AWA

This past weekend I went to AWA (Anime Weekend Atlanta). IT WAS SO FUN OH GOD. Everything was so much fun. There were good cosplays, good things to buy, good events, etc. I actually got alot of compliments on a cosplay, for once. Usually no one really notices mine, but this year they did! Lots of Kuroshitsuji cosplays were there. I mean LOTS. I saw about 15 people cosplaying Grell and a ton cosplaying Madame Red, too. Surprisingly, though, there weren't many Sebastians. My brother was one. I was also the only one cosplaying the Viscount, aside from this dumpy-looking frog-necked guy on Saturday.

I went to a few of the events this year, most notably the hentai panel, hentai viewing room, and costume contest. I WAS MAD THAT MY FRIEND DIDN'T WIN IN THE CONTEST DAMN IT. She was the best Ciel at the convention, I was pretty annoyed. I still say she won. Oh well, next year maybe. The hentai panel and viewing room were hilarious as always; we watched O-Genki Clinic and Darling. I laughed so hard.

As for friends and such, I saw so many of my friends that I don't usually see! I saw Cathy for the first time in two years, I saw Ariel (though she was a bit rude later, but we cleared that up), I saw Rhiannon and her girlfriend Maggie for a long time, I saw Sam ALOT, and I saw Meredith, and....Cynthia, and....there were so many people, I feel like I am leaving someone out. Oh well. It was so much fun to see everyone again!

In the dealer's room, there was alot of stuff. I ended up looking aorund alot more than I thought I would, but by the end of the convention I had no money left anyway. There was alot less possibly fake stuff this year, it feels like. Sadly, though, the most current booth was far too expensive. I still got an Anya keychain from it, though. I also got a wallscroll of Sunako from Yamato Nadeshiko SHichi Henge. SHE IS SO PRETTY. I bought it immediately. I cannot stop staring at it.

Cosplay was cool, although I don't have much to talk about concerning it because I took pictures of my favorite costumes I saw. See for yourself!

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Here is me feeling up a girl dressed as ballgown Ciel:
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Tutankhamun and the Retarded Museum Guests

So today I went to the Tutankhamun exhibition with my dad and my brother. It was cool. I've been interested in Egypt for a very long time (although the fire died down considerably in 6th grade), and I was looking forward to seeing it.

It was an enjoyable experience. I saw wonderful things (hurhur), and I was impressed all over again with the scope and craftsmanship of Egyptian statuary and the like. I even gained some respect points for that douchebag Akhenaten that got rid of all the old gods and pushed his monotheistic sun god bullshit on everyone.

The one thing I did not like about the exhibition, however, was the people they allowed in. Oh my GOD. I don't know who the hell some of these people thought they were, but it was annoying as hell. Maybe it's just my undiagnosed misanthropic personality disorder talking, but I was PISSED OFF a good deal of my time there.

For starters, in the very first room of the thing there was this child with his mother...this kid had a HIDEOUS Southern drawl, like listening to someone beat a pig wearing overalls over the head with a banjo. He was asking sme question aloud, and I just couldn't help but give him a dirty look. I mean, I HATE children, and I am vastly unfond of Southern accents...but when the two combine, it produces a terirble chimera of sound that needs to be shot.

There was also another child, this one was about age ten, that was one of those effeminate (not the good kind) little dumbfucks with glasses that acts like a fucking college professor wherever he goes and reads shit out loud. If we wanted to hear someone reading the info on the card, we'd have gotten the god-damn audio tour.

The fun continued when I got stuck behind some stupid little family with the fattest father and the most timid-looking mother I have ever seen. I am relatively sure that that man has hit his wife many times in the past. The idiot father at one point actually touched one of the statues, The ones that Harrison Ford told us not to touch in the goddamn introductory video. Why the fuck would you go out of your way to touch these things, you stupid hick? How old are you, five? No, one of your children is five, and even it didn't touch anything. Furthermore, SHUT YOUR DAMN BABY UP. GET YOUR WIFE TO SHUT IT UP. SOMETHING. WHAT THE FUCK.

That brings up another similar point. The god damn babies. Why the hell would you bring your child to see something they can't really even SEE yet? All you're doing is making it difficult for other patrons to enjoy the exhibition by wearing those fucking baby carriers and rolling around your damn strollers. If you're going to bring your kick, at least shut the damn thing up. This cannot be accomplished by saying "shhhh." Babies are of a low enough intelligence that they're practically inanimate. Making an annoying noise is not going to shut them up. All it is going to do is annoy the fuck out of whoever is standing in earshot, and make them lift their arm in preparation to hit the both of you. Hopefully the person nearby has the sense to not actually knock you and your demon spawn across the room, like me. But not everyone's as outwardly nice as I am.

Also, people kept setting off the damn alarm. There's a reason you weren't supposed to touch anything. Stop it. I hate you. Kill yourself.

But overall, the experience was good. As I said above, it had interesting things, and I enjoyed the hell out of seeing them.

Hollywood Death Note

I'm just gonna say this right now. I think that if there is going to be a US Death Note, Zac Efron could do Light. Remember how Light's a very agreeable, normal teenager at the start of the story, and still is around normal people? Zac Efron's got that down. That's his thing. Evil, god-complex Light is what most people are worried about, however (unless they're Light/Tatsuya Fujiwara fangirls like Akashi's girlfriend). I think he could also do this. He's not the nice little High School Musical faggot that everyone pins him for. Yes, he was in the movie, but that doesn't mean he acts like that in real life. He's just been typecast as the "likable teenager" because of that movie, and so everyone thinks he's that type of person. Everyone's got a darker side, and I'm sure he could pull that out for this movie.

That's not to say I want a US remake of Death Note. We have three live action movies with US releases already, people, in addition to a book, a manga, and an anime. All of these have a US release. WE'RE DONE WITH IT. NO MORE. LET JAPAN HANDLE THE THING AND KEEP YOUR HOLLYWOOD BASTARDIZATIONS TO YOURSELF. You already killed Street Fighter twice.

So I repeat: I do not support a US remake of Death Note in any way, but Zac Efron is not (and should not be) the reason why. Please whine about the fact that it is unnecessary and will probably have a terrible plot. Or, when L's actor is announced, that may be a good thing to complain about, too. The fact is, Zac Efron could do Light, and that's the end of it.

Just putting that out there.