I don't update!
First, A-kon... an update that is ridiculously long and almost NO ONE will care... hence the cut.
For the uninitiated, A kon is an anime convention, to my knowledge, the biggest and oldest one in the country. I drove up with my friend Chris to Dallas, a 4 hour drive, and we were there for all three days. I'll do a day by day account and throw in the more memorable and humorous stories in between...
Day 1 Thursday (3rd):
Since the con started Friday, we decided we would leave a day early to settle in and stuff... thats when the troubles started. First, Chris got a flat tire on his way here... Then his girlfriend wanted to spend time with him... then, his mom wanted him to run errands since his car was still being fixed... and more and more annoyances kept popping up... we were supposed to leave at 5 PM... we left at around 11:30... So we get to the hotel after a while... and its literally the SEEDIEST place I've EVER stayed in... and I've stayed at a LOT of hotels and motels... We go to the entrance and there are about 8 people COMPLETELY wasted all lying in front of the entrance, some on top of each other, some propped up against the door... We decide to take our suitcases around the back... yeah so we settle in and I find out the hard way that drinking water from the faucet is bad.... It tasted like fishbowl water... words do not describe how nasty it was...
Day 2 Friday (4th):
Ah! The con! We woke up at noon, quickly ate and got to the hotel the con was being hosted at at 1:30 PM... We see HUNDREDS of people EVERYWHERE in some crazy costumes and such... ourselves, we came costumeless. Quickly, we became irritated by the huge number of goth wannabe kids there... all dressing up like they just got back from spending 200 dollars at hot topic... when did my hobby of anime imply goth kids?!? 3 years ago it wasn't like this! anime kids were just nerdy! now they're goth?! w-t-f, mate?
Anyways, we pay our $50 for our 3 day pass... we walk around to all the dealers looking at all the stuff to buy... While walking about, we make fun of all the guys wearing fishnet shirts and nothing underneath (sometimes loud enough so they give us dirty looks as we wander off cackling) and all the fools in full renaissance gear... Now I have no problem with renainssance gear, but WHY in God's name wear it at an anime convention? go wear your shitty cloaks elsewhere... it just got old after seeing it so much... not nearly as annoying as all the goth kids, but whatever... We passed by tons of people with signs (whom we quickly dubbed to be "sign whores") bearing such phrases as "Collecting hugs!" "Accepting kisses!" and the dreaded "Pocky for Yaoi!" signs... *shudder*... I'll get to yaoi in a bit...
Evening rolled around and with it, the Do As Infinity concert!!! Yes, I saw a jrock concert there, and it was AWESOME. What WASN'T awesome was the nature of the wannabe goth kids. these people had CLEARLY never been to a show... I had this girl standing behind me all decked out in punk gear, with the studded belt, spikey bracelet, the short moddish hair, the weezer glasses, the whole deal! And you know what she said to me? During this one upbeat song called "Noise", I was jumping up and down, having a blast, throwing my long hair around and head banging... she tells me to "chill out because you're hitting people with your hair". WHAT THE CRAP. IF YOU'RE AT A SHOW, YOU HAVE FUN... but no, all these anime yutzes were just like standing there... the more ruckus inducing ones occasionaly flinging their arms into the air... It was such a great show too... but yeah, those losers totally put a dampner on my fun... I mean it's proper show etiquette... if you don't wanna get pushed around and jostled up, don't be at the front... The best part of the concert was when they played the inyu yasha theme song! Yeah, they are apparently the band that does it... and then after that, they played the NEW theme song for inyu yasha that they're gonna gave for the upcoming season! So we got a preview of it before anyone else! Totally rad!
After the concert it was well after midnight... we decided to go to the video room and stand outside the Yaoi line just to see what kinds of people were going in... Now for those of you that don't know... Yaoi is gay anime porn. Yes, such a thing exists, and it frightens me. Now, most girls i know that are into japanese stuff like SOME yaoi... but the ones that were going into the screening room... the ones who's hobby IS YAOI... like they are more into yaoi than anything else... those are the ones we were there to make fun of... As we suspected, it was all the old, greasy disgusting girls that had poop for social skills. Anyways, we were too shocked by the length of the line to stay there for more than 10 seconds and we went laser questing where we met some 15 year old girls that Chris knew.
