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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: NARAS specs |
| Date | Thu, 29 May 2003 09:43:20 -0500 |
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"Waste of time" -- it sure seems that way. Every year the local rock
critics do their obligatory Grammy pieces which come with their inevitable
rants about what was not nominated. Since the Grammys, like The Oscars, are
industry propping events that will rarely go out on a limb, what's the point
of saying that Wilco or The Flaming Lips should be nominated for album of
the year -- it will never happen.
Mike Bennett
Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
>From: "bryan" <munki100@pacbell.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: NARAS specs
>Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 07:23:34 -0700
>
> > A "voting" membership is $100 for one year / $180 for two years.
> > I did get the impression from the sign-up process that if you're a
> > graphic designer, you can only vote in the design categories (and
> > so forth) but I could be wrong.
>
>I was a voting member of NARAS for a few years, circa 1996-1998.
>And somewhat unbelievably, one project I worked on that I nominated
>in it's category, Best Packaging, actually made it to the final round. The
>designer was one of five finalists (he didn't win the Grammy, but he was
>invited out to New York for the ceremony, and his nomination eventually
>led to him meeting people at another label who offered him a job..and
>he's still working). Anyway, back to the nominations...As I recall, I
>offered
>up nominations in whatever specific category it was that I was eligible to
>do so, and then got back a fat booklet one day with all of the names in
>all of the categories. Then, I voted for finalists in the top album, song,
>etc.
>the "main" categories, across the board -- basically NARAS members
>vote the same way that the MPAAS members vote for the Oscars. Did
>this for two years and spent whatever it was ($180 sounds right) before
>I decided it was a total waste of money and time.
>
>Bryan
>
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