"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."

THE LAST WEEKEND...

Yes. Yes. No Harry but hurry: this is the Last Weekend for you to order your Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough. The Pink Pig Project is near completion: it's the end of it all. The end of an epic odyssey and there's no oracle which let you know how it's gonna be. I can only tell you, being the one who started and ended all this, that this unique work will have the deserved ending. Pink Pig was a work of Love and a lesson on Epic, Belief and Honesty. With some inspiration here and there. If you have one of the Concise Pink Pig Atlas: The Whole Cure in the Mirror you should add to that artifact the Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough. If not, you won't have anything at all. There's no other chance to understand the whole thing; and I'm sorry: I did my best.

This is the very last time I get in touch with you Pinkpiggers: April the 12th Pink Pig Update will reach Robert's hands and I will ship all the Updates pre-ordered by you on April the 15th. And that's it. The Project's final stop. The journey was long enough.

If you want one, let me know.

Thank you.

Germán Alfredo Bordagaray (RIP May 20th, 2013, 11:15 PM)

ONLY TWO WEEKS TO BUY YOUR SET!

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Hello Everybody!


This is a reminder: you have just two weeks more to pre-order your Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough and/or to buy one of the original Concise Pink Pig Atlas: The Whole Cure in the Mirror. Once March 31st passed it will be too late... Do not miss it: the thing will surprise you all as much as the orginal Atlas did, believe me... So...

1)      If you want to pre-order your copy of Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough you have to send u$s 60 (if you want it to be shipped to you by Registered Air Mail) or u$s 50 (in case you want it to be sent via Standard Air Mail –no tracking number provided-) to the paypal account which e-mail address is g_erman@yahoo.com

Once you do it you will receive an e-mail from us as a proof of your payment. We will ask you for the postal address where you want to receive your Set.  All Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough sets will be shipped to everyone who pre-ordered them on Monday April 15^th 2013, once Robert and the band have had received theirs on April the 12^th in Buenos Aires.

2)      If you want to pre-order your copy of the Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough AND one of the remaining original Concise Pink Pig Atlas: The Whole Cure in the Mirror, you have to send u$s 170 (if you want them to be shipped to you by Registered Air Mail) or u$s 160 (if you want them to be sent via Standard Air Mail –no tracking number provided-) to the paypal account which e-mail address is g_erman@yahoo.com

Once you do it you will receive an e-mail from us as a proof of your payment. We will ask you for the postal address where you want to receive your Sets (the Update and the Atlas). Then we will ship to you the Atlas immediately (and provide you with the tracking number whenever you choose for the Registered Air Mail option). Besides this, all Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough sets will be shipped to everyone who pre-ordered them on Monday April 15^th 2013, once Robert and the band have had received theirs on April the 12^th in Buenos Aires.

3)      If you want to buy one of the remaining original Concise Pink Pig Atlas: The Whole Cure in the Mirror only, you have to send u$s 130 (if you want it to be shipped to you by Registered Air Mail) or u$s 120 (if you want it to be sent via Standard Air Mail –no tracking number provided-) to the paypal account which e-mail address is g_erman@yahoo.com

Your Atlas will be shipped to you immediately and we will provide you with the tracking number of the parcel whenever you’ve chosen for the Registered Air Mail option.

Hurry!!!

Best.

Germán.

PRE-ORDERS FOR THE UPDATE STARTED

 

Here’s a detail on how to make your pre-orders:

1)      If you want to pre-order your copy of Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough you have to send u$s 60 (if you want it to be shipped to you by Registered Air Mail) or u$s 50 (in case you want it to be sent via Standard Air Mail –no tracking number provided-) to the paypal account which e-mail address is g_erman@yahoo.com

Once you do it you will receive an e-mail from us as a proof of your payment. We will ask you for the postal address where you want to receive your Set.  All Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough sets will be shipped to everyone who pre-ordered them on Monday April 15^th 2013, once Robert and the band have had received theirs on April the 12^th in Buenos Aires.

All pre-orders for the Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough and its paypal payments should be done before March 31^st 2013 as we will not accept orders after that deadline: we will press the exact number of pre-ordered sets. When the number of sets pre-ordered get to 480 we will close the pre-order process as a maximum of 500 numbered sets will be made (remember 20 copies are being reserved for present and past band members plus a few collaborators of Pink Pig, that made a total of 500)

Pink Pig is a non-profit collective that needs to receive pre-orders and payments before going into pressing and manufacturing as there’s nobody financing this. In the first era, when it was Concise Pink Pig Atlas: The Whole Cure in the Mirror, we did not require a previous payment and it all ended in an economic disaster: maaaany thousands of dollars were lost from my lifelong savings. I need to avoid the repetition of that experience. Hope you understand.

