The ongoing saga of Ellix Powers part five

That pretty much brings us up to date until yesterday. Yesterday, when I finished with work, I decided to head over to the Rio, I called up Ellix to see what he was doing. “This is Ellix, who is this?” “Its Ed” “Who?” “Its Ed, I’m heading over to the Rio, wanted to see where you were at” “Oh, Ed, yeah, where you at? Can you come pick me up on the way?” “No worries, I can do that” “I’m at that same place downtown across from the plaza, are you coming over right now?” “Ill be there in like half an hour, I gotta swing by my place”. 10 minutes later I got a call from him asking if I was on my way, I finished utilizing the glassware in my apartment and headed out the door. From the time I picked him up until three hours later when I was dropping him off after I didn’t have good luck at the tables, he was an endless supply of quotations. I didn’t have a pen and paper out or anything, but I have a pretty good memory and although these wont be verbatim, they are by no means exaggerations, if anything they are less exciting than what was actually said.

On his financial situation – “I’m half broke, fuck that I’m all broke, I aint got nothing. I got people who owe me money, don’t think I don’t have money, but that’s the way it is in the game. See you gotta understand something, you’re never broke once you’re in the game. I walk around in there, I come up with fifty, hundred dollars. Cause those motherfuckers know I wont be up there in a hotel room with some bitch getting high half an hour later. Ill be right there at the table, see that’s how it is in the game. Once you’re in, you’re in. You’re a good kid David, oh that’s right I mean Ed.”

On transportation – “No, I aint flying, I’m just gonna hop on a bus. I aint in no rush. Ill just sleep the whole way.”

On his documentary – “These motherfuckers are pissin me off. See the guy who runs it says he was gonna put up 100 grand, but he only putting up 50. I mean come on, you know your making a movie, we got two hundred hours of footage and you know that’s gotta be edited. I mean I’m getting ten percent on it, but they got me running all over and they been following me around for 8 months now, I need to get paid.”

On his accommodations – “Yeah they’re putting me up. I aint trying to be outside in this heat, and they don’t let you sleep in the parks out here.”

On the development of Las Vegas “You know that truck stop south of town. You know the one with the casino just a bit south. They already built a high school out there, didn’t even build the houses yet and they got a big high school. Now that’s some foresight shit.”

On real estate(Pointing at a strip of land between the sidewalk and the road) – “I just want to own that motherfucking piece of dirt right there. That’s all I want. One motherfucking piece of dirt. You know how much that’s worth, probably a whole bunch out here. See all these big fucking buildings. What’s Wynn do, he adds another. Another big fucking building with 50,000 dollar chandeliers. You believe that, 50,000 for a chandelier. That would pay my rent for a year, for a god damn chandelier. And all these motherfuckers come out here looking at the big buildings, don’t know why they were able to build em. Its cause of you, see what I’m sayin, these motherfuckers don’t realize they’re getting their money taken.”

The ongoing saga of Ellix Powers part five

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