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Summer World Tour!!
Jul. 14th, 2008 05:04 pmI have a busy month or two coming up! LOL! I suppose busy for me is actually leaving the house. I don't get out much. Maybe that's sad... I just don't really live near anything worth going to.
BUT, I am getting out and about.
Myahem Festival Tuesday- as in tomorrow I go to the Mayhem Festival in Fresno! Wow! I haven't been to a concert in awhile. Because I am lame I will try to remeber to take cotton for earplugs. Sorry, I like my hearing. I will also be packing lunch and dinner and maybe snackies and hoping they let me in with them. It's at the Savemart Center and I don't think I've ever been there. Apparently there are all sorts of out door vendors and what not, and the concerts are inside??? I don't know. I just really hope I won't have to use a porta potty. I dread them like nothing else. I specifically asked my cousin if it was indoors before he bought hte tickets because I sure as shit wasn't going to an outdoor music fest in Fresno, in summer with nothing but chem toilets. The worst part is I'm just getting over a head cold and I don't want to get sick again. Boo for head colds! It hasn't been too bad though I do have this awful smoker's cough which is my lungs clearing themselves of phlegm...
San Diego ComiCon- SDCC here I come! I will couch surfing for this trip and spending NOTHING! I swear! This is less a fun trip than career salvage anyway. Wish me luck! I will also be taking the troly a lot so I don't want to schlep tons of purchases around all day. Apparently there is also a cut-off time when the trolly quits so I don't want to be stranded. I'm going to be throwing myself on the mercy of the locals. Goals for con- make contacts! Pass out business cards... pray for work, sacrifice to the comicbook gods...
Ani-jam- Fresno- technically this is next month but whatever. I have a table I'm splitting with some friends of mine and we are selling off our old manga/toys/games/books. We are in the vendors room this time and I am gathering up all the manga I want to sell. I'm debating wether or not to sell D. Grey-Man vol 1-3. I like the art a lot, but the story is so painfully typical. It's very much a combination of FMA/Naruto/Bleach which seems to be so common nowadays. I'm getting really sick of such formulaic manga.
Speaking of manga pet peeves- I've been watching a show on animefuel.com called Darker Than Black which has reminded me why I love anime! My love had almost been killed by Narutards and squeeling fangirls. BUT Darker Than Black is strange, complex, and subtle. SO unlike the silly overwrought, melodramatic, eyecandy that so much anime has turned into lately *coughcodegiess*. I'm so tired of hyper pretty characters with ubertragic childhoods which give rise to their oh-so-tragic presents. Gah! I hate Naruto! After seeing the hilariously tragic pasts of Gaara and Sasuke my brain just rebelled. There is a point at which melodrama becomes comedy and Naruto has crossed that line multiple times. A tragic past DOES NOT neccessarily make you interesting and it's time writers learned that! Especially manga-ka! Although I can't say I'm entirely guilt free- Priscilla is an orphan- but the book isn't about that. It doesn't dwell on her tragic past and her present circumstances arn't tragic either so I feel it balances. Seriously though! I'm going to write about well adjusted characters thrown into extraordinary circumstances too.
Of course- all this said- I'm only on episode 10 of Darker Than Black and they still have time to ruin it like they did Wolf's Rain and Witch-Hunter Robin...
BUT, I am getting out and about.
Myahem Festival Tuesday- as in tomorrow I go to the Mayhem Festival in Fresno! Wow! I haven't been to a concert in awhile. Because I am lame I will try to remeber to take cotton for earplugs. Sorry, I like my hearing. I will also be packing lunch and dinner and maybe snackies and hoping they let me in with them. It's at the Savemart Center and I don't think I've ever been there. Apparently there are all sorts of out door vendors and what not, and the concerts are inside??? I don't know. I just really hope I won't have to use a porta potty. I dread them like nothing else. I specifically asked my cousin if it was indoors before he bought hte tickets because I sure as shit wasn't going to an outdoor music fest in Fresno, in summer with nothing but chem toilets. The worst part is I'm just getting over a head cold and I don't want to get sick again. Boo for head colds! It hasn't been too bad though I do have this awful smoker's cough which is my lungs clearing themselves of phlegm...
San Diego ComiCon- SDCC here I come! I will couch surfing for this trip and spending NOTHING! I swear! This is less a fun trip than career salvage anyway. Wish me luck! I will also be taking the troly a lot so I don't want to schlep tons of purchases around all day. Apparently there is also a cut-off time when the trolly quits so I don't want to be stranded. I'm going to be throwing myself on the mercy of the locals. Goals for con- make contacts! Pass out business cards... pray for work, sacrifice to the comicbook gods...
Ani-jam- Fresno- technically this is next month but whatever. I have a table I'm splitting with some friends of mine and we are selling off our old manga/toys/games/books. We are in the vendors room this time and I am gathering up all the manga I want to sell. I'm debating wether or not to sell D. Grey-Man vol 1-3. I like the art a lot, but the story is so painfully typical. It's very much a combination of FMA/Naruto/Bleach which seems to be so common nowadays. I'm getting really sick of such formulaic manga.
Speaking of manga pet peeves- I've been watching a show on animefuel.com called Darker Than Black which has reminded me why I love anime! My love had almost been killed by Narutards and squeeling fangirls. BUT Darker Than Black is strange, complex, and subtle. SO unlike the silly overwrought, melodramatic, eyecandy that so much anime has turned into lately *coughcodegiess*. I'm so tired of hyper pretty characters with ubertragic childhoods which give rise to their oh-so-tragic presents. Gah! I hate Naruto! After seeing the hilariously tragic pasts of Gaara and Sasuke my brain just rebelled. There is a point at which melodrama becomes comedy and Naruto has crossed that line multiple times. A tragic past DOES NOT neccessarily make you interesting and it's time writers learned that! Especially manga-ka! Although I can't say I'm entirely guilt free- Priscilla is an orphan- but the book isn't about that. It doesn't dwell on her tragic past and her present circumstances arn't tragic either so I feel it balances. Seriously though! I'm going to write about well adjusted characters thrown into extraordinary circumstances too.
Of course- all this said- I'm only on episode 10 of Darker Than Black and they still have time to ruin it like they did Wolf's Rain and Witch-Hunter Robin...
