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tatehemlock — Kill The Poor 02

Published: 2008-12-03 12:10:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 2175; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 0
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Description What a strange night.

I tried and tried and tried to get some hooker on Apache to let me take some pics of her but she wouldn't have none of it. I even offered her $20. She was like, "Where?" I'm like, "You stand right where you are and I'll take it from my truck." You ain't coming near my fucking camera . Plus you smell. I pestered her and pestered her and asked her why are you even on the track? She started crying. She said her mom died this week and she lives with her Aunt who is a stripper at Les Girls and is her pimp. I said if you want off the streets I can give you the name of a youth minister at a church in Tempe. He can set you up with some food and a bed and help you get on your feet. Get off the fucking track. One of these guys is gonna pick you up and rape you or kill you or give you AIDS or worse. He's a cool dude and he used to be in the Manson Family but he'll get you off the street silly. But she finally told me to fuck off.


So then I hit the Circle K at Apache and the 101 and filled up and gave the homeless dude at the bus stop $5 to let me take his picture. So I shot a bunch of pics of him. While I was doing it this black guy and girl in a little car drove by me a couple times. The thought crossed my mind that maybe that this was actually that girl's pimp.


So when I left and pulled onto Apache they suddenly came up behind me and then alongside me and I slowed down so they slowed down and I looked at them and they were trying to say something, so I sped up and then they sped up. So I slammed my brakes right about where the post office is there and they shot past me and then slammed on their brakes too but then I slammed into first and came right on them, switched into second gear and started pushing their car down Apache so they tried to speed up and I slammed it into like third and spun their car completely around and took the fuck off. I turned right on McClintock, bolted past Irene's new digs and turned on the street where Four Peaks Brewery is, then I cut over to University and took it to Hardy and made my way home. Fuckers. I assume they saw my camera and all that jazz and were thinking they could rob me or whatever the fuck they were thinking. Maybe it was the girl's pimp. Don't know. I don't see any damage to my truck because it's a bit bigger than their little piece of shit. I hope I fucked their car up.


Anyway, I'm really into this shooting the homeless now. I want to shoot more. So far I have been threatened two or three times, I have been robbed once (just money though, whew!) and now I have gotten in a fucking car chase!!!!! Man what a rush.


And I have 6 days sobrierty and goddamn this bottle in front of me looks good. But I'm taking the meds again instead.
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Comments: 74

tatehemlock In reply to ??? [2009-01-14 11:41:36 +0000 UTC]

I did. Either that or I decided to stop being honest when I wrote and then it seemed meaningless to do so...

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MelodiousWriter In reply to tatehemlock [2009-01-15 13:02:21 +0000 UTC]

Right now I'm kind of like that, except that I just can't think of any lasting ideas for my story.

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tatehemlock In reply to MelodiousWriter [2009-01-20 11:19:54 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, story ideas anymore that I get just aren't enough to convince me to to put pen to paper...

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MelodiousWriter In reply to tatehemlock [2009-01-22 13:01:09 +0000 UTC]

Same here!!! like, i get some good ideas about short stories, but for actual lengthy novels, or novels in general, I can't seem to come up with something that seems good enough to me...*sigh*

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tatehemlock In reply to MelodiousWriter [2009-01-27 09:41:10 +0000 UTC]

However I always come up with ideas for movies that would be atrociously bad. It'd be fun to realize one someday!

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MelodiousWriter In reply to tatehemlock [2009-01-28 13:16:01 +0000 UTC]

Haha! Same here! Although, I don't want to be hunted down at my house...*awkward shuffling of feet* So, how's the weather!?!? *high pitched voice*

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tatehemlock In reply to MelodiousWriter [2009-05-01 20:12:21 +0000 UTC]

Today? It's HOT LOL

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MelodiousWriter In reply to tatehemlock [2009-05-04 12:54:29 +0000 UTC]

You can say that again, Florida is pretty durn annoying. It's either hot or cold. Period(.)

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tatehemlock In reply to MelodiousWriter [2009-05-12 00:45:17 +0000 UTC]

AZ is either warm or BLISTERING!

