8 posts tagged “veronica mars”
AH Wednesday, the first day of Comic Con. D and I left LA about 9:30 and headed down to SD even though we knew we wouldn’t get in until 6PM… But I wanted to scope out some Veronica Mars locations. So we are going through San Juan Capistrano when D sees the sign for the mission and of course I want to stop. I’ve never seen the SNC mission. It was absolutely stunning. I loved it. I would like to go back sometime with a picnic basket and sit out in the garden. I bought magnets from the gift shop. I took a million pictures of which I will only post more than a few.
We got to the convention center at 4:30 and got our badges and waited in a horrific line for four forevers before we got into the Exhibit Hall. I had to go right to the Summit Booth and I got my pictures taken with their cut-outs. I spun there wheel and won a Push t-shirt. Big disappointment. D got me Twilight trading cards. He also won a air freshner… Big disappointment. We met up with Alex and walked the floor. I bought my sister a couple of Gwen Stefani dolls. Then we went to see the Fringe screening. I really liked it. Not so hot on the female lead but Josh Jackson was so good in it. I also like the crazy scientist. I am going to look to download the pilot somewhere
Tomorrow is an early morning. I want to be in line for Hall H early and I definitely want to be in the Sails Pavilion for the drawing for Twilight autographs. Crossing all crossable parts to win a place in the line for meeting Rob.
I used to be more clever than I am these days. I used to write very interesting entries and these days I am living through my interests. This post won't be different. I just have to marvel at my former wit and wonder where it all went. It's like I've had a lobotomy. I was more fun before. I had edges. *sigh*
Today was Twilight Tuesday and Stephenie Meyer announced that she would be doing the Breaking Dawn Tour in conjunction with Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October. She will be in LA at UCLA's Royce Hall, 7 August. I am just one who doesn't learn, I wasn't so blown away with the last signing and yet I am bound and determined to go to this one. And it's more expensive too. She's really not worth it but I am compelled to go. It's like I'm a domestic violence victim and I keep going back.
I had hoped that we would get more about Twilight the movie on Twilight Tuesday. I really don't think Breaking Dawn touring dates count. I don't think I can be convinced that that was worth my full attention. You could give me Taylor Lautner and it would be better. Oh hell, I'm rarely happy on Twilight Tuesday. I like them beefy with Rob and Kristen. I have yet to have one that gave me a Kellan fix. That would be awesome. There are many Tuesdays between now and 12 Decemeber though. There is still hope. C'mon MTV, give me a Kellan Tuesday.
Last night D got me to watch some season 1 Veronica Mars. Jason Dohring is so perfect as Logan Echolls. We watched the Pilot and Credit Where Credit's Due and it was as good as I remember. We found a map with all the locations on it and there are a few that we have never seen. Maybe if we are down there in SD for Comic Con we can scope out some of the new places. New to me. I guess the fangirl in me is still die-hard. Atleast I'm not staying up all night reading Logan fanfic and stalking Jason Dohring. Although that experience made me really deluded about how celebrities react to fans. He was way too nice to us. It is too bad Moonlight got cancelled. I'm sure he'd have been at Comic Con otherwise. Okay I'm scaring myseld with where this line of thinking is going. I can only fixate on one celebrity at a time and I have to choose Rob for the time being. I say that after mooning over Kellan.
Books... they don't usually petition for restraining orders. I finished This Lullaby last night and I really liked it. I did have some minor issues with it like the time frame, it felt like things were a little rushed and that the time period given wasn't enough for the events that take place. Of course I was put out by the main character, it's not a book if I don't like the main character. The girls always drive me crazy and Remy Starr was no different. She's inflexible and pigheaded and a little too know-it-all for me. Dexter, the love interest, on the contrary, is quirky, bumbling and adorable. I don't think there was a line by his character that I didn't like. He's easily relatable and his faults aren't annoying to anyone other than Remy. I really found the pacing good up until nearing the end when there are long periods of Remy with everyone but Dexter and this was tedious. The pay off was a drop in the bucket when I wanted a deluge. It felt a bit like an afterthought. But in the end for all my complaints I did like it. It was a quick read and I really want to read Dessen's new book now. I also BookMooched How to Deal which is Someone Like you and That Summer together. I hope to read a lot more Dessen. I approve.
