Sometimes, it’s hard to write about your peers. People who are the top of their game, who have nowhere to go but forward and upward, like me, who have been winners their whole lives… Maybe it’s not that difficult to write about them, because it’s kind of like writing about myself, and that’s something I’m supremely comfortable with.
This gets me to the topic of the upcoming Hollywood Music in Media Awards, coming to the Hollywood & Highland Center on November 19-22, 2009. In what is sure to be a grand celebration of music, two people will be highlighted and awarded Outstanding Career Achievement Awards:
First, there’s Dave Mason, the English songwriter and musician of the band Traffic, who has also recorded with pretty much every notable rock group eva, and I do mean eva! Try Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Fleetwood Mac and Cass Elliot. That list pretty much sums up my childhood, my teenage years, my lost years as a rock star/rebel painter/spy/generalissimo (I mean, the Berlin Wall wasn’t going to fall down its own, was it? Someone had to give it a push), and my mature years as the highly regarded GM of a prestigious Hollywood hotel. Basically, Mason’s a legend of his time and is already a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and you know what? The dude still plays a hundred shows a year. At least, that’s what Wikipedia told me.
Mason collects his award on November 21 at the HMMA-produced Music In Media Interactive Conference (MIMICON). That show also has the distinction of having the one of more amusing acronyms since Nixon’s CREEP. (Editor’s note: Bruce, anybody who’s old enough to know what CREEP is still thinks the internet is a series of tubes.)
Second, we’ve got John Debney, an Academy Award-nominated conductor and composer of movie scores and soundtracks. Debney’s had a hand in some of the most memorable scores this side of the ’00s: The Princess Diaries, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, Raising Helen, Robert Rodriguez’s Spy Kids, Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams and Sin City; Jon Favreau’s Elf and Zathura; and Tom Shadyac’s Liar Liar, Dragonfly and Bruce Almighty. He got his Oscar nomination (who didn’t?) from his work on The Passion of the Christ. Debney will be accepting his award on November 19 at the HMMA event at the Highlands, inside the H&H complex.
If you’re interested in attending either event, I think you should click here. I’m not daring you to do it, but I might think less of you if you don’t.
Oh, and dear readers, my editors have informed me that the internet is a series of tubes. Fantastic. I always had a suspicion about that one. Act accordingly.
This is Bruce, signing off.
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