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ComicCon '04/ Look whose back

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 01:19:55 GMT

**NOTE: All of these were typed up right after I got back to my aunt's house after ComicCon, that's why it sounds like the way it does. Also its REALLY LONG.

Before you start reading:
I'm glad (and I find it kinda funny for some reason) that everyone is getting back into the LOTR love. I'm pretty happy about the fact I started getting back into it before I went to ComicCon =)

Well on Wednesday, our flight got delayed by three hours so instead of arriving in San Diego at about 1 in the morning, we arrived at around 3 or so plus it was a two hour drive to my aunt’s house, where we’re obviously staying. After two hours of sleep and another hour of driving…COMICCON!

The first thing we did was of course was the LOTR pavilion. It was again noticeable and had some of the same displays as last year but they had an awesome new one. It was a bunch of mannequins that had all of the characters clothes on them. Like Aragorn’s costume at the end along with Eowyn’s, Arwen’s, Faramir’s and well you know. Then me and Chelsea headed to Sideshow Weta so I could get that exclusive Gollum bust and of course they just had to sell out and I had to be put on the waiting list.

We then decided to go shopping and I bought a Frodo, Sam, and Gollum mouse pad, Merry and Pippin pencil case, the There and Back again journal (you know so I could have Billy, David, and Dominic sign it), Kill Bill Japanese poster, Goonies button, the Bride and Gogo action figure. Oh yeah and we jacked about 5 mega huge Lost posters.

We headed over to the Star Wars section and dude they had a buttload of people going for autographs. But holy crap it there a price range. R2 D2’s and such were like 15-20 bucks, Carrie Fisher’s is 35 dollars which is understandable and frigging Mark Hamill has to be $85! I mean I know you’re Luke Skywalker, but not cool.

A whole lot of nothing happed since we were waiting, well I was waiting, for the Donnie Darko presentation. We decided to wait outside, I called Nikki! Yay! Hahaha, yeah then I called Iris and talked to her for a while.

3:30 hit and we went up for the Donnie Darko thing. No, Jake Gyllenhaal by the way. What a rip off, they didn’t even show footage from the director’s cut because the studio wouldn’t allow it. They suck. The whole thing was a basic Q&A. This one person simply asked, “What does it mean?!” that’s what I would like to know but you know Richard Kelly uses the default, “It all what you make of it.” Pure BS, I wanna know what the heck the movie’s about! Yeah and there was this guy who was really into the movie, he made his own Donnie outfit and believed that the time travel book actually existed. He again asked what the movie was about and Richard Kelly then said, “Its about love.” The guy left the room all angry and that must suck being made fun of by the director of your favorite movie. I felt bad for the guy but at the same time, he was just way too weird.

We were also in the summer movie preview panel and the funny part was when they were talking about the Seed of Chucky and they mentioned Billy Boyd as the voice and all and the placed went nuts! From then on they name dropped LOTR actors just to get a scream. Like, “That looks like a great movie but it would be better if it had…SEAN ASTIN!” The thing is when they said Orlando, there was like a whimper.

The Ringer presentation came up and it was so hilarious. I loved it. They showed clips from the documentary. The fans sort pissed me off in the sense that they would scream for everyone like Elijah or Billy but they were quiet when Peter Jackson came on screen. Holy crap everyone, he’s kinda the director, without him no movie. Oh and the Andy Serkis footage was priceless. Oh and there was a surprise guest appearance by Sala Baker! And this one guy said that he preferred the animated LOTR movies over Peter’s and everyone got pissed, booed him…including Sala it was great.

Tomorrow is a big day with me and Chelsea running around a lot to meet Keanu Reeves, Michael Madsen, Billy Boyd, and David Wenham!!!

Today we got to the center at about 10 and there was already a line to get into the WB preview for Batman Begins and Constantine (WITH KEANU!). We got in line and basically waited for an hour and a half. They let us in and the room that they had it in was huge. Like way huge compared to last year’s. We waited again for about another hour and a half and then it was time. And we were really close to the stage.

First the writer of Batman and Cillian Murphy (he had pretty eyes) came out, it was kinda boring seeing is that they weren’t allowed to show anything from the movies and the Q&A was pretty boring too. Oh and the showed a message from Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale and wow Christian Bale looked really really stoned and really really confused. I don’t see why girls think he’s hot. If you wanna see hot look down to our next panellist.

