Multiple Degrees of Seperation
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:25 pm
The resurrection of songs from the Love Machine ST reminded me of a (barely) relevant episode from my own life.
Decades ago, I was absurdly employed as a doorman at a Cenral Park South hotel (long gone) that served as a transient home for passing rock bands as well as more or less permanent abodes for the likes of Luciano Pavarotti and Montserrat Caballe (New Yorkers will get the idea). I often saw Hal David strolling by (and was assured that I was the only one who recognised him). Anyway, when the property was sold and I was to be laid off, I was taken into the office of the manager who was for some unfathomable reason the recipient of Jaqueline Susann`s working desk upon her demise a few years earlier. I`m not really sure what the point of this is except that I was fired while comfortably leaning on the desk where Valley of the Dolls and The Love Machine were written. Not many others can say that ...or really would want to.
Decades ago, I was absurdly employed as a doorman at a Cenral Park South hotel (long gone) that served as a transient home for passing rock bands as well as more or less permanent abodes for the likes of Luciano Pavarotti and Montserrat Caballe (New Yorkers will get the idea). I often saw Hal David strolling by (and was assured that I was the only one who recognised him). Anyway, when the property was sold and I was to be laid off, I was taken into the office of the manager who was for some unfathomable reason the recipient of Jaqueline Susann`s working desk upon her demise a few years earlier. I`m not really sure what the point of this is except that I was fired while comfortably leaning on the desk where Valley of the Dolls and The Love Machine were written. Not many others can say that ...or really would want to.