Well that was Boring!

Well I didn't get as hammered as I had hoped. So what's new? WELL....Ingenuity Fest seemed to be really lacking in 'technology' and more filled with outdoor music you'd hear at a New Jersey wedding reception, spray painted hoo-ha, freaks on stilts (wow is that what they taught you to do with a BFA?), kids and parents wandering and gawking at the freaks on stilts, groups of capri pant clad women saying, "$20? Um, yeah I think we'll just go to the free events" and of course people asking, "Where's the technology, wasn't there supposed to be displays or demos or something?" No sweeties, because if you wanted that you'd have to attend a real tech fest like Siggraph. But there were lots of neon lighted thingymajigs, lasers, glowsticks and people dressed as robots. They looked all tech'd doncha think? I mean looking all futuristic n' stuff with bright colors and flashing neon lights of a hologram here and there?

So while I wandered waiting for the House of Blues show to start (lots of arrests and even people being brough out of stretchers, how rock n' roll is that?!) I endured people shoving flyers at me, homeless men yelling at me, some really awful 'graffiti art', and the never ending Cleveland love affair with JAZZ FUSION or AFRO CUBAN JAZZ which makes me want to stab a screwdriver into people's throats. But the good side of it all? Ample metered parking at all times! By the time I left HOB before midnight the streets were pretty much dead. Wow I didn't see that coming. I know this was the first time putting this thing on, but Ann Arbor Art Fair is more rockin' baby. And that isn't saying too much. I know there are many who thought this was all dandy, acceptable and oh-la-la, but again this just confirms the city of Cleveland provincial attitude for setting on mediocrity because they just don't know anything else. Those of us who have lived or spent time in them there big city folk type places, and we've seen what these events should be.

Honestly I think the whole Public Square area would have been put to much better use had they just installed a beer garden. If you have the open container thing going, may as well class it up a bit and make it an outdoor hangout right? Granted I know that permits and blocking off streets (with no need to really) and fireworks all cost quite a bit of moola. But I wonder what $700,000 went to, since not one person involved or who performed that I know got paid. And no, free drink tickets isn't getting paid honey. Well here are some other thoughts on all that: http://nchermit.blogspot.com/2005/09/ingenious.html
http://www.erieeffusion.blogspot.com/

Time for a sandwich and a video. What Sundays were meant for.