My confession of obsession with Eric James Niemi. I want to apologize to Eric. I met Eric James Niemi in 1997 at video production class at Riverside Community College in Riverside California. We became close friends fast and I was always impressed with how smart he was and how everybody liked him. He went on to make a documentary on surfing that aired on television. I thought he was going to give me a big position in the filmmaking process and was alittle disappointed when all he asked me to do was some second unit work. I was a little upset and this is when my obsession really started... We would always surf together but I felt he was pulling away from me and I became jealous of all the other people he was hanging around with. He would always return my phone calls but he became more distant when he took film classes at Fullerton. Then came his screenplay stuff with one of his scripts and then came other stuff and he fell into a bunch of other stuff too. I was very jealous of him and still am. I was so jealous that I took up an online personality and became him. Not really being him but I started posting to usenet in 1997 and haven't stopped since. I have posted under countless identities all swirling around Eric. Trying to hype Eric, trying to be Eric trying to become people who know Eric closer than I do now and even trying to hurt Eric. It has become a obsession that I am learning to deal with. I do apologize. I tried to get him UNDER me, so to speak, and conned him into shooting CRAZY MARY for me. [URL="http://www.moonsand.com"]www.moonsand.com[/URL] I wanted to direct something and I thought by having Eric shoot it I would somehow become Eric. The sad thing is I will probably lose him forever as a friend as he found out recently that I was posting on the newsgroups about him and pretending to be him. A lot of people think the internet is crap and don't believe everyhting on it. I hope Eric takes that into consideration... We started a film group in Southern California. Kinda like a screenwriting group but for video and film and Eric kept coming up with these cool ideas and even had a web site up for us members on Digital 8 stuff. I was jealous and started hyping it on the internet. I thought by doing that I was making it my own. I recently actually set up a web site with a bunch of pictures of Eric and stuff but I realized that I had gone to far and now I am trying to stop. I also have done a lot of other things I am not proud. The funny thing is I really think I can think like Eric. I think what I feel Eric is feeling and what Eric is feeling I am feeling too. I have had AOL since the mid 90's and I was always getting screennames like ericniemi ericjamesniemi and ejn111. I really had/have a problem. It was very easy for me to become a stalker on the internet and it was very easy for me to do a lot of things as I have computer skillz. Eric if you ever visit the newsgroups and see this I hope it makes up for all the hurt and defamation I may have o rmay not have brought to your name. Please forgive me Eric I am sorry. Your friend Diego
