I'm going to have a birthday party this weekend - this is silly but I'm really worried and also ex cited because I've never really had a proper party. The last party I had was four years ago and it had lollies and soft drink and video games and it wasn't really a 'party.' Now I am bringing myself to try for an actual party party. Let's see what happens! Social ineptitude go!

Hey I'm doing this music meme because it's great. Even though last time barely anyone guessed anything, haha.

Rules:
1. Put your playlist on random.
2. Post a line from the first TWENTY songs
3. Delete the songs when someone guesses correctly

1. Come ride with me, through the veins of history
2. What did you do, what did you say, did you walk or did you run away
3. We're surrounded by bones, in a catacomb
4. Those evil natured robots, they're programmed to destroy us
5. Street's like a jungle, so call the police
6. Ooh you make me live
7. How did anybody find out where I was?
8. We sleep together while all around us, people kill each other where they lie
9. Yeah I, tell you something, I think you'll understand
10. Someday mother will die and I'll get the money
11. Needless to say, the beast was stunned
12. Summer don't know me no more, eager man, that's all
13. I don't think I ever saw you blink, you were so composed that no one knew
14. Not in a gay way, just in a hey mate, I wanted to say that you're looking ok way
15. Cause baby tonight the night belongs to you and I
16. She was into the Stones when I was into the Roses
17. Jeder war ein grosser Krieger, Hielten sich fuer Captain Kirk (OK I googles the spelling on that one)
18. When these pillars get pulled down, it will be you who wears a crown
19. Please excuse her for the day it's just the way the medication makes her
20. Do you go to the country, it isn't very far. There's people there who'll hurt you, just for who you are

I've seen this meme like twice now so I guess I better do it

☞ Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper.
☞ Explain in no more than five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
☞ Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!



Because I'm in love with Hanna is Not a Boy's Name. It has absolutely amazing art, great character designs, great characters, did I mention the art? Because it's great.

SO IT TURNS OUT that we actually won best group cosplay but we had to leave by five so we weren't there to find out! Nooo! But awesome, holy crap, never won anything for cosplay before! :D

And I now have some photos that have trickled in via the internet!



( More under cut! )

Also, omg omg Dr Horrible at the Emmys :D Way to COMPLETELY FAIL TO SHOW IT, AUSTRALIAN TV. Oh well, watching it on the internet instead of TV is the appropriate way to enjoy Dr Horrible but I would have squeed like a mad fangirl if it had cut in during the regular broadcast. Blatantly greenscreened, amirite

Gen Con was good times

Sore feet and shoulders though, and my pouches fell off my belt - well that's what I get for hot gluing the night before rather than sewing. No photos yet because I was too be-gloved to use a camera and my friend (Heavy!) with the camera with all the photos literally had to drive to Caloundra immediately after we got back on saturday. Augh!

All I have right now is this -



I'm the Medic, my friends are the skirt!Red!Scout, Heavy and Pyro who you can barely see, and the rest are awesome randoms we found on the day. :D

Lessons learned:

• Don't wear huge gloves that prohibit you from doing anything


• Don't wear enormous heavy coats when you live in Brisbane. BRISBANE

Wait, aren't those the same lessons I learned from Doctor Horrible? HMMM

Seriously though if I do this again I'm so making the bonesaw or ubersaw instead of the medigun. Would make the day much less awkward!

AS SOON AS I GET BETTER PHOTOS I'M POSTIN' EM

Medic coat 80% done, Medigun 90% done, backpack 10% done. Gen Con is NEXT SATURDAY and I have uni and work all week. LET'S SEE HOW WE GO

Still haven't found the right buttons for my coat. I need to stop being weirdly perfectionist about one minor detail and buy some random buttons. (Yet my medigun and pack are completely inaccurate to an absurd degree!) I'm so impressed with myself for almost completing my coat in one day, lol. I AM SUCH A BAD SEWER (seamstress?) I didn't line it and you can see all these seams and threads and blaaaah but whatever.

