Item! I am the Troy Tulowitzki of base humor. Anyone else want to try fitting Pablo Neruda, Joel Giambra, and the US Geological Survey into a joke about public sex, while commenting on the chronic underfunding of the Erie County public library system? Can you do it in under three sentences? Yeah, thought so.
Item! Don't be a cock to the press. This is pretty self-explanatory: we have a press and you don't. Furthermore, we're underpaid and cranky and if we're writing about you we already think you're a fucking idiot. Oh yeah, and we record pretty much every telephone conversation we have. What is wrong with you?
- Z
First of all I have been to all the MIA Fests and if you don't believe me you can check out my webshots page. Secondly I'm a little bit confussed by that caller. I didn't read anything negative in that article. It does sound like both sides are happy. There are two things the article doesn't mention that are key factors. The ads that where sold how long are they for is it just for MIA or for the entire fair, and after MIA will those ads change? If it is for the entire Fair then they are just using an atraction to make there space worth more. I'm sure some of the other acts like Daughtry do the same thing. The second thing is this year I have seen a lot more ads who is paying for those in the Buffalo news and I think a couple TV ads also?
On a side note I know one day it won't be as good as two days but you have the city to blame for that. One of the cool things that I hope they still have is that you can watch people create art and at the start and sometimes up untill the end you can't tell what it is going to be.
Like I told Z privately, I have no objections to the Fair selling off corporate space near the music and the enterance. Its hardly a problem, unless you simply hate corporate America and what it represents and on principle have an objection.
That is some phone call, I tells ya. Yikes. I loved the calm replies and the ultimate tell-off.
This is the relevant artcle in AV, right?
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Here's a clip from the article:
"By moving to Hamburg, MiA saves money on security, a big cost that will be provided by the fair. According to Lou Ann Delaney, marketing director for America's Fair, the event is a "partnership" benefiting both parties. "We give them electricity, property that we would normally rent to a vendor, passes for all the participants, shuttle service for the performers from ECC to the stage. We help them get some donations for the VIP party."
What's a little harsh to realize is that once MiA agreed to hold their festival at the fair, the fair then turned around and sold space on either side of the midway entrance gate to corporate sponsors Best Buy and AT&T. How much were these companies willing to throw down to reserve placement right at the entrance to this new and exciting fair attraction? Seven thousand dollars apiece, according to Delaney. Each corporation will be paying America's Fair $500 per hour to be associated with Music is Art. That's synergy, and it makes it all worthwhile for the fair."
The topper was that she was on Channel 4's news last night broadcasting about the Fair's fortunes. I did walk by Music is Art's area. That is going to be pretty fuckin sad compared to when they had it in the city.
I just can't freakin' believe it - she is really a biznatch.
Thank is the fantastic stuff that I always dreamed of when creating the site. God, it is so good - I am listening to it twice.
Wow, bushleague for a marketing "pro." Betting it's Music is Art. Good for Buck for keeping cool while dealing with somebody who shouldn't be in their position. Is this a reason why I can't make any headway marketing wise.
This recording was amusing, particularly because of a) her trembling voice, b) her inability to articulate her own spin and c) her namedropping Jamie Moses.... lol. Pretty poor for a "Marketing Director."
Who is this lady, what partnership is she talking about and why does she feel compelled to threaten Artvoice? Really... a lady like this should be unemployable if she's actually working in the private sector. Could you imagine if you were an underling of hers? Like scrubbing corns off of feet much? =(
Wow the temptation, were I him, to write a complete hatchet job of the whole thing would be tremendous.
Except, of course, it would be ridiculous to let that woman dictate to me what I write in any fashion at all, and so I would probably, in the end, resist it, and would have to proceed with the story as originally planned.
I would probably be unable to resist throwing in a line about how unusually sensitive their marketing department was about the whole selling-tent-at-the-entrance thing.