Hyperion report part 2
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beccaelizabethContinued from yesterday, plus some bits I missed-
Amy Acker is going to be in the film 'The Novice', which I think she said was about a trainee priest having to decide between having a family and taking his vows. AA plays the girl he meets. Is being filmed in Alabama.
About Illyria some more- JW took her for coffee to break the news about Fred and Illyria. First he just said he was going to kill Fred then left her hanging for a few moments, then started explaining about the new character. To get Illyria right AA went over to JW's house and practiced the moves. Apparently the lights in his kitchen can change color so they set them to blue and had her walk around in there.
Sparky on Saturday had pictures of the Saving Angel chocolate bars. A bunch of the guests mentioned the campaign and they all seemed grateful. Julie Benz in particular said thanks, I think at the closing ceremony. It felt great every time anyone said anything because even though they mostly said the campaign couldnt do anything they all liked it and I was part of it. I mean I sent money for the chocolate bars and the advertising, so even tho is only a very small part I was part, so it was like they were thanking me. And probably most of the other people in the room, but I just felt extra good.
The other thing most guests mentioned at some point was reality TV. I've heard the rant so many times now I kind of breeze out, but totally preaching to the choir. The closest I want to get to reality is home makeover shows, because pretty. The rest is a really dumb use for tv, cause reality is just right outside the window, so why use the box??
Dayne did proper Illyria makeup, complete with contact lenses. That cost about $1000. They are hand painted. There is a lot more detail in the Illyria makeup than I ever really noticed from the screen, which had the odd effect of making it look less accurate up close. Well, to me. There are white and black squiggles in with the blue, but I only really noticed the blue. The base color is alabaster and is very cold looking. Applied by airbrush. All the main actors get their makeup by airbrush except Mercedes McNab, who doesnt like it. Its a great way of getting a really smooth finish. Somewhat counteracts the effects of aging.
Actually its amazing the amount of data that gets conveyed whilst he is doing all this work. I know he has had a lot of practice but I dont know if I could ever do the fiddly painting and the talking at once.
Sunday was when I started to lost track of who said what. My eyes were blurry, I was overloaded, I spent most of the talks with my fingers in my ears and my eyes closed trying to concentrate on the data. Which works if and only if I can tell people voices apart, at least well enough to look up when they change who is answering something. So, I may get attributions wrong, which is potentially embarrassing. Mostly I'm just not going to remember stuff. Full up brain takes no more data despite my best efforts. So take the Sunday report with even more of a pinch of salt than usual.
Clare Kramer & Julie Benz
I think these were the two that were asked if they would take an ongoing role that meant no variety but job security. If so this led to talking about astrology. Clare Kramer, virgo, doesnt read or believe. The other person talking (which if it was this talke was JB) reads every day. CK reads if its next to the crossoword. I think. Did I mention today got real fuzzy?
Sarah Thompson & Jenny Mollen
Jenny Mollen likes Watchmen, favourite character Rorschach
Also they were asked the 'who would you lick chocolate sauce off' question and I think she said Angelina Jolie.
Previously she had said that she always says telling your parents you are an actor is like coming out to them, with sitting them down and trying to explain and everything.
So, I'm wondering, just a teensy tiny bit. And not just because, pretty. And into comics. Into the really good comics that geeks know about and non geeks tend not to. And I'm not totally instantly in love, because she is dog people. She has a poodle. Brown poodle. She speaks to it only in german so it only obeys her commands. But she is losing her german because she cant find anyone to speak it with.
When they were filming Unleashed the director was a woman and tried to be protective of stuff like nudity and how she might be uncomfortable hanging around in chains getting wet and naked. She had like stick on bits covering relevant areas but got wet enough they kidna stopped working. When she was in Smile Time the director was totally in his own space and not thinking about that kind of stuff at all. She showed more on screen than she thought she had on that one. So for the episode where she was in bed with Angel she told JW that she didnt want to be naked, so she got that little camisole. Which imho looked odd but I can understand why she would want to do that. I can even turn it into character stuff.
