The next morning I packed up the car with all the essentials needed for the convention, same as the day before only now a couple extras.
You see having to make this move coming up I have to get rid of a lot of my things. The three long boxes that make up the bulk of my comic book collection were put in the day before. This day I put my Laserdisc player and it's movies in the car. The dealer that sold me the Laserdisc the first year at the con. was also at the convention last year so I made a bet he'd be there this year and I was right. We agreed on a price the day before & he said he'd take them when I brought them in. I got ten dollars more than we had first talked about
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For the first time at Starfest I sat in on a Horrorfest panel. This panel being watching the trailer for 'Daher Vs. Gacy with Ethan Phillips and Jed Rowen there to talk about it. Very funny and I think it's a shame it's meant to be a straight the DVD release. I think every body that watched it laughed, Ethan Phillips has a very distinct sounding laugh. They noted to us that it had been filmed in a dirty environment & joked it was done on a high budget. The Phillips's character having an obsession with corn had been meant as a joke to either the film's producer or director but the suggestion had been taken seriously. And on set a massive pile of corn was delivered to be used in the movie. The killer "cobs" people to death.
A lot of wandering took place & video taping to boot. At one point sat in on one of Marc Gunn's concerts. Yes another of the Gunn clan
. Julia Phillips was at the convention again too and this time she did a bit for video. Got three of Marc Gunn's songs on tape. Got two of his CDs on bargain.
4:30pm was when the interview took place with Katt. You guys know I've interviewed people before. Well this being the first live interview I practiced for it while waiting. The interview didn't go that bad. Questions had to be skipped but it all went cool. Now when people watch this interview they'll notice he wasn't too wild about being asked about Bone Eater. We chatted outside the interview room as to that afterwords. He knows now because of that I think he does good work. Mentioned about how I had picked up season one of The Greatest American Hero after it had first been a library rental. Chatted about the braking into the comic biz and he gave some good advice for the artist who wants to brake in to it.
For the costume contest every body entering it, we were told to enter the hotel's gym at 7:00pm to be shorted & wait for it to begin. We waited longer than expected. Robert Picardo apparently really got into his singing for the House Call event by about 15 minutes extra I think. It was the House Call event that had the same use of the main auditorium also meant for the contest. At one point while waiting with the other contestants early on, Brent Spiner came passing through and gave a hi to us because that was his route out from his Q & A session. Actually talked with him more than once. Friday while taking his picture and ensuring him my camera was only set to take a picture and not video. And then on Sunday in one of the hotel's elevators. I had gone to the model room to interview Vern for the videos & Spiner got in at one point while we went down to the base floor. First the junior group had their time on stage, followed by the horror group and then fantasy which was the group I was in. The staff put me at the head of the group. Now if any video was recorded of what I did on stage I can explain. Acted like a wild, nutty animal on purpose but not knowing where I should be that wasn't part of the act. I had a black material mask covering my face and I could barely see what was going on around me. At one point the announcer had to point me in the direction of the judges since my vision was so impaired. People in the afterwords knew there was an act going on, just not that I couldn't see what was going on. They liked it, I didn't win but at least it was entertaining for those watching
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Left the convention for the night after the contest was over and by then the weather was much nicer than it had been earlier which made driving home easier. The night before there had been very thick fog.
Here are the links for the first three videos. All together is the best way to watch this, there are ten
. You guys might want to watch these back to back as they come online.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jshal3jBoTM2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiwSm3jrnQ83:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EaOP8UREC4Erin