Trust and the last minute manoeuvres - blog 12
Vinit Borrison to the rescue. Vinit used his personal credit card to make the transaction happen, and there I was on a three way phone call admiring his courage and trust in me, while he read his card details to Tyler. This then allowed us to get the desired sound equipment and have it tested in advance, and then packed onto the Skid. Thank you Vinit. Now there is a little bit of context to this and something that has been needling my consciousness all this time, especially when I was giving over details of Alan’s card number to book the flights with his express permission of course, and at my instigation, to Magnet Films Flight Booker. Phone calls were being placed to the credit card company to be aware and observe an immanent transaction (this was an ordeal to set up and in fact never really happened, although we had a case should something go wrong as notice had been given). What happened to me was some incredibly, tacitly, deviously, dastardly, mutha fucker ripped me off over a Craigs List deal in New York.
I was chasing after a Canon 30D and found a superb deal, but the guy happened to be in Toronto, and so via the gigs and the reels and my enthusiasm and desire to make the deal happen, we arranged the whole thing, bank details exchanged and so on and so forth, and when push came to shove, he got the money and I got the custard pie…this guy was brilliant, a master confidence trickster, and one of the nicest sounding guys you can imagine, are you reading this YOU FUCK?? I’ve been your bitch in this life. Actually I forgive you, and hats off, as that was well done. YOU WANKER!!
So Vinit managed to broker that end of the deal, and we were rocking, then Daithi called over and he and I had to spend time looking over the receipts and the budget as it is tight, after which we went to the main location where the students were throwing a big party with some bands playing. This was great, a motley crew, although I didn’t really see anybody else for would be extras for the art studio scene. The bands were blowing up a storm and I was amazed to hear them playing Rory Gallagher, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, and everyone singing and bopping along to the lyrics. I was in a band when I was 19 called JUDE and we used to play similar material, which as of course even then back in 1990 was almost 20 years after the fact, and here I am 18 years later and the Buck has come round again to boogie. I got some video footage for the documentary. Then on my arrival back Vinit had CC-d me on an e-mail he was dealing with over there where insurance on the equipment is becoming a problem, and or some other details I cannot fathom just yet as I rang Vinit at about 12.45 and he said he would ring back but has not yet.
What exactly is happening I am not sure, but I know that while I have in place our employers liability, and public liability, to the tune of 19,500,000 euro, I held back from the equipment insurance as I still don’t have the exact list from Vinit of what will be on the SKID. I did go ahead with a wish list from him, as well as the sound equipment, and FAS equipment, which all came to a value of just over 160,000 euro and would have cost about 680 euro to insure. I had a chat with Paul Jackson our amazingly helpful and positive insurance agent, and he agreed that it would be a good idea to wait and get an exact amount and bring down the premium. Now this might just come back to bite the wrong end up, as I suspect Vinit will call me today looking for equipment insurance details, which I do not have, but could have by Monday afternoon local time here, and have to him by the crack of dawn there. Will this gambit work?? He is under pressure I think in obtaining all the gear he would like, and obviously has to answer to somebody else, SHIT!!! Another stressful waiting game now for me as I go out and find some more money.
Went into a local internet sales based excess digital company named digi-excess to see if I could get 6TB (terabytes) worth of new and reliable hard drives as we will need that if not more of storage space to capture these enormous 4K flies onto and store everything in duplicate…no joy so I will need to order these on line with MY FUCKING NEW VISA yippee on Monday, I hope there is enough latitude for the visa to handle all the transactions that are going to come gushing through all at once.
I was chasing after a Canon 30D and found a superb deal, but the guy happened to be in Toronto, and so via the gigs and the reels and my enthusiasm and desire to make the deal happen, we arranged the whole thing, bank details exchanged and so on and so forth, and when push came to shove, he got the money and I got the custard pie…this guy was brilliant, a master confidence trickster, and one of the nicest sounding guys you can imagine, are you reading this YOU FUCK?? I’ve been your bitch in this life. Actually I forgive you, and hats off, as that was well done. YOU WANKER!!
So Vinit managed to broker that end of the deal, and we were rocking, then Daithi called over and he and I had to spend time looking over the receipts and the budget as it is tight, after which we went to the main location where the students were throwing a big party with some bands playing. This was great, a motley crew, although I didn’t really see anybody else for would be extras for the art studio scene. The bands were blowing up a storm and I was amazed to hear them playing Rory Gallagher, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, and everyone singing and bopping along to the lyrics. I was in a band when I was 19 called JUDE and we used to play similar material, which as of course even then back in 1990 was almost 20 years after the fact, and here I am 18 years later and the Buck has come round again to boogie. I got some video footage for the documentary. Then on my arrival back Vinit had CC-d me on an e-mail he was dealing with over there where insurance on the equipment is becoming a problem, and or some other details I cannot fathom just yet as I rang Vinit at about 12.45 and he said he would ring back but has not yet.
What exactly is happening I am not sure, but I know that while I have in place our employers liability, and public liability, to the tune of 19,500,000 euro, I held back from the equipment insurance as I still don’t have the exact list from Vinit of what will be on the SKID. I did go ahead with a wish list from him, as well as the sound equipment, and FAS equipment, which all came to a value of just over 160,000 euro and would have cost about 680 euro to insure. I had a chat with Paul Jackson our amazingly helpful and positive insurance agent, and he agreed that it would be a good idea to wait and get an exact amount and bring down the premium. Now this might just come back to bite the wrong end up, as I suspect Vinit will call me today looking for equipment insurance details, which I do not have, but could have by Monday afternoon local time here, and have to him by the crack of dawn there. Will this gambit work?? He is under pressure I think in obtaining all the gear he would like, and obviously has to answer to somebody else, SHIT!!! Another stressful waiting game now for me as I go out and find some more money.
Went into a local internet sales based excess digital company named digi-excess to see if I could get 6TB (terabytes) worth of new and reliable hard drives as we will need that if not more of storage space to capture these enormous 4K flies onto and store everything in duplicate…no joy so I will need to order these on line with MY FUCKING NEW VISA yippee on Monday, I hope there is enough latitude for the visa to handle all the transactions that are going to come gushing through all at once.
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