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Re: The Ballad Of Jackie Bejan
Posted by beezelbub (Guest) - Friday, July 15 2005, 0:38:36 (CEST)
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Maggie wrote:
>This is too outrageous for words. What a horrible, horrible woman!
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>Can you imagine how many lies, contradictions, and false statements there are just in these few paragraphs of hers? I can write a book!
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>Now you understand what I wrote the other day. I would rather slice my wrists than to deal with Assyrians, and ask them for money for ART. They don't understand the meaning of it, much less the value. So what kind of a starting point would you even have in dealing with these people?

...I know...I KNOW!!! But I remember what my mother said to me way back on a day when I was sating these same things...back in 1978 when I'd come out from New York for the summer and brought my first piece of Assyrian art I'd copied from the Met...she said all you say about them is true...but so long as "bright" Assyrians like you think you are running after Europeans...what do you expect if you leave these people in charge? I had to admit she was right. That was the first time I went to a convention..it was in Los Angeles and I gritted my teeth and I HATED displaying myself and these pieces but what could I do? Always listen to your mother.

..it isn't easy to rescue this Heritage from what these slimeballs have done with it...but who ran out of Assyria and left them in charge? Who abandoned that magnificent structure and allowed the servants to come up from the basement and trash the place? Who WANTED to be Westernized and melted in a pot?

...I did it for the ones not born yet...I never had a single image before me growing up of something to be proud of, except dusty artifacts of what USED to be...and that just isn't good enough.

...I do it for those two lovely Assyrian girls I can still see standing before the Shumirum monument the year we took the entire plaster statues to Chicago to unveil as a preview...there were crowds and noise and cameras rolling and excited applause and people lining up to take photos in front of our queen...and there were two little girls somewhere between 7 and 10...holding hands...gazing up at the queen towering above them...their eyes were sparkling and one of them asked me..."who IS she"?

She was our queen, I told them...and she was a little girl once.

I'll never forget the rapt look on their faces. It's for them..it sure as hell isn't for Nimrod or Bejan or 500 grairs.
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>Man, I have to hand it to you! Really. I couldn't last for more than a minute, much less years of this. I'm too fragile. It takes a BIG person who has lived a BIG life, to deal with the likes of them.

...except they're small. Where they hurt me was where they ruined me financially as far as my family is concerned..that was tough. jackie called around and trold people they were betraying Assyria and P.S. would piss her off, if they "supported" me. The last three years, finally after years of struggle I'd managed to average ninety grand a year selling sculpture as free-lance to ASSYRIANS! I'd built the kind of trust that three Assyrians paid in full for the maquette of Hammurabi before I even knew what it would like..you'd think these people would be eager to let our young people know it was possible...but they were pissed instead...the same year Jackie sued me my income dropped to near zero...I would NEVER attack someone I had a personal disagreement with at their JOB...no matter how angry I was at jackie I wouldn't have dreamed of calling her suppliers or customers and telling them I knew the "truth" about Jackie...that next Christmas my three children had to do without a lot..but Jackie's children had all their presents...my daughter even had to withstand seeing her own horse ridden by strangers who rented him...in hopes of making the fledgling business owrk...i was forced to cut my prices in half and managed to sell to people who knew a good deal when they saw one.

Jackie reached out and hit me at my ability to feed my children...never mind the twenty year effort. people say I am bitter...bull. It was in the cards...I knew it was...everyone warned me that it was..the more successful the more grairs would see shit where the nation saw beautiful art...they're built like that...shit all the through...it just spills out sometimes.

But I'll have the last laugh...she already got a good taste of what can happen when someone speaks openly and fearlessly, regardless of her law suits and attempts to shut people up...I told her, there is no such thing as bad publicity for an artist...none. There are projects I put off for years while I concentrated on Assyrian art..and after this last Assyrian piece..I'll get to them...there are other ways of promoting this Heritage than aiming at Assyrians...but even there, thanks to all of this I've found new and younger Assyrians who understand perfectly...and I WILL sell again!
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>You can't call someone a Charlatan unless you are one, deep down in your soul.
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>Assyrians want everything for free. Free reign, free-hand, free ride, free slander. And if you open your mouth to ask who's going to pay for this, you are a bum, a con-artist, a scoundrel, and paranoid. And when they are ready to pay, they think they own you, too.
..what pissed Jackie off especially is that she has to PAY to be a leader...Lincoln said that to her once while we sat having tea at their home...he told jackie that the only reason the people hang on her every word is for her MONEY...how she hated that. What pissed them all off, especially John, who also has to pay...and Jackie...is that people pay ME! That's what they couldn't forgive.
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>No wonder all our dead Assyrian artists became schizophrenic in the end! Our people drive them to it.

..not this one...not this one. This is a long overdue house-cleaning..no more will these shysters get a free ride to the top of this heap they've made of Assyria...at least they know...like my cousin Robert DeKelaita, a Nimrod in training..that someone is watching who'll dice and slice them up if they make a false move..and since all their moves are false...they'll watch it...I burned them far more than they burned me...i can recover..there's no place where Jackie can go where she isn't wondering who there read all about her sexual fixation and behavior. It's their own deeds come back to haunt them where they always got away with it before that pisses them off and makes think I am out to "get" them...I'm out to stop them from getting US!

Even eden naby, bless her heart, is being sued by Norman Solka, a putz supreme, because she wrote to the Assyriologists, world famous ones, apologizing for the way Norman Solkha got up before them and told them all they didn't appreciate HIM and his efforts to buy their approval...a letter which he says contains slanderous material..which just means she spoke the TRUTH and HE is the slander...and he's suing Eden for the same two million..a popular figure in Assria...but he'll drop his as well.
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>I take my hat off to you. Chapaue!
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>Please let me write a book about you, before you become schizophrenic, or die. I don't want to pay tribute to you AFTER YOUR DEATH. That seems too Assyrian!!!

..no tributes...that places people on pedestals and excuses others from doing their share. It's very simple...we only have to confront these plaster saints to rid ourselves of them..that's half of it...the other part is that we have to DO something ourselves worthy of distinction..and we can..but the two go together..if we don't rid ourselves of the rotten foundations, everything we build on top of it will collpase...that's why we have to resist their seemingly sincere calls to have the "youth" come "help them" and "get involved"..they know what they're doing...they mean bring your enthusiasm and your idealism and let us CRAP all over you and break your hearts!!! These calls for youth excellence are nothing more than the lure they use to kill such possibilities...for the long run. The whole thing is a mediocrity working overtime to make sure it STAYS that way.

move over!!!



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