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It was a little...weird, to say the least, to hear my roommate launch into a rant about how Harry and Hermione were the true OTP and how perfect for each other and why did they hook up with the sidekicks (insert fist shake here).
I blame the movies, because Daniel and Emma had tons more chemistry than that other guy whose name I don't remember. (But then, my roommate actually read the books, and was rooting for the U.S.S. Harmony.)
Why now, you ask? Daniel Radcliffe was in the news pimping the new movie.
- Mood:
amused
And I'm wondering who the hell is the model and why she's so skinny. XD
Okay. Things are going to be a bit patchy here for the next seven days, due to work and travel. So no more Station Idents, I’m just going to post when I can.
FAQs for San Diego, then:
* PLANETARY #27 comes out in October, I’m told.
* FELL #10 is underway right now on this end, so don’t bug Ben. We’re on it. It’ll be a while before it’s ready.
* DESOLATION JONES remains in temporary limbo for various reasons. Wildstorm and I are working on it, is all you need to know.
* NEWUNIVERSAL remains on pause while Steve and I do an IRON MAN thing, and we’ll return to finish it once we’re done. Scheduling was the enemy — after the loss of the computer, there were only so many scripts and stories I could reconstitute simultaneously, and ASTONISHING X-MEN trumped it on the scheduling.
* Phil Jiminez just turned in his first ASTONISHING X-MEN issue. I love working with Phil.
* I arrive at San Diego a hair before midnight on Thursday and leave first thing Saturday morning. I’m there exclusive to the Marvel Anime zaibatsu, and my time is scheduled tightly all through Friday. I start at 9.30am, for god’s sake. I normally never even see 9.30am.
* My only public appearances there are:
* The Marvel Animation Panel, 4.30pm - 5.30pm. I think I don’t actually go on stage until 5.10.
* Signing at the Marvel booth, which is #2429, from 6pm to 7pm. There will probably be a limit on number of items to be signed, and if you turn up with a handtruck stacked full of comics I will have Security rape you with a Wolverine toy behind the booth.
* This is a weird one, but… a lot of people ask if they can bring me whisky. Which is incredibly kind and not at all required. If you bought a comic I wrote and liked it, then that’s really all I needed. And this time, in fact, it’s really not necessary, as I’m travelling very light and won’t be able to take it home with me. I feel weird even mentioning this.
* And, yes, I will shake hands with you. The reason I don’t shake hands at other shows is that I’m signing for six or seven hours a day, for a minimum of three days, and everyone sticks their hand out, and the lesson I learned at Heroes Con is that shaking hands with everyone who sticks their hand out means that by the end of the second day my hand is pulp. Poor old Steve Saffel shook hands with me when I was on my way out of the building after my second or third long signing and I yelped. I’m not a professional politician, I’m a writer, I already type for at least 12 hours a day, and I kind of need the hand. One hour at a signing table is a different thing. People get unusually stroppy about this. So I mention it now. And, really, if my not being able to shake hands with you at San Diego or Chicago really did ruin your week, enough for you to keep complaining about it online years later? You’re mentally ill. Seek help before you ruin the lives of your friends and families.
* Also? I am not scary. I mean, I am completely not scary. Do not approach in fear.
* These are, internet snark mongoloid reading this, NOT rules. It says FAQ at the top there.
* Also, I won’t have sex with you unless you pay me.
There. Done. Tom Spurgeon has a proper guide to surviving San Diego, a must-read.
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But Christina is here and falling asleep on a futon on my floor.
We got non-Japanese food (burgers at Kua'Aina for lunch, fajitas at El Torito for dinner) and wandered around Jimbocho and Ochanomizu, and here, and Ikebukuro, where we did purikura and played some videogames including a super-awesome one that involves building blocks in a Lemmings-like game that I totally totally want to play again.
I could write more but really, I should probly also go to sleep soon.
Every single event was rife with absolute fail. ( But, I made the most of it. More behind this link. )
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cdinwood, who is visiting for the weekend, mostly so she can get the hell out of Kyushu and be gaijinny for a day or two. If jccw actually makes it to Japan we'll probly meet up with him later too. And maybe bugging samuelp tomorrow.It's summer vacation now! That feels very weird. I don't fully believe it yet... and I'm sure it'll be over before I even notice.
I watched the Mariners-Indians game on BS1 this morning. It was really weird. The Mariners, and Felix, won, but I feel like I'm looking at it from outer space or something. Technically, I guess I am. David Aardsma? Really?
Yesterday I hung out at school for the day, and after school I did an hour of solo karaoke, then sushi at Heiroku, then home to collapse pretty much. I tried to clean my house a bit but I'm kind of giving up on that -- unless I just throw out most of my stuff, this place will always be cluttered. I also found bugs crawling in my socks, which was uncool, so this morning I stripped the bed and sprayed inside the mattress and under the mattress and around the room and we'll see if it helps at all. I washed my blankets, I did laundry last night too. Japan summers just seem to be very full of bugs anyway, though.
Whee.
Oh, Taku got my passport back with my renewed visa in it, so on Wednesday morning at ass-early I'm going to meet up with him at the Kita-ku kuyakusho to get it and update my gaijin card and all. Then I go to school a few days next week anyway, for English club, and for a teachers' party. I'm gonna try to get up to Omiya for the Saitama HS tournaments too -- really looking forward to that.
- Mood:
exhausted
Scratch that, I have not been this euphorically incomprehensible since a specific night back in September 2006. This is no exaggeration--I was actually hyperventilating (quietly) for roughly an hour after I heard about it (which, unfortunately, was about half an hour before work was up). I then spent the next couple of hours calling up people and talking about it enthusiastically.
Anyone who knows me or has seen the tags below and are interested know what I'm talking about--the Rock Band Network.
A brief summary:
- Artists record their songs and submit the master tracks (separated as per the norm--guitar, bass, drums, vox, other sounds) to trained third-party developers.
- These developers (Harmonix already has a group of developers trained, but apparently the program is open to anyone who can be trained) will then use Harmonix's in-house tools to script and track each song, instrument by instrument. These tracks then get submitted for peer review (for technical errors, not artistic merit) before officially being published.
- ???
- Revenue! 30% of the track sales go back to the artist.
This is the kind of scene that has me interested. AMVs? MIDI sequencing? It all ends up here.
I've signed up to be part of the creators' beta, which I am led to understand means the track authoring. This is the opportunity I've been looking for--to see if this is something I want, to see if this is something I can handle. I don't know if I'll get in, but Lord knows this is the kind of thing I've dreamed about, as a musician, a Rock Band enthusiast, and a music transcriber. This will keep me walking on sunshine for the next few weeks.
Just be prepared to be sick every time I open my mouth, because I have the feeling I won't shut up about this any time soon, particularly when I get my hands on Reaper and Magma, the programs used to design the tracks. And don't say I didn't warn you.
Back in the day when there was one TV on campus, in the Student Union building, CBS Evening News was "must-see" viewing. Meaning that anyone who could get there jammed into the TV room, which held about one hundred people. Every night. To watch this jowly, homely man with the plummy voice say, "And that's the way it is."
He loved to sail. I hope his new boat is to his mind.
- Mood:
thoughtful
- Mood:
bored
Giant Carnivorous Squid off the San Diego coast.
You wait. They’ll grow fucking legs.
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By my friend John Cassaday, taking us out in magnificent style. Click.
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