So after I finshed This Lullaby I started Fragile Things and so far I'm barely into it and already remembering that I hate Neil Gaiman's short stories. I just never like these compilations. I am going to try to read to page 50 and see if I don't enjoy it more but as of now I am really in hell. I like Neil Gaiman, I really do. His short stories always bore me though. I don't find them a draw like I did with Neverwhere, Good Omens, Stardust or American Gods. A part of me just thinks that there is a good reason why none of these are full books. These are the cast offs that he couldn't make work. Someone is going to be a huge Gaiman fan and feel really insulted by that, but it's how I feel and I won't apologize for not liking crappy stories. When I get a Gaiman craving I would be better off reading something I've already read than to read Smoke and Mirrors or Fragile Things.
Battlestar tonight was nerve wracking. I want to know what is happening with the Sixes and the Eights. I was very happy with the end of the Chief and Callie story. I never liked her. Kara as a little bit crazy is par for the course. I love seeing her on the edge. I sort of hope she and Lee are reunited. I want the happy ending. There was a lack of Baltar which I was a little disappointed by, but that just means there will be a ton of him next week.
Tomorrow D and I are going to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I guess I am still mildly Veronica Mars fan-ish. Kristen Bell is part of why I want to see this movie. I also loved Knocked Up and it's by the same people that made it. After D has promised me a trip to the bookstore. He's going to get Belladonna, the next book after Sebastian. I want to look for a copy of the Iliad. I'm not sure I'm buying it. I could BookMooch it, but I think if I get it, I want it to be a nice edition. I have yet to get my 2nd issue of the Iliad in comic form so I haven't started reading the comic yet. Although, note to self: the 5th issue came out on Wednesday and I haven't got it yet.
I spoke with my father yesterday. He wasn't expecting her to make it through the night. I am assuming, as I haven't heard from him as of yet, that she is still fighting. I was hoping that this would be fast. He tells me she isn't suffering, that they have her on pain medication so she isn't feeling anything. But he also tells me her respiration is shallow and at only 6 breaths a minute, so she's slowly suffocating. That still is an awful way to die.
I intended to make a post about yesterday this morning and then wrote to Nielle before I did. So I'm going to just cut and paste my email to her in here.
***posting***
Hey, sorry I didn't write yesterday. D and I woke up and went to the
101 cafe. I was muddy-headed and as I loped in I swung the door open
and hit the person behind me. We walked in to the seating area and the
woman I hit, who was still behind me greeted someone else and moved by
us. I noticed at that point that I assaulted Kate Walshe who plays
Addison Shepard on Greys Anatomy. She looks freakily the same as the
character on the show... you know red headed with a side of BITCH.
So then we went to Target and I got an awesome new sweater and we got sheets. We came home and cleaned and my bedroom is so so so pretty now. We also moved around the livingroom. We watched a bunch of TV and I worked on a crapload of photos. We went to shower at like 2am and I stayed in the tub until 4 reading. I got out and started writing. Which meant I should provide you with a first and last paragrph as promised.
Men don't think about the particulars of apartment complex decor until it is unavoidable. Oddly enough, my current circumstance had me redecorating the lobby of the Shangrai Lodge with a longing most men save for the undressing of catholic school girls. I couldn't help but wish for some strategically place faux ficus as I embarressingly stood outside of apartment 109, hoping that in some odd planetary mishap earth was now unpopulated and there would be no witness to my shame.
...
That explained alot.
So I passed out while writing so the last paragraph was... not.
After sleeping for 4 hours I woke up to my phone. Julie was sending over an electrician to see to the not working plug in our apartment. Since I have been sitting here making the wedding ribbon shadow boxes I've been meaning to make for 2 months now.
