Time, Cons and Lightsabres.
Nov. 6th, 2006 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lyoreLooking back at my journal, I see it's been far to long since I updated this. I have a variety of reasons - out of state work trips, an internet connection that loves to die just as I start typing - but most of it's just lack of time. More precisely, lack of time for all things fandom :(
There are so many shows I'd like to get more into, both in terms of fandom or just keeping up with releases - Supernatural, for one. Bleach which I am at least 10 episodes behind in. Torchwood - I've downloaded the first couple of episodes, waiting on a chance to watch them. Heroes, which my sister introduced me to last night. The jury's still out on this one (I've only seen the first episode, 5 more waiting to be watched), but it has potential. I'm so far behind on BSG it's not funny, and I'm going to have to rewatch the entire second season to remind me what's going on when I start watching it again. I'm also going through a major JAG and Lois and Clark stage, and I've recently seized by a desire to rewatch FMA as well. That's not even getting started on the massive stack of books (fiction and non-fiction) I have lying about the apartment waiting to be read.
*sigh* These days I don't have enough time for primary media, let alone secondary types like reading fanfiction, or mantaining any sort of internet presence.Which of course why I just got bitten by a very lame SPN plot bunny... Oh, for the days when I was happily mono-fandom.
Anyway, enough whining. Last weekend, against the conspiring forces of my parents, my work, the YHA website, and Cityrail, I made it to my very first convention - Supanova. This was much fun, but also turned out to be rather expensive, due to my complete lack of control for anything concerning Star Wars. More precisely, because of my lack of control about things concerning Luke Skywalker. Long story short, I ended up leaving with a limited-edition, signed-by-Mark-Hamill replica Luke Skywalker lightsabre. So very cool! (You may all want to extend your sympathies tobob_ette - she's been listening to me squee about this all week.)
Oh, and I also bought a very cool Darth Vader figurine, which the security guards spent the rest of the day trying to confiscate for themselves. (The Darth Vader was in a very bright, eye-catching box, the lightsabre in a very boring brown one.) All in all, it was a very fun day, and I'll definitely be going back. Possibly after leaving the credit/keycards at home, for the sake of my bank balance.
End Note: I really wish LJ would justify big blocks of text...
There are so many shows I'd like to get more into, both in terms of fandom or just keeping up with releases - Supernatural, for one. Bleach which I am at least 10 episodes behind in. Torchwood - I've downloaded the first couple of episodes, waiting on a chance to watch them. Heroes, which my sister introduced me to last night. The jury's still out on this one (I've only seen the first episode, 5 more waiting to be watched), but it has potential. I'm so far behind on BSG it's not funny, and I'm going to have to rewatch the entire second season to remind me what's going on when I start watching it again. I'm also going through a major JAG and Lois and Clark stage, and I've recently seized by a desire to rewatch FMA as well. That's not even getting started on the massive stack of books (fiction and non-fiction) I have lying about the apartment waiting to be read.
*sigh* These days I don't have enough time for primary media, let alone secondary types like reading fanfiction, or mantaining any sort of internet presence.
Anyway, enough whining. Last weekend, against the conspiring forces of my parents, my work, the YHA website, and Cityrail, I made it to my very first convention - Supanova. This was much fun, but also turned out to be rather expensive, due to my complete lack of control for anything concerning Star Wars. More precisely, because of my lack of control about things concerning Luke Skywalker. Long story short, I ended up leaving with a limited-edition, signed-by-Mark-Hamill replica Luke Skywalker lightsabre. So very cool! (You may all want to extend your sympathies to
bob_ette - she's been listening to me squee about this all week.)Oh, and I also bought a very cool Darth Vader figurine, which the security guards spent the rest of the day trying to confiscate for themselves. (The Darth Vader was in a very bright, eye-catching box, the lightsabre in a very boring brown one.) All in all, it was a very fun day, and I'll definitely be going back. Possibly after leaving the credit/keycards at home, for the sake of my bank balance.
End Note: I really wish LJ would justify big blocks of text...
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Date: 2006-11-06 09:03 am (UTC)*OMG SO JEALOUS*
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Date: 2006-11-06 09:12 am (UTC)(IT'S SO COOL!) Ahem. Every time I think I hit the limits of my geekery...
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Date: 2006-11-06 04:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-06 09:48 am (UTC)There are so many cons I want to get to next year (read: if you guys are going again, I am so coming with). I also agree a car is needed, but that'll be sorted at a later date. So much money required (but with or without honours I should be free in con season!).
The pilot for Heroes is a bit slow, but the Japanese Trekkie geek kept me amused ("I've broken the space/time continuum!") and I want to know what super powers Porn-Mama has (does disassociative Dr. Hyde count as a super power?).
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Date: 2006-11-06 10:14 am (UTC)Hiro (I think that's his name) was what made the show for me, although I think they could have been less blatant with the X-men parallels. They even had the voice-over at the start and finish!
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Date: 2006-11-06 03:13 pm (UTC)I covet your things. Much. I'd try and confiscate them, too. XD
Conventions sound like lots of fun, but very draining on the wallet.
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Date: 2006-11-07 11:53 am (UTC)It was heaps of fun, and as long as you don't go making extravagent purchases (say, for instance, signed lightsabres), it was a lot cheaper than I was expecting, mostly because everything I wanted was on sale. I'd say, all up, the weekend cost me about $800-900 (including transport and accomodation), and about 3/4 of that was the lightsabre. And that's Aussie dollars, as well.
It also helps if you go with people who DON'T encourage you to buy things, instead of people who egg you on.
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Date: 2006-11-07 01:08 am (UTC)2. My hubby watches Heroes, but I gave up after the first episode, you see, I'm from Odessa Tx., and, well, I couldn't stop laughing. Seriously, Odessa is a flat dry brown desert town with an oil based economy, but the real kicker was the "new mall" Heeee, the town they named is just barely a town, not only do they not have a mall, much less a new one, they don't even rate a strip mill, in fact, they have a gas station, that's it.
3. Too bad on the no time for fanfic as I actually wrote one, it's in the Halloween insanity of wonder (Umm, the Supernatural ficathon)
4. OMFG YOU RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM BEYOND JEALOUS! I would give a kidney to get to a Star Wars con! (My hubby bought me the purple lightsaber, you know the GOOD one, for X-mas last year, he knows me so well)
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Date: 2006-11-07 12:00 pm (UTC)2. That's one reason I'm glad just about everything I watch is either set in America or some sort of mythical/fantasical/warped version of the real world - I have no idea what sort of real life facts they are messing up :)
3. When I get a chance, I'll check it out. More fic to read is goodness, despite the lack of time.
4. All my uni/work friends know to get my Star Wars things as presents, but I am yet to convince my family that they are an acceptable substitute for towels/kitchen utensiles/other useful yet boring things. I'm still working on it...