I knowwwww.. 2 logs in a row.. WOW WOW... (don't get too used to it). I just realized that I forgot to say about a million things this morning when I logged. Of course, now that I've had about 8 cups of coffee during the day, my brain (or rather my heart) is working overtime. So here's what I forgot to say....
First of all, I wanted to mention something interesting that happened while I was at the fundraiser for 3Noor. So I was standing around waiting to be coached on how to bring people inside and so forth, and all of a sudden I heard a very familiar voice. It was Gor singing! For a split second I was so confused, cause somehow I thought "oh, Gor is going to play!?", but as the coordinator of the event, Marie Lou walked up to me, I impatiently asked.. "Where's Gor?" And she exclaimed... "You know him???" Of course, now I was very excited, because I thought she was confirming that Gor was there. Needless to say, Gor was not there and it was just his CD playing in the background... but she was so excited to know that I knew about Gor's unique music. She told me she had searched for his CD all over, and finally got it from Boston. (That's when I told her about cdbaby.com). Anyways, so just a heads up... Gor definitely has a fan club in LA (and everyone at the event was asking about what music was playing). I thought that was pretty cool.
Second, I forgot to say that on Sunday morning I also attended a lecture organized by the ANC-WR. The speaker was Aram Hamparian from the east coast, and he was to speak about System of a Down and ARARAT and the work they do for the Armenian Cause. Although I was 15 minutes late, I kind of thought that the lecture didn't really focus on the subject too much. Yes, what was discussed was totally relevant too, but kind of like a tangent, or maybe even a prologue for the discussion I was hoping would take place. Nevertheless, it was quite informative and interesting to hear. The basic idea I took from the lecture was that there are different kinds of Armenians (explained in terms of levels). The speaker seperated "Armenian identity or Armenian-ness" and "Amount of Influence". By amount of influence, he meant how influential an individual is in the American political aspect. For example, a survivor of the Genocide who had just come to America would have high Armenian identity, but low influence; the other extreme being Cher as an Armenian who has high influence but low Armenian identity (just an example). And he was saying how it's a continuous debate on which group to focus. Do we focus on giving these high influence people a better Armenian identity (assuming they are even interested), or do we focus on producing Armenians who have high indentity, and hope they become high influence people? I'm not quite sure what I think about that question yet.... but it's definitely pertinent in today's world... I'm assuming he was trying to tie this idea in with System and ARARAT. For example, how Egoyan was not someone who had high indentity growing up, but gradually became more interested and eventually made such a huge impact.
Anyways, that's enough for now....
BTW.. Welcome Harout, Rosita and ALEXXXX!!! (how r u Alex?? how exciting that u're a logger now) :)
TSUH! :)~
First of all, I wanted to mention something interesting that happened while I was at the fundraiser for 3Noor. So I was standing around waiting to be coached on how to bring people inside and so forth, and all of a sudden I heard a very familiar voice. It was Gor singing! For a split second I was so confused, cause somehow I thought "oh, Gor is going to play!?", but as the coordinator of the event, Marie Lou walked up to me, I impatiently asked.. "Where's Gor?" And she exclaimed... "You know him???" Of course, now I was very excited, because I thought she was confirming that Gor was there. Needless to say, Gor was not there and it was just his CD playing in the background... but she was so excited to know that I knew about Gor's unique music. She told me she had searched for his CD all over, and finally got it from Boston. (That's when I told her about cdbaby.com). Anyways, so just a heads up... Gor definitely has a fan club in LA (and everyone at the event was asking about what music was playing). I thought that was pretty cool.
Second, I forgot to say that on Sunday morning I also attended a lecture organized by the ANC-WR. The speaker was Aram Hamparian from the east coast, and he was to speak about System of a Down and ARARAT and the work they do for the Armenian Cause. Although I was 15 minutes late, I kind of thought that the lecture didn't really focus on the subject too much. Yes, what was discussed was totally relevant too, but kind of like a tangent, or maybe even a prologue for the discussion I was hoping would take place. Nevertheless, it was quite informative and interesting to hear. The basic idea I took from the lecture was that there are different kinds of Armenians (explained in terms of levels). The speaker seperated "Armenian identity or Armenian-ness" and "Amount of Influence". By amount of influence, he meant how influential an individual is in the American political aspect. For example, a survivor of the Genocide who had just come to America would have high Armenian identity, but low influence; the other extreme being Cher as an Armenian who has high influence but low Armenian identity (just an example). And he was saying how it's a continuous debate on which group to focus. Do we focus on giving these high influence people a better Armenian identity (assuming they are even interested), or do we focus on producing Armenians who have high indentity, and hope they become high influence people? I'm not quite sure what I think about that question yet.... but it's definitely pertinent in today's world... I'm assuming he was trying to tie this idea in with System and ARARAT. For example, how Egoyan was not someone who had high indentity growing up, but gradually became more interested and eventually made such a huge impact.
Anyways, that's enough for now....
BTW.. Welcome Harout, Rosita and ALEXXXX!!! (how r u Alex?? how exciting that u're a logger now) :)
TSUH! :)~
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