I think my plans for today are going to inventory a crap load
of books on bookmooch, work on some more photos. D said we should have
the wedding site up this evening. We also have been talking a load
about my site and the new manic. We are going to watch a bunch of what
I have on my Tivo and some of the stuff I've downloaded. I have season
2 of Queer as Folk to watch.
***end email***
And pictures to boot.
3 from the Wedding...
So it's 1 November and I'm in need of nutshelling October.
I don't think I ever really introduced Mr. Squintz. Nielle gave me gifts when I first arrived in Vancouver. In my bag was a 'purse kitty' who was quickly dubbed Squintz. Mr. Squintz then became my security object. And he literally rocked my world.
Since my little security kitty has watched the L Word, met famous people, gone on a plane, he's hung with Frankie, been cleaned by Nicky and sat in Belle's cleavage... just to name his highlights. But I can show you all of that so I will start the Mr. Squintz photo spread.
Mr Squintz on Day 6 of Vancouver
So I arrived home last Thursday and spent the day with D. Slept Friday. Saturday we went to Ikea and Tam and Heather called as Tam was visiting. We made plans to meet up at the 101. I will refrain from telling you what they spent their day doing. However while we were eating it came to the more observant friends of mine, that Tessa Thompson was sitting near us. She played Jackie last season on Veronica Mars. (I will post that picture later too). The place was actually dripping with actors and actresses on Saturday. It was a nice outing.
Sunday I woke up and begun the final painting job my bedroom has been begging for for 2 weeks. At about 11:30 Belle called and asked me if I wanted to go to SD because Jason and Ryan were doing a signing at the AE in Horton Plaza. Ofcourse it was at 1 and we would have to hustle. And hustle we did. We made it down there and again... photos to come.
Monday night D took me to see the Rangers and the Kings at the Staples Center. Which was soooooo bad of a game! But I loved seeing the Hockey! I miss hockey an inordinate amount. We had a really good time. I love Darius Kasparaitis even now. And Shannie, Jagr and Army -- even though he plays for the wrong team now.
Finally I have caught up to November.
So now it's 1 November and I have begun my NaNoWriMo saga. National Novel Writer's Month, for those of you who just "huhed" my declaration. I have my plot planned, my character ideas... i know what I need to write when and how many words a day. So today is Day 1 and... I am doing pictures of last Tuesday, have to get dressed soon for my doctor's appointment and hoping to all hope that I am going to see a hockey game tonight. Priorities are a bit watercoloured in my head.
But prepare... I may be spamming my little Vox blog the next few weeks. Spamming it and making it cry.
I got a package yesterday from the very esteemable Nick Coe. Have I ever mentioned in this journal that I love Nick? No? Well assure yourself I love Nick. I'm in a bit of a pickle when Nick is sweet because it makes me say that I hate Nick. It's only because I'm an emotional child and him being nice makes me all mushy inside. So this week I love and hate Nick. His package (that is not a euphemism for anything) contained two books that I've been wanting, Sweet Thursday and The Moon is Down, both by Steinbeck. I am over the moon, which is not down that he looked at my Amazon list and got them for me. I want to marry Nick. Well except for it being all illegal and the weirdness of my proposing over the gift of books.
Today I started my wonderful book about the Whaleship Essex and I'm hoping that the author warms up to the telling of the story or I will be in tears soon. Sadly, I admit that on page 2, I found my head curled up, wheezing coming from my throat and that not even 5 paragraphs in I was asleep. But I've decided that I will do what I've done with other slow starting books and for every chapter I read of this book I will just read a few other chapters from another. Just until I get into it's flow. Then I will be more used to the author's delivery and not be so bored.
Also today, I spent a few hours talking to Kev on gTalk. We haven't had much catch up time in a while. I sent him pictures as did he to me. I can't believe how different things are a mere 12 years later. There was a Dog Eat Dog show at the Knit and it was a bit of a "family reunion". Seeing the pictures I felt so old. God it wasn't that long ago was it? They all grew up. Not me, no no way.
