From: getrichkwik@webtv.net (ED Cherney) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 05:22:54 -0400 (EDT) To: Balloon@balloonhq.com Subject: Re: Agent - my last post on this matter...["Ahh..Myne Two"] Hya agen Laura...Ya Rote... ====>Ed, I really respect how you value professionalism and I agree with you, believe it or not. Read on because I think there should be more professionals like you. I think we are using two different kinds of agents. Mine is a booking company with a non-exlusive contract (stated in the contract) and I'm sure she wouldn't like me to depend on her solely to get work for me. My agent works kind of like a temp service - she can get me jobs or I can get my own. We have an agreed-upon amount that she pays me (usually very good) and then she charges the client whatever she wants over that amount, usually much more than what she pays me. I can also get my own work with her blessing, unless I'm asked for a card by someone while I'm working a gig for her. That's when I pass out her cards. List, I'm sorry this sounds like a disagreement cause I think Ed is great - if I had a 10% agent and an agreement like he is describing, he's absolutely right that I shouldn't be getting my own work in that situation. That kind of agent is a great kind as well - maybe I should be calling my agent something like "booking service." By the way, I've gotten some great advice from this list, and I appreciate all of it - you guys are terrific. Ed, thanks for taking the time to talk to me. I'm sure there's a lot I can learn from you.<==== ********************************************* I agree witcha anhunnert purcent Laura. Dares alsew a kinda Agint...sumtin like Loyers... Kwestchun: Wot dew day kall a hunnert loyers at da bottom uv da Lake? Anser: A good start...hah. Heerz a tot fur ya an urine fokes reedin diss. Kreeayte yer own Bookin Agency... Yew are yer own agent...booking yourself as the Talent. Yooze a differnt nayme an Post Office Box addriss...dezine a ledderhed...emblope...an won-page kontract like I doodit. Iffen I hadda kapabilitity two yooze a scanner on dis WEB-TV gadgit...I'd post tit heer fur yer yooseage...butt...dis rascal aint got no hard drive...sew dat aint possibull. Ennyweigh...iffen yer intrested...eye'll typerwright tit owt in text form and post tit da nex time...an...wen I gitz me kumpewter nex munth...I kin scan tit sew ya kis sea da akchewal dezine wit da klown head onnit two. Laura an eye aint gotted no problims heer...an I evin meeted two fine fellers hoo rote to me E-male address...sew... Da moral uv da principull is dis... I'm akchewly a..."1,200 Hundred Year Ole Immortal"...an I lern sumthin nude evry day frum sumwon else...witch meens...sew fart...I lerned meself... 438,000 nude tings sew fart...give a hunnert daze eeder weigh. Wit dat tot in mind...I tanka all kine fokes fur yer dayly teechins...Tankya Mutch!! Me best fur urine kuntinewd sukse$$ in all yew do. Best Wishes And God's Blessings To You And Yours In Everything Always... Mose Respekfully... ETCC Pee-Ess...Iffen ya kant desifer diss stuff...(Go two yer librerry an git yerself a kopy uv "ETCC's Desifferin Dikshunairy")...dont blame ED...cuz I izz hiz alter-egow...an I'm da won dat KUNTROLLS HIM...only he aint nowin tit yet...sew lets keep tit a seekrit jess between ussins...TANKS.