Wednesday, September 5, 2007

The Best Seats

The article I read was in The New Yorker. The author, Bruce Wagner, provides a humorous tone telling a story from a wild experience. His imagination in this text was trying to come off in a funny way. Bruce tells a story about a person who completes him when he listens to the music. The tickets of this concert are in the thousands of dollars and all sold out.

Honestly I didn't like the article because there was no meaning behind it. The humor did not connect with me at any point. The structure was building all through the article by showing circles around the theme. I will write what I gathered of the text, and hopefully you will find it funny.

A friend called Bruce to tell him that Prince had a exclusive concert set for Friday night. The cost of the ticket was three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Bruce jumped on the opportunity to get V.I.P tickets. The concert set off at two o'clock in the morning, and it took place at Beverly Hills Hotel. Bruce had to pay one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars to stand within twenty feet of Prince. Simon Cowell, Christopher Isherwood, and Micheal Moore were the few to experience the front row seats with Bruce. After the show Prince reappeared and played fourteen more hours. The whole audience was gregarious and high from the experience. Fortunately Bruce brought with him his Adderall, prescribed for his A.D.D.. He courteously offered his subscription to surroundings, but they all declined.

Finally Prince stopped his performance and had brunch with the V.I.P.s. Bruce said that when Prince ate the flecks from his omelet they fell into his mouth. For the next few weeks Bruce was very depressed beacuse of the experience. Couple of days later he received a call from a friend who works as a chef in Sun Valley, who cooked for Rupert Murdoch. His friend stated that the opportunity to lunch with Warren Buffett, The Oracle of Omaha, was regularly auctioned off on eBay. The money that is made from the diner is giving to charity. People bid as much as six hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the honor.

Weeks later he got excepted into the luncheon invitation. As he is sitting at a round table with Mr. Buffett he realized what people said bout him were true. Bruce realized that Mr. Buffet was witty, wise, and concise. Mr. Buffett had mentioned that his grandson wanted to go to a Prince concert. The concert was at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, its developed by Johnson & Johnson. Mr. Buffett's grandson had told Bruce during the concert he could "think Prince's thoughts." The price of the ticket was fifteen million dollars. Bruce's heart sank and to cheer himself up he bought a $59,750 Hastens horsehair bed. He wasn't quite sure if he could ever sleep again.