ANIME IOWA 2007

Best time of my life. One of. Probably. I have to document this to keep forever and ever. It's such a wonderful thing, like you dont even know dude.

Where to begin.
I woke up Friday at about 4, left towards 5:30, and the drive to Coralville, Iowa was a drag, we arrived around 11:30 ishh. My brother and I are in the registration line which takes well over 2 hours, so that wasn't too fun, but then we began to look for things to do.
Slow start, I suppose. The con didnt officially start until 7:30 pm that day, so there was just some opening things going on but nothing major. However, I very much enjoyed the Dragonball Z forum panel, it was really fun. Haha, Chi-chi is the strongest DBZ character ever.
Alas, I spent much of Friday afternoon in the gaming room playing Naruto Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4 on GCN. That's always fun to do at cons, play against new people and improve, show your skillz. The dealer room opened that evening, a huge warehouse-like room filled with merchandise and artwork. Anime, manga, music, collectibles, yaoi, figurines, plushies, pillows, clothes, yaoi, yaoi, swords and weapons, yaoi, everything else you can imagine, plus yaoi.
Well, Paul was dead tired around 9 and so he went back to the motel and went to sleep, so the rave dance started right around then.
I was sad because I had no friends and didnt know aaaanyone there :[ So I guess I ran into this girl dressed up as Sakura and just started to talk to her for awhile, neither of us were much into the dancing ;p So I followed her into her group of friends and alas, my weekend was set. I'm so glad I did that, the con would be very lacking if it weren't for them.
So we had Sakura, Lee and Shino, and a little girl Hinata. (Lee and Shino both girls irl) We walked around for awhile aimlessly. We headed upstairs to the 8th (top) floor and into the consuite and got some sweets and food and stuff. Soo we sat and talked and ran into this dude dressed up as THE GUY WHO KILLS RUKIA LOLOLOL BLEACHNOOBS. He was a cool guy, all hip with the 4chan jokes and whatnot. It was there that we exchanged emails and MSNs and AIMs and everything, and eventually it became midnight so we parted ways with hugs and goodbyes.

SATURDDDDDAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY was the best. I woke up around 8 and was at the con by 9.
I started it off by going to an informative panel about working with a writer or artist in making comics, or commercial advertising, or commissions and the like. It was useful and, I'm glad I went to it.
Then it was around 10:30 so I decided to warm up before entering in the Naruto GNT4 tournament.. which, well, it was fun... but.
I never got my ass handed to me so badly in that game before. I consider myself to be an exceptional GNT player, and it showed in the games prior to the tournament, but the hosts had mad skills. They were cool though, I respect em. I was up first in the first round and I had to battle this little 10 year old chump who played as Kyuubi Naruto. I kicked his ass across the ground with Chouji. Pahah. The second round was death though.

