Our awesome video program
Hey there! I’m Mara! I’m the vice chair of this crazy shindig and right now I’m also your source for communications. That means I will communicate things to you, the two or three people who read this blog! Har, har! Anyhow, right now I shall extole the virtues of our video programmin’ schedule.
This schedule was put together by millionaire playboy anime translator Neil Nadelman. You may recognize Neil from such projects as Odin or Dog Soldier. You may also associate his name with titles like Macross Plus and Revolutionary Girl Utena. Oh, and most importantly, he has a posse. Anyhow, he also happens to be my former housemate and good friend. When we needed to find someone to run video programming, I thought to ask him, as he’s done such things for other events, like Arisia. He also is in possession of a lot of totally awesome stuff as he is a seasoned anime fan from as far back as 1923. I ask you, fellow anime enthusiasts, when is the last time that you saw a video program that included so much awesome. Metropolis, Giant Robo, Utena… now, that’s like level one awesome. There is LEVEL FIVE AWESOME on this list. First of all, there’s Fist of the North Star, which is the most romantic story ever told about a man who loves a lady so much that he makes dudes’ heads explode. There is Marvelous Melmo, the OG magical girl. When’s the last time you saw Aim for the Ace on a video programming schedule at an anime con? Amazing 3? Force Five? I don’t think I’ll actually do any work all weekend. This is what I envision:
Angry congoer: I want to speak to the chairman!
Me: Dude, it can wait - Kenshiro totally jacked that mohawked punk!
Angry congoer: What’s wrong with you? I just got my arm chopped off by that rusty door!
Me: WA-TAH!
Angry congoer: You’re so negligent! Oh, wait, wow, he just gave the ringleader ten seconds to repent for his sins! This part is so great! Ha, ha, that guy’s hat just caught fire!
Both: YAAAAY!
And that’s how that will roll. Oh, okay, I won’t be that careless and irresponsible. Besides, I never call anyone dude. Unless I am referring to The Dude, as in “The Dude abides.” Anyhow, yeah, for more evidence of awesome, I urge you to chiggety-check out our video programming schedule. There is quite literally something that should appeal to everyone on this list. Millennium Actress? That’s only like my favoritest movie ever. Metropolis? That’s like another favorite movie of mine. Cutey Honey is on this list. Rose of Versailles is on this list. It’s like finding a calzone with everything in the world that you love, like teddy bears and tacos and a nice day that’s not too hot and not too cool, all encased in delicious bread. Just awesome.
Anyhow, there’s still ample work to be done before the third of October. Or should I say ROCKTOBER?!?!? The con’s going to be different than the original plan (as has been noted on our forums!), but in the end, I think it’s for the better of all involved. We realized that we’ve pretty much ended up being a conference in name only. We are a ways off from hitting our attendance cap. We didn’t issue a call for papers, no local academics (as we found out to our chagrin that they’ll all be another academic event on the evening of the 3rd), no assembled cast of Code Geass. On the other hand, less bodies on the floor means less stank opportunities and more face time with your fellow attendees! Woo! A nice thing about preregistering less people is that we have the resources to take memberships at the door! We’re keeping the $65 price point, hopefully to make it a little easier for people to come. It’s a cruddy time with gas still being pretty expensive and inflation sending prices for commodities sky-high. Still, everyone needs a treat sometimes. I hope that people give us a chance in spite of this and take some time to come down and check out the con.
Time to get back to work. See you later!