Karma is a bitch. Cut off in front of an old lady’s car in San José because she’s driving too slow, and as soon as you turn the corner, tires screeching, gear box screaming in pain as you up gear for more power while laughing maniacally; and you ram straight into a police car that you didn’t notice because you were looking back at Granny, trying to see her reaction to your lame NASCAR maneuver while giving her the finger.
It’s because of karma that I’m flabbergasted, unbelieving at the fact that a bloke I know called me three times to insist on if I could re-arrange my schedule so that they could fly me for the weekend, all expenses paid, to a five star resort in Conchal, to lay about and shoot photos of 12 Hawaiian Tropic models.
I told just a few friends I was going, and then only because I had to tell someone. I felt like running up and down the Boulevard, grabbing complete strangers and daring them to guess what I was going to do over the weekend, all the while singing “Ding, Dong, The Witch is Dead!” - no, wait, that was when my wife left me - but the whole story had a feeling of unreality, alcohol-fueled mythomania, Aggravated Perjury 1 on the Eddie Izzard scale. So I waited, waiting to see if they would cancel just at the last minute, if the plane was going to fall, if each and everyone of the models were going to get both food poisoning and a severe acne attack at the same time, or if I were to develop a rabid and heretofore unknown to science allergy to sunlight (besides my usual vampire-like sensitivity to U.V. light).
The shoot wasn’t perfect - I had to deal with lighting issues, rechargeable batteries that wouldn’t behave, the lack of a make-up person and the presence of a TV producer that made me look bright-eyed and cheerful and probably thought I was a positive nuisance - but all the girls were professional, most were just plain gorgeous and quite a few were downright cool. I’d say it went extremely well overall.
Over a 1000 frames later, it’s still hard to believe I managed to pull this off.
ñomi, ñomi…
Dude, you’re blocking my view of the blondie.
Oh por Dios
The ugly duckling es cualquier vara, hehe. Kidding…well, kinda!