San Diego Comic-Con!

[spencer]

Is anyone going this year?  I sure as hell am, and boy oh boy am I excited about it.

I wore a buckethead tee shirt last year, and you wouldn\'t believe how many people recognized and liked his work.  That\'s how you can tell you\'re in good company  

Also, as an added bonus, Tenacious D is playing saturday night in the exhibit hall.  This is beyond awesome.

Hope to hear some people are coming, have a fun time!

[gkg]

sounds like a hell of a lot of fun, but sadly we\'ll not be heading there.  be sure to post a tale of your exploits for us!

have fun, man!

[spencer]

sounds like a hell of a lot of fun, but sadly we\'ll not be heading there.  be sure to post a tale of your exploits for us!

have fun, man!

I sure will, in fact, i will recall a couple from last years just because it was awesome.

1)  My friend Grant and I love this Japanese toy company called Secret Base.  They have cool toys and clothes.  So, near the Toy Tokyo booth last year, we saw a guy with a Secret Base hat, and went up to talk to him.  He didn\'t speak American, but he got the gist of it.  A couple minutes later we see him again this time with another person who was wearing Secret Base gear.  Still didn\'t speak American.  He took the guy\'s hat and put it on Grant\'s head and gave us Secret Base toys and these neat almost cloth-like stickers.  We were amazed at his generosity, and somebody that speaks american asked us if we knew who he was.  Turns out the guy\'s name was Hiddy, and he was the owner/creator of Secret Base.  We had to sit down for five minutes afterwards, calling our friends and telling them what just happened.

2)  I went to the question panel for The Devil\'s Rejects, and asked Bill Moseley a question about Cornbugs!  That was where I heard about donkeytown for the first time.  Afterwards I shook his hand and he thanked me for asking the question and asked if I had Brain Circus.  I then proceeded to tell him my very cool story of how I obtained Brain Circus and he said "good for you!" before I went out the door and a security guard started blocking everyone from the cast because everyone wanted to meet Rob and Sherri Zombie.


Also, this one time, I was like just standing around, and there was a big hubbub around me, and I was like, what the hell is going on?  and i turned around and looked to see what was going on, and lo and behold, QUENTIN TARAN-freaking-TINO was walking no less than ten feet away from me.  I was mezmerized.

[gkg]

man that sounds like you had a great time!  i envy you fella - have a ball!

[spencer]

Ok, time to post some of the main events of this year.

1.  The King Kong pannel followed immeadeately by a Tenacious D set:  All the actors were really funny, and watching the scene where Kong takes on the dinosaurs was really neat.  Then the D came on and just blew everyone away.  They played new songs and old, and made funny jokes, and it was no less of awesome.  It ranks up there favorite show wise with the Darkness and Buckethead with Giant Robot.  They did one song in which they talked about how proud they were that they captured all of the sound in the movie live and not lip synching later in the studio.  They then said they did have to use a beat counter for this song just because it was so complex, and with that, they launched into a lip synch fest, jack black started out at the microphone with this huge wail and then moved away from it and it was still the same sound, then commented on how he didn\'t need a microphone.  Then Kyle Gass (the guitarist) played distorted harmonized riffs on ONE acoustic guitar.  Hilarious.  That was definately the event of the whole con.

2.  The  Devil\'s Rejects pannel:  Bill Moseley is ridiculously cool from what I\'ve seen in the movie so far.  The first 10 minutes I watched, and it was pretty great.  I\'m really quite excited for this movie.

Afterwards, I happened to just be walking the same way as Bill Moseley, and I asked him about Cornbugs.  He was really nice.

3.  Walking around:  this is a fun part, cuz you meet unexpected people.  For about five minutes, I was just standing at a booth looking at a trailer, and I glanced over to my side and I noticed Seth Green (he was the son of Dr. Evil in Austin Powers and the voice of Chris on Family Guy).  I didn\'t bother him, but it was kinda cool to just be standing close to a fairly large celebrity.  My friend and I were also walking around and noticed Glenn Danzig of the Misfits sitting at a random booth.  That was neat too.  My brother also came one day and pointed out "hey, Spencer, isn\'t that Bruce Campbell over there?"  We went into line and got a little flyer signed by him.  He\'s actually a really funny guy.  We watched his new movie that\'s coming to the Sci Fi Channel; the movie was allright, but his question and answer stuff at the beginning was comedic gold.  I got his new book signed by him later at a book store too.  That\'s pretty funny as well.

That\'s about all I can think of.  Twas good though!

[gkg]

sounds like you had a blast.  hoorah for you!  

[Tristan_Donnelly]

Sounds really awesome. I saw footage from this years comic con on g4tv, it looked like they had all sorts of cool stuff. Yes, I\'m a nerd, I watch g4tv.  Bill Mosely is an awesome guy. He was actually in Army of Darkness with Bruce Campbell. I bet it was hard to get anything done around those two. Anyways, thanks for sharing your comic con experiences with us. Sounds like you had a great time.