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May 17, 2005

I'd like to go on the record as not quite believing this.

I'm not saying he's faking. I'm just saying I don't believe it.

The article's been updated since I first read it, and reluctantly admits he's not the virtuoso the popular press made him out to be, but that's really still not enough to assuage my suspicions.

Anonymous 20-something, found in a black suit and tie with the labels removed, who insists on playing the piano as often as possible and refuses to communicate with doctors and therapists? I'm not purposely taking the wood axe to anyone's sense of childlike wonder, here, but that's not how life works.

And the photograph isn't helping. He looks like he's auditioning for Sean Penn's part in I Am Sam. And knows it.

My hoax sense is tingling.

Posted by Spike at May 17, 2005 03:06 PM

Comments

Mine, too.

Posted by Lea at May 17, 2005 08:18 PM
67.11.143.251

He's already planning on selling the movie rights to his life story.

Posted by michaelpatrick at May 17, 2005 08:57 PM
63.164.145.85

Nah. If it was a real hoax he'd be better at the piano. Not to say he won't profit off it or anything....

Posted by Psychomelody at May 18, 2005 07:42 AM
68.101.20.36

So it's a fake hoax?

Posted by michaelpatrick at May 19, 2005 10:29 AM
151.204.65.158

LOL, the Sun Times today mentioned that a mime from Paris called the hotline and claimed to know him; said the kid was a street musician who worked with him. maybe he snapped after hanging out with one too many mimes...

Posted by London at May 19, 2005 11:56 PM
68.251.64.226

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