Then they showed an 18 minute preview of Constantine and it looks frigging awesome. I mean I nearly shit myself once or twice but hey as long as I get to see a hot Keanu fighting demons, its all good. And then they brought out the guests and another Q&A began and Keanu Reeves came out. I felt kinda bad for everyone else on the panel because most/all of the questions were directed towards Keanu. He was hot, but he could have been hotter if he had shorter hair, no beard, and looked like he did in The Matrix or Constantine. It was great cuz this one guy, who didn’t really ask a question said that he hopes its rated R because he’s sick of PG-13 movies. Keanu’s response? “Fuck.” Man, I love this man even more. We taped the entire presentation (minus the clips of course) so if I ever figure out how to upload videos onto the internet…yeah. Keanu didn’t do a signing, I wasn’t surprised but disappointed since I wanted to meet him oh so very much.

We went outside since they made us and we wanted to go meet Michael Madsen. There was already a line forming for the New Line panel, but we wanted to meet Mr. Blonde. So we wasted an hour just to kill time till 3. I bought a hobbit lunch box and Chelsea bought a Sin City comic book (or to you Ringers…Elijah’s next movie). It was 3 and we went to his booth and we didn’t realize till 15 minutes later that we were in the wrong section. I hate ComicCon for giving two booths the same name. So we went upstairs to find out that he had cancelled his signings (*shakes fist*). I got really pissed off because we wasted an hour and half when we could have been waiting in line. So we went back to wait in like for something that was two hours later and the line went around the perimeter of the building, inside and out, and into the streets (after we were in it). Pissed, I called Iris. I called Nikki again and she called me again with info about her friend Shawn who could give us inside info.

I called Shawn and we decided to meet up after the panel. We got are seats, pretty close for where we were in line but they were kinda crappy since we couldn’t see anything.

The first thing was about Blade 3 and we saw Jessica Biel and Ryan Reynolds (can someone please explain to me why people think he's hot? I mean he's not ugly but eh). It was pretty boring for me because, I personally didn’t care. It was the cutest thing was that this 6 or 7 year old kid asked Jessica Biel, “How did you disappear behind that bus?” (he was talking about the clip we just saw) And she said, “I’m fast” it was so cute. Then the people who play Harold and Kumar from Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle,John Cho and Kal Penn came out. Eh, it was ok.

They showed the never before seen clips of ROTK:EE and it was frigging awesome. Awesome isn’t even worthy of describing it. It was narrated by Saurman (!!!!!!) and they showed a bunch of other cool scenes including the Mouth of Sauron, holy crap that was cool. Then they showed the interviews as they normally do and whoa Elijah Wood was hot in his. Merry’s speech about just wanted to help his friends, I felt a tear coming on. Oh yeah and this was all introduced by Peter himself. Then Billy Boyd and David Wenham came. David looked especially hot today I might add and Billy too XD. They talked about lots of stuff about the movie (we have it all on tape!) and they showed 2 clips. One of Faramir and Eowyn, which was the cutest thing ever, and a Faramir and Pippin one which was really great. I’ll only talk about the highlights which is when Billy talked about a prank pulled on him and Dominic. It was the “rewrite” script for the scene where they first meet Treebeard. What the “rewrite” said was that they both were to climb Treebeard, fall down through his branches and their clothes would be ripped off. They would be lying at Treebeard’s feet naked and the lines were: Pippin-”That’s weird, its cold.” Merry-”Yeah, hold me.” Ultimate slash moment. Then he and Dominic had hour discussions because they really thought they were filming it. Priceless. And Billy talked about when they were filming the scene when Sam and Rosie got married and him and Viggo were behind the camera doing the cheering noises. On one of the takes Viggo grabbed Billy and kissed him full on the mouth. "I felt little nauseated and a little horny." They showed us another clip that isn’t going to even be on the DVD. Chelsea broke the rules and taped it. it’s a really bad cut of it but seeing it isn’t important since it’s the dialogue that’s funny. Dominic was taking the piss for Viggo about him not coming to the Oscars by saying he was throwing a jello mold party where the molds were of the Oscar statues and that they would have to spank Viggo with them and say, “YOU ARE THE KING!” over and over. Dominic even said he had proof and it was just basically going back between Dominic’s story and Viggo’s reaction. Best line from Viggo? “I don’t talk about my personal life.” Again, will try to figure out how to get this on the computer. Ooh Billy also talked about "Half Fling" and just explained it saying that its a language that Dominic and Elijah sometimes talk to each other to in and no one understands it. He also said that Viggo's album was just them messing around.

Met Shawn after the panel and we got some info about the possibility of Billy and David signing tomorrow and it not crossing with Dominic’s signing. So hopefully, we’ll get to meet them along with Dominic. We have to get up at 6:30 so yeah. Oh and laerwen I gave her your letter.

P.S. Thanks to Nikki for the hook up with Shawn and thanks to Shawn for the Billy/David info hook up.

