con report!
Classical @ 10:25 am CST
so i'm back from CONvergence, liek whoa!
this was my third year going there, and was probably the most disappointing of them all. but i still did have fun.
as per normal, we started our journey with the dealer's room and the art show. the russian lady with all the cool stuff was back this year (she was there the first year, but not last year), so i made sure to pick up the 'mclenin's' t-shirt that i had missed out on the first year. and that was it, beside some more buttons. :B
i wish i had picked up this one artist's business card or something at the art show, because i fell in love with their works.
and then... we didn't do too much. the cinema and the anime room were not playing very good films or anime this year. we watched azumanga daioh for about two hours. my brain started leaking out of my ears after an hour, though. XD that is such a...mind-numbing show. i can't watch it for more than a little while without feeling my brain cells dying.
so more wandering-around happened. we picked up dinner at the tgi friday's across the parking lot so we could eat it in line for the masquerade. which was fabulous and totally worth waiting for two hours in line for to get a good seat. <3 waiting wasn't much of an issue, anyway... i savored ze cajin shimp and chicken pasta i got and then did some sketches of some of the congoers.
ANYWAY. omg, the enteries were so awesome this year. there was this really great lady in a jellyfish costume that was so expertly put together. it was beautiful. and then... there was the insanely awesome doctor who/rocky horror crossover with a bit of 'pimp my ride u.k. style' mixed in to make me oh-so happy. we were time warping in our seats, so much fun.
some other great enteries was a skit from 'alice in wonderland'... it was entered in the 'novice' catergory, but the costumes were so damn original and creative and well-put together that i don't think they were really such novices. XD and then, of course, a great jack sparrow costume, a dance from hello kitty (when klingons go corporate), and 'llamatron 2000.'
the professional skits from soylent theatre were really good, too, even though i didn't understand a couple of the references they made. otherwise, yay!
and then came toast (this year was vanilla pudding with cinnamon and sprinkles) and the midnight movie. which was...TERRIBLE. lifeforce is like watching soft-core space vampire cable porn. it was totally made just for the sake of seeing this naked woman walk around on screen for an hour. and though i am very numb when it comes to blood and gore, there was this one scene that made my stomach turn a little and i actually had to look away.
besides that, the acting was terrible and the plot had more holes than you could shake a stick at. i made several trips to the bathroom so i wouldn't have to watch all of it. (i passed the main area a few times; there was like...this rave going on or something. XD y'know how hotels always smell like chlorine? the smell of booze completely overpowered that right there.) i was so tempted to leave after that because of my dissapointment, but i stuck around with alexa and her friend from MCAD, tyler, for the fifth element.
and that totally made up for it. XD
slightly cyber-punk movies made me happy inside. i loved that movie to pieces.
after that, i was so wired from all the caffiene and the complete mood turn-around that i stayed up 'til six-thirty with alexa and tyler and some of his friends, sitting in front of the coffee shop and laughing at the strangest things. we counted drunk people, told stories, and laughed at the strangest things. i spotted my 'eye candy for the con,' who was this guy that i think i've seen there before, but in any case, he looked exactly like keanu reeves.
anyway, we were all lying on the couches and unable to get up by then, but i dragged my ass to bed for four hours so i wouldn't be totally dead the next day.
though it didn't help much. :P
i left pretty much right away so i could get some shopping done. which was a dumb idea, but i had to try. the trip to the mall was rather unsuccessful, though i did pick up this awesome striped zipper hoodie.
so, in all, the lack of good movies and anime was pretty dissapointing, because that's what we usually spend our time doing there. but the masquerade, the fifth element, and my t-shirt pretty much made up for it not being a total dissapointment.
i just hope next year's better. :D we will all be eighteen then and not needing parential guidance. i think we will try to bring more people then, along with costumes and staying there the whole three days next time.
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