Apparently she learned from Julie Benz this weekend that JB always writes stuff all over the bits she doesnt want to be seen on screen, like 'if you can see this you are too close'. Which I think is a trick Stephanie Romanov talked about on stage at a previous convention and JB thought was neat. So its kinda cool watching people pass the idea along.
Sarah Thompson was also on stage. She said things. I'm sure she said things.
Ah right, sex scenes with DB. Apparently with the thing behind the couch there was a whole lot of laughing. Soooo, her reaction to DB sex scenes is amusement? Heh. No comment. But she said that they were told to just be really silly, so there was lots of goofy stuff going on that we dont see in the finished version.
Jenny said when she got the naked scene she was just playing with DB's skin and he was kinda 'what are you doing' but she was just getting into the scene.
Vincent Kartheiser
MEOW!!!!!
"Some of you are obviously *cue Dr Evil style air brackets* 'Too cool to miaow' - don't think I didn't see you,".
Okay, VK is *insane* and he took the rest of us right along with him. This was fun. I dont have many coherent memories of this talk. I didnt meow, not because I'm too cool but because I was laughing too hard. He got half the room to meow all pretty and sweet and the other half to meow all angry, and pointed at the half he wanted to meow next and it was just... It made absolutely no sense even at the time, and yet it was so fun.
Questions were also asked. One of them started out 'it says in the con booklet that you have been to all the states of America' and he said something like 'that's a lie. But I've been telling it for a really long time so it feels true. Like when I was 23 and telling myself I wasnt a virgin, and then I was having sex and that was actually a new thing.' hmmm, not quoting it correctly, but you get the general idea. VK will talk about anything. So, the other question I remember would have been utterly out of order for any other guest I can think of, yet VK seemed to take it in stride. Someone was nominated to ask a question for a group who were too embarrassed to get up and ask it themselves. And well they should have been. The question was 'What is your favourite sexual position.'
He had trouble picking a favourite because 'some days you want apple juice, some days you want cranberry, other days you want to mix them up and have cranapple'. But he chose 'The Princess and the Pea. Of course it wasnt called that before me. It used to be The Princess and the foot long german sausage'. Lol.
He had been asked the who would you lick chocolate sauce off question last year and he'd said Liz Hurley, but no one much liked that answer then. So he's gotten over it now. So who would he choose? Looks down at the lady asking the question - 'Well you, of course.'
He just goes out of his way to give us all a happy.
Dayne Johnson and Andy Hallett
Dayne consistently referred to Andy as "her" and "she" (and madame, and I think her majesty from the neighbour), as Andy did Dayne. They are obviously good friends. Dayne had a funny story about taking Andy to the hospital. Well, funny the way he told it, and as long as you dont think too hard about the implications. Did I mention it was kinda scary being around Andy this weekend? He is a star for turning up but also *insane*.
ANYway, the doorbell story. Dayne was going to visit Andy. The doctor had been round his babysitting Andy (which Andy likes so much)(funny expression from Andy) because AH was trying to do too much on his own. Like breathe.
So Dayne was determined to get him to go to the hospital. So he knocked on the door, and rang the doorbell, and would not give up because he knew Andy was inside. But after a while there was this *thud* noise, almost like a shot going off. Jumped back, then rang the door again. *Thud* again. Then a third time, *thud clang crash*. Andy had taken a hammer to the doorbell. He opened the door, not even looking to see who it was, and said 'You wont be using that again'. Then he saw and was all 'Oh hi Dayne'.
Apparently he thought it was Mark Lutz. ML is his neighbour. He likes ringing the doorbell a lot. Andy hides upstair in his study, where you cant see he is home. Unless you climb on the wall and up the balcony. Which ML does. Leading to some fun moments when he just appears unexpectedly in an upstairs window.
Andy took three tries just to hit the bell with a hammer. Which apparently greatly resembles his accuracy with clay pigeons on the range. Dayne is apparently a master marksman, the army tried to recruit him 'long ago' (funny expression from Dayne), and the stunt guy is good too, so they went shooting and Andy tried and he is really really bad. The others dont miss, he hit all of two. So Dayne said he was just as accurate with a hammer.