P.P.S Michael Madsen maybe signing on Sunday with a little arrow pointing at his name according to the ComicCon paper which said he cancelled. Thanks for putting it after his signing was suppose to start. It was very helpful.

Hmm, today, a Saturday and one of the greatest days EVAH! We got to the center at 9:30. Chelsea went off to find if Billy and David were signing and if so when and tried to get tickets for the Dominic signing while went to wait in line for the panel for Lost. So we met up and Dominic tickets were sold out, we were pissed. But I hoped he would come with Billy and David which was at 12. The panel for Lost consisted of the first episode screening of Lost, I liked it for the most part and I was glad to find out that thing in the trees was NOT a dinosaur of any kind. Thank you. And a Q&A that followed. Two words: Dominic Monaghan. Best question for me was when someone asked Dominic if he would be a pirate or a ninja, “Orlando has the pirate thing covered, so I would be a ninja.” Again, I filmed all this again. Oh by the way, Dominic has gotten rid of the "mullet"! Thank God!

Then we got to the New Line booth. You again had to get a ticket to get Billy and David’s autograph and there were only 360. Luckily, we both got some! Then we got in the line and holy crap did it take forever! They were showing ROTK and before they stopped it before Theoden dies. And we still had quite a ways to go. Then they had to take a break. It was cool though because they walked through us to come back and to take a break. Then the weirdest thing happened. Without knowing it because we were both looking at other things and people in the convention we totally didn’t realize that Dominic Monaghan walked by us and he was like a few inches from us. Then we heard a scream and we looked up and I was like, “Oh its Dominic!“ Actually, that was the third time I saw him today which saddens me even more because that makes it a total 4 times actually 5 times I’ve seen him and I still haven’t met the guy. I wished he stayed, I could care less about getting his autograph, I just wanted to meet him, I figured I would have had proof either way. But when we got there, it was awesome. David Wenham was first. I was filming everything and he was really confused and scared by it. I was like ok and he just handed me the autograph, I mean he said hi and all that and I didn‘t really care because he was hot. With Billy we actually got to talk to him and he was happier to see me behind the camera. He kept doing faces to the camera, it was great. And he gave me the autograph. It was pretty rushed and I could understand that but they wouldn’t allow us to take a personal of photo us with them and I wanted my name on the autograph. I didn’t even get a handshake or to touch them or anything. Either way:

I MET DAVID WENHAM AND BILLY BOYD!

Next, I got in line to meet Carrie Fisher. Holy crap:
I MET FRIGGING PRINCESS LEIA!!!

She was really nice even though she didn’t want pictures taken of her because she thought she looked like crap, which she didn’t. And even though I paid for only one autograph, she signed a CD for my driving instructor, Gabe, he’s a major Star Wars geek who wanted Mark Hamill’s which isn’t happening since I don’t wanna pay 85 bucks and tomorrow he’s signing but he won’t sign Star Wars stuff.

We then went shopping and I bought a Smallville poster for Mae since I felt bad I couldn’t get her the cast autographs since I was in line for Billy and David, a Fight Club poster for Erika, and a Gogo poster for moi.

Then we went to the Mark Hamill panel. God it was hilarious. It had Tom Kenny whose the voice of Spongebob, the voice of Yakko (whose also the voice of Carl Wheezer on Jimmy Neutron), the voice of Wakko, the voice of Jimmy Neutron, and of course Mark Hamill. It was great, they talked in their voices and the guy whose plays Yakko is also Pinky from Pinky and the Brain and he talked in that voice and sang (as Yakko) all the countries of the world.

What an end to a great a day. I didn’t get to meet Dominic which I’m a little saddened about but other that it was awesome. Tomorrow we’ll hopefully meet Mark Hamill and everyone listed above at his panel and everyone buy his movie Comic Book: The Movie. I haven’t seen it but it looks frigging funny and great, plus its about ComicCon.

Today might have been the best day of ComicCon, actually its prolly a tie with this and yesterday.

We got to the center at about 9 or 9:20 and we ran over to the Mark Hamill Comic Book: The Movie signing. We were pretty far ahead in the line (we were like 20th or 30th or so). The line movie moved up just so they could scrunch everyone and fit more people and we ended up at the rope area so we could basically see everyone arriving. Debi Derryberry (voice of Jimmy Neutron) came first and she was so nice, she talked to everyone in line and signed pre-autographs I guess you could say. Then Rob Paulsen walked right in front of us (voice of Yakko on Animaniacs, Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, and Carl Wheezer from Jimmy Neutron). Then Mark Hamill came, frigging Luke Skywalker was right in front of us. Wow. Then Roger Rose and Jess Harnell (voice of Wakko from Animaniacs) came. Tome Kenny (Spongebob) was the only one from the panel the night before not there. I was sad, I wanted to meet him most of all which is really sad since Mark Hamill was RIGHT THERE. Well, while we were waiting in line we heard someone talking about Michael Madsen. It caught me and Chelsea’s attention mainly because we’ve been waiting for him since Friday. Then Chelsea asked the guy why he was talking about Mr. Madsen and then guy behind him pointed and said, “Look he’s over there.” Now, I thought it was one of those made you look things but Chelsea looked and started freaking out and I turned around to see Mr. Blonde, Budd, Michael Madsen sitting a few yards away from me. Now we really wanted this line to hurry up.

