The Greatest City On Earth
Hi. Here are some things that have happened:
-my car (allegedly) caught fire when it broke down on my way to work and firemen came to assist. I didn't see flames though.
-I got fired from my job for being very late because my car (allegedly) caught fire.
-I got a new job working for ACS which is an outsourced call center for Sprint (together with Nextel)
-A lot of other things. They played my bands song on the radio. I guess I'm pretty famous.
I guess I'm pretty famous and here's why: I get to talk to famous people. Today, at work, I talked to none other than Darius Van Demark. Yes, of Hard Knock Productions. That Darius Van Demark!
Before I get into that, to leave you in suspense, let me give you a quick breakdown of what I do. I take calls for Sprint. Any sprint customers out there? I can get you free stuff. I have that much power. People usually call in because their bill is too high and they either can't pay it until friday when they get paid or to get adjustments made to the account. Sometimes they do other things like changing phone numbers, phones, address, their plan, etc. but mostly they just want something for free. And most of the time I don't know what I'm doing. But that's all boring and it depresses me to talk about my job too much.
So let's talk about famous people.
I talked to Darius Van Demark for over an hour. As I hear it from Mr. Demark, or maybe it's Mr. Van Demark, he is a big-shot very successful producer. It all started when he said he was in the music business. To try and be friendly and 'Wow!' the customer, as we were told to do in a meeting the night before, I acted as if I cared about his life and ventured to ask, "really? what is it that you do?" which was probably the reason my call lasted so long. He has produced such stars as Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Michael Bolton, and T.I. I was going to say something about how strange it seemed to mention Bolton along with those other cats but it was hard to get a word in.
We talked about how crazy the weather is and he theorized that the end of the world is approaching. Last week in Brooklyn it was 70 degrees and while I was on the phone with him it both started and then stopped snowing. He told me that he saw a man get hit by a train the other day. I was thinking trains like the ones I see in El Paso that go Choo-Choo and get held up by bandits on horses. Apparently, the man had a heart-attack and fell onto the tracks. That's when I realized he probably meant the subway train. Those New Yorkers! Now he only takes Taxis. He also told me never to move to New York.
Did you know that on New Years Eve and New Years Day 14 people died in brooklyn from either gunshot or stabbings? Huh!
Then we talked about how crooked cops in Mexico are. At least on the border cities. Once he was in Tijuana, or T.J. as I like to call it, and asked an officer how to get to San Diego. Then he started explaining to me that you need to head to San Diego first because it was between Los Angeles, L.A., and T.J. which I already knew but couldn't stop him from telling me. Well, the Policia had Darius Van Demark follow him and headed to a dark alley. They got out and said, "You know what time it is" and Darius checked his jewel-encrusted watch and said, "yeah, it's 10 O'clock" or whatever time he said. "No, you're being mugged."
Why would they say it like that? I don't know. What is stranger was his reply.
"What do you mean? I can't be getting mugged. I just came down here for a video shoot with T.I. ! I gotta come back down here tomorrow!" I am surprised they didn't let him go once he told them that! I wonder if he ever told anyone he had to take T.I. from L.A. to T.J. I hope they title the video 'T.I. in T.J."
He said they took Eighty Dollars from him which is not a lot. My friend Julio has had hundreds taken. I told him this hoping it would console him.
Then he talked about renting fast cars in L.A. and driving them at breakneck speeds down to the border. Not across the border, mind you! Just there and back. He listed strange and I'm guessing Italian cars that I have never heard of and I pretended I was typing.
He talked about Asian women and their love for American men and it made me want to move to Japan and stay at home and have someone work and worship me. It sounded pretty plausible they way he described it!
One thing that confused me was that with all this money and success("a hit single can bring in $300,000 quarterly") he was still pretty concerned about getting credits to his account. So I gave him $200 worth of credits, which is the max I'm allowed. He seemed very happy that I did this for him. I guess now he can afford to get his watch cleaned.
I'm not saying I think he was lying! He was a very nice and sometimes funny guy. Kind of a name dropper, whether it be Celebrities, Cars, or exotic locales, but still it didn't sound like he was lying. Now, if he was lying, I must give him credit for being the best liar I have heard. He earned those credits if he lied!
I also wonder because the only place on the internet where I could find "Darius Van Demark" was a site cached by Google where a comment was left by him. The email address he left confirms it is him as it is @sprintpcs.com. Also, I can't find his production company. But I will still have faith and believe in my heart that he was not lying. Because why would he mention Michael Bolton as a lie?
Another benefit of being a big star? You get to do radio interviews. It turns out we will probably be interviewed on the Q Connected February 11th. I bet they are going to have swag bags with expensive lotions and cruise tickets. Q-Connected is the program on the rock radio station KLAQ each Sunday when they play local music. Tune in! Maybe there is a webcast of it. Who knows really? What is knowledge anyways? and who are we to ask what knowledge is anyways anyways? I don't know about you, but I'm a big star. That's who I am to be asking what knowledge is!! Anyways, TTYL.