And then DJ took him to the hospital and after that see http://www.andyhallett.com/ letter about being just out of ICU and having to rest rest rest. So, conventions are restful. Who knew?
Brody Hutzler joined them on stage but I dont think he said anything.
Then Sparky came out and joined them, so there were four guys trying to fit on to the one poof. Sofa thingy, like in the middle of the hyperion lobby.
Sparky does impressions, but of behind the scenes people so while they were interesting voices they didnt amuse as much the attendees as they did the guests, who know who they are of. Andy kept trying to get him to do voices but Sparky kept pointing out we wouldnt know the people anyway.
AH didnt remember the Lil Boo story he told last year. Obviously that was last years joke.
He said he didnt want a romance or anything extra for his character this year because just from getting into makeup every day he had enough on his plate.
When they were filming in Vegas the bars were open 24/7 so whenever they finished filming guess where Andy could be found? Also Sparky is the one who makes up his 'seabreeze', water and coloring. Whenever he gives it to Andy he asks something like is that the good stuff and Sparky replies 'Absolutely' because, Absolut vodka. Vodka is Andy's preferred drink.
When they were in Vegas Lorne's competition was a chicken. Who played tic-tac-toe. And if you could beat it you won huge amounts of money. So there were qs lining up to play against this chicken. Real popular famous chicken.
David Boreanaz is afraid of chicken. Of 'all fowl' actually, but especially chicken. (I'm having Young Guns giggles. Did *you* see the size of that chicken?) So AH and Sparky used to joke about AH would sneak a chicken into DBs trailer, but have feathers on his shoes and get caught.
The main thing that was obvious from this talk is these guys have been working together for a long, long time and have jokes that are funnier from the inside, and the same running jokes for a long time. It was neat to see but a bit involved to tell.
When the talk was over practically everyone left, but they announced they were going to show Not Fade Away on the big screen so I stayed. And once again the steward seating was suspended so I got to sit right down the front again. This was only the third time I've watched it through, and the first time I watched without pauses for commenting.
Closing ceremony was as usual very emotional, and everyone thanked everyone, and the guests thanked Sean and all thanked us the attendees and fans. We kept Angel going for those years and they were really grateful.
Costumes and dancing once again. I had a plan for the costume for the night but my tights turned out to be laddered all up the inside and I wasnt in the mood to show that much skin anyway. So I just put a regular top and trousers under the robe. Only I also wore my corset, for purely structural reasons- it does the sitting up for you, and my shoulders hurt so much from straps, and everything bounced too much... tmi? Anyways, corsets good. But it meant my cleavage was all HELloooo... just really sticking up out there. Rather impressive. And I wasnt in an impressive mood. So I kept the robe on at least as a cloak all night because the triangle at the front mostly covered the cleavage. Also because cloaks are just fun. Um, yes, this would be of interest to me only... okays, but I had fun and was shiny.
I danced, again, and though I could no longer properly lift my right arm and kept getting random pins and needles and all my joints clicked I actually did have fun, albeit sort of limping lopsided fun.
Best part? Temple of love. Yaaay! Yes, I know, it almost (but not quite) clears the dance floor every time. Theres like half a dozen other people that dance to it. But thats a whole half dozen. And for me it is quintessential convention music, because the first time I was aware of hearing it was the first convention I ever went too. When I discovered goth. Life changer. So it kinda means a lot to me. Also, pretty. And goth dancing I can do- you sort of pose dramatically in time to the music. And sway a bit if you feel ambitious. This is manageable even with my coordination. So I was all happy. :-) ;-) :-)
Andy Hallett came out last thing at night, around 2am, and sang for the remains of the crowd. It was very cool. Andy sang "Superstitious". He has a great voice and loves the music and as ever you could hear it, even though you could also hear the tired compared to his totally manic energy last year. I danced and listened and it was fun.