When we got to the front Debi Derryberry (she has a really cool name) was the first one (they all signed my Comic Book: The Movie DVD) she signed my DVD and said, “Nice to meet you, April.” Jimmy Neutron said my name! XDD Next was Rob Paulsen, I love this man. He started talking about my shirt which was of the Beatles and how Jess Harnell was a huge fan and had all four of their signatures. We started talking about that until I moved down the line to Roger Rose. He said while signing the DVD, “You know I play the bad guy in this movie, and chicks dig the bad ones.” I moved on to Jess Harnell who was talking to Chelsea about favorite Beatle and Beatle songs in a very good Ringo voice which he also asked me. I said Paul and George and “Yesterday” He replied, “Oh you’re a Paul/ George girl!” Roger Rose jumped in and said Jess was the 5th Beatle. Jess said, “Yeah, I’m Paulgo.” And he asked us if we seen Paul in concert. We had to say no. Then was Mark Hamill. Oh my fucking God. I can’t believe I met him. I also took a picture with him. Holy crap it was great. Its kinda sad because when I asked for a picture with him he was all, “Of course!” and when Chelsea asked him, he was all, “Make it quick.” As we walked away, Jess waved his hand at us while saying in a Ringo voice, “SHE LOVES YOU YEAH YEAH YEAH!” God, I’m so glad I wore that shirt. Mark Hamill drew a heart on mine *feels loved* Dude:
I MET DEBI DERRYBERRY, ROB PAULSEN, ROGER ROSE, JESS HARNELL, AND MARK HAMILL!

Next, we walked as fast as possible to Michael Madsen and the line didn’t take too long. Chelsea couldn’t decide on a picture she wanted signed but she eventually did. But he was like, “Take your time, Chelsea Gill.” Then I had him sign my Reservoir Dogs DVD. And then he gave me a hug as we took a picture. It was great cuz while I was paying for the thing, he bent over to get a drink of beer which was so Michael Madsen.
I MET MICHAEL MADSEN!

We came back later and bought 2 books of poetry of his and a CD. We read his poetry, completely random, completely odd and funny, completely insightful, completely awesome.

After our meeting with Mr. Blonde (and before we bought his books) we went downstairs and the writer and creator of the Fairly Oddparents were there. Me and Chelsea were the oldest people in line, which is really sad, but it’s a great show. The writer, Steve Marmel signed my poster and drew an arrow to Cosmo and wrote, “The Dumb one!” and Butch Hartman (creator) signed it after that. And we stayed around that booth and just took pictures of the guy whose the voice of Plankton on Spongebob since they cut the line.

Me and Chelsea then headed over to the New Line booth and Rick Porras was there! We didn’t have anything LOTR since we packed everything so we just had him sign our programs. He said he would have given us his animal crackers box but he wasn’t finished with them. I told him I could wait. Hello, dude it would be AWESOME if we got Rick Porras’ leftover animal crackers box. My autograph read, “Greetings from Middle Earth! Hope you enjoy ROTK EE. Rick Porras.” Like I won’t.

It was a bittersweet day. Met buncha famous people (MARKHAMILLMICHAELMADSEN!) but it was the last day. I hope Dominic comes back next year and I’ll meet him because then it would be three times, I’ve missed not meeting that crazy bastard whom I love with all my heart.
*crosses fingers that she’ll go next year*

Results of ComicCon '04:
-I met David Wenham, Billy Boyd, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, all the cartoon creators, writers, and voices, and Michael Madsen
-I am now in love with David Wenham (I've always liked him but now its overload)
-I am now even more (if possible) in love with Dominic Monaghan and Keanu Reeves

None of these were taken with zoom. STEAL AND DIE!

David Wenham signing. Experience the hottness.

BILLLYY!

Billy & David // Butch Hartman, creator of The Fairly Oddparents

Mr. Lawrence, voice of Plankton on Spongebob // Debi Derryberry, voice of Jimmy Neutron

His name is Rob(ert) Paulsen. Voice of Yakko, Pinky, Carl Wheezer, voice over GOD.

