Last summer as a build up to his six appearances at DC’s Fringe Festival, I bent the ear of anyone who’d give me the time about how truly great and unique and f’n hysterical a Hamell on Trial gig can be. Hell, I caught four of those six performances, did the lights for two of them, and STILL I was laughing my ass off each and every time.
Then the unexpected and the well-deserved occurred: Ed won the Fringe Festival's distinguished Director’s Award. That’s right—HE WON THE WHOLE FREAKIN THING. Not that it’s a competition, but it’s a fine honor indeed.
Ed returns to Washington with a series of dates that feature the best of the best of the Summer Fringe acts in a mini Fall Fringe Festival which kicks off this Wednesday the 11th and runs to the 22nd of November.
From the Fall Fringe Fest site: Returning bold and victorious as the Winner of the 2009 Capital Fringe Directors' Award, Artist Ed Hamell brings his terror-ist threat back to DC "...a one-man punk band-- and by punk we mean (mostly) loud, fast music informed by politics, passion, energy and intelligence, played by a guy with a sharp tongue and a wicked sense of humor," Winner of the prestigious Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Anyone who witnessed the raw energy of “The Terrorism of Everyday Life” at this past years Capital Fringe Festival show knows that live performance is where Ed is at his irrefutable best.
Last summer we hit Ed up for his first person take on “The Terrorism of Everyday Life”:
"They've asked me to blog a bit as to what you can expect to see if you were to choose to see my show. Hell if I know. First of all why are you reading this? Do you have too much time on your hands? Are you scrutinizing each and every blog by each and every fringe act? Are you familiar with my work and wanna see what kind of wackiness I'm gonna write? I'll give you some basics and I'll shoot from the hip.
It's a one man show, pretty biographical, got a lot of hard hitting music, a bunch of social commentary, and you should, if all goes well, be pretty entertained, challenged and laugh your ass off. It's a reality show. Not like the ones on T.V. that are scripted and insult your intelligence. I'll respect your intelligence and tell you the truth, albeit in a humorous way.
I've been kicking around doing my potty mouth anarchistic folk punk for about 10 years and decided a couple years ago that I would script and mold it into a more theatrical setting. Hired a really great director, Kate Valentine who was a heavy hitter in the New York City Art/Burlesque scene and signed onto new management, "The Invasion Group" who brought the world the great comic genius Bill Hicks. My good buddy Ani DiFranco produced the entire venture and we brought our show over to Scotland for The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the largest in the world. I was honored to have won the coveted Herald Angel Award. Three thousand acts and they only pass out seven of those babies so it was extremely flattering.
Now we tour the States and Europe with the production and we'll be bringing it to Washington. Looking forward to it. But the real deal is as follows: Opening night will be a fair showing. How big is the venue? 120 seats? I'll have 40. But those 40 will tell their friends because maybe they're punk rockers and they respond. Or maybe they're artists with a dream who toil away at a thankless job and they need a shot of inspiration and so they get it that night and tell their friends, "I don't know how to explain it but you got to see this guy". Because were you to tell me, "Hey, he's bald, he plays the guitar like he did a kilo of Red Bull, he yells at the crowd, he's got a foul mouth and I laughed until I pissed my pants but then he made me cry and sing songs about genitals with my parents" I don't know that I'd be buying a ticket to wait in line either. Or maybe you got elderly parents and you don't know how you're going to afford to take care of them or you just lost your job and you don't know how you're going to keep your house and you just want 75 minutes, (or how ever long they're going to let me explode) to forget all your troubles. Then I'm your guy.
And you're going to tell your friends and I can guarantee by the last night we're gonna have a full house. Blogs ain't gonna sell it. I could wallpaper my bathroom with 5 star reviews from The New York Times, Playboy, Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, The London Times and if truth be told that ain't gonna sell it. Word of mouth sells it. So...I hope you come out, I give 150% every night and I hope you spread the word. Watch the sparking demons escape from my brain."
Hamell on Trial - Sugarfree (Mp3)
Hamell on Trial - Disconnected (Mp3)
Hamell on Trial - Big As Life (Mp3)
Hamell on Trial - John Lennon (Mp3)
Hamell on Trial - Rupert Smiley (Mp3)
Hamell on Trial - Glover's Eulogy (Mp3)
Catch Ed Hamell's "The Terrorism of Everyday Life" From November 11th-22nd. Dates, times, and tickets can be found here.