As I posted earlier MSN has the new season premiere of Veronica Mars up on it's site. I really liked it. I have said this a million times since yesterday that I hate Veronica and love the new episode. I'm just like that. I don't want that girl and her ungrateful heart around me and mine. D and I watched House tonight... which was fucking hilarious. One of the best House episodes going in my opinion. We watched Heroes again. There seem to be a few small differences from the pre-air version but nothing earth shattering. I still am lukewarm about it. I did like the episode of Standoff from this week. D told me tonight that Tim Minear is going to be taking over as ... I can't remember what. This makes me sad. I love the brilliant Minearman... but it dooms the show. Sadly he is touched with the Whedoncurse. Nothing he works on can make it on TV it dies a 12 episode death and goes to DVD. No matter how brilliant his shows are there is no hope for them. He's pissed off some exec with a god complex and all things Minear-y get lopped off.
I'm entertaining thoughts of a bubble bath or perhaps ice tea. As my mind has moved to serious matters this must mean I should post 9 more photos and move on with my non-living-like-living. Without further tam-do....
it's available for live streaming through msn now until the season premiere airs live next tuesday. you need to use windows media player and just use the link below.
http://a1986.v87251.c8725.g.vc.akamaistream.net/7/1986/8725/v0001/msnent.download.akamai.com/8725/DBA90618/published/Video/Misc/High/VeronicaMars_WelcomeWagon.wmv
happy watching... no spoiling because i'm not going to watch it until d gets home.
I love those journal entries where you want to say something and you don't know where to start because the beginning seems so long ago, but you can't just start the tales for the lack of prologue. My Comic Con 2006 trip is like that. Too much happened to capture it all and at the same time, I don't want to forget anything. *sigh*
Because I am typing this in the car on the 5N I think the best plan attack at the moment is to do a top 10 of each day, respectively. Then I can always go back later to add some detail and dimension... but also I will start ordering my ideas early enough that nothing will get lost in my after Con desensitization.
*drumroll please*
Thursday
- D had the day off.
- road trips are cool... even when long and slept through.
- Georgia's Greek Grapeleaves
- Heather, Susie, D and I go for our badges.
- The scary Sushi-Fix ordeal
- The scary psychotic C-beast who tongue lashed a Hojo's Desk Clerk.
- Lazeema offering to share topless times with me.
- Susie yelling at the guy in the car next to her in the parking garage.
- Sumo Sushi RIP - the death march to unfullfilment.
- Finding the yacht for the wedding.
Friday
- Early morning tripping to SDSU.
- Watching Heather do her magic and sniff out EVERY location on the campus.
- Susan's theivery.
- Battlestar Panel. Chief owns me.
- Bones Panel... David Boreanez really has puppy dog eyes. And it was cute the way he picks his nose.
- Finding my Wedding Dress.
- Seeing Alex.
- AARON MCGRUDER OWNING MY ASS.
- The nacho cheese incident.
- Seeing Clem.
Saturday
- Buying my Wedding Dress after trying it on and it fitting like it was made for me.
- Michael's text message, phone call and pre panel hug.
- Seeing Rollins
- Heather's hottness
- D's being with me, despite my drama, whiney assed moodiness and gluten-heavy retardedness.
- Finally meeting Lazeema and Caedn.
- The green bag.
- The location stalking with the girls from LA and Toronto.
- Ryan Hansen's dancing.
- Karinna's phone call.
- A trip to the set of Veronica Mars, including some entirely immoral actions and downright misbehaviour.
- Seeing how happy Susan, Lazeema and Caedn were to see it for the first time.
- The Greek Buffet.
- Seeing Karinna.
- Going to Cabrillo Monument, Dog Beach and Sunset Cliffs to show the Canadians around.
- Hanging with all the girls.
- The Marble Slab Adventure.
- Gossip, Shoptalk and some bitchery.
- Old Town and the Whaley House, late late late...
- I totally was on Logan's bed and got to touch things he has touched.
Thanks to my homies. It was a pleasure and honour to spend time with the girls who enhance all the scenic views. *smooches*
Pictures in the works.