After that, I believe I just walked around, probably went to the Dealers Room, and then went outside in time to catch part of the Naruto cosplay Photoshoot. It was a fun thing. Took many pictures of many good cosplayers, and I met up with my fellow narutard friends there. We hung out for a little bit (the courtyard is an amazing place, I might add, albeit being a bit humid) and then they went off to lunch, so Paul and I did too.
We came back, and I decided to take off my Simon costume for the weekend.
The rest of the night seems to be blurred in joyful amazing friendshippy yaoi lovey memories and good times. It seemed like years <3 Paul and I met up with Sakura, Lee and Shino again and they had decided to recruite Naruto cosplayers to make the group ever larger. There was like, a Kankurou, a Gaara, a Naruto, a Kiba, some regular people, it was a big group. Sakura, Paul and I didnt really like it that much, we became sort of our own sub-group. We were in the Dealers Room for awhile, then we followed them through the Cosplay ticket line which took a long time. But it was fun, totally. Afterwards we went up to the consuite once again because there had been rumour of a "6 o'clock surprise" While Lee, Shino and their huge group were waiting in line outside of the door, Sakura, Paul and I decided just to go on in and eat some food until 6. Since we were in the room then, we got the surprise first. Funny how that works :]
It was just a stick of pixie. A big one, but just a pixie stick. When the three of us decided to leave the con, our group had like, completely abandoned us, save for miss Kankurou. So we split up and checked the floors to find them, but to no avail. After much panic and searching, I guess we ran into them someone around the main programming level. That was when the hall became congested with so many people who were going to go into the cosplay contest show. It was a clusterfuck of madness quite unlike that of Sparta, and then Paul and I realized that we couldnt get in without the tickets we didnt get. So... we parted ways with the group for a little while, and went off to the courtyard.
We ran into a cool kid dressed up as Neji, and talked to him for awhile in the afternoon courtyard, when we ran into a few females who were having some "con-con drama." I honestly forgot what the fuss was about, but we did our best to make them feel a little better. Hugs are effective :] Then we followed them around the floors of the hotel looking for a person in question. We didnt really find them but I guess they let us go, so we chilled at the consuite again, but Neji was apprehended by the staff because he lost his registration badge. :[ poor guy.
Paul and I did get back to the cosplay to watch most of it transpire though, we just had to get the seats in the back of the room, no biggie. There were a lot of funny skits, where Sasuke and itachi KISSSEDD. haha, so hot. And the Bleach dub skit, etc. It was cool, then there were some good AMVs after that.
We met up with our friends afterwards and we watched the awards with them. After that, well, I dont remember when or how, but they disappeared again. Dinner, I think. So we ran into the con-drama girls again, and I decided to hug a gay guy and help them sell glow sticks which we later were told we werent allowed to do :] cool. I got to dance for them though like a hooker.
So we found Sakura again and went into the rave for a little bit with our group. Neji was back too. We danced a little, but it wasnt much to our interests, so we spent much of the rest of the night in a corner of the hallways in our own little congregation of amazing brilliance, where my most cherished moments of the entire con took place. We laughed, talked, took pictures, hugged people.. Sakura's outrageous obsessions with Kakashi had gotten the best of her so we were keeping a close eye our for Kakashi's to hug. We found this one guy who was a Kakashi in tripp pants, he was awesome. He kissed me on the lips (of course Kakashi has a cloth over his mouth though) I felt so loved :] We later found out he was drunk though. x]]] Sakura was still jealous that I got a kiss from Kakashi and she didnt. Pahah.
It was also there that we took our group picture. My most favoritest of all pictures. Featuring Me, Paul, Neji, Sakura, Lee and Shino.
After awhile, much to my dismay, Sakura and Lee became tired and we escorted them back to their hotel room for the night. Shino, Neji, Paul and I went up to the consuite around then. 1 am maybe? And sat down for some food, drink and conversation. :] It was there that I found out Neji's real name (Mike) and got his home number x] We met with a couple other people who we talked to, (inside joke: shitonmychest @ yahoo.com, myspace.com/ imadouchebag) harhar.
But then some controversy happened when a staff member got pissed at us for carrying an un-peacebonded PLASTIC KUNAI. We argued with him for awhile and one of the guys with us started mouthing off to him (how about i get my fist peacebonded?!) it was funny, but I guess it was serious business, so we left to the bridge to get it peacebonded.
After that, I guess we took Shino back to her room and Neji back to his, and Paul and I went back to the motel to put to rest one of the best days of my life.

SUNDAY.
Was sorta boring. We hung out with our group in the dealer's room for most of the time, I bought a HandMC CD. Sakura and I discovered each other's interest and talent in drawing, and the fact that we're both lefties. x]] How cool. I played in the gaming room for a little bit, with Neji. But overall it was sort of an empty feeling. Lee, Shino and Sakura had to go and pack for most of the time, so we hung out with the con drama girls for a little while, but mostly just sat down watching people leave. :[ it was sad. We went to the Pinata and the Anime Improv thing for awhile, but then our friends had to leave.. so eh, we did too. Taylor of the con drama squad didnt want me to leave D: but I couldnt deny that there wasnt much left to do. I found out that the other girl Iris had a crushed on Neji (conconconcocnocnconcdrama) and wished her good look with that.. and we left.
I've got nothing to say about the ride home.

But seriously
Dana (Sakura), Kayla (Lee), Mike (Neji), and... just.. Shino, you guys are so amazing. Even though I just knew you for a couple of days, it seemed like forever, and I so wish we could see each other more often. You're all such great friends, and it's an honor to have spent such a great time with you guys. I'll never forget it. Ever ever ever ever ever.

(I might add some pics soon, but not all)

I love the good times <3

This weekend has been amazing so far.

Yesterday I hurried on over to Richard's house for Eric's party. So that was pretty great. We were just kinda hanging out, and Paul and Manny decided to beautify Richard's dragon doll :]


A thong, anti-itch cream, balls, drumstick probing, and soaked in Old Spice. Pretty genius.
So Manny, Charley, Paul, Richard, Eric, Eli, Jake, Andrew, Savanna, Gabi, and Cheyenne were all there. xD And now that I've listed it, thats more people than I thought o.o
When the girls left we went to the park for awhile around 1am. We did some prank calls and went back, that was fun.
Then we played PS2 for awhile and we got into these deep conversations about the perception of the human mind, and then like, the paranormal and sorta creepy stuff. Charley was mortified by our descriptions of trapping him in his computer room with faceless people and a static clone of Padook in their wake. Jake imitated Sadako and scared the shit out of Eric.. it was fun. So the sun was up and we went over to Charley's house at around 6:30 am to raid the fridge, and then go to the park.
We messed around in the skate park for a little bit, but didnt really do anything. A nice morning exercise, I guess. When we finally got back to Richie's house, (who was crashed out the entire night, little bitch =P) we took Charley and Eric and went back to my place.