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MelodiousWriter In reply to tatehemlock [2009-05-13 20:59:54 +0000 UTC]

Haha! that sounds...toasty...

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tatehemlock In reply to MelodiousWriter [2009-05-15 07:47:11 +0000 UTC]

And toasty LOL

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st-thebeast In reply to ??? [2008-12-03 13:05:18 +0000 UTC]

Dude! a hell of a night you had there!!
Do try to be careful next time...

anyways- nice shot!

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tatehemlock In reply to st-thebeast [2008-12-05 10:16:17 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, it was kind of an eye opener LOL

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ksphoto In reply to ??? [2008-12-03 12:32:12 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, it funny. Everyone has a sad story about how they get into that situation, but most of the time that sad story is just a load of shit...

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tatehemlock In reply to ksphoto [2008-12-05 10:16:02 +0000 UTC]

I hear ya. Sometimes life just hands people a shitty hand though.

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ksphoto In reply to tatehemlock [2008-12-05 20:30:30 +0000 UTC]

So I've just been reading some of the other comments and I'm just curious how did you get off the drugs??

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tatehemlock In reply to ksphoto [2008-12-05 22:30:50 +0000 UTC]

I actually overdosed on speed 14 years ago and was dumped in front of the emergency room. Somehow I managed to not die and when I left the hospital I pretty much quit cold turkey. Sadly, some of my friends from that period were not so lucky. I decided to change my life and do things I love like write and draw and play music and take photos. Everything good that has ever happened to me in my life happened in the past 14 years.

Amusingly, prior to that I never drank alcohol. When I got sober I spent a lot of time going to punk rock shows and by that point I had lost interest in slam dancing and such and slowly found myself always hanging at the bar during shows. And casual drinking eventually became the new monkey on my back. The one that I have a serious hell time giving up.

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ksphoto In reply to tatehemlock [2008-12-06 15:32:02 +0000 UTC]

I'm not really addicted to anything.. I don't even like coffee...
But most of my friend did do anything and everything they could get..
I speciffically remember when a friend was badly on some of the Heroin substitutes, it was always "oh, I have to go to the toilet to wash my hands", which then took a few hours.. Looking back I really was wasting my time with them.
Just the worst was ones we where going to go to a club I was driving and seriously he looked dead.. It was really freaky both eyes where looking in different directions... So I said I really should just take to the hospital. Then he started moving and mumbled "I'm perfectly Ok, we said where going to a club".. I really knew that he pretty much in his own world and no way way he was going to get in to a club especially looking almost dead. And what if he did die? oh all the problems I would have had especially from his family.. and way long story short I took him to an other friend where he stayed for a while before I took him home. Apperently he had a heart attack the next day, but he made it to hospital. After I'm glad,(from what I know) it didn't get as worse as that. But I'm still kind of pissed off because I've never done drug but all the time and money I've wasted and all the lies I got on just about everything.

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tatehemlock In reply to ksphoto [2008-12-07 10:27:39 +0000 UTC]

Yeah my only regret in life is pretty much having let myself get addicted to certain drugs. I don't regret having tried them. I just wish I'd stopped there. Lot of people in my past aren't here now so I'm glad to have escaped. It pisses me off to see people I know now using harder drugs. I mean, get stoned if you must but fuck coke, heroin, speed and any of that shit.

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UrbanRural-Photo In reply to ??? [2008-12-03 12:20:34 +0000 UTC]

Wow, I just don't see how you are ever bored. I like this capture. The grain and the framing just sinks it teeth right into you.

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tatehemlock In reply to UrbanRural-Photo [2008-12-05 10:15:41 +0000 UTC]

LOL I wish I didn't get bored. I guess everyone gets bored though. Even surrounded by weirdness!

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UrbanRural-Photo In reply to tatehemlock [2008-12-05 20:13:53 +0000 UTC]

I know that all to well.

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tatehemlock In reply to UrbanRural-Photo [2008-12-05 22:31:45 +0000 UTC]

Being a photographer is definitely weird. In a good way mostly LOL

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