Imagine how much fun it will be once your daughter can fully form sentences! I'm imagining the politeness hierarchy is something like this: Literary Agents > Music Booking Agents > Movie Agents > Airline Ticket Agents. You ever see Cruise riding around?
I've had the nastiest interactions by far with music agents, although a friend of mine is one. Back in the '90s the Legendary Pink Dots posted on Usenet that they were looking for clubs to play and that if anyone had any leads, they should contact the LPD's agent. I worked at a club that the LPD totally should have played, so I called their agent up. I got "who is this? Why are you calling me? You're not the guy I talk to! WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!" and hung up on. The agent then dialed the club owner, chewed him out, and blackballed our club from all his acts. I nearly lost my job, despite the Usenet posting as a smoking gun (where the hell would I get the specific number for a specific agent at William Morris after all?). 15 years later that entire faction of bands still doesn't play that faction of clubs. Who the fuck holds a pointless grudge like that? My understanding is that Tom Cruise has a lot of motorcycles. I'll say this: I haven't seen a Vyrus riding around. I'll also say that if I had $20k I still wouldn't spend it on this but if it were, like, eight? Hoo boy.
Huh, that's interesting. A just a bit ridiculous that those bands still don't play those clubs. I've been involved with putting together shows every so often for about three years now and have had maybe one experience that I would consider negative. Outside of that everybody has been nice, or at the least tersely polite. But I'm guessing it's two different scenes and scales that we're operating at.