tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313069753393877260.post614523685118553484..comments2024-01-24T16:25:58.472+07:00Comments on Somtow's World: MortalityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313069753393877260.post-52244325224762884812007-11-25T16:33:00.000+07:002007-11-25T16:33:00.000+07:00I've been reading his hi5 everyday for the pass 1 ...I've been reading his hi5 everyday for the pass 1 month and 3 days. I really do miss him and i feel really guilty for not being able to know that this would happen and stop it. I live my life like it no longer has meaning and i do miss him so much eventhough i cant describe it. It does feel better that there's some evidence that he wasn't just a dream...<BR/>I don't know what to do and I know I shouldn't be telling a stranger about all this but i know u do know my storyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313069753393877260.post-34025086723345194092007-11-25T12:10:00.000+07:002007-11-25T12:10:00.000+07:00Dear K. AnonymousThank you so much for sharing thi...Dear K. Anonymous<BR/><BR/>Thank you so much for sharing this with me. I think that everyone who knew this young man even slightly, as I did, loved him and we are all mystified and hurt by what has happened. I was so upset I couldn't go to the funeral. I thought about him yesterday in rehearsal when I looked at the viola section and I half expected to see his face...Somtowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06975237665946439187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313069753393877260.post-24810226475766438132007-11-25T10:34:00.000+07:002007-11-25T10:34:00.000+07:00U can't be as bummed as I am. Apparently he didn't...U can't be as bummed as I am. Apparently he didn't only took away his life but half of mine...<BR/>He talk with me every night and say good night and good morning to me every single day for the past year.<BR/>And now it is back to only me...<BR/>I just wanted to tell you that I'm glad I'm not the only one who's missing him :)<BR/>Thank youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313069753393877260.post-39787606802692800222007-10-29T14:56:00.000+07:002007-10-29T14:56:00.000+07:00Brian, Who knows with these anonymous dudes. Mayb...Brian, <BR/><BR/>Who knows with these anonymous dudes. Maybe it' someone who knows me and has a grudge. Maybe it's the random garbage of the universe. It would be amusing if it were Anne Rice, but that would be far too novelistic to be true<BR/><BR/>SomtowSomtowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06975237665946439187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313069753393877260.post-89019781322194342422007-10-28T09:20:00.000+07:002007-10-28T09:20:00.000+07:00My condolences to his friends and family."...in a ...My condolences to his friends and family.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>"...in a trash heap at my trailer park"=troll, and I thought everyone knew Vampire Juction was first.<BR/><BR/>BrianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313069753393877260.post-58908693190404621222007-10-26T12:55:00.000+07:002007-10-26T12:55:00.000+07:00Dear Somtow,I am sorry to hear about your friend D...Dear Somtow,<BR/>I am sorry to hear about your friend Dichpong. Very sad indeed.<BR/><BR/>What a curious time for someone to send you such a snotty comment. I am sure that "brandon's" lips must have been exausted after reading both your book and Ann Rice's. Congratulations on your first hate mail though. I recently sang some concerts with Jennifer Larmore and she told me that when she was coming up through the ranks she had a hater/fan who actually followed her to all of her European engagements just to Boo her. She said she knew then that she had finally made it.<BR/>ToddAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313069753393877260.post-28304633809155812582007-10-26T01:29:00.000+07:002007-10-26T01:29:00.000+07:00What a blast of fresh air. Or maybe foul air. Pe...What a blast of fresh air. Or maybe foul air. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps I should correct one misperception though. The Anne Rice novel about the rock star vampire came out a year after mine. Many critics have pointed this out, even ones who didn't like my book.<BR/><BR/>You're perfectly right, though; the blog is a self-promotional tool. It must be starting to work now that strangers are sending hate mail :)Somtowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06975237665946439187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313069753393877260.post-69071619129905520602007-10-26T01:15:00.000+07:002007-10-26T01:15:00.000+07:00hi mr. somtowi found a copy of one of your books i...hi mr. somtow<BR/><BR/>i found a copy of one of your books in a trash heap at my trailer park. i like books about vampires so i picked it up. it was pretty good. vampire junction. the beginning sounded a little bit like that Anne Rice book, you know the Interview With A Vampire, but it didn't sound like it was copied exactly so i guess that's ok.<BR/><BR/>i was looking on the internet to see if you've written any more books and jeez, you've written scads of them and i hadn't even heard of you before. i wouldn't really buy any but if i see them at the thrift store or in the trash i'll read it.<BR/><BR/>i found your website too and found out that you are a conductor too. there's probably not too many people who can be a conductor and an author. i don't see how you could have time to do both. well, at least do both very well. you either have to be exceptionally gifted and talented person or at least a really talented self-promoter/bullshitter to get people to both sell your books and give you a job conducting.<BR/><BR/>i thought about that last part after i got to reading this blog i found from your official website. the part about your being good at self-promotion just came to me when i noticed all your dorky pictures by EVERY one of your posts. dude! get a clue. your picure on the upper left in your blog is tasteful and is what most people who have blogs do, but putting a creepy pic of yourself by every post? bad form.<BR/><BR/>and how did you choose to honor the young man who killed himself? you should have put a big picture of him up and left your creepy looking mug off.<BR/><BR/>think about it... if you were half as cool and talented as you promote yourself to be you'd be bigger than Michael Jackson!<BR/><BR/>on second thought i don't think i'd read any more of your books even if i found them in the trash. you seem too much like an insufferable dork who somehow manages to be ingratiating and a self-aggrandizing prick at the same time. that's a nice trick. i'm probably not the only one who thinks that since i see few other people bother to comment on your blog. well, except you.<BR/><BR/>i see you have your comments pre-moderated. that's a bit chicken-shit but it's good enough for me to know that you've read it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com