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Con Wrap Up, and KITH
Apr. 21st, 2008 03:13 am( Day 2 of Comic-Con. In which there are robots of various sorts, battles with a Firelord, and way too many people. )
By this time it was 6 or so and I was tired beyond all reason (I'd slept only two hours the night before, and the night before that I managed mebbe five), but I had tickets to the Kids in the Hall live show for 10:30PM.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
atraxia was kind enough to come out early so we could grab dinner and keep me entertained/prevent me from falling asleep on myself before she headed out to her engagement. For some reason I really needed a medium rare steak, so logically we headed over to Red Lobster (don't question my thought process, just go with the flow; hells, it's what I do) where I got the steak I desired and downed many many cups of coffee in a futile attempt to shake off the shitty way I was feeling. It didn't work. I walked over to the Nokia Theatre and, honestly, I just wanted to curl up on the curb and take a long nap. Luckily I managed to catch a second wind a couple of minutes into the show, so I ended up focusing a little.
What to say about the show? Well, I guess I enjoyed it. I should start by saying this: I began watching Kids in the Hall back when Comedy Central used to show it continuously, almost on a loop. I remember laughing so hard at some sketches I'd nearly pissed myself. Then again, back then I also found Gallagher funny. Nowadays I wonder wtf Gallagher was/is smoking, but I still find aspects of KiTH humorous. Not so much the parts where they're openly shitting on religion (a big theme from the show), or when the humor in the situation seems to come solely from physical overexaggeration on the part of the players (y'all are better than that, I know it), but the other stuff. Which, let me be honest, was maybe half of the stuff I sat through. They were obviously having fun with each other, and that shone through best in the encore piece, where the Head Crushing guy put all the actors on the spot before putting them down (and where McKinney took the crown from Foley as the funniest kid, imho - his improv was great). I can't see myself going to another one of their shows if they were to come around again, but I will be revisiting the box set from time to time.
I got home around 12:30, then showered and headed to bed. Bro mentioned wanting to head out to the last day of the Con, but I wasn't planning on setting my alarm clock for *anything*. As it happened, I ended up waking at 1:20, so I decided to suck it up and go out with him. We got there around 3:30, and I was surprised to see a good number of people and booths still there. It was much less crowded than it was on Saturday (the floor on Saturday was utter madness), and we were able to wander up and down the aisles at a leisurely pace. I picked up some graphic novels from the Midtown Comics area (Jim Butcher had signed there on Saturday and I totally didn't know! I've been running around with Storm Front and Fool's Moon in my purse for the last week!) and found out about a relatively new The Authority release from the artist/writer at the DC/Wildcats area. I would have picked up some more Moofia stuff but I was running low on cash, so after we did a full circuit we called it a day.
This year's Con was light-years better than the last two, organizational-wise. It has me looking forward to what's in store for next year's already. Saturdays seem to be the craziest, crowd-wise, so I figure I'll end up using that day to focus on various panels and/or signings instead of wandering aimlessly between booths like I have before.
It's now around 6AM (see why I have a love/hate thing with posting? I've been typing in this window for the last two and a half hours), and I have a night of work to look forward to. Joy.
By this time it was 6 or so and I was tired beyond all reason (I'd slept only two hours the night before, and the night before that I managed mebbe five), but I had tickets to the Kids in the Hall live show for 10:30PM.
atraxia was kind enough to come out early so we could grab dinner and keep me entertained/prevent me from falling asleep on myself before she headed out to her engagement. For some reason I really needed a medium rare steak, so logically we headed over to Red Lobster (don't question my thought process, just go with the flow; hells, it's what I do) where I got the steak I desired and downed many many cups of coffee in a futile attempt to shake off the shitty way I was feeling. It didn't work. I walked over to the Nokia Theatre and, honestly, I just wanted to curl up on the curb and take a long nap. Luckily I managed to catch a second wind a couple of minutes into the show, so I ended up focusing a little. What to say about the show? Well, I guess I enjoyed it. I should start by saying this: I began watching Kids in the Hall back when Comedy Central used to show it continuously, almost on a loop. I remember laughing so hard at some sketches I'd nearly pissed myself. Then again, back then I also found Gallagher funny. Nowadays I wonder wtf Gallagher was/is smoking, but I still find aspects of KiTH humorous. Not so much the parts where they're openly shitting on religion (a big theme from the show), or when the humor in the situation seems to come solely from physical overexaggeration on the part of the players (y'all are better than that, I know it), but the other stuff. Which, let me be honest, was maybe half of the stuff I sat through. They were obviously having fun with each other, and that shone through best in the encore piece, where the Head Crushing guy put all the actors on the spot before putting them down (and where McKinney took the crown from Foley as the funniest kid, imho - his improv was great). I can't see myself going to another one of their shows if they were to come around again, but I will be revisiting the box set from time to time.
I got home around 12:30, then showered and headed to bed. Bro mentioned wanting to head out to the last day of the Con, but I wasn't planning on setting my alarm clock for *anything*. As it happened, I ended up waking at 1:20, so I decided to suck it up and go out with him. We got there around 3:30, and I was surprised to see a good number of people and booths still there. It was much less crowded than it was on Saturday (the floor on Saturday was utter madness), and we were able to wander up and down the aisles at a leisurely pace. I picked up some graphic novels from the Midtown Comics area (Jim Butcher had signed there on Saturday and I totally didn't know! I've been running around with Storm Front and Fool's Moon in my purse for the last week!) and found out about a relatively new The Authority release from the artist/writer at the DC/Wildcats area. I would have picked up some more Moofia stuff but I was running low on cash, so after we did a full circuit we called it a day.
This year's Con was light-years better than the last two, organizational-wise. It has me looking forward to what's in store for next year's already. Saturdays seem to be the craziest, crowd-wise, so I figure I'll end up using that day to focus on various panels and/or signings instead of wandering aimlessly between booths like I have before.
It's now around 6AM (see why I have a love/hate thing with posting? I've been typing in this window for the last two and a half hours), and I have a night of work to look forward to. Joy.
