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Aug. 7th, 2009
[Worldcon] Day Two Highlights
Aug. 7th, 2009 07:30 pm--Seeing John Scalzi, Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Wen Spencer, and Cory Doctorow all on one panel talking (and getting progressively sillier by the moment) about winning the Campbell Award. And hearing Scalzi squeal like a little girl, as well as hearing Mary Kowal read the names of past Campbell winners in the form of a phone sex operator's voice. Jay was in tears by the time she got to him...hee!
--Seeing Melissa Auf der Maur, Neil Gaiman, Ellen Kushner, Tobias Buckell, some new guy whose name I forgot and Cory Doctorow, talking about The New Media. And realizing this was by far the geekiest panel ever. :p
--Seeing Melissa Auf der Maur's multimedia project Out of Our Minds (which includes an album, a score, a film (see the trailer here!), and a comic book when it's all done), and being VERY impressed by it. Though there were some technical glitches in the movie showing, it was pretty damn impressive (I geeked out and told her it was "very Stan Brakhage", which made her very happy :p ), and I LOVED the score and the title song of the same name. She ended the presentation with a brief solo (on bass!) show of three songs. I am so totally buying this when it comes out--she says it'll be available sometime January 2010. Oh, and I also made her laugh when I said how happy I was to see someone else played bass the same way I do (more melodic than beat-driven), to which she replied "yeah, just playing the simple way, right?" Heh. :)
--Getting a free "Don't Panic!" pin in the Dealer's Room...as well as a sneak preview of the new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book (entitled And Another Thing... and written by Eoin Colfer...and coming out in October, I believe!). Can't wait for that one!
--Getting some serious notes done on some future Eden Cycle stories! YAY!
Okay, it's close to 11pm and I'm gettin' sleepy. Night all! :)
--Seeing Melissa Auf der Maur, Neil Gaiman, Ellen Kushner, Tobias Buckell, some new guy whose name I forgot and Cory Doctorow, talking about The New Media. And realizing this was by far the geekiest panel ever. :p
--Seeing Melissa Auf der Maur's multimedia project Out of Our Minds (which includes an album, a score, a film (see the trailer here!), and a comic book when it's all done), and being VERY impressed by it. Though there were some technical glitches in the movie showing, it was pretty damn impressive (I geeked out and told her it was "very Stan Brakhage", which made her very happy :p ), and I LOVED the score and the title song of the same name. She ended the presentation with a brief solo (on bass!) show of three songs. I am so totally buying this when it comes out--she says it'll be available sometime January 2010. Oh, and I also made her laugh when I said how happy I was to see someone else played bass the same way I do (more melodic than beat-driven), to which she replied "yeah, just playing the simple way, right?" Heh. :)
--Getting a free "Don't Panic!" pin in the Dealer's Room...as well as a sneak preview of the new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book (entitled And Another Thing... and written by Eoin Colfer...and coming out in October, I believe!). Can't wait for that one!
--Getting some serious notes done on some future Eden Cycle stories! YAY!
Okay, it's close to 11pm and I'm gettin' sleepy. Night all! :)
