D Nuts || July 19, 2007
The ballot for this year's Dallas Observer Music Awards is out, and it's a wreck. Sure, it's always a wreck to some degree--so-and-so got left off, so-and-so sucks, etc.--but this year's utter dependence on reader nominations (rather than with help from a voting panel) is just the beginning of the trouble here.
Categories with 10 nominees? Write-in options on top of that? It'd be amazing if any winner gets more than 20 percent of the vote in a category.
Then there's the boneheaded stuff--a "best musician" nominee list made up entirely of members of one narrow genre (namely, the Nourallah Alliance)? A "best new artist" list that includes too many old bands, including Radiant, a yearrrrs-old band that has actually won the award before? The Latin list's inclusion of Rob G and the Latin Pimps, disbanded years ago so that Robert Gomez could pursue his solo career?
The Observer has been disappointing in various ways for the past year, but this little ballot is a load of effortless copying and pasting--a true metaphor for what the Observer's music section has become.
Thanks to all of you who nominated Dd for Best Music Site--that means a crapload to me, even if Dd possibly made the ballot by default (though the lack of Texas Gigs/Pegasus News makes me wonder). And in the same way, I'd be honored if your votes somehow landed Dd a statue at the August ceremony...maybe I'll fly in for the show (especially if any readers can help with miles or anything weird like that? It's a longshot, but I'm being serious).
But appreciating your votes isn't the same as giving credit to a DOMA statue. It's high time someone else steps in, ponies up some cash, lands some sponsors and swipes this golden opportunity to create a legitimate local music awards show/party. Quick? Pegasus News?
The Observer is showing weakness, so take advantage. -SM
Categories with 10 nominees? Write-in options on top of that? It'd be amazing if any winner gets more than 20 percent of the vote in a category.
Then there's the boneheaded stuff--a "best musician" nominee list made up entirely of members of one narrow genre (namely, the Nourallah Alliance)? A "best new artist" list that includes too many old bands, including Radiant, a yearrrrs-old band that has actually won the award before? The Latin list's inclusion of Rob G and the Latin Pimps, disbanded years ago so that Robert Gomez could pursue his solo career?
The Observer has been disappointing in various ways for the past year, but this little ballot is a load of effortless copying and pasting--a true metaphor for what the Observer's music section has become.
Thanks to all of you who nominated Dd for Best Music Site--that means a crapload to me, even if Dd possibly made the ballot by default (though the lack of Texas Gigs/Pegasus News makes me wonder). And in the same way, I'd be honored if your votes somehow landed Dd a statue at the August ceremony...maybe I'll fly in for the show (especially if any readers can help with miles or anything weird like that? It's a longshot, but I'm being serious).
But appreciating your votes isn't the same as giving credit to a DOMA statue. It's high time someone else steps in, ponies up some cash, lands some sponsors and swipes this golden opportunity to create a legitimate local music awards show/party. Quick? Pegasus News?
The Observer is showing weakness, so take advantage. -SM
6 Comments:
I nominated Dd.
I also promised my first born to Dd.
Please send receipt.
Let's look on the bright side, OK?
-People finally realized Earl Harvin doesn't live here any more.
-The "best blues" nominees haven't changed for 10 years. Nice to have consistency.
-Rap-rock is back! It's like we're huffing engine cleaner in the mid-90s all over again. One Up made it on the rap ballot.
-Vanilla Ice: NOT ON THE LIST
-Strangleweed: NOT ON THE LIST
-Pops Carter wasn't nominated for Best New Act.
-If anyone cares about the awards, they're not admitting it. That'll leave plenty of wings and rum for the 15 people who show up.
-Sam will wear his Hooters girl outfit again. I just KNOW it.
I don't really have any miles to contribute, BUT I do have to say that if you fly in for the awards, you're totally staying for the next weekend to see Wet Hot American Summer on the big screen at the Inwood. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Rockjesse (a super queer name btw- I'm sure there is very little about him that actually "rocks!") is a gay woman-hating Philistine. And like all Observer writers, he thinks his writing is funny and clever. Sorry dude. It's neither.
When you can figure out how to wait more than FOUR WORDS to default to a word like "queer" or "gay," then you can make that call.
But, yeah, Jesse's two kids think he's a total fag.
Hey, This Blog is Pathetic, do you write about anything other than my Dd comments and Observer articles? Did I make fun of your band or something?
But let's get back on the topic of the DOMA nominees. What are your thoughts, This Blog Is Pathetic? I'm sure you have some "funny and clever" observations.
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