David Blaine and my two embarrassing stories involving him
So I guess David Blaine is once again pulling some weirdo stunt in New York. This week he will live underwater for one week in a specially built aquarium outside Lincoln Square.I met David Blaine a couple of years ago - he seemed like a very nice guy and very tolerant of my dorkiness around him. The first time I met him was at a benefit dinner an artist I worked for was throwing - my job that night was to take peoples invitations and guide them to their tables. The invitations had numbers on the back which corresponded with a table number in the room. So David Blaine walks in and hands me his invitation and I start to guide him to his table - but I can't find the table. The tables are supposed to be lined up in numerical order but his is out of place and I have no idea where he is sitting - so I turn to him and say "hmm...your table must have (jazz hands here) disappeared!". I thought this was totally witty - so I laughed - he did not.
Then a couple of weeks later - David Blaine comes into my office - he wanted to drop off a video of his TV special to an artist I worked for. He walks in (and clearly either does not recognize me or is choosing to pretend he doesn't recognize me) and he tells me that he is dropping this off for so and so and wants to write a quick note to her too. I notice he is wearing a half helmet and is riding around on his motorcycle - I then lecture him on how dangerous it is to not wear a full helmet. He looks at me like I am a crackhead, hands me the video and walks out the door. I then realize that was probably the wrong thing to do.
posted by Jin @ 3:47 PM
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