Then it was officially the end of the party. All out of the hall. So I finally remembered my disc rifle and decided this was a good time to start shooting people :-) Is more fun shooting at people that shoot back, but if you shoot random people, for reasons unknown, they usually bring back the discs. Too British for their own good I guess. I hung around with remaining Jedi Chefs and shot them too. And random people on next table, who borrowed a gun, so then it turned into a decent fight. I was at this point still wearing the corset, but when I ended up on the floor hiding behind a chair and crawling to grab spare discs I did something painful to the thing and had to go disassemble it in the bathroom. It got stuck. Very undignified. But, did good service, kept it on until about 3am and was way more comfortable than I had been without it. Decent underpinnings an engineering necessity.
Some other people were having a water fight out in the car park, after having borrowed the disc guns for a while. I dont get water fights. Costume gets all drippy. Foam discs way more fun.
By 4am, time to go sleep. But that was a fun couple of hours.
As usual I had a brilliant time. Conventions rule. Parties and costumes and shooting things and also famous people. Totally rules. I look forward to the next one and lament that they cant be every single weekend. Well, actually at the moment they kind of are, but I cant manage to get to them that often. The post con cold seems to be kicking in already and my throat feels like I swallowed a cactus, plus theres the exhaustion and muscle ache situation, and the mysterious bruises. Think I'd fall apart if I tried to get to cons more than I do. But they are so totally worth it. Brilliant good fun.
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kabukivice has a con report here, and is the one that asks all the questions in Q&As, so remembers good stuff I'd forgotten.
http://serpensortia.org/cl/ has some good viewable pictures
feel free to add more links in the comments if y'all know any
Amy Acker is going to be in the film 'The Novice', which I think she said was about a trainee priest having to decide between having a family and taking his vows. AA plays the girl he meets. Is being filmed in Alabama.
About Illyria some more- JW took her for coffee to break the news about Fred and Illyria. First he just said he was going to kill Fred then left her hanging for a few moments, then started explaining about the new character. To get Illyria right AA went over to JW's house and practiced the moves. Apparently the lights in his kitchen can change color so they set them to blue and had her walk around in there.
Sparky on Saturday had pictures of the Saving Angel chocolate bars. A bunch of the guests mentioned the campaign and they all seemed grateful. Julie Benz in particular said thanks, I think at the closing ceremony. It felt great every time anyone said anything because even though they mostly said the campaign couldnt do anything they all liked it and I was part of it. I mean I sent money for the chocolate bars and the advertising, so even tho is only a very small part I was part, so it was like they were thanking me. And probably most of the other people in the room, but I just felt extra good.
The other thing most guests mentioned at some point was reality TV. I've heard the rant so many times now I kind of breeze out, but totally preaching to the choir. The closest I want to get to reality is home makeover shows, because pretty. The rest is a really dumb use for tv, cause reality is just right outside the window, so why use the box??
Dayne did proper Illyria makeup, complete with contact lenses. That cost about $1000. They are hand painted. There is a lot more detail in the Illyria makeup than I ever really noticed from the screen, which had the odd effect of making it look less accurate up close. Well, to me. There are white and black squiggles in with the blue, but I only really noticed the blue. The base color is alabaster and is very cold looking. Applied by airbrush. All the main actors get their makeup by airbrush except Mercedes McNab, who doesnt like it. Its a great way of getting a really smooth finish. Somewhat counteracts the effects of aging.
Actually its amazing the amount of data that gets conveyed whilst he is doing all this work. I know he has had a lot of practice but I dont know if I could ever do the fiddly painting and the talking at once.
Sunday was when I started to lost track of who said what. My eyes were blurry, I was overloaded, I spent most of the talks with my fingers in my ears and my eyes closed trying to concentrate on the data. Which works if and only if I can tell people voices apart, at least well enough to look up when they change who is answering something. So, I may get attributions wrong, which is potentially embarrassing. Mostly I'm just not going to remember stuff. Full up brain takes no more data despite my best efforts. So take the Sunday report with even more of a pinch of salt than usual.