Jess Harnell, voice of Wakko. MAJOR Beatle fan, therefore he rules even more

Jess with Mark Hamill (aka Luke Skywalker, but you didn't hear it from me)

Debi and Rob. In the second picture they're with Roger Rose.

EVVVILL MARK. // Curious Mark with Debi.

Me with Mark Hamill. // Chelsea (sniggabodorf) with Mark and Jess.

Michael Madsen stalking begins.

Chelsea in Michael's presidential shot. // Me and Michael Madsen (*dies*)

More stalking.

As you know, we weren't allowed to take picture with David and Billy so that's the explaination for that. Our film came back all messed up *shakes fist* so that's the reason for no Dominic or no Keanu. I'm very saddened by this. Hopefully, we'll get them. So look for updates on those pictures and also pictures of my autographs. =)

Don't worry...Help! is on the way!

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 07:10:19 GMT

Finally finished them! 1075 Help! screen caps here.

If you plan to use these apart from personal use like for icons, graphics and what not I ask that you please CREDIT. Link back to this entry or the album itself, use my username whatever. Credit in the keywords for them too if you're just making an icon for yourself. I will not tolerate any not crediting mainly because I spent a lot of time doing these. I listened to With the Beatles all the way through The White Album without skipping any songs or albums while just uploading them. That should put it all into perspective. Besides all that I hope you enjoy!

Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:15:53 GMT

locked.

Last day of ComicCon sniff

Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:16:18 GMT

Today was the last day. Its kinda sad for me but eh. So I got up this morning later than I usually do since you know the day has passed and what not. I couldn't find a clean shirt in my suitcase (remember I just moved here), the only shirt left was my Goonies shirt that I didn't wear yesterday. I should really get some things washed..anyways..We got to the convention and nothing was really going on. No one was signing autographs. We went downstairs just looking for some free stuff to get or whatever. My aunt was trying to finish the film on the video camera and was basically taping everything. There I was bored waiting for 3 to hit (that's when the ROTK think was gonna happen) then..

I MET SEAN ASTIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[insert MASSIVE fangirl scream here]

Yes, Mikey, Rudy, Sam. I met Sean Astin! Soo happy he came back!! Elijah Wood and Dominic Monaghan didn't but at least he did. He was so nice and soo cute!! He started off with a perky "Hullo!" and asked my name and all. So he signed a picture of Sam from me and then looked up and gave me a big smile as I took a picture. He shook my hand and said, "Very nice to meet you April!". As he was shaking my hand he pointed out that he liked my shirt. Pure luck I wore my Goonies shirt don't you think? Then I asked for a hug (which is, for most people that know me is my frigging life goal!) and he said, "Of course!" And gave me this huge, long, tight hug. Very good hugger. Haha. My aunt filmed this all by the way.

Then a whole lot of nothing came up and finally it was 3.

WARNING: MAJOR ROTK SPOILERS AND TTT EXD. DVD SPOILERS!!!

First off, TTT DVD spoilers.

-Scene where Faramir sees Boromir in the boat dead, has a flashback with his father and Boromir in it. Sort of a triangle between father and sons. This scene explains why Faramir is acting the way he is and that one line he said (I forgot it) when he realized that he had to let Frodo and Sam go is added.

-Before Merry and Pippin escape for the orcs, they show more of them being molested as they put it and tortured by the orcs. Also, to get that orc who was trying to eat them (forgot his name) all hyped up, they pretend they have the ring. I can't wait to hear Dominic Monaghan's Gollum voice.
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Now, ROTK spoilers *rubs hands together*

-The movie begins with the deforging of Narsil..there was an image of either Elrond or Arwen approaching the sword at Rivendell.

-The Mouth of Sauron might actually look like a slot. Note the keyword might.

-Shelob was modelled after a spider in Austraila named the Funnel Spider.

-The image of Eowyn looking out in the front of The Golden Hall that was scene in the TTT teaser trailer is actually (this is an also maybe) a scene in ROTK where she is supposedly watching Aragorn leaving to the Paths of the Dead.

-Pippin does look into the Palantir and was reported by Billy Boyd that it was his hardest scene to shoot in the entire trilogy.

-They had to reshoot the scene where Aragorn gets Narsil over and over. On the very last take, Hugo Weaving pulls back his hood and reveals his sunglasses. Just thought I'd add that =D.

-Saw some images of the Paths of the Dead as well as a few clips but I obviously can't described them because it was just random stuff not an entire scene. I did see Frodo and Sam entering Shelob's cave.

-Trailer might appear in September (another maybe).

-Legolas and Gimli continue their body count contest in the battle at Pelennor (I know I spelled that wrong..eek!) Field.

-Eowyn's fight with the witchking with quote, "Blow you away!".