So, do not fall asleep and pre-order your set now!

2)      If you want to pre-order your copy of the Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough AND one of the remaining original Concise Pink Pig Atlas: The Whole Cure in the Mirror, you have to send u$s 170 (if you want them to be shipped to you by Registered Air Mail) or u$s 160 (if you want them to be sent via Standard Air Mail –no tracking number provided-) to the paypal account which e-mail address is g_erman@yahoo.com

Once you do it you will receive an e-mail from us as a proof of your payment. We will ask you for the postal address where you want to receive your Sets (the Update and the Atlas). Then we will ship to you the Atlas immediately (and provide you with the tracking number whenever you choose for the Registered Air Mail option). Besides this, all Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough sets will be shipped to everyone who pre-ordered them on Monday April 15^th 2013, once Robert and the band have had received theirs on April the 12^th in Buenos Aires.

3)      If you want to buy one of the remaining original Concise Pink Pig Atlas: The Whole Cure in the Mirror only, you have to send u$s 130 (if you want it to be shipped to you by Registered Air Mail) or u$s 120 (if you want it to be sent via Standard Air Mail –no tracking number provided-) to the paypal account which e-mail address is g_erman@yahoo.com

Your Atlas will be shipped to you immediately and we will provide you with the tracking number of the parcel whenever you’ve chosen for the Registered Air Mail option.

Thank you very much for your support. And remember that March 31^st 2013 will be the last day for pre-ordering your set. Or it may be earlier than that, whenever the pre-orders reach the number 480.

PRE-ORDER YOUR PINK PIG UPDATE: THE ROPE IS LONG ENOUGH

Dear Pinkpiggers:


The design of the Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough has been decided so we are now sure of how much it will cost. In order to have more time and make everybody knows Pink Pig Update is being released and available to order, we will start the pre-order process a month before we have planned some weeks ago. It will be better for us all.

If you want to get one of the Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough sets you have to pre-order it from February 1st to March 31st 2013. If you do not pre-order and make your payment before the end of March you will miss the chance to get one of the sets forever as we will go into press and manufacturing on monday April the 1st and we will press just the exact number of sets pre-ordered (plus the ones for Robert, Porl and band members). If the pre-orders reach the number of 480 we will stop there and close the pre-orders. There will be a maximum of 500 numbered sets of the Update just as there are 500 numbered Atlases (and we'll stop the pre-order at 480 -hopefully- because the other 20 sets are the ones to be sent to band members and a few other collaborators)

Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough will be released on April the 20th, 2013 and that date will be printed in the book. We hope to give Robert his 001 copy on his 54th birthday, the next day of our release date (in person in case they are touring South America as rumoured or simply sending it to him by postal mail with an "April 20th" on the post mark as 21st -his birthday- is Sunday and Post Office and God do not work on sundays). Then, on Monday April 22nd we will be shipping the Update to all the people who pre-order them.

So, what to do to get your set? Read carefully:

1) Pre-orders are being taken from Friday February 1st 'till Sunday March 31st 2013. No orders will be accepted after this deadline.

2)  You can pre-order your set of the Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough e-mailing to g_erman@yahoo.com A reply will be sent to you with details of the payment (which will be accepted through paypal) and delivery of your Update set.

3) The cost of the Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough set is u$s 35. Cost of packing and postage to anywhere in the world is: u$s 15 by Standard Air Mail or u$s 25 by Registered Air Mail (in this case you will get the tracking number of your parcel on April 22nd, when all sets will be shipped)

4) You don't need to be the owner of one of the Pink Pig Atlas: The Whole Cure in the Mirror to order and buy one of the Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough sets. But in case you do not have one of the wonderful original Pink Pig Atlases you have here your last chance to get one of the very same numbered sets that made Robert so happy. You can buy one of the remaining Pink Pig Atlases when ordering your Update at a very special price getting a u$s 30 discount from the total amount. Remember that buying one of the original Pink Pig Atlases you are helping this non-profit collective to finish the project in the best way. So, if you want to buy a Pink Pig Atlas: The Whole Cure in the Mirror when ordering your Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough and get the special discount, e-mail me at g_erman@yahoo.com and you will receive full details. 

