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June 4, 2008 | permalink
I did a ridiculous event over the weekend.
It wasn't the scope or the scale that made it so; it was big and necessitated long hours and sprawled across three venues, but not really complicated or even, honestly, all that hectic. It was the tone of it that I found so... I am not even sure what the right word is. Ostentatious, maybe? Which I found a little surprising. I mean, I work on a lot of big, stupid, wasteful corporate gigs, and I can think of several that were more over the top without even trying.
I guess it's the fact that it was an awards show. And not an awards show where some neutral body is giving out the awards, either... It's more like, hey, lets get together and give ourselves awards for doing such a great job of being us! Maybe I am just being curmudgeonly, but that kind of self-congratulatory nonsense kind of bugs me. I mean, if these people were really doing something that warranted praise and recognition, I think that someone outside of their circle would stand up and say so, don't you?
I suppose it's possible that I am still overtired and under-caffeinated, and thus am being more judgmental than I ought to be. But I don't think so.
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I think _we_ deserve a fancy awards ceremony for putting up fancy awards ceremonies. Surely we can come up with a cool name and logo and get some corporation to sponsor us. I mean, I've breathed the same air as famous people...
two things
1) this registering to make comments on your blog has nearly overwhelmed my (admittedly very small) brain.
compricated!
2) the ramifications of sarah's suggestion are staggering. will you have fashion designers hanging lights for you? that would be awesome.
"work, bitches!"
Sarah, that would be awesome. I can see it now: "And the award for best Cable Coiling by an Electrician goes to-"
Kelsi, I think if they hung the lights, the show would be in the dark...
speaking of cable coiling, i walked past a film shoot the other day, and one of the "electricians" was totally struggling with the cable.
finally, he yelled at the chief "to the right? or the left?"
and the chief yelled back "depends. are you in australia or america?"
it was awesomely funny, and then i felt like a giant dork. the end.