One thing the pirates had right, is that there's waste in the entertainment industry. Another name for waste would be David Geffen. Or Sumner Redstone. Or Clive Davis. Or any number of "moguls" who somehow made themselves far richer than most of the artists in their employ.
Somehow, the weasel business pricks figured they were entitled to much more than the artists. With rare exceptions (Clive Davis paying a fortune to car alarm Whitney Houston, or Geffen giving a safe haven for Joni Mitchell to put out awful and pretentious jazz albums) the moguls rarely used their power for the good of the artists.
While these powerful scumbags dictate that artists get crap royalties and crap advances, and while they take advantage of creative people who "would be willing to work for free, just to have an outlet," these scumbags keep huge amounts for themselves.
$54 million for a fucking townhouse? Geffen could've kept dozens and dozens of artists on his roster when he ran Geffen Records. He probably rationalized, "Oh, fuck that, I'd rather fuck street trash homos and pay for it. Give a guy like Warren Zevon enough to live on, even a mere $50,000, and he'd squander it on drugs and wouldn't be "suffering" enough to write good songs."
He'd make sure to pay Lennon plenty, and give Lennon as much studio time as needed, but that was "good for business."
Unfortunately affluent neighborhoods are loaded with obnoxious pricks like Geffen. This is standard operating procedure. Some rich Gook who made his money being a Wall Street parasite, or maybe a hedge funds lizard, decided to buy the apartment next door. More room for him, his one brat and his ugly fat white wife. He happily gathered them all up and moved into a rental he'd booked for half a year and...let his contractors do their worst with drilling and hammering.
The noise was tremendous, but HE didn't have to hear any of it. He wouldn't even offer up a schedule to alert people in the building, and neighboring buildings, on the worst days that would involve the noisiest work. No. Every day was a surprise. One day might be quiet, with a bunch of Cro Magnon morons from Hungary doing some painting. Next, a solid week of agonizing "core drilling" to run new pipes or whatever.
The prick was sued by exactly ONE person, who took him to court, citing noise and loss of work and added stress. The judge shrugged: "People are allowed to renovate. Noise happens. Nobody is required to give a schedule of when the noisiest work will happen. If this (GOOK) wants to take six months because he's got a good deal, nobody's saying he must hire people who'll be more expensive and do the work in three months. If he wants to hire two guys with hammers for a month, rather than four guys with hammers to get it done in a week, that's his call. Case dismissed."
Yeah, the (GOOK) not only won his case, but was so self-entitled, such a (GOOK) that he made sure to get even by yelling threats to the person who filed. Quite the bratty child (GOOKS have little child dicks, after all) this moron would play a constant game of "chicken" on the sidewalk. If the two neighbors happened to be walking past each other on the street, the (GOOK) would deliberately veer into the path of his former court adversary. As in, "wanna get out of MY way or collide into me?" This nonsense continued until the building ordered him to stop, advising him that this was harassment, and instead of side-stepping him, his adversary might just pull out a gun and shoot his fucking (GOOK) face off.
But I digress.
Cocksucker Geffen is abusing an old Jewish couple. You'd think he'd have some feelings for some old bag who could easily be his own Bubbe. Nah. Oy!
"They say their apartment shook, their walls cracked and moved, their designer wallpaper started peeling off, their marble floor tiles shifted and crack and black soot drifted out from cracks in the walls and floors...the couple say they started having health problems, including high blood pressure and cardiac issues."
Geffen needs a place to impress his young faggot boyfriends. That's all he knows. This is a noisy city. Everybody at some point has to suffer needless (monotonous and slow) construction noise month after month. Lazy unionized workers make sure to take their time. Nevermind using noise-abatement devices or making sure noisy work is done fast. While the city nominally has a law requiring apartments to be 85% carpeted, the law is rarely enforced, and doesn't include requiring ceiling tile soundproofing or soundproof windows.
"The court papers say 17 other shareholders submitted claims to Geffen, but he has resolved only six." What, the six gay people? The six who have threatened to fist him up the ass without lube?
arrogant need to "improve" his fucking townhouse for his faggot parties. Look at that guy. Pretty fucking evil.
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