The entourage's New DEAL

9 o clock in the evening and I have just gotten back from a game. Vivek is heading out of the house for a business deal and i'm very thirsty. I need a beer.

Sahil(me) : Where you headed?

Vivek : Heading to totos, I met this guy at the startup conference and he has an idea for an app. So just going to talk about it and see what conclusion we reach.

MUSIC is a big part of all our lives (the entourages'). And Totos plays brilliant music (sometimes).

Sahil : Cool I'll come with you.

Vivek : Dude you take a bath and change and come.

Sahil : Fuck NO. I always go to totos stinking like a pig and my torn basketball
shorts. I'm coming like this.

Vivek : Ah fine.

He finally caved in to my demands. We are sober as hell, he has to be sober and was sober by default (not for long).

We ran into another group of friends at totos and then another group called to meet up. Ultimately about 12 people standing inside totos with no space to stand.

Sahil : Dude lets head somewhere else. Soul fry?

Everyone agreed. We reached there and were somewhat disappointed. Soul fry isn't known for it's music or anything else actually. It's just a place where you can buy alcohol in black at 2 in the morning.

But shockingly we made that place our own after about 5 pitchers. People started leaving cuz we were creating such a ruckus, rude glances could be witnessed from people passing our table. And amazingly the business meeting turned out not to be a business meeting thanks to the amount of people who showed up to drink. Majority Rules!

Soon we were all smashed, some had been drinking since 5 in the evening, I was stoned out of my mind and tired cuz I played after smoking.

Now the fun starts and the real brainstorming kicks in. We end up into a deep debate and discussion major players me and one more guy who is a struggling director but is also brilliant in his craft as he proclaimed. He could be i wouldn't have known, my sensing powers were running on fumes i needed some extra edge, dope. So the debate started everyone partook and retired, we stayed on when finally i got bored and left him to lynch onto someone else with his brilliance.

Walking back home I realized I was completely sober even after a bill of 9 grand. That is about 15 pitchers by 10 people. I was mentally sober but physically drunk my left foot did not agree with my right even though my brain commanded it too.

But somehow we reached home. And now my mind starts working after some unmentionables(not undies) were consumed.

The business deal turned out to be fine and i realized i was still not too confident about my book i have to edit one more time and immediately send it out to people for their opinions, and take that fucking criticism that i am so terrified off.

Jacob : I wanna buy dual aviation Panasonic headsets.

Neha : Why, what are you flying............. Yourself?

(stoned out of our minds)

Brainstorming

Was very close to signing one of the contracts that has been sent to me and has been lying in my mailbox for the past two months. And like always just at the brink, just when I am standing at the edge, I realised how unsure I was of my work.I mean technically only two people have read my book. I was two scared that probably I wouldn't be able to handle the criticism, so I sent it to the safest person, my then girlfriend and now my best friend and also my editor.

I have to send it to more people and i got to take that criticism, i.e if there is any. I have full faith in my story, my writing.........um, not to sure of. But my ex says it's good, so does my agent who i have never spoken to, BTW. Neha handles all that, i'm the creative end she is the 'get it published' end.

I realised I got to make myself known in the world before I can put my book, my baby out there. I got to give my forst book a fair chance to succeed, cuz no one reads an unknown authors book, trust me on that. I have been to crossword and literary fests like a million times, asked a million people, done about a million surveys. Very rarely an unknown authors book is picked by a reader. My stastics show only 2.67% people who have picked an unknown authors book just judging on the cover. It would have been much less if my survey was a lil more extensive.

So basic question what do I do, to get recognised?

Brainstorming continues in the next blog, the schemes and the antics and the life of Jacob Rohan Joseph and Neha's entourage(I'm part of it).