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Topic: For Sale: Aliens - LPP print on 5x600 Reels
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Jake Mayes
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 119
From: Bath, UK
Registered: Sep 2012
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posted August 19, 2013 11:20 AM
I will hang on to it defintely, as well as collecting film (although i have very few prints, i more shoot and develop super 8) I also use vintage HiFi equipment, i use the best premium ferric and good METAL cassettes i can find and have 2 D6Cs and 1 sony WM-DD9 which are used daily, the quality cannot be beaten!
The past 2 months have been difficult, my mother passed away just over 2 months ago from a ruptured brain aneurysm, worst of it was me and her and her best mate could feel something coming, I am glad to say we cherished every moment as i told her in january she should when she confided in me as the most spiritual and psychically connected in the family that she thought she had less than a year to live, no medical problems were known... and have plenty to remember her by in pictures, movies, S8 movies, etc but things have been so busy and thats why I have not been active on many forums at the moment, i lived with at my mums 2 weeks and then got this flat a month before she died, so I was back in my hometown nearly 2 months before she died, that I am thankful for as i got that to spend with her, the close family is very large and all of us live in this town theres been so much and the current financial situation has just compounded matters... The other night was a low one, and I cannot say I feel 'low' often because of my view on life and the universe In the end I sold my laptop to tide me over, I have my HP all in one windows 7 PC for now and my W 98 toshiba libretto, should be okay by next month 2 weeks ago I was given a large flatscreen TV by my stepdad which no longer worked, I replaced the EEPROM for a couple of quid, would have never been able to afford a tv that large off my own back! The laptop I can replace, have never missed a bill payment upto this point and did not want to start now! But the laptop is replacable, my print wouldn't be!
would call wanting to sell this a lapse in judgement, i went on a skipdiving trip and the universe provided, all non-perishables and tins in my cupboards are now full, plus still cold in date bottles of milk, I am set! I have started doing it regular to cut shopping bills but this i went on intuition!
Thanks again for the supporting words of everyone here!
Jacob
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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God
Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted August 19, 2013 07:27 PM
Jacob, on reading your post, my blood boils, it is the same in the
USA, where good honest folks are forced into poverty by nothing
else but foolhardy decisions by reckless politicians who have never known hard work, or a hungry day in their lives.Sell the computers
they are easily replaced, as are your TV's, but hold onto your films.
Also my sincere condolences on the passing of your Mum. These are
indeed hard times for you, I myself have been through similar, even being homeless at one point, but you will get through it,
you're lucky in having your family behind you.
A word to the wise, if you need a loan, look to a credit union,
their rates of interest are far more agreeable than the sharks that advertise on TV.
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Jake Mayes
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 119
From: Bath, UK
Registered: Sep 2012
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posted August 20, 2013 05:48 AM
I very nearly took out a loan, stuff those loan 'sharks' won't fall into that trap, The laptops are easily replaced and provided enough while i am waiting my money out, guess i needed reminding especially about my print, and normally I am alot more careful and connected/grounded than this, my boyfriend has moved in with me and we are sorting stuff out... His 'best mate' was extremely controlling and soul destroying and my pin sharp intuition after years of energy work which i rarely ignore and my post above is the result of what happens when I do and i had hit a rare low spot... picked up on her untrustworthyness and it took me and his family two months to get him out of her 'grasp' we were able to expose her true colours to him, and she threw her toys out of the pram, and I did remind her I had just lost my mum and she had tried to use ME for money and other things, even so far as a loaf of bread, when she was spending all her money on nights out getting hammered while her kids went hungry, the SS are involved now but its not my buissness or my problem and she had no idea i was working to expose who she truely was, silently saving text messages and recording conversations my boyfriend was gutted when he learned of her true colours then she TURNED on him in a heartbeat, and th e past month unfolded exactly as intuition told me.. now my boyfriend is out of that situation but i wouldn't yield! Instead i was able to use it all as ammo in the end And to add to it: she is 33 ![[Smile]](smile.gif) But what goes around, comes around!
I am glad we have such a large family, we are all close knit as well without drama, this is the first time drama has really been in my life I do not manifest it normally, the 'drama' has subsided but now just sorting out the aftermath as I finished college we are both going into work and going halves on the bills here, the aliens print wouldn't be replacable, and i very nearly sold some unexposed reversal slide film, until to my horror i discovered fuji 400X was discontinued in my 2 month absence from the film scene due to the busy time! I was in the darkroom last night, i did keep all my chemicals during the move, and i have plenty
Sorry to hear you have been homeless Hugh, the system is so biased towards the rich, and I really have no respect for it, what I see in skips never ceases to shock me even though i have been skipping since before i left home, 40% of produce is thrown out roughly according to figures, and alot of the food is perfectly good, even cold milk with two weeks to go on the date! I do rebel by skipping and I share what I find with loved ones who are less fortunate... There is no need for poverty which is what is thrown away!
Open a skip one night and an example is like the other night: to find 2 6KG boxes of washing powder, thrown away due to overstock, bottles of milk that are perfect and cold, 100s of coke cans,all due to a damaged barcode on the crate, crisps, perfect loaves of bread, even sealed boxes and crates of cat food!
There is so much that is thrown out, all due to ridiculous laws or greed, I do not waste My way of sticking my finger up to the system, I was told by a psychiatrist due to being on the autistic spectrum and being how I was, that i would NEVER become independant, and with lots of mental effort on my mums and my part, I have been independant two years, with no help from the system or the schools, help it would not give! : )
A flawed system? yes, and people are starting to fight back, once 7+ billion people chose to fight agesnt the few, the house of cards will come down, in a heartbeat!
But until then I just like to live and 99.9% of the time I can be happy but were all still human, after all!
Jacob
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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God
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From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted August 20, 2013 06:03 PM
You're absolutey right there Jake, a system that allows old folks
to go hungry, young people living rough, and perfectly edible
foodstuffs condemned for stupid reasons.
The reason I was homeless, albeit a short time, was in the main my
choice, a situation similar to your own, where my mum had just died, leaving my Father, younger brother and myself,plus two sisters married, whatever
anyone may tell you to the contrary, a woman is the backbone
of any Family.My brother worked as a miner, drank heavily, and
was a pain in drink. Things went from bad to worse, the fighting
was more frequent and vicious, culminating in me chastising him rather badly, by fracturing his skull, and breaking my knuckle. I made the decision to leave home before I did something I might regret, so I lived in the works cabin until I
got a place of my own, sleeping on bags of cement loses something after a while, but I don't regret it.It did work out for
me, I met a great girl, and we're still together after 34 years.
Far better than a similar term in prison, which was on the horizon if I hadn't left home.
Hope you don't have to sell your print Jake, like I advised, seek out a credit union, their interest fees are like 35%, way below
the 2000% payday loan mob. Look after yourself amigo.
[ August 20, 2013, 07:59 PM: Message edited by: Hugh Thompson Scott ]
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