Quote: Stolen words

[wowie]

Viggo, in a rush as ever, left his car on the street for five minutes. When he returned, the window was smashed. At first he thought he had been lucky. His computer was still there and so was his money and...his rucksack was gone. He had just gathered together all the writing he had done during the past three years-maybe a dozen short stories, about seventy-five poems, many written by hand at night, when he would stay alone in his trailer in the Sahara while shooting his most recent movie, Hidalgo. All gone.

The rebel king
Chris Heath in GQ
Apr '04

I love this picture...

Comments

[meanny62.livejournal.com]

his stolen rucksack is a very, sad story...how he wrote about it...I could cry...when I read it...

and the pic?? Wowoie it's wonderful...the small blinde hairs an the back of his hand....*drool*

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

I'm sure when the thief realized there wasn't anything good in the backpack he just threw it in a dumpster somewhere.

What a loss.

[meanny62.livejournal.com]

Didn't Viggo checked all dumpsters nearby??? And found nothing???

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

Can't you imagine him rummaging through the dumpsters rather franticly?

[tigerlilysvs.livejournal.com]

Your hand fetish continues! Great picture. His intro to Best American Non-required Reading always makes sad when he describes how those writings were done in the desert and what he felt like when he knew they were gone.
Makes me want to kiss him and make him (and me) much better.

[nikkie222.livejournal.com]

That article is one of the most interesting and fact-filled out there. I always love re-reading it. Thanks!

[meridon.livejournal.com]

Its a very telling picture wowie.

Interesting back then he says he his computer was left in the car, I thought he was a bit of a Luddite...no mobile phone, no TV etc etc....
we are not what we seem eh? !!

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

The thief must've been the Luddite ;-). And sadly probably dumped the backpack when he realized there was nothing interesting in there.

[randomrattle.livejournal.com]

One of my fave piccies, too; I use it as a desktop on my compie quite a bit!

[wwowie.livejournal.com]

I like thinking he's writing in a journal rather than signing a book ;-)

[itsmepeace.livejournal.com]

75 poems AND short stories, that would of made for at least five new books ..damn that thief, hatesssssssss him or her!