Met general grievous today

[evenwolf]

They held one of those fanboy conventions in my town called "Adventure Con" so I grabbed a camera and tried to film as many lightsabers as possible.

Billy Dee Williams was there, as was Chewie, Darth Vader, C3PO, the midget from Pirates.... here's the rest:  http://adventurecon.com/guest.html   I missed the first two days and really just walked around for an hour before skipping out.   I didnt feel particularly inspired to talk to anybody because of the huge signs that said "$25 Autograph Picture"  near the celebrities.   

In fact C3PO gave me a nasty look when I snuck a shot of him.   These people are such fatcats!  Some of them were "third ewok from the left"  or "darth maul's chambermaid."    I sure would have liked to have interviewed Jaws from James Bond but here's what I did get.

The voice of Grievous walked up to me and admired my camera.  He's a sound editor for Skywalker Ranch.   He was really awesome, just friendly and forthcoming.   He referred to Lucas as "George."  I have some video.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Yeah, I completely know where you're coming from with this.  I went to a horror convention and some of the actors there behaved like spoiled children, particularly Adrienne Barbeau.  In real life she behaves almost just like she did in Creepshow...Seriously!  She was whining about there not being enough people there to justify her presence and everything, was a total downer.  And then I met Reggie Bannister and that made up for everything, well Reggie and the gang from Day of the Dead, really.  The Day cast were all awesome people, let me do photos with them for nothing and let me hang out at their little area all day and just shoot the shit.  Gary Klar (Pvt. Steele) was just cool, and he and Reggie were just 'regular guys' hanging out and selling shirts, signing autographs and tossing back beers.  I'm glad that some of them are like that because people like Adrienne Barbeau do a lot of damage to their fans with childish behavior.  We go to these conventions to meet these people because we think they're cool, not to be looked at like we're inconveniencing them.  If you ever get a chance to meet Sid Haig, btw, go for it.  He's weird but totally cool.  So is Ken Foree.

[voh]

I went to one of those cons a while back, and I saw Doug Bradley (pinhead) and Murdoch and Face from the A-team. The A-Team guys were a hoot, but Bradley was still hungover from the day before.

Way to go, professional actor-man! *coughs*

Yeah, after the A-team buzz died down we left. No autographs because shit, I ain't paying for a scribble.

[m0ds]

Neat! ANOTHER AdventureCon...or rather, THE AdventureCon! (and the other one is the OTHER one...!)

It even had that Lando dude from Star Wars...he's one of the only ones I recognise. And Jaws... awesome! I was recently wondering what happened to him. Still. It does sound like a fatcat event. But then, aren't most Cons of this type?

One of them is a Captain Jack impersonator. LOL, not even a Johnny Depp impersonator...that is pretty cheap! Did you get his autograph? Or was he too charging $25 more dollars than he should/is worth?

Slightly off-topic, but I saw this either on that website or one I followed;


5th annual show yet it's 10 years old? How does that work?

[DoorKnobHandle]

5th annual show yet it's 10 years old? How does that work?

It only takes place every two years? My guess.

EDIT: Oh wait, does annual strictly mean "yearly"? If that's the case, ignore this post.

[m0ds]

Hehe Jan! Annual is strictly yearly, I'm sure! I figured maybe for the first 5 years it was just in someones garage.

I wonder if the adventure game adventurecon will feature paid autographs!

[evenwolf]

Jack Sparrow was the only person we approached with a camera because we knew he would go for it.   He's actually a costume designer who makes that sort of stuff for people.    He has a Willy Wonka outfit too.    He was cool but it took some warming up for me because he's essentially making money off of one actor's performance.   

But he does a decent job.


I'll post footage in a few hours.

[Vince Twelve]

Being a huge nerd, I went to a few Star Trek conventions back in my highschool days.  I met James Doohan (Scotty) before he died, he told some great stories to the crowd, John Delancy (Q) who was mostly boring, and George Takei (Sulu) who was extremely awesome and funny.  He has a great sense of humor about how his entire career revolves around traveling the country and telling the same old stories to fat people in Klingon uniforms.  These conventions were very fun and worth the costs of attendance.

[evenwolf]

I said I'd post footage but it'll have to wait until tomorrow or another day.    I could upload a real quick clip of people in costumes but who hasn't seen that before?

My friend and I are workign on something truly amazing.  I think you guys will like it.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

One of the things with these sort of conventions is that, nowadays, with the "star-system" long gone for all but a few, the actors no longer *have* to even put up a pretense of being anything other than themselves. Some are boring, some are cool, some are this, some are that, some are downright psychopaths... people always want to meet the characters. They end up meeting the actors. It's a blind date - a 50-50 chance they'll go home happy, and the same odds of them discovering how much they can loathe someone they didn't really know existed.

[Nikolas]

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There are 2 options for a prostitute:

1. The one decides that she's there to help me empty my sperm. Nothing else, nothing more.

2. The other decides that she is there to offer 10-30 minutes of illusions.

Both exists and both are there and do their job!

Same thing actually goes for pretty much everything.

I do remember when I was working night, playing keyboard in a band, playing "traditional greek songs". Any Greek will realise what this means. I was working 22:00-03:30! Heavy hours. Every day, except Sunday! And I was tired! Cause by default I can't sleep the day. At 08:00 max I have to wake up. Fuck it! So every night, while playing the correct notes and everything, I would yanw, be sleepy, be awful more or less, and offer no kind of sight for anyone. But I was doing my job right. No errors in the playing. After all it was so easy to play the bullshit they wanted me to play... I definately felt like a slut of music back then. (for anyone Greek this was going on for a straight year in Ioannina).

Bottom line is that everything is an illusion. I will certainly won't expect to meet some friendly guy, who knows a lot about devices and coming up with things, and about the stars and everything else when I meet Richard Dean Anderson. :p I know people who actualyl believed that Richard (Mc. Gyber) actually knew what he was doing in the series.! And I'm not talking about 13 year old but 45-60 year old! Pethetique if you ask me...

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We are surrounded by myths and stories and everything, none of which is true. Rui is probably with opera, I'm with music, someone else could be with films. But everything we hear and read are bullshit 51%... Not untrue, by no means, but heavily influenced by our imagination. I mean you listen to a name and you mind goes... hpew.......... and then you meet him and he's ... a dreaded normal guy....

Drunk rumble over.

Thank you everyone