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randy_byersI ended up feeling pretty wiped out this weekend. I don't know why. Might just be part of the emotional cycle I'm going through. I ended up bailing on the Rat City Rollergirls on Saturday, because I just didn't have the energy.
I did spend a few hours at Potlatch both Friday and Saturday nights. It was good to chew the fat with various folks such as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
calimac, voidampersand, spikeiowa (who sort of complained that all I write about here is movies), k6rfm, and n6tqs (sporting a lovely new tattoo, and very close, apparently, to qualifying as an able-bodied seaman), along with local friends such as juliebata, nisi_la, jackwilliambell (who stroked my hair, the pervert), mcjulie, janeehawkins, kate_schaefer (who brought glad tidings of Full Sail's Imperial Porter Aged in Bourbon Barrels being on tap at the hotel bar, mach schnell), and even one or two non-LJ friends such as my co-editors, Scott K, Victor G, Craig S, and Bryan Barrett, who is recovering from losing his foot recently to complications from diabetes. As zoned as I was feeling, it still seemed to me that the convention was going very well and that people were really enjoying themselves. The auction raised a fair amount of money for Clarion West, and when I left around midnight on Saturday I saw Ellen Klages being shorn of her hair, which she had auctioned off. Congrats to the concom for a successful convention.
Other than that, I worked on proofing the British fanthology that will be distributed at Corflu Cobalt. It's a corker, if I do say so myself. And last night I watched Miyazaki's Porco Rosso. I'm slowly getting caught up on Miyazaki, and this is one I'd never seen before. It's brilliant, just like everything of his I've seen so far. The setting is Italy after WWI, but it's a fantasy Italy of sky pirates and bounty hunters. Our hero is a bounty hunter who was once a handsome young military pilot but who is now a pig due to a spell cast on him. One of the things I love about Miyazaki is the deep sense of mystery in all his films. He doesn't explain everything about the background. It enhances the magical feel. And nobody does flying like Miyazaki. I'm not sure how he does it. Maybe it's the way he gets right down on the landscape, and gives us the sense of rushing across it. Oh, and to enhance the strangeness of it all, I listened to the French dub, which I've read somewhere that Miyazaki prefers to the Japanese dub. Italians speaking French in a Japanese anime? Magic!
(Sorry, Spike! But at least I didn't watch the Oscars. But hooray for Kathryn Bigelow!)
I did spend a few hours at Potlatch both Friday and Saturday nights. It was good to chew the fat with various folks such as
calimac, voidampersand, spikeiowa (who sort of complained that all I write about here is movies), k6rfm, and n6tqs (sporting a lovely new tattoo, and very close, apparently, to qualifying as an able-bodied seaman), along with local friends such as juliebata, nisi_la, jackwilliambell (who stroked my hair, the pervert), mcjulie, janeehawkins, kate_schaefer (who brought glad tidings of Full Sail's Imperial Porter Aged in Bourbon Barrels being on tap at the hotel bar, mach schnell), and even one or two non-LJ friends such as my co-editors, Scott K, Victor G, Craig S, and Bryan Barrett, who is recovering from losing his foot recently to complications from diabetes. As zoned as I was feeling, it still seemed to me that the convention was going very well and that people were really enjoying themselves. The auction raised a fair amount of money for Clarion West, and when I left around midnight on Saturday I saw Ellen Klages being shorn of her hair, which she had auctioned off. Congrats to the concom for a successful convention.Other than that, I worked on proofing the British fanthology that will be distributed at Corflu Cobalt. It's a corker, if I do say so myself. And last night I watched Miyazaki's Porco Rosso. I'm slowly getting caught up on Miyazaki, and this is one I'd never seen before. It's brilliant, just like everything of his I've seen so far. The setting is Italy after WWI, but it's a fantasy Italy of sky pirates and bounty hunters. Our hero is a bounty hunter who was once a handsome young military pilot but who is now a pig due to a spell cast on him. One of the things I love about Miyazaki is the deep sense of mystery in all his films. He doesn't explain everything about the background. It enhances the magical feel. And nobody does flying like Miyazaki. I'm not sure how he does it. Maybe it's the way he gets right down on the landscape, and gives us the sense of rushing across it. Oh, and to enhance the strangeness of it all, I listened to the French dub, which I've read somewhere that Miyazaki prefers to the Japanese dub. Italians speaking French in a Japanese anime? Magic!
(Sorry, Spike! But at least I didn't watch the Oscars. But hooray for Kathryn Bigelow!)