NO THERE WAS NO ATTEMPT AT GETTING UNDERAGE POONANY.
Anyways, they turned out to be cool, (the two that chris knew anyways) so we kept their number for future reference... (they were there with their moms, *snicker snicker*) At around 3, we came back to the room and watched an hour of Escaflowne. Sleep.
Day 3 Saturday (5th)
Wake up at half past noon. Since we were so SICK from the previous day (we ate only mcdonalds and KFC and the grease really got to us), we spent an hour looking for somethign healthier... our prayers were answered in the form of subway. Now we had the most peculiar experience on the elevator... Y'see, we had to go back because I'd forgotten my pass to get into the con... and as we step inside the elevator with a few other people, this guy with a shave head runs in, holding a plastic bag in his right hand whilst his left rested on his hip... The stare inducing part of the man was that he was wearing a hooters tank top (for women) and flourescent orange short shorts. He spoke up in a thick english accent to one of the fellows in the elevator,
"Mark! Does this bag make me look gay?"
Mark looked at him strangely and replied, "Well, It's not the bag so much it is the tank top, the shorts, the naked legs, the hairless skin... The bag's number 8 on the list of things that make you look gay."
Hooters man retorted with an indignant look, "You got a problem with gay people?"
Mark immediately responded with, "No no! I've got no problem with gay people, but you asked me if you LOOKED gay, and the answer is yes, I think you DO look gay. But if you're asking me if I have a problem with homosexuality, then no. No, I do not."
"Good, 'cause you know i'm not gay, Mark!"
"Yes I know that, but even if you were, I'd have no problem with it! But I'm just saying, you look very homosexual right now..."
I really have to act it out for you guys... the humor of the situation doesn't really ocme out in writing... It was just HILARIOUS though... like something out of a British comedy! Chris and I have been telling the story over and over again with the voices and everything to EVERYONE WE KNOW since we got back...
Back at the con... Yeah we roamed around, saw the music video awards and such. I'm definitely submitting one of my music videos... (these "music videos" are vids that people put together using clips from whatever anime and a song of their choice... They're actually really cool and often really funny... The ones that were NOT good and NOT funny were the Final Fantasy videos... Three idiots decided to make music videos by taking clips from FFX and FFX-2... Why is this stupid? because theres such little material to draw upon... that and they were all to these really crappy middle school dance slow songs... the most memorable being a song called "Soledad" by god knows who... memorable because it was so freakin' awful... I was thinking of actually writing and recording my own song and making that the song for the music video i submit... or would that be toolish?
ANYWAYS... There was another concert that night by Psycho Le Cemu... The poster said "Visual Rock" so I HAD TO GO.... It started off HORRIBLY though... it was like the five band members doing this synchronized dance, backstreet boys style and singing... it was really really awful... I dunno why they had that when their actual rock songs were so freakin' cool... Anyways, that was interesting... all the yaoi fangirls went nuts over them because two of them were meant to look VERY feminine and the guys in YAOI always look as girly as possible... We got out of there and we decided that tonight we'd go wait by the hentai line and make fun of all the nasty greasy guys in line (hentai is anime porn)...
Imagine our shock when we get there and the line has like HALF THE FREAKING CON WAITING IN IT. There were even some really hot girls in line! Now Chris and I have never seen any hentai, so we were very confused as to what the appeal could possibly be... We were like, "maybe it's interesting?" But neither of us really wanted to go in there... like at ALL... But at first we were just like, "this can't be the hentai line, it's so huge! and there's so many girls!" So I went and asked a group of dudes waiting near the end, "is this a line for something?" In unison they respond "Yeah!" "uhh, for what?" In unison, they respond, this time with proud grins on their faces, "HENTAI!"
