Sunday, April 15, 2007

Further RockWiz observations

  • Unfortunately I discovered that being good at music trivia does not put you in an attractive demographic. A large proportion of the audience looks to be balding, 50-ish men, and standing at the urinal at the men's toilets during a break in proceedings I did notice that a proctologist could probably drum up a fair amount of business - there were not a lot of vigorous streams in evidence. As a side effect of this I also noticed that any female contestants in the preliminary rounds with even a rudimentary proficiency in the subject tend to get some amount of preference when selecting the final contestants, particularly if they happen to also be under 40.

  • One other piece of trivia that amused me (if this is trivia about a trivia program does that make it meta-trivia ?) is that the person in charge of celebrity wrangling is Eve von Bibra. She was apparently in the Chantoozies many moons ago, but she's probably best known now as Jacqui, the flight attendant love interest in the film Kenny. I saw her backstage and had one of those "Where do I know you from ?" moments and only realised it later when I read an article about the guys who made Kenny and saw her name.
  • Julia Zemiro seems to be pining for love at the moment, even to the point of giving out her phone number on stage - well, somebody's seems phone number anyway - which doesn't seem to be the greatest idea in front of an audience made up of people with freakish memories for arcane facts. She does, however, appear to be kind of over being the 'it' girl for 50 year old balding nerdy guys who like trivia. Picky, picky, picky.

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