Hyperion

[burntcopper]

Friday

Hotel being an arse about registration and overbooked, which meant many were moved to the Sheraton. Tossers. Also made an attempt to get people to eat in the hotel restaurant by giving us vouchers for 20% off. Cue most of us snorting and going to eat in the local McDonalds as per usual. rozk decreed on saturday that actually, the food at McDonalds tasted better and cost less. Anyway. Dressed up as Betty Boop, tirinar as Jessica Rabbit, Andy as Roger Rabbit and Dennis as Elmer Fudd. One day I will figure out just how Tors always manages to come down so late... Partied little self's boots off after posing for photos and changing into minimalist clothing outfit. The weekend saw me and Alex timing ourselves on how long each particular fancy dress outfit actually lasted before it got too hot and chucked for normal gear. 2:30-3:45am saw me struggling to put a camp bed together. I think Argos thinks that people have superhuman strength.

Saturday

And the madness begins. Brody Hutzler was terribly sweet, and I got a thankyou from him later that day when I got a photo with him for asking so many questions and keeping the talk going. Also wants to be Captain America. This would not be a bad thing. Has both looks, muscles, demeanour and hair. Also acting ability. Outed himself as a complete football fan and was with us in the bar on Sunday to watch the match, complete with England t-shirt. Also told us one of the latest plot arcs his character was in on Days of Our Lives just to scare us. There were sharks and sudden abilities to fly plains and... oh god. I think American soaps would kill me.

Jenny Mollen (Nina the Werewolf). Complete and utter sweetie, and we want her back to the next con. Intelligent, funny, and we're terribly impressed with her for holding her first con appearance on her own. Jenny currently auditioning for role of scientist in Global Frequency. oooooo.

Sarah Thompson (Eve) and Clare Kramer were fabulous. Sarah's lovely and funny, and it makes me v. slightly ashamed that I dislike her character so much. Clare was her usual fabulous self, as she was throughout the weekend, being an honorary staff member of Starfury as it is. Case being during auction when she said to Sean '50, that's your age, isn't it?' and Sean came back with 'I thought it was your IQ.' Clare wants to be Jenny Sparks. Hmm. Add British Accent and ... hrrm.

Julie Benz and Vincent Kartheiser, the evil double act. At one point they had us in so many stitches that me, Cathy and another girl got pointed out by Vincent as having been laughing non-stop for fifteen minutes, and so he was seriously good. Two minutes later he broke Cathy. She fell over into my lap she was laughing so much. Also, someone asked the boxers or briefs question and Julie lifted up the back of his shirt to check. :snerk: We love Julie, we really do. Especially when she insults members of the audience and demands apologies from them for making fun of her knitting, and talks of rolling off the bed due to sheer klutziness during the Italian ep. Vincent also talks of having to have sex with David Boreanaz because someone has to... we kill him. Before he breaks us even more.

Amy Acker and Andy Hallett - heh. Well, Amy's adorable as usual, and Andy (sober this time due to the hernia) has proved he has a five-second attention span. Makes for entertaining talks, if nothing else. Oh, and apparently the original plans for end of S5 were to deal with demon mafia and then go their separate ways for finale, getting back together S6. :kicks plotbunnies:

Missed a bit of Sparky's talk, (him talking through a slideshow of his photos and video of S1-5 moments) which was utterly adorable and very sad in places.

Fancy Dress. Well, apart from the scramble to eat in ten minutes at McDonald's, we hung around in costume for the usual hour of running lateness, and thanked our stars that we had no makeup to do for this one - Princess Bride, Me as Buttercup, mingmerciless as Inigo Montoya, and Alex as the Dread Pirate Westley. Some v. original entries aside from one fabulous Illyria and one not-so-good Illyria. Refugees from Oden Tal (see She), Wolfram and Hart, Scottish Jimmy as Neil (you know you're famous on the con circuit when someone does a tribute costume of you, including mannerisms), Claire and odangochan as Sailor Moon characters, Chewie as Doyle - which we realised no-one's ever done before, one guy as Merle, and Sloopy as actual size Puppet Angel, complete with performance where he toddled across the floor, then I nicked his nose. Sloopy won, Better Illyria got second, Doyle and Merle joint 3rd, and Wolfram and Hart got special mention. We, however, got fabulous cheers, especially when Ming and Alex fenced on floor with 'You seem like a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.' 'You seem like a decent fellow. I hate to die.', then Ming spun round, stuck his foil in Sean's chest and said 'My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.' Amazingly, one of those cons where the guests actually got the awards *right*. Added Dayne Johnson checking the fancy dress lot's makeup while we were hanging around waiting to be called. As soon as fancy dress over, cue absolutely everyone except the Oden Tal group sprint back to change out of their costumes being effing boiling....

Danced til 4am, and picked up two pics of Kevin Smith as Ares with short hair and bare chest, then one as Ares God of Lurve just because I'd never be able to get my brain round it otherwise. Really.
Sunday

Started with Dayne Johnson making up Claire as Illyria. Fucking fascinating. Brody missed his talk due to the makeup session running late, but he'd cancelled it anyway...
Clare and Julie fabulous as usual, challenging everyone and proving they know the Starfury crowd *way* too well, with Julie ranting on the nature of reality tv.

Sarah and Jenny had for the most part v. serious and v. illuminating talk about the day-to-day business of acting, though Jenny's response to the chocolate sauce question is Angelina Jolie and Sarah's is Johnny Depp. Jenny also loves Alan Moore and Watchmen and Rohrschach. She has *taste*.

Vincent went even nuttier than usual, with talks of octopus lovers, saying his response to the chocolate sauce question last year wasn't too popular and then saying 'you' (cue me dying of embarassment) and conducting the audience in saying 'Meow'. Don't ask. Really.

Andy and Dayne had added Brody and Sparky. Plus the tale of Andy's doorbell, and many other things, as well as Andy's five second attention span and little hand-held fans.

Elle Driver Nurse outfit did last a whole hour. Impressed. With a few people whistling the Kill Bill theme at me. heh. Closing ceremony was followed by me getting to see the last two minutes of stoppage and the bar upstairs being crowded with con-goers in England t-shirts yelling obscenities at the screen.

Comments

[beccaelizabeth]

*waves hello*

[tirinar.livejournal.com]

In my defense, Dennis was doing my make-up! It took about an hour longer than when I do it, which is good because it looked a million times better!

Was then waiting for Dennis and Mo to get ready, so totally nothing to do with me this time!

Be vewy vewy quiet.....

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

:raises eyebrow: That's what they all say.

[mingmerciless.livejournal.com]

then Ming spun round, stuck his foil in Sean's chest and said 'My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'

We were actually using epées, not foils, as any fule kno ;-) and I wasn't standing quite that close to Sean but it was fun though. Lucky he was within threatening distance :-)

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

as any fule kno

Put down the Molesworth and keep your hands where I can see 'em, boy.

[mingmerciless.livejournal.com]

Favourite line from Judge Dredd (don't ask which Prog/story!): "Hands up, creep, and make sure they're your own!"