Is hentai a socially acceptable thing amongst anime fans? If so, WHY? Needless to say, thats one genre I'll continue shunning, regardless of what explanations may come my way about it's mass appeal...
After that, we went up to the console gaming room.... We completely ignored the idiots playing Counter Strike on X Box... now i HATE counterstrike, but i dont have a problem with it.
Unless you play it on X box. then you're just a HUGE TOOL. HUGE.
Anyways, we saw a bunch of fighting games, and everyone playing was really good and really greasy. They were all definite social misfits who spent most of their time playing video games. I myself stopped playing video games except on holidays or something around sophomore year... Chris has a really hot and awesome girlfriend so he doesn't really play games these days either... We went to our respective games of choice, he to Smash Brothers on Gamecube and me to Dead Or Alive 2 on PS2 and Soul Calibur 2 on PS2. Imagine our surprise when we kicked everyones ass... I even joined in smash and I was always behind Chris... No one ever beat us except this one dude in his thrities who was just way too good... We never felt bad about losing to him because we have lives outside of video games. But it was funny as hell that us well dressed, marginally good looking (chris is pretty hot, actually) boys with social skills were able to take on these people who've dedicated their lives to gaming... It was just... funny... in a mean way...
After that I headed down to the dance floor (chris doesn't dance) and they were playing some AWESOME music... it was all 80's, industrial and GOOD electronica... The DJs were AMAZING... so imagine if you will, my complete disgruntlement when I get there and everyone on the floor is either 15 years old, freakishly unattractive, dancing in an impenetrable group of friends or getting freaky with their honeys... Yeah... the most amazing music I've heard in a club setting like EVER and NO ONE to dance with... there were some losers string raving in a corner... wow, I definitely got over that phase like when I turned 17 or somerthing... Something about anime fans being attracted to glowy and or shiny things... So that was distressing, because I felt like a huge tool dancing by myself... I just don't do that... call it insecurity, or whatever you want, its just not fun dancing alone... after my 20 odd minutes of trolling for potential dance mates, I gave up.
Oh yeah, I saw these two fairly attractive girls making out for like 5 minutes and that was kinda cool. Then I saw a third one join them and that was depressing.
Day 4 Sunday (6th):
Ah, the last day! How very sad and distressing it was to leave this cornucopia of nerdness... My purchases for the weekend ended up being the first two seasons of Ruouroni Kenshin on DVD, a pair of nunchucks (nanchaku if you insist on being a whore), a Xenosaga keychain and various Vagabond manga books. I know have 1 - 10 excluding 9... It really is one of the greatest manga I've ever read... and I've read a lot... I can't imagine why it isn't more popular... it's absolutely incredible... Nothing much happened this day because everythign was wrapping up/packing up... we just bought some stuff and then left at around five... came home, watched a bunch of escaflowne and yeah...
Checklist of anime watched thus far over summer(not neccesarily for the first time)
Escaflowne (All 26 Episodes)
Ruouroni Kenshin (First 20 Episodes)
Lain (First 4 Episodes)
Jin Roh (movie)
That's all so far! Can't wait to finish all my kenshin... all 62 episodes of it!!! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Now for the part of the update people might read...
Why haven't I been updating? I dunno, I guess I'm not feeling the whole "lets update my daily activities" vibe, because all i really ever do is hang out with Chris and play video games and watch anime or Family Guy or something with his girlfriend. Oh yeah, I've been going thrifting a lot... my style has been changing... but that's been neccessary because, I got a hair cut.
It really sucks, my clothes don't match with this hair cut because now they're just too big looking on me... so I have to get smaller clothes... no more large sized shirts for me... pants are still ok of course... but yeah... the long sleeves have got to go. I think maybe I'm just sick of my current style... I've had it for so long... I'm gonna start gelling my hair and wearing eyeliner... and I HAVE TO start wearing my contacts on a regular basis because my glasses make me look HIDEOUS with this hair... ugh i HATE this hair cut! In 3 months, i'm SO getting a good short chick cut... ugh...
Yeah, so I haven't touched music at all this summer. Is that bad?