Clare Kramer & Julie Benz
I think these were the two that were asked if they would take an ongoing role that meant no variety but job security. If so this led to talking about astrology. Clare Kramer, virgo, doesnt read or believe. The other person talking (which if it was this talke was JB) reads every day. CK reads if its next to the crossoword. I think. Did I mention today got real fuzzy?
Sarah Thompson & Jenny Mollen
Jenny Mollen likes Watchmen, favourite character Rorschach
Also they were asked the 'who would you lick chocolate sauce off' question and I think she said Angelina Jolie.
Previously she had said that she always says telling your parents you are an actor is like coming out to them, with sitting them down and trying to explain and everything.
So, I'm wondering, just a teensy tiny bit. And not just because, pretty. And into comics. Into the really good comics that geeks know about and non geeks tend not to. And I'm not totally instantly in love, because she is dog people. She has a poodle. Brown poodle. She speaks to it only in german so it only obeys her commands. But she is losing her german because she cant find anyone to speak it with.
When they were filming Unleashed the director was a woman and tried to be protective of stuff like nudity and how she might be uncomfortable hanging around in chains getting wet and naked. She had like stick on bits covering relevant areas but got wet enough they kidna stopped working. When she was in Smile Time the director was totally in his own space and not thinking about that kind of stuff at all. She showed more on screen than she thought she had on that one. So for the episode where she was in bed with Angel she told JW that she didnt want to be naked, so she got that little camisole. Which imho looked odd but I can understand why she would want to do that. I can even turn it into character stuff.
Apparently she learned from Julie Benz this weekend that JB always writes stuff all over the bits she doesnt want to be seen on screen, like 'if you can see this you are too close'. Which I think is a trick Stephanie Romanov talked about on stage at a previous convention and JB thought was neat. So its kinda cool watching people pass the idea along.
Sarah Thompson was also on stage. She said things. I'm sure she said things.
Ah right, sex scenes with DB. Apparently with the thing behind the couch there was a whole lot of laughing. Soooo, her reaction to DB sex scenes is amusement? Heh. No comment. But she said that they were told to just be really silly, so there was lots of goofy stuff going on that we dont see in the finished version.
Jenny said when she got the naked scene she was just playing with DB's skin and he was kinda 'what are you doing' but she was just getting into the scene.
Vincent Kartheiser
MEOW!!!!!
"Some of you are obviously *cue Dr Evil style air brackets* 'Too cool to miaow' - don't think I didn't see you,".
Okay, VK is *insane* and he took the rest of us right along with him. This was fun. I dont have many coherent memories of this talk. I didnt meow, not because I'm too cool but because I was laughing too hard. He got half the room to meow all pretty and sweet and the other half to meow all angry, and pointed at the half he wanted to meow next and it was just... It made absolutely no sense even at the time, and yet it was so fun.
Questions were also asked. One of them started out 'it says in the con booklet that you have been to all the states of America' and he said something like 'that's a lie. But I've been telling it for a really long time so it feels true. Like when I was 23 and telling myself I wasnt a virgin, and then I was having sex and that was actually a new thing.' hmmm, not quoting it correctly, but you get the general idea. VK will talk about anything. So, the other question I remember would have been utterly out of order for any other guest I can think of, yet VK seemed to take it in stride. Someone was nominated to ask a question for a group who were too embarrassed to get up and ask it themselves. And well they should have been. The question was 'What is your favourite sexual position.'
He had trouble picking a favourite because 'some days you want apple juice, some days you want cranberry, other days you want to mix them up and have cranapple'. But he chose 'The Princess and the Pea. Of course it wasnt called that before me. It used to be The Princess and the foot long german sausage'. Lol.
He had been asked the who would you lick chocolate sauce off question last year and he'd said Liz Hurley, but no one much liked that answer then. So he's gotten over it now. So who would he choose? Looks down at the lady asking the question - 'Well you, of course.'
He just goes out of his way to give us all a happy.
