This has nothing to do with art per se, but one of my favorite bands from my home town of Ann Arbor, The Stooges, are playing tonight on the VH1 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee ceremony show. I find it funny that they are playing the same night that Madonna is getting inducted -- how annoying really.
I have to say that even though the Rock Hall has some cool stuff, I really don't hold out any hope on the new plan to have the ceremony actually held in Cleveland on a bi-yearly basis. In fact, I'm waiting to see just how bad it gets screwed up. I mean, these are the same people that said hosting CMJ was too much work for them and they bagged it only after 2 years. Yeah, they can have music festivals in the middle of the desert and make it huge, yet having a music festival take place at the Rock Hall is just too over their heads. An annual music festival with national/international cachet could have been really good for Cleveland and yet they pulled the plug before it had the chance to get rolling; bad organization, bad marketing, and overall crappy line-ups with a few quality acts sprinkled on top. The whole thing made me wonder if any advance research or planning went into it at all. God forbid they hire extra help to run the festival or pay good people with experience to guide them in the planning stages. Well, that's a non-profit organization for you isn't it?
But I do have a funny story about The Stooges and the Rock Hall. Not long ago, a copy of Rolling Stone was banned at my husband's office, in part, due to a photo of Iggy Pop and his bare butt. Seems it was sexual harassment! You can read all about it here. Later, the company has their holiday party, at the Rock Hall. So not only does this company ban Rolling Stone from the office and then decide to have a function at the Rock Hall, they put in a dress code on top of it. How rock n' roll they must have felt! So my husband wears his mod suit...with a Stooges button to accent it.
"Is there an exhibit in particular you were looking to see?" asks a docent during the party. "Yeah, where's The Stooges exhibit?" he asks in front of some HR people. They totally didn't get it, or see the hypocrisy in any of this. The office voted him best-dressed man at the party on top of it.
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In a way, all sight and vision and images could be seen as a form of harassment...or it could be seen as information.
for real, by that logic I can consider most of TV these days harassment on my senses.
Touche' and so well written.
(And the rock hall thing annoys me to no end.)
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