I want to write again... I miss writing... It's time to write a story...
For the uninitiated, A kon is an anime convention, to my knowledge, the biggest and oldest one in the country. I drove up with my friend Chris to Dallas, a 4 hour drive, and we were there for all three days. I'll do a day by day account and throw in the more memorable and humorous stories in between...
Day 1 Thursday (3rd):
Since the con started Friday, we decided we would leave a day early to settle in and stuff... thats when the troubles started. First, Chris got a flat tire on his way here... Then his girlfriend wanted to spend time with him... then, his mom wanted him to run errands since his car was still being fixed... and more and more annoyances kept popping up... we were supposed to leave at 5 PM... we left at around 11:30... So we get to the hotel after a while... and its literally the SEEDIEST place I've EVER stayed in... and I've stayed at a LOT of hotels and motels... We go to the entrance and there are about 8 people COMPLETELY wasted all lying in front of the entrance, some on top of each other, some propped up against the door... We decide to take our suitcases around the back... yeah so we settle in and I find out the hard way that drinking water from the faucet is bad.... It tasted like fishbowl water... words do not describe how nasty it was...
Day 2 Friday (4th):
Ah! The con! We woke up at noon, quickly ate and got to the hotel the con was being hosted at at 1:30 PM... We see HUNDREDS of people EVERYWHERE in some crazy costumes and such... ourselves, we came costumeless. Quickly, we became irritated by the huge number of goth wannabe kids there... all dressing up like they just got back from spending 200 dollars at hot topic... when did my hobby of anime imply goth kids?!? 3 years ago it wasn't like this! anime kids were just nerdy! now they're goth?! w-t-f, mate?
Anyways, we pay our $50 for our 3 day pass... we walk around to all the dealers looking at all the stuff to buy... While walking about, we make fun of all the guys wearing fishnet shirts and nothing underneath (sometimes loud enough so they give us dirty looks as we wander off cackling) and all the fools in full renaissance gear... Now I have no problem with renainssance gear, but WHY in God's name wear it at an anime convention? go wear your shitty cloaks elsewhere... it just got old after seeing it so much... not nearly as annoying as all the goth kids, but whatever... We passed by tons of people with signs (whom we quickly dubbed to be "sign whores") bearing such phrases as "Collecting hugs!" "Accepting kisses!" and the dreaded "Pocky for Yaoi!" signs... *shudder*... I'll get to yaoi in a bit...
Evening rolled around and with it, the Do As Infinity concert!!! Yes, I saw a jrock concert there, and it was AWESOME. What WASN'T awesome was the nature of the wannabe goth kids. these people had CLEARLY never been to a show... I had this girl standing behind me all decked out in punk gear, with the studded belt, spikey bracelet, the short moddish hair, the weezer glasses, the whole deal! And you know what she said to me? During this one upbeat song called "Noise", I was jumping up and down, having a blast, throwing my long hair around and head banging... she tells me to "chill out because you're hitting people with your hair". WHAT THE CRAP. IF YOU'RE AT A SHOW, YOU HAVE FUN... but no, all these anime yutzes were just like standing there... the more ruckus inducing ones occasionaly flinging their arms into the air... It was such a great show too... but yeah, those losers totally put a dampner on my fun... I mean it's proper show etiquette... if you don't wanna get pushed around and jostled up, don't be at the front... The best part of the concert was when they played the inyu yasha theme song! Yeah, they are apparently the band that does it... and then after that, they played the NEW theme song for inyu yasha that they're gonna gave for the upcoming season! So we got a preview of it before anyone else! Totally rad!
After the concert it was well after midnight... we decided to go to the video room and stand outside the Yaoi line just to see what kinds of people were going in... Now for those of you that don't know... Yaoi is gay anime porn. Yes, such a thing exists, and it frightens me. Now, most girls i know that are into japanese stuff like SOME yaoi... but the ones that were going into the screening room... the ones who's hobby IS YAOI... like they are more into yaoi than anything else... those are the ones we were there to make fun of... As we suspected, it was all the old, greasy disgusting girls that had poop for social skills. Anyways, we were too shocked by the length of the line to stay there for more than 10 seconds and we went laser questing where we met some 15 year old girls that Chris knew.
