Jeez, hard one first. Here’s the thing. I think I must be the only person of my generation who is fairly apathetic about music. I like it okay, I know the lyrics to a stupidly large amount of songs, but I don’t really ‘love’ music. I know, I’m a freak.
If I have to choose one song I like a lot right now it would be Bruises by Chairlift. It’s fun, it’s bouncy and it was the music that went with the new iPod Nano ad…
Day 06 — Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 07 — A photo that makes me happy
Day 08 — A photo that makes me sad
Day 10 — A photo of me taken over ten years ago
Day 11 — A photo of me taken recently
Day 12 — Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 16 — A song that makes me cry
Day 18 — Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 24 — Whatever tickles my fancy
Day 25 — My day, in great detail
Day 26 — My week, in great detail
Day 27 — This month, in great detail
Day 28 — This year, in great detail
So we went to Armageddon over Easter weekend. For those of you not in the know, Armageddon is a “pop culture expo” … basically a geek-fest. Ostensibly it is giant store for people to sell their wares (comics, figurines, t-shirts, movies, games, swords etc etc etc), but really it is SO much more than this.
Armageddon is a strange collection of geeks, nerds, emos, weirdos, and aged Trekkies (that would be me and Stephen). The thing that brings us all together is a shared love of comics, anime and sci-fi. To be completely honest, I am not into comics at all. I never really liked the chaotic nature of the comic – text and drawings all over the page. I prefer my words all in neat straight lines. This is a somewhat shameful admission for a self-confessed geek.
And anime is a strange form of art that I just don’t get. I suspect that it is very referential – in order to enjoy amine, you need to have a working knowledge of every other amine series ever made, and it helps if you can remember the plot of every Marvel comic ever produced. And if you spent your childhood drawing manga, that would also help. Having not done any of this, anime, manga, and comics in general just don’t do it for me.
So what the heck was I doing there? Other than experiencing the joy of watching Stephen and Megan pawing, nay *drooling*, over the comics, I was there for the Star Trek. Specifically, a panel of three Star Trek actors: Dominic Keating (Lt Reed from Enterprise), Rene Auberjonois (Odo from Deep Space Nine), and John Billingsley (Dr Phlox from Enterprise).
It was awesome. They were entertaining and funny, and the crowd asked interesting (and sometimes ridiculous) questions. It was fun to see the interplay between the Trekkies in the crowd (with their scary and exact knowledge of everything Trek) and the actors, who are certainly not that into the whole Star Trek universe. Case in point:
Trekkie: “Can you name all the star ships in the fleet?”
Dominic: “I couldn’t give a hoot” (or words to that effect)
John: “Well…there’s Enterprise…”
All-in-all we had a really great weekend. It wasn’t perfect (food always an issue; Megan could have had more coffee, earlier; our dorm room could have been a *little* bigger) but no-one got hurt and everyone had lots of laughs.
I’m a proud member of an all-nerd family 🙂
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