Meanwhile, in the Batcave, we are working hard on everything to complete and finish this extraordinary project known as Pink Pig.

Love + Light.

Germán.

PINK PIG UPDATE RELEASE DATE!

Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough has its release date: April 20th 2013

Yes, we celebrate the Earth Day releasing the long awaited and delayed Pink Pig Update. So, here we go with some important information:

1) As the printing and pressing deadline is April the 3rd all the information on your recordings you want to change must be done before Sunday March 31st.

 2) In case you want to change the mix of your recording or the recording itself you have to deliver the new one before Friday 22nd of March as we go into mastering on the 23rd

3) The Cost of the Pink Pig Update: The Rope is Long Enough will be of U$S 35

4) Pre-orders will be taken from March the 1st until the 29th of the same month (more details to be announced on February)

5) If you are the owner of one of the precious Concise Pink Pig Atlas: The Whole Cure in the Mirror please tell us your Atlas number when pre-ordering the Update.

6) In case you do not have one you still can order one of the very original thing, the same Robert, Porl and the guys have. Simply e-mail me germanbordagaray@yahoo.com.ar and you will receive instructions on how to get one of the remaining Atlases.

7) In case you are Robert and are reading this, please get in touch if you wanna know/ask/suggest/send anything: the address of yours I have seems to be closed and I have no way to contact you.

Remember I still have those unpaid/unclaimed copes of the Concise Pink Pig Atlas: The Whole Cure in the Mirror. Order one if you do not have it, it is the original thing, the only one. Buying one of those you will be helping me to finish the whole process which is clearly a non-profit work of love. Get your Atlas before the Update!

Almost there…

Germán.

ABOUT PINK PIG UPDATE: THE ROPE IS LONG ENOUGH COST

Hello again!

I thought it would be good to give an estimation of how much the Update set will cost as I do not want you to think it will have a cost similar to the remaining original Pink Pig Atlas: The Whole Cure in the Mirror sets.

The estimated cost of each Update set is between 30 and 35 us dollars, no more than that. So, if you do not have one of the original Pink Pig Atlas, don't miss the chance to buy one of the remaining sets (read the previous post to know about it all). And get ready for the update in May 2013.

Keep carving that piece!

Best wishes!

Germán.

OH GOD... FINALLY THERE...

Hello to all surviving pinkpiggers!

Still someone out there?

Blame on me (for the bad things and also for the good ones), but it was no easy. It seems that you can get into a relapse once you thought you were cured. But, as we all know, you never get cured enough.

I won't enter in personal details for the good of all of us. I could not take care of the Pink Pig Update anymore as life put me in a situation were priorities changed dramatically. But I'm still here: if things turn hard you gotta be double hard.

Alright. On last September I decided to work on the finishing of the remaining songs out of the usual procedures: I contacted everybody who was writing to get involved in the project along this almost three year abscence (of mine) and get everything done. I wanted to be sure this time everything would be ready once I raised piggy's voice again.

You know... On the original project nobody believed it could be possible and it was done, with dignity and more. So people started to believe. I deserved that. But life is a labyrinth and you can get lost easily. And then loose the belief you built with your work. I understand most of those who know what Pink Pig is may have lost their faith, even their interest in the project. But I have a compromise with myself to get this finished as the idea and the old work deserve. And I'm here for doing so, finally.

All songs are reserved, 90% recorded, 80% delivered (details at the bottom of this post). Almost everybody involved in the new phase is updated. I am getting back in touch with the other few ones over the next couple of days. We have to check the recordings info for the new pages of the set. A pre-mastering work is being done, final mastering will take place in February. March we go into print and manufacturing. May will be time for delivering the sets.

A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY AND HOW I AM FINANCING THIS NEW -AND FINAL- PHASE

When Flor (who was a volunteer deserter, more life and people reaction and water under the bridge) and I gave the original Pink Pig Atlases to the Dream Tour line-up there was something that I have never forgotten. Because it was not a very happy intervention. When I gave Perry his set, he looked into my eyes and asked: "where did you get the money for this?" You know, you can ask this with no malice at all, but I felt really uncomfortable at that time. I felt the question had a hidden intention, a not very innocent one. A few hours before we were mistreated by Daryl Bamonte and I intuitively linked that with Perry's interest in knowing about money matters. You are receiving a flattering present from the fans of "your" band, a present with no precedent in history of rock and pop, a good idea materialized in a high standard, and you just ask the guy who was working the hell out of him for a whole year about the money... My answer was the pure truth: "I used my lifelong savings". Pure truth. Only the enthusiasm of a child could have the enough force to put an idea like Pink Pig into the real world. I did not care about anything beyond doing it. I put all my money there, and I am not a millionaire. And I wasn't. And probably I will never be one (unfortunately: I never cared enough about money). I put many thousandos of dollars, all what I had. Everything. I did not care. And that was the most uninteresting and less valuable thing of all what I put into the project. Understand, Perry?