-my car (allegedly) caught fire when it broke down on my way to work and firemen came to assist. I didn't see flames though.
-I got fired from my job for being very late because my car (allegedly) caught fire.
-I got a new job working for ACS which is an outsourced call center for Sprint (together with Nextel)
-A lot of other things. They played my bands song on the radio. I guess I'm pretty famous.
I guess I'm pretty famous and here's why: I get to talk to famous people. Today, at work, I talked to none other than Darius Van Demark. Yes, of Hard Knock Productions. That Darius Van Demark!
Before I get into that, to leave you in suspense, let me give you a quick breakdown of what I do. I take calls for Sprint. Any sprint customers out there? I can get you free stuff. I have that much power. People usually call in because their bill is too high and they either can't pay it until friday when they get paid or to get adjustments made to the account. Sometimes they do other things like changing phone numbers, phones, address, their plan, etc. but mostly they just want something for free. And most of the time I don't know what I'm doing. But that's all boring and it depresses me to talk about my job too much.
So let's talk about famous people.
I talked to Darius Van Demark for over an hour. As I hear it from Mr. Demark, or maybe it's Mr. Van Demark, he is a big-shot very successful producer. It all started when he said he was in the music business. To try and be friendly and 'Wow!' the customer, as we were told to do in a meeting the night before, I acted as if I cared about his life and ventured to ask, "really? what is it that you do?" which was probably the reason my call lasted so long. He has produced such stars as Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Michael Bolton, and T.I. I was going to say something about how strange it seemed to mention Bolton along with those other cats but it was hard to get a word in.
We talked about how crazy the weather is and he theorized that the end of the world is approaching. Last week in Brooklyn it was 70 degrees and while I was on the phone with him it both started and then stopped snowing. He told me that he saw a man get hit by a train the other day. I was thinking trains like the ones I see in El Paso that go Choo-Choo and get held up by bandits on horses. Apparently, the man had a heart-attack and fell onto the tracks. That's when I realized he probably meant the subway train. Those New Yorkers! Now he only takes Taxis. He also told me never to move to New York.
Did you know that on New Years Eve and New Years Day 14 people died in brooklyn from either gunshot or stabbings? Huh!
Then we talked about how crooked cops in Mexico are. At least on the border cities. Once he was in Tijuana, or T.J. as I like to call it, and asked an officer how to get to San Diego. Then he started explaining to me that you need to head to San Diego first because it was between Los Angeles, L.A., and T.J. which I already knew but couldn't stop him from telling me. Well, the Policia had Darius Van Demark follow him and headed to a dark alley. They got out and said, "You know what time it is" and Darius checked his jewel-encrusted watch and said, "yeah, it's 10 O'clock" or whatever time he said. "No, you're being mugged."
Why would they say it like that? I don't know. What is stranger was his reply.
"What do you mean? I can't be getting mugged. I just came down here for a video shoot with T.I. ! I gotta come back down here tomorrow!" I am surprised they didn't let him go once he told them that! I wonder if he ever told anyone he had to take T.I. from L.A. to T.J. I hope they title the video 'T.I. in T.J."
He said they took Eighty Dollars from him which is not a lot. My friend Julio has had hundreds taken. I told him this hoping it would console him.
Then he talked about renting fast cars in L.A. and driving them at breakneck speeds down to the border. Not across the border, mind you! Just there and back. He listed strange and I'm guessing Italian cars that I have never heard of and I pretended I was typing.
He talked about Asian women and their love for American men and it made me want to move to Japan and stay at home and have someone work and worship me. It sounded pretty plausible they way he described it!
One thing that confused me was that with all this money and success("a hit single can bring in $300,000 quarterly") he was still pretty concerned about getting credits to his account. So I gave him $200 worth of credits, which is the max I'm allowed. He seemed very happy that I did this for him. I guess now he can afford to get his watch cleaned.
I'm not saying I think he was lying! He was a very nice and sometimes funny guy. Kind of a name dropper, whether it be Celebrities, Cars, or exotic locales, but still it didn't sound like he was lying. Now, if he was lying, I must give him credit for being the best liar I have heard. He earned those credits if he lied!
I also wonder because the only place on the internet where I could find "Darius Van Demark" was a site cached by Google where a comment was left by him. The email address he left confirms it is him as it is @sprintpcs.com. Also, I can't find his production company. But I will still have faith and believe in my heart that he was not lying. Because why would he mention Michael Bolton as a lie?
Another benefit of being a big star? You get to do radio interviews. It turns out we will probably be interviewed on the Q Connected February 11th. I bet they are going to have swag bags with expensive lotions and cruise tickets. Q-Connected is the program on the rock radio station KLAQ each Sunday when they play local music. Tune in! Maybe there is a webcast of it. Who knows really? What is knowledge anyways? and who are we to ask what knowledge is anyways anyways? I don't know about you, but I'm a big star. That's who I am to be asking what knowledge is!! Anyways, TTYL.