There, we slept for a few hours and played a little bit of Naruto on GCN. Listened to music, took showers (not together >_>) and decided to go to the mall...
Eric and I made Free Hugs signs and went there with them.
It was a great idea, until like, right until you're about to enter, then you get all pumped up and nervous, but we went in through Macy's and were greated with a guy who said "Haha, good luck" x]
It went quite well for awhile, and it was really fun. We got some hugs, met some nice people and some people we knew, all in all pretty pleasant. I mean, who doesnt love hugs? :]
Bummer.. as we were walking towards GameStop, the fucking Mall Mounties stopped us and asked us to take them off. It went something like this.

Mountie: I'm gonna have to ask you to take those off, they arent acceptable.
Me: Why..?
Mountie: Because I said so. Just take them off or flip them over
Eric: Mine heh, has it on both sides.
Me: Well.. I can call my parent and get him to take them.
Mountie: Well how about you just give them to me.
Me: No what are you going to do with them?
Mountie: I'm gonna throw them away.
Me: No. We'll take them off.

He left, we decided to just hold them up for awhile, and we got a few more hugs in doing so. The mounties congregated and were watching us from afar. For a long time. It was really annoying. My dad showed up and took us over to the "Get Mugged" booth to get T shirts made of the signs :] A sort of a way to kick The Man in the nuts. While the shirts were made we went the food court and got a drink.
So then we got the shirts and started walking around again. They weren't as effective, unfortunately, but they were a good souvenir. We were at Spencers when we ran into some people and one of them asked us, "You guys wanna party boy with me in Abercrombie & Fitch?" It was something Eric and I had wanted to do this summer, and we got to.
So Charley, Eric and I ran in there dancing to the hot beatz and party boying the mannequins, the employees and customers were giving us very sour looks. It was nice. Very memorable. We went into hiding for awhile, and basically chilled the rest of the time. Ate hamburgers, went to shops and stuff. It was good.

That was pretty much the night. It was so fun though, I'm so grateful. I wouldn't trade times like these for the world. :] We oughta do it again.

Do the head swish!

Ever since I got my haircut this morning, I can't decide where I want my bangs. D: Middle? Left? Right? Everwhar?!?!? Swishswishswishswishswishswishswishswishswishswishswish I can't choose! :]



Iunno, all I know is that my Simon costume is gonna be wiiicked. I'll keep myself posted on that. I went to the thrift store with my mom today looking for a matching jacket, and we found this long women's peacoat, and it's great! I got it for about a dollar. xD

In other news
-Waiting for Gurren Lagann OST to be released.
-Getting birthday money tomorrow
-Nia is fucking ugly

While I've got you, indulge yourself in a fine AMV.



Forty Dollar is genius. <3

So I wonder if my step dad could be any more of a hypocrite. He doesn't like my brother and I because "we don't respect him." There's a difference between not respecting someone and staying the fuck away from them. I just don't like to be around him because he's mean, then he says I don't show respect. I don't think there is anything I COULD respect about that guy. I'm a quiet kid, I mind my own business, I'm not obnoxious, I don't get in trouble and I make good grades... which is way more than I could ever say about him. Whatever.

Yeah, I do wear women's thigh socks.
<3Brad, overandout

I wonder what the rebels think of this one.

Brad, terse. Someday I'd like to visit a blog of mine and say "Cool, I've got comments!"
I wonder how you do it. Probably, I'll add it to my list of things to read up on.

I dunno, I've just never really grasped the concept of talking to myself. Xanga didn't work for me. Something to look back on when you realize that 14 year old Bradly was a total dumbass? I guess.

I'd rather this not be just a recollection of the events that happen in my dull life. It'd be better to fill it with observations, notes, poems, images, videos, art, my creations and dreams. Yeeeeeeah, I've scoped around these internets a few times and I know what you mongrels are up to. I know. I've seen your homemade videos, your philosophies and your college website designs. Your cartoons and comics and anime summaries, episode guides, IRC congregations and everything else. Then there's me, bringing a whole new meaning to "murk loar"

This summer has been useless. Harry Potter 7 was good. I think i know what my problem is.

But AnimeIowa 2007 is going to be great, I'll bring back pictures to myself to post on here so I can look at them when I could just as easily see them in My Pictures. Maybe if I put enough keywords on here people will stumble upon my page, looking for..... anal xxx gay slut ho porn cunt vagina dick lesbo lesbians cream pie milk tits boobs hentai adult erotica smut girls college d cup child rape dvd video cum fiesta guzzle swapping facial xxx queers bear-on-bear beastiality horse cock milf old granny gape tramps aids scat piss golden shower eat fest fetish femdom bondage facesitting ebony racial amateur etc

I probably just scored about 500 hits.

Seeya.

Jewdiology

I dunno, I made this.
Thank me later.