Dayne Johnson and Andy Hallett
Dayne consistently referred to Andy as "her" and "she" (and madame, and I think her majesty from the neighbour), as Andy did Dayne. They are obviously good friends. Dayne had a funny story about taking Andy to the hospital. Well, funny the way he told it, and as long as you dont think too hard about the implications. Did I mention it was kinda scary being around Andy this weekend? He is a star for turning up but also *insane*.
ANYway, the doorbell story. Dayne was going to visit Andy. The doctor had been round his babysitting Andy (which Andy likes so much)(funny expression from Andy) because AH was trying to do too much on his own. Like breathe.
So Dayne was determined to get him to go to the hospital. So he knocked on the door, and rang the doorbell, and would not give up because he knew Andy was inside. But after a while there was this *thud* noise, almost like a shot going off. Jumped back, then rang the door again. *Thud* again. Then a third time, *thud clang crash*. Andy had taken a hammer to the doorbell. He opened the door, not even looking to see who it was, and said 'You wont be using that again'. Then he saw and was all 'Oh hi Dayne'.
Apparently he thought it was Mark Lutz. ML is his neighbour. He likes ringing the doorbell a lot. Andy hides upstair in his study, where you cant see he is home. Unless you climb on the wall and up the balcony. Which ML does. Leading to some fun moments when he just appears unexpectedly in an upstairs window.
Andy took three tries just to hit the bell with a hammer. Which apparently greatly resembles his accuracy with clay pigeons on the range. Dayne is apparently a master marksman, the army tried to recruit him 'long ago' (funny expression from Dayne), and the stunt guy is good too, so they went shooting and Andy tried and he is really really bad. The others dont miss, he hit all of two. So Dayne said he was just as accurate with a hammer.
And then DJ took him to the hospital and after that see http://www.andyhallett.com/ letter about being just out of ICU and having to rest rest rest. So, conventions are restful. Who knew?
Brody Hutzler joined them on stage but I dont think he said anything.
Then Sparky came out and joined them, so there were four guys trying to fit on to the one poof. Sofa thingy, like in the middle of the hyperion lobby.
Sparky does impressions, but of behind the scenes people so while they were interesting voices they didnt amuse as much the attendees as they did the guests, who know who they are of. Andy kept trying to get him to do voices but Sparky kept pointing out we wouldnt know the people anyway.
AH didnt remember the Lil Boo story he told last year. Obviously that was last years joke.
He said he didnt want a romance or anything extra for his character this year because just from getting into makeup every day he had enough on his plate.
When they were filming in Vegas the bars were open 24/7 so whenever they finished filming guess where Andy could be found? Also Sparky is the one who makes up his 'seabreeze', water and coloring. Whenever he gives it to Andy he asks something like is that the good stuff and Sparky replies 'Absolutely' because, Absolut vodka. Vodka is Andy's preferred drink.
When they were in Vegas Lorne's competition was a chicken. Who played tic-tac-toe. And if you could beat it you won huge amounts of money. So there were qs lining up to play against this chicken. Real popular famous chicken.
David Boreanaz is afraid of chicken. Of 'all fowl' actually, but especially chicken. (I'm having Young Guns giggles. Did *you* see the size of that chicken?) So AH and Sparky used to joke about AH would sneak a chicken into DBs trailer, but have feathers on his shoes and get caught.
The main thing that was obvious from this talk is these guys have been working together for a long, long time and have jokes that are funnier from the inside, and the same running jokes for a long time. It was neat to see but a bit involved to tell.
When the talk was over practically everyone left, but they announced they were going to show Not Fade Away on the big screen so I stayed. And once again the steward seating was suspended so I got to sit right down the front again. This was only the third time I've watched it through, and the first time I watched without pauses for commenting.
Closing ceremony was as usual very emotional, and everyone thanked everyone, and the guests thanked Sean and all thanked us the attendees and fans. We kept Angel going for those years and they were really grateful.
