{"id":167,"date":"2006-06-12T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sararosso.com\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/12\/just-the-perks-mam\/"},"modified":"2006-08-30T12:12:26","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T12:12:26","slug":"just-the-perks-mam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/12\/just-the-perks-mam\/","title":{"rendered":"Just the Perks, M&#8217;am"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honda.co.uk\/civic\/\">Honda Civic Choir Ad<\/a> I told you about? Here are two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VzO3LXX_8sw\">different<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xDnVhu_mxvE\">spoofs<\/a> of the ad. I likee.<\/li>\n<li>Food photographers take MREs (military Meals Ready to Eat) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/governmentfood\/sets\/72057594071642158\/\">make them look appetizing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This week is a bit more partying and general enjoyment which was lacking in the overworked last week. Or at least, I hope so. It&#8217;s only Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This week I&#8217;ll be heading to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediastars.it\/Html\/MiniSito.asp?anno=2004\">MediaStars<\/a>, which are the Technical Oscar Awards for Advertising in Italy (did you get all that?). I&#8217;m excited and interested to go &#8211; first because there is sure to be free food and I&#8217;m still a sucker for stuff like that (my teaching salary is not that far in my past), and also because a colleague of mine has been nominated for a website&#8217;s backend design.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to prepare his speech now. In fact, I offered to give it for him, and I thought I could throw in a few &#8220;I love the Italian people!&#8221; or some really gratuitous grammar errors while hamming up my American accent.<\/p>\n<p>But alas, there is no speech as part of the acceptance.  So I&#8217;ll have to save my genius for another time (and for when they start giving out the Acceptance Speech Oscar Awards).<\/p>\n<p>Though I have to say there has been a word thrown around several times when mentioning this event, that sounded like nails scratching on a chalkboard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Formal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really unclear if we&#8217;re going to have to dress up or not, which of course brings images of me perched on my spray-painted black banana bike missing a basket and a back tire with the tube showing through and pedaling furiously in heels and a dress with cleavage to here and a slit up to there&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll take the bus.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I have in my hot little hands free tickets to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heineken.it\/hjf\">Heineken Jammin&#8217; Festival<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imola\">Imola<\/a> this Friday &#038; Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>DEPECHE MODE WILL BE THERE!!!<\/p>\n<p>(Can you tell I&#8217;m excited?) There&#8217;s nothing I like better than seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/www.depechemode.com\">my favorite band<\/a> in concert, unless that&#8217;s seeing them for FREE.<\/p>\n<p>I have to be honest, I&#8217;m not a big concert-goer. Back in junior high when all my classmates were going to see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_kids_on_the_block\">New Kids on the Block<\/a>, I wasn&#8217;t. I have actually been to so few &#8220;brand-name&#8221; concerts* (*not to be confused with regular ol&#8217;live music which I love) I could probably count them on two hands. Yes, including that Richard Marx concert at the Del Mar fair.<\/p>\n<p>Some people live for it, but for me the concert experience holds two different possible outcomes: enjoying a band\/singer on a whole other level or having the experience I cherished while listening to their recordings destroyed for any number of reasons. Many times I chose not to take the risk, and appreciate the singer&#8217;s filtered, over-polished performance as is.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck for a calmer workweek, closer to 40 hours instead of 60, and that whole &#8220;formal&#8221; thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that Honda Civic Choir Ad I told you about? Here are two different spoofs of the ad. I likee. Food photographers take MREs (military Meals Ready to Eat) and make them look appetizing This week is a bit more partying and general enjoyment which was lacking in the overworked last week. Or at least,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/12\/just-the-perks-mam\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-advertising","category-italy","category-work","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uB1-2H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":139,"url":"https:\/\/www.msadventuresinitaly.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/25\/only-the-funny-need-apply\/","url_meta":{"origin":167,"position":0},"title":"Only the funny need apply","author":"Sara, Ms Adventures in Italy","date":"February 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Something that would make my mom proud: DateaHotScot.com Really interesting use for Photoshop: Vintage products used in the 21st century So, let's talk a little bit about advertising. 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