Days 3+4!

WAHHHHHH Its been too long!

I didnt post last night cause I was WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY too sleep deprived.

After getting up at 9 on Saturday, I didnt end up actually going to sleep till 5pm on Sunday.

Anyways, So we got there at like a little past 10 on Sunday. Ashli and Daniel went to the bank and Alex, Matt and I went to the Exhibit Hall and split up from there. After searching around for a little over an hour I went and got in line at the J-Rock Revolution Panel and waited. Met up with Hahen and we chilled in line with this guy next to us who had a dolfie and liked cameras....o-0

JRR Panel was fun. Riku from Chariots was there and so was the President of Cure magazine (O_O). Half the Panel was a Q&A session with Riku. I wanted to ask a question for Cure's president and for JRR, but they kept asking for questions for Riku cause he was getting bored I think. I wanted to Ask Cure why they made their magazines smaller and got rid of the posters, and I wanted to ask JRR if they were ever going to release a DVD of the JRR1. But during the Panel, some guy started freaking out and accusing one of the staff members of illegally downloading stuff and approving of it and that he had proof and all that junk. He even walked down the aisle towards the stage and they had to turn his mike off and he kept shouting toward them his accusations. It was intense. Misha handled it _beautifully_ though, might I add?

After that I wandered around a little bit and called Caroline and met up with her and shortly afterwards we walked the 6 blocks to the Crash Mansion where the LM.C concert was being held. It was Me, Caroline and Bonnie in the beginning, but then we met up with her two other friends that I dont remember the names of. They were cool though. We waited for line for about 3 hours during which I had to run back to the convention center and drop off my bag and then we spent the rest of the time freaking out about how we were going to get out will call tickets cause the box office opened the same time the concert did.

We got in fine and didnt have to wait long for our tickets cause they only let in a few people at a time. I ended up like 5th from the front center and them slowly moved up till I was like 3 rows from the front then decided to stop fighting to keep my spot and slowly moved to the right till I was in like the 2nd row and stayed there for a while and then slowly moved backwards to let some people in front of me and then just chilled in the 5th-6th row for a while where I had some room to move around. The concert ended shortly after that. I was looking on the ground and the girl next to me moved her foot and I saw a black pick under it. I jumped down and grabbed it. It was HIKO, their bassist's. At that point I ran back to the bar and drank the conviniently placed cup of ice water that I saw there that was probably poisoned but I didnt care cause I was incredibly thirsty. Then I bought a 5$ bottle of water and Caroline and I went and sat at a table that was on the side a little ways away from the stage and watched the encore from there. It was cool cause my feet got to rest and we still had a good view.


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Then we walked back to the convention center where we met up with everyone and then went to iHop and ate food. During the LM.C concert I had realized that I hadn't eaten all day so my stomach was pretty happy that it got to eat.

This is where it got interesting. We didnt sleep. We went and sat somewhere so we could sleep but then the security came and told us we couldnt sleep....twice. So we got up and moved and tried to sleep somewhere else for a while (like squished in a little opening next to a window) and then I gave up and went and talked with Arex and the people he found. We talked till 4am when they closed the food area and we had to move and so we went to the tabletop gaming room where we ended up playing Apples to Apples with a bunch of random geeks and then we almost played D&D but couldnt find any dice. Then we played on the escalators. I ran down the up one and then I walked up the down one and stayed in place as people walked by me. My thighs are sore now. >_< Eventually it got close to 8am when they started playing anime in the video rooms again, so we went and watched Fruits basket and fell sleep to that. Most refreshing random amounts of sleep while sitting up over the course of 2 hours EVER. After that we were refreshed and went off to tackle the rest of the day!

The rest of the day consisted of eating an 8$ breakfast and then going to watch Who's line is it anime. Its like Who's line is it anyway, but full of Anime references, it was amazingly funny. (Worst time to hear the Final Fantasy victory theme?) During which we all lost the game. The guy down the row from us was giving a suggestion and he said his suggestion then he was like, "Oh yeah, and bytheway, I just lost the game." The whole room groaned. xD

After that then we went back to my aunt's house and fell asleep at like 5 and didnt wake up till almost noon this morning.

LM.C!

We're in the venue waiting for them to come out now. It starts at 8 I
think. I'm like 5 rows from the front. =D

LM.C part deux!

Wohoo! Another long line! This time its in the hot sun though.

::sweat::

Jrock revolution

Ooooohhhhhh scandal!!!!

Misha, you handled that amazingly!

Crazy file sharing guy. Haha.

Phew~!

Taking a break on the side walls of the exhibit hall.

Day 3!!!!

Running a little late today because alex and I didn't want to get up
this morning.
Matt's with us now. We're just getting on the freeway.

My plans for today?

Shopping


Well I'm also going to the Jrock revolution panel at some point.

And then tonight, I get to go see LM.C again down the street with
Caroline and bonnie!

Yay!

Day 2!

Wahhhh I am sooo wiped. I'll end up posting some pictures when the con's over, but for now, just text.

Missed the David Hayter Panel, the line was super long and the room was already super full so I decided to just skip it and check out where the LM.C panel was supposed to be. I got there and the line was already started. (It was like 10:30 and the panel was at 1) So I decided that because I had nothing better to do, I'd stand in line for the next 2 1/2 hours. Ended up walking all the way across the convention center with the girl behind me to go buy some LM.C merch to get signed after the panel.

The panel was fun. Maya talked most the time and they both gave very vague answers that told us nothing. (ex. "whats you're favourite PV?" "I love all of them really") As soon as the panel was over, the few hundred people that were at the panel RAN ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE CONVENTION CENTER. It was crazy. People kept asking, "Where are they all going?"

