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rue-madame's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Je participe au pass� Call me crazy, but I�m lately obsessed with acquiring a Bessa R camera. As the world becomes more and more digital, I am more and more interested in things that are totally manual. For example today we went to a giant bicycle sale so that TA could get some things for his road bike. We mistakenly walked into the actual big bicycle blowout section, and some guy approached me saying, �Are you looking for a bike?� And TA replied, �She�s real picky. She wants a Pee-Wee bike. I don�t think you have those.� Bike Guy: �Oh, you mean a cruiser? We have those.� Me: �No, not the new ones. They�re too big for me, anyway. They�re too modern. I want something really old.� I could hardly explain to this guy that what I really want is a heavy black bike, the kind that Parisians and Dutch folks tool around on. I even like the Swedish kind. I don�t want anything high-tech, I don�t want light or aerodynamic, I don�t want sporty. I never want what�s available or practical. I always want something from the Land Before Time or My Birth. Which means everything has to be researched and tagged at Ebay. Sometimes I wish I could just be in the present, want what�s available and be satisfied. Like with the camera. It�s basically a Leica M, but much cheaper. There�s nothing automatic about it. And what do you know, it looks like it comes from the 50s. 5:31 p.m. - 2006-04-01 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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