Costumes and dancing once again. I had a plan for the costume for the night but my tights turned out to be laddered all up the inside and I wasnt in the mood to show that much skin anyway. So I just put a regular top and trousers under the robe. Only I also wore my corset, for purely structural reasons- it does the sitting up for you, and my shoulders hurt so much from straps, and everything bounced too much... tmi? Anyways, corsets good. But it meant my cleavage was all HELloooo... just really sticking up out there. Rather impressive. And I wasnt in an impressive mood. So I kept the robe on at least as a cloak all night because the triangle at the front mostly covered the cleavage. Also because cloaks are just fun. Um, yes, this would be of interest to me only... okays, but I had fun and was shiny.
I danced, again, and though I could no longer properly lift my right arm and kept getting random pins and needles and all my joints clicked I actually did have fun, albeit sort of limping lopsided fun.
Best part? Temple of love. Yaaay! Yes, I know, it almost (but not quite) clears the dance floor every time. Theres like half a dozen other people that dance to it. But thats a whole half dozen. And for me it is quintessential convention music, because the first time I was aware of hearing it was the first convention I ever went too. When I discovered goth. Life changer. So it kinda means a lot to me. Also, pretty. And goth dancing I can do- you sort of pose dramatically in time to the music. And sway a bit if you feel ambitious. This is manageable even with my coordination. So I was all happy. :-) ;-) :-)
Andy Hallett came out last thing at night, around 2am, and sang for the remains of the crowd. It was very cool. Andy sang "Superstitious". He has a great voice and loves the music and as ever you could hear it, even though you could also hear the tired compared to his totally manic energy last year. I danced and listened and it was fun.
Then it was officially the end of the party. All out of the hall. So I finally remembered my disc rifle and decided this was a good time to start shooting people :-) Is more fun shooting at people that shoot back, but if you shoot random people, for reasons unknown, they usually bring back the discs. Too British for their own good I guess. I hung around with remaining Jedi Chefs and shot them too. And random people on next table, who borrowed a gun, so then it turned into a decent fight. I was at this point still wearing the corset, but when I ended up on the floor hiding behind a chair and crawling to grab spare discs I did something painful to the thing and had to go disassemble it in the bathroom. It got stuck. Very undignified. But, did good service, kept it on until about 3am and was way more comfortable than I had been without it. Decent underpinnings an engineering necessity.
Some other people were having a water fight out in the car park, after having borrowed the disc guns for a while. I dont get water fights. Costume gets all drippy. Foam discs way more fun.
By 4am, time to go sleep. But that was a fun couple of hours.
As usual I had a brilliant time. Conventions rule. Parties and costumes and shooting things and also famous people. Totally rules. I look forward to the next one and lament that they cant be every single weekend. Well, actually at the moment they kind of are, but I cant manage to get to them that often. The post con cold seems to be kicking in already and my throat feels like I swallowed a cactus, plus theres the exhaustion and muscle ache situation, and the mysterious bruises. Think I'd fall apart if I tried to get to cons more than I do. But they are so totally worth it. Brilliant good fun.
kabukivice has a con report here, and is the one that asks all the questions in Q&As, so remembers good stuff I'd forgotten.http://serpensortia.org/cl/ has some good viewable pictures
feel free to add more links in the comments if y'all know any
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Date: 2004-06-16 11:39 am (UTC)has links to other reports and photos
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Date: 2004-06-17 01:36 am (UTC)Julie Benz tightened her corsets so much they gave her kidney problems by the end of the season. Silly. Corsets are so comfortable if you learn how to do them right.
Andy has fans. Little hand held cool air blowing machines. Someone gave him one because it was really hot on stage, but he usually has many many on the set. He loses them a lot. So he only gets the really cheap ones, the ones where the blades go up when they spin and fall down again when they stop. Except sometimes due to cheap they just spin off and go flying. Which is funny.
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Date: 2004-06-18 09:37 am (UTC)someone else took a pic of me
with my shiny bits showing
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Date: 2004-06-25 03:21 pm (UTC)http://www.planet-zhadum.com/jedichefs/training.html
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Date: 2004-06-20 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-25 03:20 pm (UTC)another con report
and http://www.livejournal.com/users/rozk/44556.html
more of a con comment