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A Killer Weekend
Mar. 11th, 2012 10:47 pmSo, the Monster-Mania Convention was this past weekend, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje and I attended on Saturday as usual. The first panelist we saw was Anthony Michael Hall, who looks totally different now then he did in the eighties. I mean, obviously he's older, but I get the impression that he's also worked out a lot. Gunnar Hansen, who played Leatherface in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has long been a favorite of Beth's. David Prowse, the guy who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, was there, and talked about how he actually just recently met James Earl Jones for the first time. There were some actors from The Walking Dead and the guy who played Xander on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I'm not familiar with those shows. I know a lot of people who are fans of Buffy, but I can't say I ever got into it. The little bits I've seen just seemed rather too soap-opera-ish. I don't know. And I really feel that zombies are overdone these days. Sure, they're a neat idea, but isn't every zombie movie or TV show basically the same? They lumber around and people fight them off. Mind you, I'm also not too keen on war movies, and they're largely the same thing without the supernatural component. Anyway, the final guests of the night were Robert Englund and Tuesday Knight. Robert has been to a fair number of these conventions, but I believe this is Tuesday's first on the East Coast.
In Dragon Quest IX, I've finally managed to beat King Godwyn, and also took out Corvus' first form and the evil dragon Barbarus. Corvus' second form kicked my ass pretty easily, though. I kind of want to get finished with that game so I can start on another. I know there's extra stuff to do after beating the boss, but I'll probably hold off on that. There are other games I want to check out.
I have to say I found the plot of the most recent Simpsons episode too bizarre for...well, a Simpsons episode. Maybe it would have worked as a Halloween story. I don't know. It just rather strained what little believability the show has left. Not to mention that Homer's childhood trauma turned out to be quite anticlimactic anyway, and most of the dream stuff wasn't all that funny. There were a few clever moments, like the return to Tracey Ullman style animation, but not enough to really justify the wacky premise.
I really haven't been putting that much heart into these life-related posts recently. I was going to write one on Friday, but I just couldn't eke out more than a few sentences, and it didn't strike me as worthwhile. I guess we'll be moving soon, so that's something worth mentioning, but what else is there to say about that? I'm worried that I won't be able to find a job up there, but what else is new? It's not that I don't have stuff to say, I suppose, but more that I'm not sure I feel this is the right venue.
bethje and I attended on Saturday as usual. The first panelist we saw was Anthony Michael Hall, who looks totally different now then he did in the eighties. I mean, obviously he's older, but I get the impression that he's also worked out a lot. Gunnar Hansen, who played Leatherface in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has long been a favorite of Beth's. David Prowse, the guy who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, was there, and talked about how he actually just recently met James Earl Jones for the first time. There were some actors from The Walking Dead and the guy who played Xander on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I'm not familiar with those shows. I know a lot of people who are fans of Buffy, but I can't say I ever got into it. The little bits I've seen just seemed rather too soap-opera-ish. I don't know. And I really feel that zombies are overdone these days. Sure, they're a neat idea, but isn't every zombie movie or TV show basically the same? They lumber around and people fight them off. Mind you, I'm also not too keen on war movies, and they're largely the same thing without the supernatural component. Anyway, the final guests of the night were Robert Englund and Tuesday Knight. Robert has been to a fair number of these conventions, but I believe this is Tuesday's first on the East Coast.In Dragon Quest IX, I've finally managed to beat King Godwyn, and also took out Corvus' first form and the evil dragon Barbarus. Corvus' second form kicked my ass pretty easily, though. I kind of want to get finished with that game so I can start on another. I know there's extra stuff to do after beating the boss, but I'll probably hold off on that. There are other games I want to check out.
I have to say I found the plot of the most recent Simpsons episode too bizarre for...well, a Simpsons episode. Maybe it would have worked as a Halloween story. I don't know. It just rather strained what little believability the show has left. Not to mention that Homer's childhood trauma turned out to be quite anticlimactic anyway, and most of the dream stuff wasn't all that funny. There were a few clever moments, like the return to Tracey Ullman style animation, but not enough to really justify the wacky premise.
I really haven't been putting that much heart into these life-related posts recently. I was going to write one on Friday, but I just couldn't eke out more than a few sentences, and it didn't strike me as worthwhile. I guess we'll be moving soon, so that's something worth mentioning, but what else is there to say about that? I'm worried that I won't be able to find a job up there, but what else is new? It's not that I don't have stuff to say, I suppose, but more that I'm not sure I feel this is the right venue.