Once I got there the line was already SUPER LONG and I was one of the first ones from the front of the panel.

We ended up getting in line up a bit further with Alex and then I got my GLITTER LOUD BOX booklet signed. I also bought their MUSIC VIDEOS DVD for 12$

Ugh less description now, I;m about ready to fall asleep on my keyboard.

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Bought LM.C shirt at Maru Music booth, ate food, went to J-Rock cosplay meetup gathering, got in line for AX Idol tickets. Really funny guys behind us. "tune to I'll make a man out of you) "And I'll! Make this line! Interesting!!!!

Then went to AX Idol, everyone was amazing. I think I think Voc Mognagna is fairly attractive. xD

After AX Idol met up w/Lisa + Kelly and talked for a while then went to go to Denny's with Me, Ashli, Matt, Caroline, Serena, Bonnie and Sonya. On the way there we met up with 3 guys (Josh, Fresh and Eric) who said we shouold go to iHop instead cause the line was shorter. They went with us and at one point we had 12 people at our table. The whole of ihop was really loud and noisy, it was so much fun.





Ahhhhhh I;m seriously falling asleep while typing this. Not joking, I just nodded off.


anyways, good news. I GET TO SEE LM.C AGAIN TOMORROW With caroline and Bonnie.

G'night.

AX Idol!!

It starts at 8:00.

Can't wait!

Rock! Rock! Za LM.C!!

Guess who just got an autograph and shook the hands of Aiji and Maya
twice??!!

Yup.

It was me.

=D

LM.C panel~~

Hahaha. Yup I'm stupid enough to be sitting here in line for the LM.C
panel which starts at 1:00. xD

Day 2!!

Wohoo for hair that'll be flat in 30 minutes!

Wohoo, Day 1 is OVER.

Ahhhhh....I am exhausted!

AX Idol singing auditions were funny, the highlights were: a spartan singing Snake Eater and during so, a Snake cosplayer going up the the front and posing during it; Vic Mognognya (sp?) confusing a Korean girl as Japanese and getting the whole place to boo at him, and me and Ashli meeting a guy names Sanabu next to us who sang a L'Arc-en-Ciel song, he was cool.

Went and hung out in the artist alley and talked with SPOOn and Atari for a while.
Bought a few manga things, one true story about an english teacher in Japan and all the funny things she hears, and the others about cosplay and convention guidelines, they sound funny.

Went to the Exhibit Hall, Bought Gackt's Red+Blue DVD set things and I think thats it for that.


Ate food and while eating, met up with an awesome Celebration Yoshiki cosplayer who we ended upi hanging out the rest of the day with.

J-Pop 101, hide memorial extravaganza. Had a video montage of funny hide clips, a slideshow about his life, a trivia game (with really hard questions, "What kind of car did hide drive?"), and some cosplayers.

Met up with Lisa for a little bit.

Pop-Shock Masquerade, fun. Got to see the Japanese Fxxxer Family 'perform' Garden. Fun.

After Pop Shock we RAN down to the battle of the bands and the line was already super long. After waiting in line for probably an hour and talking Jrock and singing X Japan songs with our Yoshiki cosplaying friend, we finally got to go in. Front row on the right section off the side of the stage.

Gagagagagagagagaling was good. Better than I expected. Got the crowd pretty pumped actually.

The actual Battle of the Bands was kinda boring like last year. Yoshiki had to leave right after the last band went. Awww, no LM.C for her.

LM.C was AMAZING. They played music videos before the performance and people were singing them and getting pumped. When Maya and Aiji came out everyone rushed toward the stage. I ended up right there at the stage in the front on the right. Maya and Aiji are sooooooo energetic. The concert was absolutely amazing, probably one of the best that I've been to cause they were so close. Aiji came over to our side a lot and played with us. I just have one thing to say. The man has some nice calves. =D I got to touch his calf, knee, and shoe. Maya came by and slapped all our hands a few times. Aiji kept spitting water on us and water bukakke-ing us, so by the end of the concert I was SOAKED.
I ended up with one of Maya's suckers and one of the water bottles that were up there.

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Day 2 is tomorrow. I'm planning on going to seee David Hayter (Snake's voice), LM.C's signing session, maybe the Gaia panel and AX Idol. Matt should be showing up tomorrow.

Battle of the bands!!!

GaGaalinG just finished playing. I dunno when LM.C is playing.
Probably at the end. Update later!

Btw, the picture is of gagaaling chilling over to our right.

And we're off to Day 1!!

L-R: Bady, Arex, Hahen.

Not Pictured: Daniel (he was in the shower)

Anime Expo!

Ahhhhhhhhh I'm here at my aunt's house in La Mirada. Just picked up my 4 day badge for AX this afternoon and I am ready to go!






Well here's my schedule for tomorrow:


09:30-10:00 Get to the convention center and hang out and eat breakfast with Nathan.

10:00-11:00 Maybe go to the opening ceremonies....depends on how I feel.

11:00-01:30 AX Idol singing auditions. I walked in on it last year
and watched for a little bit, it was very entertaining to say the
least. I'll probably spend a little while in there.

??:??-05:00 Probably wandering around in the Exibit Hall

05:00-06:00 J-Pop 101 feat. hide

06:30-08:30 Pop Shock Masquerade

08:30-12:00 Battle of the Bands. LM.C and Gagagagagagaling are
supposed to be there, I thought I'd check it out. LM.C has always been
a fun band. xD



Cant wait!

Ohgod.

I love alice nine and all but....seriously. Shou has reached a new
level of gay.