I walked away from it because I realized that a large part of what I have always enjoyed about the festival were things that were completely separate from what I was supposed to be doing when I worked there.
Last fall, the best "day" I had at KCRF was the Saturday of the closing weekend. We showed up on site in civvies at about 4:30pm. Yes, that is correct. We found comp tickets to get us in (no way were we going to pay for that little bit of time), and we saw several friends and made dinner plans. No dehydration or exhaustion from having been on site since the cannon fired in the morning, and no pressure. If we wanted to wander for the short time we were there, we could.
We've been watching the festival change since we first went in September, 1992. Some of the changes were for the better; many have not been. I'd like the festival management to acknowledge that not everything should be "family friendly", for one thing. Or rather, to make those things that should be kid-appropriate actually kid appropriate and let those things which have no business being kid-appropriate go to the adults to enjoy. And have enough taste and sense to recognize that certain things have no business anywhere (see: nauseating excuse for a gravedigger from last year). If they could recognize that a festival isn't an extension of a Disney movie, there might be some hope.
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Date: 2005-02-18 22:10 (UTC)I walked away from it because I realized that a large part of what I have always enjoyed about the festival were things that were completely separate from what I was supposed to be doing when I worked there.
Last fall, the best "day" I had at KCRF was the Saturday of the closing weekend. We showed up on site in civvies at about 4:30pm. Yes, that is correct. We found comp tickets to get us in (no way were we going to pay for that little bit of time), and we saw several friends and made dinner plans. No dehydration or exhaustion from having been on site since the cannon fired in the morning, and no pressure. If we wanted to wander for the short time we were there, we could.
We've been watching the festival change since we first went in September, 1992. Some of the changes were for the better; many have not been. I'd like the festival management to acknowledge that not everything should be "family friendly", for one thing. Or rather, to make those things that should be kid-appropriate actually kid appropriate and let those things which have no business being kid-appropriate go to the adults to enjoy. And have enough taste and sense to recognize that certain things have no business anywhere (see: nauseating excuse for a gravedigger from last year). If they could recognize that a festival isn't an extension of a Disney movie, there might be some hope.