'm limited by my back looking like an 8. Sailing, swimming and walking.
I remind you of the renowned "GIVE and take" to which you seem to be familiar just with the last part! Nice pages, that of Nina. Beautiful Japanese photographs. How did you know about my Japanese connection and my inclination for photography?




> Lord: you are electic. My razor too is eclectic though I used to use a Shick.
> Now move on: any favorite books or types of books? Romance, erotic, western canon? classical (Greek, Roman), epics--from various countries since India has none but the religious things.
> favorite sport? mine is running... did many many miles of this and from time to time still do though weights now taking over a bit. And films: god so much I ask of you but you are so nice and obliging and clearly bright and clever (in a nice way)...
http://photojapan.com/index.htm//portfolio-krivonak/krivonak.html
ah, Nina S! marvy. I was at bar and standing next to Ella F. many years ago when she was on break from performance... drank gin and some whiskey as chaser...but Billie Holiday--never to be matched again, ever. Do you like people in general or have interest in people from certain places, ie, Japan, India, Peru?
http://ninasimone.com/welcome.html

thinking of you--Still
shut up!




e CO10PI
<patata10@arquired.es>
7 Dec 2002 19:12:51
     
e jenna
<jennapurcella@hotmail.com>
7 Dec 2002 02:12:07
Subject: Thank You for using The StudioErotic.com postcard page
Hi david, Just a little note to inform you
that the www.StudioErotic Postcard you sent to:

jenna

Was picked up on:

December 6, 2002 at 5:49:07 PM.

Check back often as we change the postcard images regularly.
     
Subject: Re: job offer
Hey.. I heard about this internet love scam... I'm not gonna fall for that!
I got a chain mail about it... hah!




>From: David Still
>Jenna--I adore you. I will teach you dances that have yet been seen in most of the world... I am wealthy, good looking, but very lonely because many women want me only or mostly for my money. I would like to be a pen pal and see if we can hit it off from afar. Then we can make babies, ok?




>Jenna Purcella wrote:
>uhmmmmmm... what's that? :-)
>
>
> >From: David Still
> >Hey babe,
> >Wanna do the horizontal tango?
e Jenna Purcella
<jennapurcella@hotmail.com>
5 Dec 2002 23:12:13
     
e Get Familiar
<clinton_sparks@hotmail.com>
5 Dec 2002 18:12:08
Subject: Re: Don't trust ptyson
whoaa man, this is crazy. yeah he has been emailing me, telling me he's got a 20Gig iPod for $300. when i told him i was already in the process of buying one for 260 he offered to lower the price, which is rediculous. i appreciate the info. thanks a ton!




>From: David Still <david@davidstill.org>
>Hi Sir,
>
>Recently I've been scammed on ebay for around 300 USD by a person with the account name ptyson1215. I sent my money order but i've never gotten my package. I contacted ebay and they told me i wasn't protected because the sale was not through ebay, that it was a private sale. I have just found out that you're one of his next targets. Please do not attempt to buy from him because you will lose your money as I've had. Have a nice day and take care
     
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