PMX

I'm starving. It's past midnight and I haven't eaten for over 10 hours. OMG, I need something.
Note that I am too lazy to go downstairs into the kitchen and microwave my curry. :( Though I should soon cause I need to hit the sack early in order to make it on time to kung-fu at noon.

Anyways...

PMX is a tiny con. I hit it up today just to hear the concert. It kind of reminded me of Anime Boston in 2003 and 2004, how it was in a hotel and had that intimate kind of atmosphere. :3 Made a friend today, while standing in line for the OLIVIA concert. She looked a little familiar to me, but I didn't really think much about it when we were standing in line talking. Eventually we got around to talking about cosplay and she said she'd done Mugen before and then it hit me. Of course, I'd seen pictures of her in Mugen costume before. Silly me. :D She was super nice and hopefully we'll meet and hang out at future cons.

PMX wasn't too exciting. There was nothing to do. I got there around 4pm, went to the dealer's room, went to karaoke (sang the NANA opening 'rose', and I think because I was so nervous I managed to hit all the high notes completely on), and then waited around for the concert to start.

The opening two acts were Uchuu Sentai NOIZ (a postmodern poppy Visual Kei band) and Dig Jelly (a local band that had a squeaky female Japanese vocalist and a sound that was somewhere between System of a Down and Godsmack). NOIZ was pretty good, I never really got all that much into Visual Kei, but those guys really knew how to throw a concert. They also had an entourage of Japanese fangirls from their official club, and MAN. Were they small, squeaky, and minimally annoying. They were doing the band's dances and hand-motions along with them, and they ran to the front of the floor to mosh.

Now small Japanese fangirls moshing is unlike anything I've seen before. Imagine suddenly releasing a whole shitload of super bouncy balls into a tiny little space, and that's what they look like. They were head banging, running around, flailing their limbs, and screaming all at once, so it looked like some schizophrenic drunk was having an epileptic seizure. It didn't help that they often knocked each other over in the middle of their "dancing," but that didnt' seem to faze them cause they'd just get back up and start thrashing like maniacs again. It was fun to watch.

I hate to say it, but Dig Jelly sucks. Maybe I'm just supporting the patriarchy when I say this, but their vocalist had an obnoxious voice. She was high-pitched, whiny, and her only saving grace (besides her large, obviously-fake boobs) was the fact that she could scream like she was in a death metal band. :/ Their songs were annoying, obnoxious, but they did a decent cover of "Killing in the Name" originally by Rage Against The Machine. (Note that this fits because Rage has an annoying, high-pitched, whiny vocalist too.)

OLIVIA was great. :3 She was so shy on stage when she was talking, she said "um" and "uhh" a lot, and it was super cute. She's very pretty too. She's funny to watch on stage because she dances like she's Tinkerbell and she likes to skip around on the stage. Hearing her sing, "A Little Pain," "Starless Night," and "Wish" was just great. I was only 3 rows away from the stage and I had a lot of fun, despite being tired and hungry and dehydrated. XD Okay, I should do something about that soon.

A big shout out to Phi who I dragged to sit next to me. Apologies for leaving before, but I was just done with conning and had to go home. ;__; Next time you're in LA, give me a call! ~<3 We should go out for dinner!

Con swag is ridiculously small this time round, but still important:

- That Legato figure I'd been wanting forever. I FINALLY GOT IT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. Legato loves me! Fweeeeeeeeee~<3
- Two mini-fan-stickers of Seishirou and Subaru. I wanted to get Tree-san too...but you know...that's just too fanon cliche. Sei and Su it is!
- NANA stickers. I wanted to get Hachi or NANA but I ended up with Reira instead. :( Boo. So not going on the computer.

Anyways, I think I'm well done for cons until May. I still need to finalize the design for my original character Sith costume for Star Wars: Celebration IV. I should do that soon.