I thought it was going to be a slow day around blog headquarters, and then someone hit me with this song and video. “Got me feelin’ so hot …models on top! …you ain’t this hot!”
I laugh, but I’m sure about six months from now I’ll see these cats on MTV Video Music Awards, and they’ll be cleaned up, manufactured, processed and over-produced and I’ll be downloading this single.
One thing I know, I’ll be singing the stupid chorus for the rest of the day.
It seems the group is known as Ameling, but I really can’t tell from their YouTube page. Either way …with talent like this, who needs marketing or information. Do the sun and the moon need to market themselves? Hellz no, they don’t. You just look up, and there they are. And people stop and stare. Same thing’ll happen to Ameling …or WeMakeTV …or whoever these geniuses are.
The rest of my day pales in comparison. Tonight is a big advertising industry shindig and I’ll be shaking hands, telling funny stories, laughing at other people’s funny stories, and promising multiple people that we should “get together soon” and “have lunch” or something. But it’s OK …a hundred people will say the same thing to me, and I know what it means …”see you next year at this holiday party.”
There’s a romance and charm to big shiny holiday parties with hundreds and hundreds of industry peers – doesn’t matter what industry you’re in. And the routine usually starts with (a) you tell everyone you don’t want to go, even though you have to – but more than that, you want to, but it’s not cool to say that. (b) On the day of, you say you’re going, but you aren’t staying late. (c) You leave work early – which is odd, because you didn’t want to go in the first place, and now you’re meeting up with people even earlier. Then (d) you get there and you swear you’ll just say ‘hi’ to a couple of key people, and then you’ll hit the door. And finally (e) you fumble with the keys to your house at 1am, open the fridge and eat anything salty you can find, guzzle some water, and fall asleep on your couch so as not to wake the rest of the family.
Alot happens between (d) and (e), but this is a family blog …children may be reading. And then of course there’s (f) …when you wake up the next morning having slept on a couch, in a suit, and having only gotten 4 or 5 hours of sleep but, again …family blog.
To you and yours and all your holiday parties …be safe, have fun, and see you next year.
