David M. (June 21)

THIS IS GONNA BE A MULTI-PART ENTRY YAYYYYYY!!!

David is something of a music producer. He has a studio in Jersey City and records mostly young talent for things like anti-drug and violence CD's. He won a Grammy for his production of some MTV compilation a while back.

He hired me as an intern my last semester of college. Originally, I thought I would be doing video editing for him. For several weeks I went through loads of tapes of amateur video. It was basically David and a couple other people filming teenagers in dated clothing singing corny songs that David had written himself. The album/DVD was entitled skatedance and a lot of the footage was them at skating rinks filming children dancing to the title track. Apparently these kids were almost minor celebrities but it appeared to have been shot about five years ago. Some of the tapes were old enough to not work anymore. I picked out the pertinent footage and saved it all on a hard drive. The internship consisted of me sitting in his studio myself and doing this all day. Sometimes I would walk the dog for him. He paid for my lunches and my transportation and while things were strange, it was pretty cool because I thought I was going to be editing these videos soon and it would be great practice.


Things changed one day when he took me out for lunch to an expensive sushi restaurant. He asked me what I wanted to do after college and I told him I wanted to write. His eyes lit up! He had an idea for a show that he wanted me to write. An associate of his was a big deal in his eyes and we were to write a show about this man's life. It would also be about racism. It would also be about all the great things David did for children. His DOG would be in it! His DOORMAN would be in it! We could even use some of his skatedance kids! OH MY GOSH IT WOULD BE THE BEST SHOW EVER! His business partner was a VP at ABC so we'd get it on the air no problem. In all seriousness I should have questioned things a little more but it was my internship and I was getting credit for it. He was implying I would have to come only one day a week and as a senior in college, I knew I could better spend that time sleeping and getting wasted.

I drafted a fictional pilot about how Danilo, the star of the show, met Kayo...a white rapper that David was convinced was the next big thing. Skipping ahead some...David continually asked me to setup meetings with Danilo and Kayo. Danilo was preoccupied due to a sick family member and was impossible to reach, Kayo would not show up unless Danilo told him to.

Kayo did show up one time though. That meeting and the rest of the story coming very soon.

OMG!!!111 A CLIFFHANGER! HOW EXCITING!