Hi everybody. Welcome to my blog where I talk about the past. I’m gonna dedicate this blog to my daughter cause she is awesome.
Now, I’m gonna tell you a story that I’ve told you before, but I love telling it. It’s kind of why I developed a bad-boy image.
When I moved back to New York from Paris, I was lucky enough to start working right away. One of my main clients, someone I worked for every month, was a very famous store based in New York City. I did everything for them from their holiday books to their newsprint advertising. They were a good client and a lot of fun. Anyway, I was in the location van downstairs from the creative department waiting to go out on a photo shoot. The creative director called me up to the advertising department to discuss the day’s shoot. After our meeting, the creative director handed me two envelopes. One was for the art director and one was for me. I ran downstairs because we were running late. I jumped into the location van and handed the art director her envelope. Well, the art director opened the envelop, looked at me, and said, “I don’t think I was supposed to see this.” It was my envelope. It was the art director’s surprise birthday party. It was my invitation. I felt like throwing up. Her birthday party was supposed to be a surprise.
Now, fast forward to the surprise birthday party. The creative director told all 150 people to hide and turned off all the lights. We were in a fancy loft down in soho. It was all decorated with balloons, etc. Well I felt like permanently hiding. The creative director said, “Now, when the art director opens the door, everyone yell ‘Surprise.’” Well, we did. When the art director came in we yelled “Surprise.” The art director should have been an actor cause she did good, and said, “Oh man, you guys got me,” and she winked at me. I thought I was gonna pass out. After a lot of tequila, I met up with the creative director, the art director and a bunch of friends. The creative director said, “I worked on organizing this for months. If anyone ever leaked this out, I would have killed them.” Funny, I never did work for them again, after that night.
I later spoke with the art director. She said she was thankful I revealed the surprise party to her. She hated surprise parties.
Next time, I’ll tell you about the time I surprised my girlfriend. In short, I came home early to surprise her. Well, to MY surprise, I found my next door neighbor in bed with her. I think I went to that movie Outland with Sean Connery starring in it. I think I watched that movie 4 times, crying the whole time. I cry every time I see Sean Connery.
Love, B. Nice