Well, 他媽的！

Joss Wheedon is 真的是天才, 懂嗎？

Just got back from the Serenity advance screening. Still slightly shell-shocked by it I'm not going to say anything specific about the film itself, no spoliers from me, but if you haven't seen it you must do so.

My day started with some virtual flowers and wish of a great day from a new friend. Man, did that wish come true!

Busy day at work helped it pass quickly,

Hung out at katipocafe after work for a bit with mashugenah before headin'; on down to Coyotes for the shindig. A great little gathering, the fans filled the place up and at every table there were people I knew. Got to be quite the social butterfly flitting 'round the crowd. Found yet more links in the game of TDOW, never realized that gialiat was part of the Lost Girls with jenni_talula and the others.

Drank Tully, had a chicken & brie pizza gave away some of it, chatted with people I hadn't seen in a while. Chatted to people who I'd never chatted to before. Got in photo ops. Hardly spoke to some people who I probably should have spent longer with time went both faster and slower than I expected, in that the time never dragged but there seemed to be a lot going on.

Finally it was time to go over to the cinema, but just before we went Nick and Norm announced the cosplay winners, and 他媽的！I got a prize!

Got the visual companion book, a movie poster, and a token from Busy Bees as a prize! w00t!

We rushed over to the theatre, and I experienced the cinelounge for the first time. Popcorn and drinks were free, Ice cream could be delivered to your seat halfway through the movie....luxury.

Joss had a special introduction for the advance screening which was very humorous and he did a wonderful impersonation of "The Comic Shop Guy" from the Simpsons at one point.

Then we watched it. It did not disappoint. It was better than I expected and as good as I hoped.
I will be seeing it again when it's released. I will be buying the DVD the moment it hits the shelves.

Then, in the afterglow. I wandered down stairs surrounded by people I knew, and other who I didn't, all bound together by having seen it, till I met up with evie_fae and jarratt_gray who offered me a lift home. It was good they did, unbeknownst to me in my haze of Serenity love and warm Coyotes and cinemas, the trains had been cancelled between Wellington & Petone due to the sea hitting the line in the weather.

I didn't know this until we drove past Petone and I saw a large train, empty, parked at Petone station, far too large for that time of night. I mentioned, it and was told of the above by people who were more grounded in the real world than I was this night.

I wonder if the trains will be running tomorrow morning?

And because evie_fae said I would, I'll blog her comment as she tried to get comfortable in the car:

"It's past my bedtime and I shouldn't be wearing a corset"

I have to thank people for making this a great night.

Firstly, I must thank Nick Cole for organizing the event for us in the first place, organizing the shindig, for buying all our tickets for us, for arranging prizes, for getting me a seat in the front row of the cinelounge, and for having a damn good Mal costume all the way down to the replica gun. Y'know dude, I know you were organizing so couldn't be in the running, but your costume was better than mine!

I must thank panda_pitt for buying me a hat when he was in Peru.
I must thank holding_pattern for lending me the coat.
I must thank evie_fae for telling me I had to wear my "Jayne hat", thus effectively making me create a Jayne costume.
I must thank jarratt_gray & evie_fae for giving panda_pitt & I a lift home after the event
謝謝 all.

And finally a big 謝謝 to Joss Wheedon for making the damn thing in the first place!

Can't stop the signal!

Burners Ahoy!

I know that there are many burners out there, and presumably not all of them read \., so for those that don't here's Marc Merlin' s huge collection of photos and stuff from Psyche.