For those that don't know, I'm the
psycho stalker fanatic that started the Project Anarchy award to show Kurt
Sutter (@sutterink) how much the fans really feel about this show. It's been
said that many fans knew nothing about the award. Do you know me? There ya go.
@sutterink has over 150k followers on twitter. The SOAFX FB page has over 4
million likes. I went with the hardcore
fans that I knew from Twitter because that's where I pimp #SAMCRO from. The
award wasn't about me. It was/is for every fan that loves the show! Every fan
is the reason this award became a reality!
I almost tried to make it happen
last season but I felt it would come off as mega stalkerish. Then I was kicking
myself in the ass because I was one of the winners of the sons of anarchy
challenge! Myra & I could have hand delivered the award personally. That trip
to L.A., made up my mind for me. I just had to figure out a way to make it
happen. That’s specifically why Myra Lowe was one of the first people I
contacted about this. With all the internet scams going one. I figured there
was a better chance of success if the SOA challenge winners were backing this.
I wanted to make it a “fan Based”
project. That was really the only way to make it a genuine fan based effort. I’m
pretty anti-social so the only reason I have followers on twitter or Face Book is
because of Sons of Anarchy. This meant that anyone I approached with this idea
had to be a hardcore fans themselves and hopefully with more connections to
other hardcore fans. ROFLMAO, the “Project Anarchy” name came about so that we
could discuss the award somewhat openly without giving anything away. We were
after all trying to keep this a secret!
We all know this award cost a bit
of money. I’m not rich by any means. That meant asking for donations to help
fund the project. The more fans that were involved in the project the more
small donations would work toward achieving our financial goals. There was no
requirement by anyone to donate any money. I told everyone if you can donate a
dollar fantastic! If you want to donate more that’s great too. While this award
wasn’t cheap, so to speak, it wasn’t overly costly. We got 100% crystal, no
plastic bs. That plaque has some heft to it!!
I was surprised when Kurt read off
the names on the letter. I was ecstatic to hear every name from the group
because everyone worked so hard to make this happen. I may have gotten things
started but it was the group that made it all happen! Ideas went back and forth. Many were shelved
because while good ideas, they just didn’t quite achieve the level we were
looking for. I know I wasn’t exactly happy with the way everything went. If I
wasn’t happy about everything then most likely there were parts that everyone
else wasn’t totally happy about either. So I figured that put us into some sort
of balance.
When doing something like this, it
can be easy to make mistakes. I’ve never done anything like this before. I am
pleased that is worked out as well as it did. For every fan that did not have
the opportunity to participate in the creation of Kurt’s award, my apologies. I
didn’t leave anyone out on purpose. We had fans that opted not to join us.
Perhaps they felt we were scamming people. For whatever reasons the choice was theirs.
I did not deny any fan an opportunity to participate and money was never a
factor.
For anyone that wants more
information about what and how we did what we did to make this happen, drop me
an email:
I’m sure a lot of the fans want to learn
more about how it all worked. Sometimes it seems like these types of things can
take on a life of their own, ;D
Beside I want to hear from
everyone. What did you think of the award? So drop me a line and let me tell
you about all this.
I hope all the fans are proud of
the award Kurt received because without every single SAMCRO fan, this award
probably never would have happened. Just because you weren’t personally in on
the decisions that were made, they were made because you and all the rest of
the fans wanted to see Kurt receive recognition for all his work and we all
know the mainstream award committees are just going to keep ignoring Sons of
Anarchy. But we fans won’t; will we? Email, it makes things happen!!
Thank you to all the fans
Mark (@Twisted_Shadow) Mitteer
