I'm SomeGuy, 29 years old, residing in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I've studied English Literature, Chinese Martial Arts, and am currently pursuing careers in writing - possibly even in the anime industry itself.
And I work for this site.
And you should be watching Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad.
Or watching Ranma 1/2.
Or learning about the Shinsengumi.
Or planning to visit Vancouver, The Best Place On Earth (actual marketing motto).
Here at the "Smallville" page, I have my personal blog where I'll post about anything and everything. If ya need me or otherwise need to know anything from/about me, here's where I'll be.
If you're really looking for my more professional, site-type stuff, you wanna head over my "Metropolis" world.
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Just a bit past midnight right now. Just got home from the screening of the Vancouver Film Race shorts. Four of us went out to represent ourselves.
As expected, we were totally outclassed. Lots of the other filmmakers totally eat and breathe this stuff. And they have boom mikes. And gaffers.
We totally didn't have a gaffer.
Anyway, being a war film with sort of a poignant opening, people were very unsure initially about whether they were allowed to laugh or not. So a lot of pretty hilarious lines would get murmurs and awkward giggles.
And then things get ridiculous, and then everyone laughs. And at that point on it's a ride.
Actually ended with a pretty decent level of applause. So we entertained folks. Or, they were being super polite.
And then my team voted me to go up to the front of the theater to represent us for a short Q&A. Bastards. Evidently, I am considered "the charismatic one". The hell did that happen?
So yeah. It was fun. And we'd like to think we weren't the worst.
Anyway, also as you'll recall, we won the Lionheart Award for the best battle of the event. Well, today I went to a meeting regarding how we can make the event better, and got our prizes for winning the Lionheart Award!
(That's an Anime Evolution cosplay calendar (which I already have because I was in it), a $50 gift card for EB Games / GameStop apiece, and some super sweet custom dog tags made for us!)
(Super pleased by these. Amazing prizes. I love this event.)
Still, it's never been about the prizes. It's just seriously that much fun.
Also, gives excuses to have photos taken with Valkyria Chronicles, Team Fortress 2, and Jak and Daxter:
Hehehe . . .
Oh, fun fact about that photo: someone mentioned something about Valkyria and TF2 or just straight up Red and Blue all together in harmony. So I started singing Erasure. And then the Red Heavy started singing Erasure. And then the two of us kept singing.
And then our respective teams mutinied against us and showed improper firearms safety towards us. Good times.
Anyway, back to planning for Operation GETPAX . . . we're all confirmed, we all have a place to stay, and it sounds like we'll have a really cool thing to check out on the Sunday since we can't actually go into PAX . . . it'll be fun . . .
As for Operation GETPAX and the SEGA PAXtravaganza thingy we're all getting hyped up for . . . let's see . . .
-Got the weekend off from work, so I can drive "Selvaria" and "Princess Cordelia" down. Figures, I'd ride with the girl with the GIANT LANCE and the girl with the dress with the HOOP SKIRT. Gonna be a full car . . .
-Original plan was we were all going to crash at Seattle-buddy's parents' house that would be empty and moved out by that point. Only downside was that the boiler would be off and there'd be no hot water. In any case, there was apparently an incident, so we are now staying with an old roommate of his. Big apartment, still smaller than the house, but it'll have hot water.
-Other than that, it sounds like we have an even dozen of Valkyria Chronicles cosplayers out there. Holy hell. Sega's gonn' love us . . .
. . . . oh dude! Valkyria Chronicles 2 comes out today! If you have a PSP, get that!
