David Blaine: Drowned Alive? Part V
Posted By Paul Kotik on 7 May 2006
I finally heard English spoken in the New York City subway system.
Hodadowahodadowah!
Hodadowahhodadowah ! Today, as the F train was about to pull out of the RockefellerCenter station, the meaning became clear: Hold The Door. All New Yorkers think trains should be held just for them, personally. Self-centered? That's why this town's so nuts - it's in 7 million different orbits around 7 million different people all at once.
But in New York, it’s not what you hear – it’s what you overhear. The crowd in orbit around the Drowned Alive! event is so large today that I’ve got to make my way to the barrier by way of the Avery Fisher concert hall lobby.
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Inside, the ambient sound is whispers and murmurs, the lingua franca of high art. The carnival around David Blaine can be seen – must be seen, through the immense glass panes of the lobby walls – but it is not heard. Instead, I overhear two middle-aged, sleek, exceedingly well-groomed men strolling the marble floor together. "... no, not today", one is saying. "He’s going to come out on Monday". The other man giggles and tosses his shaven, bearded head. "What a way to come out ! Imagine, if you finally decided to come out, and find someone nice, and then when you do you say ‘Hi there, let’s go spend some time together in a transparent bubble full of warrrrrrrm water!' ”. On to Carmina Burana.
So everybody in the city knows about it.
The New York City Ballet lobby espresso bar, a devastatingly fashionable young couple (she, a skeleton in a black sheath, he all Wall-Street-Saturday) eyes concert programs. He drones on: “ … the CIA director resigned unexpectedly, Kennedy’s son the Congressman had to turn himself into the Mayo Clinic, spot gold closed at over six-eight-two, Tony Blair –" No! his companion cuts him short, not looking up. Really ! But what about the man in the bubble? ".
The Man in the Bubble is feeling great today, best yet according to his Physician to the Stars. In fact, not content to be the subject of a television spectacular, David Blaine's got hold of a TV camera inside the sphere and is busy shooting footage of his visitors.
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