Reminder: The A.V. Club's Fame Whores tonight!
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We don’t have to tell you that today’s greatest commodity isn’t those increasingly useless pieces of paper in your wallet. It isn’t gold, and it isn’t fossil fuels. Neither is it intelligence, ingenuity, or anything else that effects tangible change on the world. No, the most valuable thing we have is fame, and tonight The A.V. Club and Transmission Entertainment are just handing it out like a bunch of suckers at the first qualifying round of Fame Whores. If you have a secret but ultimately pointless talent, and you’ve got an urge to see it celebrated far beyond what it’s actually worth—to the tune of a profile in The Onion and a guest spot on the Fun Fun Fun Fest stage—get to the Mohawk tonight and show it to us, and you could be Austin’s next fame-whoring fameball who’s famous for nothing, but who gets to walk around acting like they’re hot shit.
So far we’ve got an incredibly diverse lineup of wannabe stars, from bizarre stand-up comedians to “professional jumpers,” and it’s not too late for you to be among their numbers. Just get down to the Mohawk tonight by 8 p.m. and sign up, and you’ll have five minutes to prove your mettle in front of a group of local celebrity judges that includes The New Movement’s Chris Trew (a.k.a. Terp 2 It), Mohawk booker Rosa Madriz, and The A.V. Club’s Sean O’Neal. And if you’re completely talentless, but not that special kind of talentless where you’re all proud and “look at me” about it anyway, you could also just come see the show, and help us decide who should move on to September’s finals. One of our favorite comics, Matt Bearden, will be there to fill in all the awkward air space with jokes, which should help if you totally suck out loud—unless, you know, that’s your act. See you there!
