Believe it or not, I'm a complete catch
I can't personally vouch that this is 100% real, but even if this is a hoax, it is still some damn brilliant comedy.
From the email that's circulating around:
One of my friends from work was out one night hanging outside of a bar trying to find a cab. Olga ends up meeting this guy Dmitri and they talk for maybe 2 minutes. She hands him her business card and says call me. These are the voicemails he left her.
Update: Maybe it's real, maybe it isn't. Could it be confusing performance art?
Update: According to the Toronto Sun, he is real. But is Dimitri a modern day Eric Weber, or is the Sun being punked? I don't trust the media any more than the internet regarding these things, especially when they rely on YouTube clips.
Update: The Eye got hit on by Dimitri as well, and gets some more of his story. Misogynist rants are the norm.
Keep the comments coming. I want to get to the bottom of this!
Not a hoax, really.... More like Kaufman-esque performance art:
http://www.dimitrithelover.com/
It is pretty classically hilarious, though.
Posted by: Eric B. | August 07, 2008 at 01:46 PM
That makes it even better. Hooray for confusing performance art comedy!!
Posted by: Clinton McClung | August 07, 2008 at 01:52 PM
This is neither a hoax nor performance art. This is an actual voicemail received by a woman in the Toronto area by a man whose real name is James Sears, and his story is quite disturbing.
http://www.torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2008/04/13/5272201-sun.html
Posted by: phillyradiogeek | August 07, 2008 at 01:57 PM
Seduce and destroy.
Posted by: crees | August 07, 2008 at 02:34 PM
Not "performance art." At least, not intentional "performance art." Just the basic tenets of the "seduction community" taken to their illogical extreme.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_community
Think of Sears as Neil Strauss, minus shrewdness and "subcommunication" and plus a massive superiority complex.
Posted by: Two-What | August 07, 2008 at 03:20 PM
The best, is that the (feminist bashing) image index for his site is available here:
http://www.dimitrithelover.com/animation/
Posted by: Jessica | August 07, 2008 at 03:41 PM
here is another article
http://www.eyeweekly.com/city/features/article/22843
Posted by: g-g | August 07, 2008 at 05:54 PM
Wow, yeah, that's one of the creepiest/funniest things I've ever heard.
I've added the Ataraxia (a/k/a Mort Garson) piece, "Tarot," from the album 'The Unexplained' (1975) as backing:
http://rapidshare.com/files/135675240/Let_The_Romance_Begin.mp3.html
Posted by: Bart | August 07, 2008 at 07:14 PM
I could see where a restraining order or two might be necessary with this cat. Also, the business of asserting just how 'normal' he is makes him sound like a Greek Ed Geins. WTF?
Posted by: K | August 08, 2008 at 03:15 AM