I made an estimation of the strict cost of manufacturing it all and I did it as if I was one who was going to buy it, not the one working his head and health out for making it happen. I wanted it the cheapest (with the highest quality). I did not want a single person thinking that I was doing that with a profit purpose. Chris White contacted me via e-mail the next day the project was launched telling me that, naturally, on the Cure quarters were asking themselves what was there and who could be behind that mad project. Chris knew my name for long as I was subscribed to the Cure Information Service since the late eighties. Porl (this beautiful guy and soul who saved my life once in 1992 without having a clue that he was doin' so) also knew who I was. So I guess they let us go on. Brilliant.

Anyway... Back to Perry unhappy moment... And to my estimation of the cost. I cannot remember now (anyone out there could help my memory) but I guess cost was named 43 or 47 us dollars. I never counted my work nor my time as part of the cost. And I miscalculated the material, printing, mastering, manufacturing, etc. That was evident. For God's sake: a handmade/assembled book with 14 CDs (pressed CDs in full colour pictures disc, no CD-Rs, no shit at all) for that price. I am sure I was wrong now! Anyway, the procedure was: you pre-order your set so we know how many to press. 480 sets were pre-ordered so we decided it will be a numbered 500 luxury edition. Very few people sent their money when pre-order the set. Most of them just waited until de thing was done. And the thing was done with all my savings. And in perfect time. And beautifully. The most lovely compliment I received was from Porl who e-mailed me once he received his set at home (boxed as Robert's: Porl was the emotional inspiration of it all, and Robert is the mastermind known as The Cure)

As any grown man could have predicted, a good part of the people who pre-ordered the thing never sent their money. They simply melt away. But the project was being done by an infant. So, 100 sets were there (and are still here), "un-sold", abandonned by the people who said they wanted it. I could not believe this fact: more than 500 people got involved into the recording of the 204 songs. But only 400 truly wanted to get the thing. And the price was not an explanation to this nor an excuse for the deserters. Anyway: I still have those 100 at home, in boxes, silent witnesses of my erratic life, rambling years.

And now is Update time, the promise to myself, here and now. The book was written, the info on the recordings is being checked and pages are being designed as well as the prints on the discs. Work is advanced beyond the point of no return. And now it's time to have some money to make it real. I have a few savings to do so, but I've lost my innocence. The world (and some people "working" there) is always making efforts to make you loose your innocence. I'm in my fourties and I could manage to keep my innocence. In fact I do in many aspects of life. But not in things related to Pink Pig. Sorry, not me the one to blame for that. Not Robert, not Simon, not Jason. Not Porl!

So I told myself: let's offer to those interested out there the 100 remaining original Pink Pig Atlases. They pay for them through paypal, then they get them by registered post quickly and I get the money to pay for the Update. Yes, at the end of it I will be making it happen with my money once again, but not with "fresh" one: I rescue the lost money of the unwanted Atlases (is Atlases right as a plural for Atlas or I should write "Atlas"?) and I put it on the pressing of the Update. The Rope is Long Enough, anyway. And a note: I am not moaning about putting my money, I am being strictly descripting, I am telling it like it was. The mad idea was mine and I am the one who has to make it happen as I did and as I do. That was simply a little bit of chatarsis. Sorry.

So, this is it: postage for the 14 CD Atlas Book (by registered air mail) is 30 us dollars for a set. And the cost of each set is 100. Consider the following: 12 years have passed, I originally put a lower cost to the real one then, paypal make me a considerable discount as comission for each payment you will be making and I need a determined amount of money to be able to make the Update real. I think is fair. For everyone. So, if you are interested in having one of the Original Pink Pig Atlas, that wonderful and luxurious 14 CD set, you just have to e-mail me to g_erman@yahoo.com or to germanbordagaray@yahoo.com.ar and let me know you want one. Then I will give you the paypal address where to make the total payment of 130 us dollars (registered air mail included), give me your full postal address and then I will be shipping it to you immediately (providing the tracking number of the parcel to you, so it cannot get lost).