NO THERE WAS NO ATTEMPT AT GETTING UNDERAGE POONANY.
Anyways, they turned out to be cool, (the two that chris knew anyways) so we kept their number for future reference... (they were there with their moms, *snicker snicker*) At around 3, we came back to the room and watched an hour of Escaflowne. Sleep.
Day 3 Saturday (5th)
Wake up at half past noon. Since we were so SICK from the previous day (we ate only mcdonalds and KFC and the grease really got to us), we spent an hour looking for somethign healthier... our prayers were answered in the form of subway. Now we had the most peculiar experience on the elevator... Y'see, we had to go back because I'd forgotten my pass to get into the con... and as we step inside the elevator with a few other people, this guy with a shave head runs in, holding a plastic bag in his right hand whilst his left rested on his hip... The stare inducing part of the man was that he was wearing a hooters tank top (for women) and flourescent orange short shorts. He spoke up in a thick english accent to one of the fellows in the elevator,
"Mark! Does this bag make me look gay?"
Mark looked at him strangely and replied, "Well, It's not the bag so much it is the tank top, the shorts, the naked legs, the hairless skin... The bag's number 8 on the list of things that make you look gay."
Hooters man retorted with an indignant look, "You got a problem with gay people?"
Mark immediately responded with, "No no! I've got no problem with gay people, but you asked me if you LOOKED gay, and the answer is yes, I think you DO look gay. But if you're asking me if I have a problem with homosexuality, then no. No, I do not."
"Good, 'cause you know i'm not gay, Mark!"
"Yes I know that, but even if you were, I'd have no problem with it! But I'm just saying, you look very homosexual right now..."
I really have to act it out for you guys... the humor of the situation doesn't really ocme out in writing... It was just HILARIOUS though... like something out of a British comedy! Chris and I have been telling the story over and over again with the voices and everything to EVERYONE WE KNOW since we got back...
Back at the con... Yeah we roamed around, saw the music video awards and such. I'm definitely submitting one of my music videos... (these "music videos" are vids that people put together using clips from whatever anime and a song of their choice... They're actually really cool and often really funny... The ones that were NOT good and NOT funny were the Final Fantasy videos... Three idiots decided to make music videos by taking clips from FFX and FFX-2... Why is this stupid? because theres such little material to draw upon... that and they were all to these really crappy middle school dance slow songs... the most memorable being a song called "Soledad" by god knows who... memorable because it was so freakin' awful... I was thinking of actually writing and recording my own song and making that the song for the music video i submit... or would that be toolish?
ANYWAYS... There was another concert that night by Psycho Le Cemu... The poster said "Visual Rock" so I HAD TO GO.... It started off HORRIBLY though... it was like the five band members doing this synchronized dance, backstreet boys style and singing... it was really really awful... I dunno why they had that when their actual rock songs were so freakin' cool... Anyways, that was interesting... all the yaoi fangirls went nuts over them because two of them were meant to look VERY feminine and the guys in YAOI always look as girly as possible... We got out of there and we decided that tonight we'd go wait by the hentai line and make fun of all the nasty greasy guys in line (hentai is anime porn)...
Imagine our shock when we get there and the line has like HALF THE FREAKING CON WAITING IN IT. There were even some really hot girls in line! Now Chris and I have never seen any hentai, so we were very confused as to what the appeal could possibly be... We were like, "maybe it's interesting?" But neither of us really wanted to go in there... like at ALL... But at first we were just like, "this can't be the hentai line, it's so huge! and there's so many girls!" So I went and asked a group of dudes waiting near the end, "is this a line for something?" In unison they respond "Yeah!" "uhh, for what?" In unison, they respond, this time with proud grins on their faces, "HENTAI!"
Is hentai a socially acceptable thing amongst anime fans? If so, WHY? Needless to say, thats one genre I'll continue shunning, regardless of what explanations may come my way about it's mass appeal...