-You will see Bilbo and Frodo leave for the Grey Havens.

-You will not leave the cinema undamaged or not hurt.

-The impact as that Gandalf's fall and Boromir's death had on a lot of people, in ROTK its back to back scenes like that and will not have one dry eye in the audience.
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END OF SPOILERS!

That is the end of my ComicCon experience and its gonna be weird not coming back tomorrow. It kinda became like school, get up, get ready go to ComicCon..*sigh*

Well, I hope you enjoyed reading my ComicCon ~~boasting~~ stories. Now I will return to my boring ass life. Thank You.

ComicCon day 3

Sun, 20 Jul 2003 04:09:37 GMT

I got to the Con quite early today and it was already packed! Once we finally got in I basically ran to Ballroom 20 since Halle Berry's thing started right when the Convention started. Well, the first few rows were reserved for the press (damn press). I sat at the third row for the normal people, so I was about 9 or 10 rows from the stage..pretty good. So the thing started with all these special making of's and previews that were never seen until that very moment. I saw The Last Samuri stuff as well as Harry Potter and get this..TROY!! Yup, I saw some of the making of scenes of Troy. Orlando Bloom in a skirt! Haha, yeah, the amusing part was..he was shooting a bow and arrow. Ok, anyways then finalyl Halle Berry came out and did some Q&A, it wasn't that long though cuz stupid people took up too much time and cut her part down. I also saw sneak preview of movie she just finished last night.

Then they continued on and Angelina Jolie came out and did Q&A for about an hour or so. She brought some cool stuff from Tomb Raider. A lot of the people in the audience were lesbians and were trying to propose to her. Well, yeah, I hate staff (you'll see why now and little further down)..they kept trying to stop people from asking personal questions for themselves and Angelina defended us saying she liked those kinda question. Rock on! Ok, I've never said rock on..until now. Yes, then Angelina left.

Next was Kevin Smith..he was hysterical! When he first came out he was like, "Whoa this is a lot of people! But a bet half of you are here to see those damn hobbits! (audience cheers). You're all prolly thinking, 'Why do I have to listen to this fat ass, I want Frodo dammit!'". It was great. He cussed a lot and made fun of Ben Affleck which was great..I'm more of a Matt Damon kinda girl. He cracked jokes about him being fat and his sex life. Then later on through the thing, a fan asked him what was is like having all these people come out just to see him. He responded, "Not all of these people. These people wanna see Elijah Wood and his tiny ass. Everyone's thinking..how long do I have to listen this guy's bullshit!" Ahh, priceless.

Then it was this Freddy vs. Jason thing. Robert England, another new guy playing Jason, the producer and director were there again..taking Q&A. But they were only there for like 30 minutes cuz I guess they new who we all really wanted to see.

