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Current music:	Nothing at the moment

Update-ness! Part 1!
I meant to post about some stuff I did the last week because of some significant significance;

I went to Sakura-con once more! After a year long break, no thanks to my school's poor scheduling, I have returned to the first convention I have ever gone to. Woot, I say! Woot!


First day;
Got registered with a three day pass, dawgs! Awesome. Unlimited access, 24/3. Went to the dealer's room and looked at all the freaks and geeks of the very best kind, flaunting what they got! And best of all, in the dealer's room, I was able to score a whole slew of Fire Emblem Non-porn doujinshi! Even better, the guy there remembered me from a few years ago and gave me a discount! Major score! Best of all, he had all the kosher doujin set aside for those of us who prefer to laugh. Bless his soul. :)

I return, get dressed in my awesome Tuxedo Solid Snake and decide to hit the Karaoke. To my initial dismay, the competition has already been filled. But, wait! I go to the info desk to find out that there's one left! SCORE AGAIN! So, while waiting for the competition, I give them a dash of emo with Yuuka's 'Akatsuki no Kuruma' from Gundam Seed. I do decent enough on it, but since it's a soprano role, it doesn't work very well for a baritone/bass like myself. With that taken care of, I go around and visit the various panels and other nonsense before I go back to the competition. It's there I floor them with my rendidtion of Joanne Hogg's 'Small Two of Pieces' (the ending theme of Xenogears). Even though I don't win, I do, however, get an honorary award for "Best Lounge Singer'. I'm so happy! :D And a 'J-Rock Kakashi' (yes, you heard me right) and I vowed to do musical battle once again next year. Oh yeah, and a girl wanted to take my picture, but because her battery ran out, she wanted me to sign her con-schedule... cool. My first autograph... well, second actually, my first was when I played Bisky in Aphra Ben's 'The Rover' some years prior, but that's another story.

Not far from where I was, there was a room showing nothing but AMVs, which made me happy. I couldn't let the poor MC go without having him play my personal favorite "Waka Laka for Osaka".

With that done, I hunted for the games and did some serious DDR'ing with a few other freaks like myself. Only, I had to change, otherwise I would have drenched my poor tux. So, I pretty muched danced until 3 am. I love going to conventions. :)

Day two:
Woke up at about 11 am, well, after waking up from sleeping on the floor, since only three out of the five of us had a bed to sleep on. So, I woke up at about nine, then I went back to sleep on the bed and then woke up at 11. There, I did a bit more shopping (got Capcom X Namco and a switcher to play it with), just barely dodged getting Disgaea 2 since it's coming out this fall, got the Disgaea and Phantom Kingdom artbooks, a Xenogears doujin (kosher), and some Antarctic Press manga. I will say one thing, Ben Dunn maybe can't tell a great story, but he knows how to keep a company afloat and he deserves kudos for that. Oh, and also a Guilty Gear artbooks, which is the inspiration for a following drabble.

Later, I went to the Karaoke Battle and am silently grateful I didn't join. There was this one round where three guys had to play 'Chicken Kissing', where straight guys have to put their lips as close as possible without kissing, first one to back off lost. However, I'm guessing the MC wasn't looking because two of those guys were certainly not straight. Either way, it was a blast to watch, and once that was done, I went to the AMV panels where I've been getting some ideas that I've been putting around for about a year or so.

Knowing I need to get an early start the next morning for my flight, I head back, but not without having a few more pictures being taken of me and people finally realizing I'm Tuxedo Solid Snake. There were a few other Snakes there, but I was the only on in a tux! Go me! I even saw a person cosplaying as Joel from MST3K.... that was one of the coolest of all. But, the most surprising was a guy that dressed as Misato from Eva and I was totally convinced he was a she. Turns out that 'Steve' knew a make-up artist that could make him look feminine and it worked. I was surprised. Anyway, since I'm coming back next year, I hope to meet some of the cool people that I've known again. But, because of how expensive it is and all, I think it'd be best to limit it to once or twice a year.