After that, we went up to the console gaming room.... We completely ignored the idiots playing Counter Strike on X Box... now i HATE counterstrike, but i dont have a problem with it.
Unless you play it on X box. then you're just a HUGE TOOL. HUGE.
Anyways, we saw a bunch of fighting games, and everyone playing was really good and really greasy. They were all definite social misfits who spent most of their time playing video games. I myself stopped playing video games except on holidays or something around sophomore year... Chris has a really hot and awesome girlfriend so he doesn't really play games these days either... We went to our respective games of choice, he to Smash Brothers on Gamecube and me to Dead Or Alive 2 on PS2 and Soul Calibur 2 on PS2. Imagine our surprise when we kicked everyones ass... I even joined in smash and I was always behind Chris... No one ever beat us except this one dude in his thrities who was just way too good... We never felt bad about losing to him because we have lives outside of video games. But it was funny as hell that us well dressed, marginally good looking (chris is pretty hot, actually) boys with social skills were able to take on these people who've dedicated their lives to gaming... It was just... funny... in a mean way...
After that I headed down to the dance floor (chris doesn't dance) and they were playing some AWESOME music... it was all 80's, industrial and GOOD electronica... The DJs were AMAZING... so imagine if you will, my complete disgruntlement when I get there and everyone on the floor is either 15 years old, freakishly unattractive, dancing in an impenetrable group of friends or getting freaky with their honeys... Yeah... the most amazing music I've heard in a club setting like EVER and NO ONE to dance with... there were some losers string raving in a corner... wow, I definitely got over that phase like when I turned 17 or somerthing... Something about anime fans being attracted to glowy and or shiny things... So that was distressing, because I felt like a huge tool dancing by myself... I just don't do that... call it insecurity, or whatever you want, its just not fun dancing alone... after my 20 odd minutes of trolling for potential dance mates, I gave up.
Oh yeah, I saw these two fairly attractive girls making out for like 5 minutes and that was kinda cool. Then I saw a third one join them and that was depressing.
Day 4 Sunday (6th):
Ah, the last day! How very sad and distressing it was to leave this cornucopia of nerdness... My purchases for the weekend ended up being the first two seasons of Ruouroni Kenshin on DVD, a pair of nunchucks (nanchaku if you insist on being a whore), a Xenosaga keychain and various Vagabond manga books. I know have 1 - 10 excluding 9... It really is one of the greatest manga I've ever read... and I've read a lot... I can't imagine why it isn't more popular... it's absolutely incredible... Nothing much happened this day because everythign was wrapping up/packing up... we just bought some stuff and then left at around five... came home, watched a bunch of escaflowne and yeah...
Checklist of anime watched thus far over summer(not neccesarily for the first time)
Escaflowne (All 26 Episodes)
Ruouroni Kenshin (First 20 Episodes)
Lain (First 4 Episodes)
Jin Roh (movie)
That's all so far! Can't wait to finish all my kenshin... all 62 episodes of it!!! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Now for the part of the update people might read...
Why haven't I been updating? I dunno, I guess I'm not feeling the whole "lets update my daily activities" vibe, because all i really ever do is hang out with Chris and play video games and watch anime or Family Guy or something with his girlfriend. Oh yeah, I've been going thrifting a lot... my style has been changing... but that's been neccessary because, I got a hair cut.
It really sucks, my clothes don't match with this hair cut because now they're just too big looking on me... so I have to get smaller clothes... no more large sized shirts for me... pants are still ok of course... but yeah... the long sleeves have got to go. I think maybe I'm just sick of my current style... I've had it for so long... I'm gonna start gelling my hair and wearing eyeliner... and I HAVE TO start wearing my contacts on a regular basis because my glasses make me look HIDEOUS with this hair... ugh i HATE this hair cut! In 3 months, i'm SO getting a good short chick cut... ugh...
Yeah, so I haven't touched music at all this summer. Is that bad?
I want to write again... I miss writing... It's time to write a story...