So this chick from New Line introduces Richard Taylor and he goes on and brings out all these other WETA and costume designers. One guy was making a sword like the ones Strider gave to the hobbits at Weathertop, one was dressing up someone like an elf during Helm's Deep, another dressing up someone to look like a Rohan person at Helm's Deep, the other one dressing up a hobbit..feet and all, and then Sala Baker came out in orc army outfit. So after the guy finished with the hobbit they were explaining how they made the hair on the feet and also the wigs. Poor people who had to make them..each hair was individually tied on. Then they said, "Oh we need a hobbit expert to come out and rate our hobbit makeover." I thought they were gonna bring Sean Astin but then..motherfucking Dominic Monaghan running out on stage! He was like, "WHAT'S UP?!?!" At that moment, I wasn't expecting it so I admit, I did go fangirl and screamed my head off. It wasn't high pitched more like a cheerleader you know..like the DomSquad or something..anyways. Yeah, he had this t-shirt that just said, "Bro." And he was quite hot there. But I restrained myself. Don't fall for Dominic Monaghan, Chelsea will bust your ass. Ok, he was rating the hobbit like 7.5 on the feet and whatever. Then one of the guys who helped with Gollum came out. I was looking at Dominic Monaghan and the boy is monkey. I swear! He put his on flat on top of his head and the scratched it like a monkey would have done. Then he did this weird monkey dance that we all wanted to see again, "Maybe later. I do Barmitzfas(sp?), Weddings..*pause* Female parties." Well, the tape the WETA guy was gonna show wasn't working so he just brought out Andy Serkis, he was wearing the same outfit as yesterday but eh. He started talking about his experience till the tape started working. It was cool, we heard the original voice they were gonna used, which sucked and Andy's audition tape which was so frigging funny. Andy also said his voice was based on his 3 cats coughing up a furball. Then started talking about acting and working with Sean and Elijah. And then guess who popped up? Yup, Elijah Wood and Sean Astin. Didn't really like the hat Sean was wearing. Elijah shaved his head again, just in case you didn't know and I like the shirt he was wearing. Haha, ok anyways. So it was so cool, it was Gollum, Frodo, and Sam just all talking together and then Sean said, "Then Andy ripped my wig off!" Elijah laughed and was like.."Do you always have to bring that up?" Sean responded, "Hey, it hurt! You have this thing glued to your head and Andy goes and rips it off!" Then Elijah made a ripping sound effect and a mock scream. He did this a few times. Sean requested he do his ringwraith scream. Elijah did it. It was like Dumb and Dumber except high pitched and 10 times more annoying. Then they talked about Fran Walsh doing the actually screams and Elijah said, "It scared the shit out of me. Sean added, "Yeah, and you'd try to recover by like saying, 'Oh I knew that was gonna happen!'". Next, they started talking about Sean Astin's short film and when they were rolling the clip, they played some kind of cheesy music and it was the cutest thing. Elijah was doing the cha-cha to it. So I watched the clip and the looked back at the stage and Dominic Monaghan and Elijah Wood are doing some dance together. It was so cute! There was a moment, however. There was this part when Elijah was looking at me or at least I think he was, you know you just have that feeling. So we had eye contact and I just burst out laughing, then he started to laugh. He then talked to Dominic and they both looked at me and I started laughing again. I don't know what was up with me. Yeah, then the lady came back out again to introduce the ROTK clip and she had sort of a high pitched voice and Elijah imitated her. So then you look to the screen and you see Ian McKellan, Billy Boyd, and Peter Jackson. They apologized for not going to ComicCon and then Peter and Ian look at Billy and asked who he was. "I'm a hobbit!" Then Peter and Ian saw he was at "normal" height and told him to get on his knees, which he did. Then they showed some ROTK stuff with some never before seen pictures and interviews with Elijah and Sean. That was the end and they went off to sign autographs. Oh, and I taped all of this minus the previews and stuff..you're not allowed to. So I taped the Angelina Jolie thing and the hobbitness.

So I get in line and its fucking huge! People skipped the meeting I just went to stand in line. They cut off the line so I was unable to get an autograph or talk to them. So I went outside and there was only a window keeping me away from the 3 hobbits. Just think Justin Timberlake video, him looking at that chick taking a shower. Well, I was uberly pissed cuz well I wasn't gonna get to meet them. I just became stalker like and just watched every single movement they made. Funny part was when Elijah Wood was imitating all the fangirls with his own kinda girlish squees. All four of them stood on their chairs and bowed down to the fans. Yes, I hate the ComicCon staff. I was prolly like 200 feet away from them at first and they yelled at me for being too close. Then when I was outside I was standing prolly near the door and they kept telling me to back away. If they didn't say it so rudely maybe I wouldn't be as pissed. Well yeah, people were crying cuz they didn't get an autograph. We were all waiting for when they were gonna exit. When they came out I didn't get nothing! They were being pushed, they wanted to stay, you could just tell but the damn security people kept pushing them. I did get some responses, Elijah gave those "I'm sorry" eyes, Sean waved at me or at least I think he did, and Dominic did that dance again. Agh, I know I should say I'm lucky..just not lucky enough. Well, its ok. I will meet them! Maybe I'm not suppose to meet them like that, maybe I'm suppose to meet them like by accident not at an autograph booth. Ok, getting psycho now. Well, umm..rumours are circling that they're coming back tomorrow. I doubt it though. Oh and I think I died from second hand smoke today =D.

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I forgot to descibe Elijah's eyes in person! Well, they were really really abnormally blue. Like what you seen on screen is like even bluer! Its kinda creepy but I still love 'em. =D

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ComicCon day 2

Sat, 19 Jul 2003 01:41:24 GMT

Well I got to the Con late because today was the 7 year anniversary of my grandpa's death. So we stopped by and left flowers and what not.

When we got to the center my aunt went to go watch another movie and I went off doing what I was sent to do. I got more free stuff and bought the One ring and a theonering.net t-shirt. Then I ran into Richard Taylor again! Woo 3 times!! I didn't know what else to do since I did mostly everything yesterday so I sat down and watch The Two Towers. I was just in time for Sam's speech. Then it was about 1 or so. Then at 1:45 (please excuse my geekyness) was the best moment of my entire life..
I FUCKING MET ANDY SERKIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*insert fangirl squee here*
And if you don't know who that is..you're sad and should be wiped off the face of the earth. Yes, Andy Serkis! I got his autograph and it read, "Hi April! My preciousssss..Andy Serkis." Then he hugged me! We took a picture and then he said, "Take care, April" and then winked. I felt bad cuz I didn't get Chelsea one. He was really nice, kinda soft-spoken and would do just about anything for the fans. I didn't appreciate his outfit that much. It was a tight black Simon Cowell like shirt and tight brown pants. So everytime he stood up..yeah..you get it. But who cares?? Its ANDY SERKIS!
I didn't freak out (go me!)...until afterwards. I was screaming all over the building..then I got kinda lost hahaha.

