"nothing is original. steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows, select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul".................................stolen from - jim jarmusch

Thursday, May 27, 2010

burkina faso luck

FROM THE DESK OF DR.MAXIME KHANGA,
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
BANK OF AFRICA.
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.


Confidential Business Proposal!!



Dear Friend,

I am Dr.Maxime Khanga. the bill and exchange manager at the foreign remittance department of BANK OF AFRICA.

I am sorry to encroach into your privacy in this manner, I found your email listed in the Trade Centre Chambers of Commerce directory here in Burkina Faso, I find it pleasurable to offer you my partnership in business, I only pray at this time that your address is still valid. l discovered the sum of Fiften million and five hundred thousand United States Dollars (USD15.5M) belonging to a deceased customer of this bank.

The fund has been lying in a suspence account without anybody coming to put claim over the money since the account owner late Mr Salla khatif from Lebanese, who was involved in a plane crash in September 2007. You can see the website link below. on bbc = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6997381.stm The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foriegn account whose owner will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased customer of the bank.


Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlines and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
I therefore soliciting for your assistance to come forward as the next of kin.
I have agreed that 40% of this money will be for you as the beneficiary in respect of the provision of your Account and services rendered, 55% would be for me while 5% will be for expencses incured during the cause of this transaction If the money is transferred to your Account from BANK OF AFRICA, I and my family in this transaction will proceed immediately to your country for our own share of the money.
I expect you to keep this business strictly confidential and secret as you may wish to know that I am Bank official.
Be rest assured that this business is 100% risk free on both side and every arrangement to transfer this money to the Account you are going to provide have been concluded provided we maintain the confidentiality and secreceirity involved.

Contact me on my private email address dr.khanga@rocketmail.com I am looking forward for your prompt response.

Yours faithfully,
Dr.Maxime Khanga.

Friday, May 14, 2010

frankys blog


when the music stops, turn out the lights



Friday, May 7, 2010

chris and huge



If the saying 'the best surfer in the world is the one having the most fun' holds true then Chris and Hugeman would have to be two of the best surfers in the world. A strange prospect if you knew Chris and Hugeman. Chris, a former longboarder, now rides a Kayak after having a serious accident that screwed his knees and left him needing the use of a walking stick. This has not stopped him being one of the most stoked surfers I have ever met, no matter what the surf is like the smile on his face says it all. Hugeman is one funny looking dude, long ranga hair along with a slow eye would lead you to be surprised to learn that he surfs. But again, no matter what the conditions Huge is more than happy to be out on his bodyboard, bobbing up and down and waiting for whatever might come his way. The surf trips with them were always fun and some of the best I've ever been on. Two of those trips were to Ireland, both of which will permanently be burnt into my brain for not only the epic waves we scored but of the friendship between us. I recall a conversation that I had with Hugeman somewhere between county Sligo and Bristol on the return home from our last trip to the emerald isle. The conversation was actually Hugeman recalling a remark that I had made in Easky. Huge asked me why I had travelled thousands of kilometres by taxi, plane, train, ferry and car, spending thousands of dollars in the process to surf waves that were 15 degrees colder than those waves that I could of easily surfed 2 minutes walk from where I slept at home. I had replied almost flippantly that Ireland made me feel like a surfer. On that return trip Huge said that he understood what I meant.