Sunday, November 27, 2005

[/fangirl]

What a fab weekend! I got to forget all the training that has been drummed into me (..must not ask for autograph..must not ask for autograph..) and be a gleeful fangirl (although not too much!) at the Memorabilia exibition.


I saw the Red Dwarf cast minus Craig Charles(family issues...) and got autographs. Chloe Annett was cool, I asked her to sign my DVD of 'Pasty Faces' and she got all excited about seeing a copy! It was an independent film based in Glasgow and Las Vegas - I was an extra in one of the Glasgow scenes. The main guy is in a chicken suit being beaten up against the window of a cafe - I'm in the window...pretending not to notice!!! Chloe was one of the main characters.

Tom Baker(his last appearance, apparently!) and some other Dr Who types were there.


Got to see my first ST:TNG cast member in the flesh. Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar) was there and did a Q&A session. She spoke about her experiences, the rest of the cast and her reasons for leaving and the process that it took. She mentioned Wil Wheaton and mentioned the fact that he kept having to disappear to his schoolroom to do classes during shooting!

As I'm not doing panto now I'm going to take the oportunity to go visiting over the next few weeks. Although not too much - I did spend rather a lot of money this weekend....best leave the amount out of this I think!

Saturday, November 26, 2005

Geekily Happy!

Well, I have finished my long week of work at the theatre - ended up doing 2 extra days to help out LX and the new Sound guy and am now completely shattered - mainly because the usual 45min journey to Cov has been taking 1hour 15mins - which means leaving here at 7:45am and getting back at about 11:00pm everyday :(

Still, tomorrow a day of fangirl heaven arrives as I toddle off to the NEC for the Memorabilia Show, Full of Sci-Fi, Comic stuff... but mainly - a RD cast Reunion!!! Am going to attempt to be cool, and shall probably fail miserably! :)

Monday, November 21, 2005

Happy Birthday BMMOC - 25 this month!!

Ah yes it's that time again. Today I spent 8 hours doing panto fit-up at the Belgrade. Tomorrow Iam their from 9am-10pm and Wednesday the same. (so I guess I should get to bed soon!)

It's been good getting back into the swing of things. There were some new faces around which was cool, and we actually managed to get quite a lot done. I have been given the option of Sound Op-ing for the actual show.... This is a pretty big deal and a whole lot of responsibilty (not to mention concentration!)I would have to live mix the band and the cast (somewhere in the region of 10 radio mics!) although the main thing is the "muting" - essential timing required!! ;)

Theoretically this should be fine for me...But I'm still not really decided. I have experience mixing groups and music from the ship, this is pretty different but would also be a good challenge and experience for me..hmmmmmm.....

The reason I didn't work the whole 9am-10pm today is that I had to go to the Birmingham branch of the MMOC (Morris Minor Owners Club) meeting tonight as it is the 25th anniversary of the first meeting this month --pretty cool. Especially as after the 3rd meeting (there's one a month) my mums water's broke and away she went to the hospital to have me - so it's kind of a poignant I guess! :S

Sunday, November 20, 2005

Crazy Lights

Check out this - it's Brilliant!!!

[Edit] Since posting this link I've had loads of hits to my webblog! If you want more info on it then check out this link, there's a bit of a discussion but somewhere in the posts it explains how its done..and NO it is NOT animation!

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

In the last couple of weeks a few new things have come into my life.....

Exhibit A)
I've finally started my Tap lessons! Huzzah! \||/ I'm really enjoying them and seem to be quite good at it! This is where I go for my lessons, lovely cafe aswell ;)

Exhibit B)
I won this lovely instrument on ebay, and then had a fun 4 1/2 hour drive (there and back) to Sussex to pick it up! It was worth it though, it sounds beautiful. Well... I haven't played since I left school so it's not that great but it's fun!

Exhibit C)

This is Steven Blakeley, he's playing the newest recruit to Ashfordly's police force in "Heartbeat" at the mo (click on photo for link). He was also the lead in the final play I DSM'd at Uni and toured to Poland! I know this is not new to most folk - but in my defence, I have been out of the country for 11 months!!! Well done to Steve :)

I'm off out with T tonight to see a gig tonight by some folks called "3 Men & Black "(plus friends!) sounds good!

Monday, November 07, 2005

I Hear Tapping but there's noone there.....

Unless its me practising in the kitchen (only joking mum!!! - the laminate floor is safe :S )

Yes I finally bit the proverbial bullet and had me a Tap Dancing Lesson. And do you know, I wasn't as completely useless as I thought I'd be! In fact the ladies kept asking if I'd done it before. There were 3 in the class (apparently this number and the faces vary week by week!) and the teacher was cool. My balance leaves something to be desired but I picked up the stuff quite quick - Yey a 17 year dream is realised!

T and I went to watch an Ice Hockey Game in Solihull on Sunday night. It was great once I got into it. Not much of an atmosphere there but the game was pretty exciting - I almost understood the rules by the end aswell!

I'm a little worried at my level of geek-ness right at this moment. I've ordered a T-Shirt from wilwheaton.net, My copy of RD VII arrived 2 days before the release date and I watched the whole thing twice (the second time with commentaries) before the day it was supposed to come out, and also there's a "Memorabilia" convention at the NEC at the end of November where the cast of said series will be reuniting - and I'm actually gutted by thought I may not be able to go!(Panto - yes that old chestnut is back!)

I'm a GEEK and, damn it, I'm PROUD!!!

Now going to soak my feet in the bath, as I'm not sure they enjoyed the Tap experience as much as I did!!!

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Happy Birthday Blog

My Blog is 2 Years Old, Ah Bless!

That's an huge amount of time for me to keep a journal type thing! I look back at it sometimes to see where I was and what I was thinking. I've done a lot in those 2 years, and it gives me a chance to see what I've learned and how I've grown (or not - you decide!). I reckon everyone should have some form of journaling, it's amazing therapy and so much cheaper than a person ;)