I found my aunt again and we back downstairs. Then I met Andy again!! He remembered me too. (=D)!! I got Chelsea an autograph and an extra one. Took another picture and then...
I MET SALA BAKER!!!!!!

Or Sauron..if you prefer. He was really muscular =X. I got 3 of his autographs.

Yay!! I can't wait for tomorrow! Goals: Sean Astin, Elijah Wood, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie. If possible...Andy Serkis and Richard Taylor again!

Should I wear my Goonies shirt? Or something else??? *freaks out*

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Forgot to mention. I feel like a complete idiot because I wore my "I'm with Stupid" shirt today..and when I took the picture with Andy and Sala..ahh..you get where I'm going with this..

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And..
Happy Birthday Iris mikan!!

I tired calling you but you didn't pick up! *shakes fist*

ComicCon day 1

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 03:11:30 GMT

Well, I wanted to wake up early so I could get to the Convention Center before a line formed. When we got there, I kid you not, the line was prolly around 2 miles long. Surprisingly it only took up 45 mintues to get inside.

My aunt was eating . I was taking a look around and I saw the dad from the Kenan and Kel show. Didn't get an autograph but he waved.

We headed downstairs and I was looking for the LOTR Pavlion. On the way over there, I saw this place that was selling LOTR stuff. I bought the entire FOTR card set which included a bust. I got the Frodo one (the last one I might add). Then I saw this uber big banner of Legolas. I headed in that direction and saw 3 giant statues. A ringwraith on a horse, Lurtz, and Gollum with a fish. Then I saw this Cave Troll display with all these collectable statues of every single character. There was a section where you could play the ROTK video game and there were small flat screens with interviews from Orlando Bloom, Viggo Mortensen, and John Rhys-Davies. I saw theonering.net booth which had a Rohan tent on top. It had all these aspects from the movie. Like Rohan, Gondor, the Two Towers, and Fangorn Forest. I bought all the NZ stamps, a Frodo Lives hat,a Frodo phone thing, 8 calendat cards, 3 bookmarks, and a Legolas photo album. I also jacked a buttload of free stuff. They were also showing the Two Towers right in the middle of the entire section. Plus, they had card matches going on. Then I saw this place that was selling stuff that was signed by a lot of people. Orlando Bloom's signature went up tp 200 bucks. I actually touched Andy Serkis' autograph!

My aunt had gone upstairs to go watch the Superman movies while I went off in my search for Elijah Wood. But then..
I MET RICHARD TAYLOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you don't know who that is..Shame on you!
I was on the phone with Chelsea and then I froze. Richard Taylor was 3 feet in front of me. I got in line but then realized I had nothing for him to sign. I waited as people took pictures with him and Gollum bust. Too bad my aunt had the camera. When I came up there he saw I didn't have anything and so gave me the Two Towers poster and he signed it. When I first saw him he was like, in his uber cool accent, "I've met you before right?" I told him it was my first time and he kept saying"Oh, that's good! You look familiar!" He asked me my name and all that. While he was signing my poster I was telling him my quest to find Elijah. He said he would tell him that next he saw him! He shook my hand and handed me the poster. It read, "April, all our best from your friends at WETA. Richard Taylor." Hehe, he's left handed.
Then I went back up for theonering.net thing. It was was kinda boring but they said on Sunday they were gonna have this thing on ROTK. Stuff we're not suppose to know, in other words: Major spoilers. Hell, I'm going.

I finally got the camera from my aunt and went back downstairs and I ran into Richard Taylor again! So I met him twice. Well, you can't meet someone twice. So I saw him again. He remembered me! "Oh, its you again!" I asked for a picture since I didn't get one. He didn't have his Gollum bust with him. He told me to follow him and we took the picture in front of the Gollum statue. That was a perk for not having my camera. A picture that no one else will have. Everyone has that bust picture =P. He shook my hand again and said, "Pleasure, once again April." Whee!!

There's my first day. No Elijah Wood. But the big day is Saturday. Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie, all the LOTR people, and "surprise guests"! *squee*.

I'm so tired and my feet hurt like hell. But hey looking for a hobbit that can blend in very well for 7 hours is quite the work out. And I have come to the conclusion that "Where Are You Now?" by Michelle Branch is my theme song for ComicCon 03. =D. Look up the lyrics yourself..I'm too tired to. XP