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Dans une tribune intitulée “Gaulliste je suis,酒店經紀 gaulliste, je resterai”,酒店打工 publiée sur Facebook,酒店工作 Nadine Morano est revenue sur son dérapage dans l'émission de Laurent Ruquier.酒店上班 Non Stop People vous en dit plus.酒店兼差
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2020.04.09中央流行疫情指揮中心陸續公布武漢肺炎（COVID-19）確診個案，今晚驚傳其中一名案例為台北酒店工作某知名酒店公關，且疑似在出現症狀前後還有去酒店上班，衛生局稍早上前稽查要確認感染源，酒店當時仍有不少客人，聽聞疑似女公關是武漢肺炎病患，嚇得紛紛走避。
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根據疫情指揮中心公佈，該案例出現輕微發燒、流鼻水症狀，由醫院採檢通報後確診，指揮中心已掌握包括個案同住家人及就醫接觸者等。她向指揮中心自述沒有在酒店上班，都在家，但在酒店出入的相關人士透露，她疑似在出現症狀前後仍有去酒店PT上班。
店家旗下公關的經紀公司至少跨10家酒店
據了解，八大行業店家對於旗下公關為武漢肺炎病例完全不知情，見到衛生局上門一問事由，相當崩潰；該酒店旗下公關背後的經紀公司，至少橫跨北市10家以上酒店，有業者表示，如此消息為真，恐對北市酒店業造成相當大的打擊。
林森北路的日式酒店，聽說早期有600多間，不過不要小看裡頭的提供酒店打工小姐，她們必須集各種才華於一身，不僅要學日文、高爾夫、插花，連茶道也要有概念，「媽媽桑」席耶娜在日式酒店做了15年酒店上班，自稱是日式酒店的末代小姐，來到Podcast節目《沒大沒小の喇吉歐》，告訴你各種日式酒店的秘密。席耶娜表示，日式酒店風光的時期，是在80、90年代，當時的條通，計程車根本不敢開進去，而且客人是排隊在門口等著進去喝酒。因為日據時代，那邊是日本高官住的地方，戰後美軍也在附近的雙城街開美式酒吧，所以從長安東到南京東，中山北到新生北這一塊都叫「條通」，有600多家日式酒店。加上又是日本經濟起飛的時候，很多日本人在這裡開公司設辦公處，所以出沒的日本人比較多，而服務日本客人的規矩，就需要細緻一點。
所謂「日式酒店酒店應徵」，50%以上的來客都是日本人，跟「台式酒店」較隨興的台灣客不一樣。日本客人重視細節，連廁所都要整理得非常仔細，裡頭不但有漱口水、牙線、香水、擦手毛巾，還必須插鮮花，席耶娜說：「每一個客人上完化妝室，少爺都會進去把洗手台的水漬擦過一次，捲筒式衛生紙前端也一定要尖尖的，連酒店工作小姐自己上完廁所，都要把所有東西整理一次，所以我們進去不是只有脫褲子尿尿，還要巡一下廁所有沒有乾淨？」
日式酒店連裝潢都很特別，譬如入口一定會有二道門，免得那些喝醉的人誤闖進去。當第一道門打開時，酒店內沙發後面的燈就會發亮，讓酒店工作小姐知道第一道門打開了，接著大家一起喊「歡迎」(日文)，隨即小姐們就到第二道門那邊去迎接，而且第二道門是，酒店工作小姐要從裡面推才推得開的門，外面客人是推不進來的。
因此，要是打開第一道門看到的是不認識的客人，她們酒店公關就會小心詢問其目的，所以像《華燈初上》那樣，有一大堆大學生走進去，實際在日式酒店是不可能發生的，因為會在第一道門口就被擋掉了。另外，客人入座之後也有一定的SOP流程：客人進來幫他換好拖鞋，接過他的包包和外套掛起來，冬天給熱毛巾、夏天給冰毛巾，每一家日式酒店甚至都有一台洗衣機，專門洗這些毛巾。而且日式酒店是「公檯制」，台式酒店是「私檯制」。私檯制是像錢櫃那樣有很多小包廂，客人坐進去之後，酒店小姐會排排站讓你選，你點越多小姐、坐的時間越多，買單的金額就越高。但「公檯制」是坐下來算桌面使用費的，也就是「人頭費」，你只要一坐下來就是1200元，酒是另外算，5000元起跳，買單兩個人的話，就是2400+5000元，所以不能不點酒。
席耶娜說：「因此你只要開始喝酒，酒店小姐們就會輪流陪你聊天，如果今天有7個小姐，她們都會輪流坐在你座位5分鐘，所以小姐們的自我介紹必須有趣一點，才能讓客人記住妳。」
「由於大部分的日本客人，都是頂著公司名譽來台灣工作的，所以公司不會派菜鳥出差，都是派有點資歷的人出差到台灣，因此他們不太會為了一個小姐，引起兩國的外交問題，或讓公司知道你在這邊性騷擾小姐之類，搞到警察都來了，那很有可能會丟掉工作，所以喝酒醉打小姐或做不規矩的事情，也比較少發生，日本客來酒店比較是紓壓的。」席耶娜透露，她們跟客人的互動，比較傾向於賣曖昧為主，「我們賣的是一種氛圍，透過酒精讓這些客人覺得，白天有什麼不順心的事，有人站在他們那邊。而賣曖昧又因人而異，像我認識新的客人，可以在30分鐘之內，決定他是戀愛客或朋友客，從眼神和肢體運用，可以看出他有沒有感覺來做分辨。」
因此日式酒店的小姐，跟日本客談戀愛算滿多的，畢竟來的都是日本公司各行各業的菁英，賣曖昧之後，很容易發展出戀情。
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