...that sentence alone should give me some kind of usc street cred; i got there half an hour before the doors opened and an hour before the event was scheduled to start. i sat in the 5th row (LEGIT), but i'm pretty sure all of bovard's 1250 seats were filled.
i'm sure lots of the people who went were interested in going because of all of the great testimonies they'd read on the postsecret blog. i'll be interested to see if frank warren, owner of the blog, includes any testimonies from attendees of the usc event.
i, for one, won't be sending one. i didn't hate the presentation, or even dislike it, but it left me lukewarm. frank's speech came off as very practiced, and postsecret--of all things--should be anything but. there was a chance for students to tell their own secrets at the end of the evening, and not to sound like a heartless biotch, but most of them were soooo trite. and then we suddenly ran out of time and the lights went on and i would have diiiied if i had told a secret... there was no validation, or appreciation of any kind. it felt like so much had built up to the secret-sharing, but the whole atmospheric bubble burst the second the event ended.
i'm glad i went, because if i hadn't i would've felt like i'd missed out... but the presentation was anything but the life-changing experience i had expected it to be.
-e
ps: the postsecret blog itself is great... click here to check it out, and recheck every sunday for new secrets!
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