Party On Garth…, by Michael Davis – Straight No Chaser #118

May 22, 2009 Michael Davis 0 Comments

Every year I give a party at Comic Con International. Sometimes it’s a big party like last year’s hosted by Ludacris or sometimes it’s a smaller party, like dinner for around 70 of my closest friends.

Yeah, my parties are pretty cool and if I can pull it off THIS year’s party will be THE BOMB!

I’m not kidding; this year will be the hottest party I’ve ever thrown and if you have been to any of my parties you know that’s saying something. That’s IF I can pull it off. I’m dealing with an A-list venue (place) and a superstar celebrity for my host and whenever you deal at that level you deal with a LOT of people.

I’m REAL good at dealing with people but horrible with regards to things I DON’T have to do. In other words if I have to deal with you on a business deal I have almost unlimited patience (if you’re not an asshole) but man; if whatever I’m doing is just not that important to me…I’m out!

That’s why I have Tatiana running my special projects and James running (don’t get a big head James) my studio. Let them deal with the nuts and little details that make me crazy. I can’t tell you how good it is to have good people around you. Good people that I have trained or I am training.

Not to say that Tatiana and James don’t have their own God given (like that James?) talents, they do. Both have a tremendous amount of talent and drive without little MOTU telling them what to do. In fact both Tatiana and James have brought to me things that I (GASP!) was not aware of.

Above all, you know what Tatiana and James have and had way before they met me?

Common sense.

And that is what brings me back to my parties and Comic Con. What the fish is the problem with some comic book professionals? Every year around this time or worse even closer to Comic Con I get a zillion people looking for invitations to my party or to be represented on The Black Panel.

Really?

I mean really?

Who does that? Who spends a year wanting nothing to do with me then makes a bid to party with me like it’s 1999 and they are my best friend?

Who does that?

Mike Gold and I lost touch for a number of years but Mike Gold is a dear friend who could leave the planet for 20 years and call me when he returns and it will be like we talked yesterday. When Mike and I reconnected a few years ago at Comic Con I jumped around like I was 5 and it was Christmas. Mike was cool but inside I know he was jumping around like a little girl. Hell, if I can jump around like I was 5 Mike can jump around like a girl in his mind when I describe it!

Here’s another thing, if Mike called me and said “Hey I want to bring someone you have never met to your party.” It would be OK.

Hell if Mike said; “Hey I want to bring someone who just got out of jail to your party.” It would STILL be OK.

Why? Because Mike is a friend and I TRUST him. Mike and I go back 20 (since I was 1) years. Who, I repeat WHO is so stupid that they think they can see me at a restaurant in San Diego wave ‘hi’ then think they can ask me for 20 invites for my party?

I bring this up because I just got an email from a guy who thinks I’m a fraud that’s HIS words as related to me by four good friends of mine. His email asks me for 20 invites to my party.

Who is that stupid?

This shit is so funny to me.

Should I FORGET this guy hates my guts? Is he not aware that I’M aware that he talks shit about me?

This is why I have Tatiana, she can tell him…”no.”

If I told him it would not be pretty, trust me. He is NOT the only one who’s hitting me up for access this year at Comic Con who I never hear from. There are many people who I never hear from until it’s time for a hand out.

I’m told that there are more than a few collage students who visit this site, well this following little bit of advise is for you and anyone else who needs a lesson in common sense.

In Hollywood there is ALWAYS a massive turn over with regards to people in power. So one day you could be running Sony Pictures and the next day you could be looking for work.

Here’s what I learned when I was a underage teenager getting into the hottest clubs in New York City, you know those doorman who let you pass that velvet rope? Well 100 times out of 100 times when they are fired or quit they (wait for it) END UP SOMEWHERE ELSE! D U H !

The same thing applies to Hollywood playas or any industry where the talent pool is limited, that butt of your joke when he or she gets canned will most likely end up somewhere else. Here’s what I do, the moment I hear that someone I know has been fired I reach out to them and offer them support during their transition. Except for a highly placed executive at DC who I did this with all other have remembered my overture and it’s been good.

Hear that Dan?

So if there is something that you want, plan ahead so as not to make it look so obvious and YOU look so sad when Tatiana says; ‘no.’

I’ve never met Vinnie Barillucci or Russ Rogers but we have a relationship via MDW and if they were at Comic Con I would be honored to have these guys as a guest at my party. Hell even ‘Better Red than Dead’ would be welcome. I don’t always agree with everything those guys write but there is a mutual respect there.

Respect . That’s what’s missing from those people who just don’t get it.

As Sean Connery says in The Untouchable, “Thus ends the lesson.”

Untouchables, get it?

No?

Well Tatiana will explain it to you.