My con experience included:
- Getting rained on Thursday evening (thanks Edible for lending the umbrella <3)
- Walking, lines and sweat.
- Maker's Mark and then Maker's Mark in an etched flask. Remember, classy drinking requires a pinky up.
- High stakes mahjong. I won the honor of sleeping on the inflatable rollaway bed.
- More walking, lines, and sweat.
- Home Made 家族, one of the most fun concerts I've been to. With amazing songs like
Kimi ga Ita Kara. In my opinion, they were a better show than TMR. That collaboration at the end was pretty awesome though.
- Agonizing over and then deciding to buy 3 of these
pillows. They are nice couch pillows, firm but not too firm and really cute. The artist says her etsy will be online soon.
- Spying on and last minute bid shenanigans for
Alice. It's an amazing piece and I don't even particularly like Alice. In the end, it went to the live auction.
- Contra, and Typing of the Dead.
- Chiaki Ishikawa, hearing Uninstall live was amazing.
- Yoko Kanno, those visual effects with the music were pretty fancy. And her rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. By the third line, everyone in the auditorium was standing and singing. When it ended, and I thought about how Yoko Kanno went out of her way to learn the piece for us and the feeling of unity in the crowd and what it all meant and a myriad of other thoughts, I couldn't help but shed tears. It was deeply moving.
- And all of that while hanging out with friends. Let's do this again.