OH MY GOD MY FRIEND BARBARA IS DOING THE HEAVY AND HER SASHA IS AMAZING BUT I HAVEN'T GOT ANY PHOTOS YET SRY

Yyeeeaaaahh I dunno. Procrastinating.

Nyyeeaaargh it is EVERYTHING IS DUE TIME

But anyway.

I had to do some drawings for Graphic Design where we had to take a photo of ourselves and interpret it in 4 different ways.


Caricature (Hurrr)

( 3 others (They're slightly less crap) )

Gotta colourise the comic book one and photoshop filter the crap out of the shadowy one so that they fit their respective styles better, lol. Going to make the colours and lighting all based on the one photo so it's a cohesive set.

( Oh and a (spoilery) District 9 fanart I posted on the lj comm )

Have I not squeed about District 9 yet? Because HOLY CRAP DISTRICT NINE

I tried to draw some fanart but aliens are hard, dammit. D: Maybe later.

Have finally paid off credit card bill for TRIP TO AMERICA~!

AMERICA!

In January I'm going to NEWWWWW YOOOOORK (Technically staying in New Jersey but whatever!) with my friend Barbara. We're staying with her Grandma so free accommodation! I'm going to be there for four whole weeks! It's going to freezing cold!

Now I have no money (D:), but hopefully, worth it! :D

by the way everyone I have a Twitter in case anyone wants to read about the boring minutia of my life

http://twitter.com/cselin

Any good recommendations of people to follow?

EDIT: Just noticed I tried to spell 'recommendations' and I firefox auto corrected it to 'reconsiderations' without noticing. That sure makes sense

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08042009/gossip/pagesix/gay_sherlock_holmes_could_backfire_for_g_182825.htm

Who is going to want to see Downey Jr. and Law make out? I don't think it would be appealing to women.

WHO INDEED, RANDOM MOVIE CRITIC

Looking at photos and blogs from Comic Con and wising I could have gone. That's not sad at all, is it?

Dalek girl that looks to have been inspired by us! (The top is pretty similar!) So awesome!

Another dalek girl that is WAY better than us... homg is that a show-accurate eggbeater? And panels! And it's frilly underneath! I wish I was that cool D:

And my new heroes

Nnnyargh uni goes back tomorrow. I have the worst timetable I've ever had coming up, woo. I have an 8am lecture at the further-away campus to start my Monday off, followed by a four hour break, which will spend probably slumped over asleep somewhere after my 5.30 wakeup in order to get there on time. Then I'm there till 8pm! Then on Tuesday I don't finish till 9pm. Wednesday I'm only there for two hours, Thursday is off (But I have WORK WOO) and on Friday I am there for AN HOUR. And it takes me two and a half hours of travel to get there and back.

YAY 4 UNI

Also I've said I'm going to work on this project with japha (Need a website? HIRE US) which is going to be huge and hrrrng I probably should not have agreed to do so much for it D:

So uni, work, Japha work, and also I'm attempting to get a Medic cosplay done for Gencon - this is going to be a busy few months. ;-;

And because nobody cares about all that text, Kamina.



(Also I got the special edition Gurren Lagann box set which is GORGEOUS and comes with a CORE DRILL I love you madman.)

Have a small oekaki dump which is all TF2 and Half Life fanart.

I haven't oekakied in forever, it is awesome |D With oekaki I'm encouraged to do something small an finish it - whereas with ~proper drawing~ I give up halfway and forget or lose interest in what I'm doing. I mean I don't produce masterpieces in oekaki but at least I'm producing something, haha.

( Arts )

Uni break is the best break BD

I've run out of icon spaces D:

I WASTED LIKE A DAY MAKING THIS

Oh wow you guys! I am so excited for this! Especially the possibility of Yahtzee-hosted game trivia nights. (I can believe I live in the same city as an internetz celebrity and have yet to actually see him at any events. I'm pretty sure he was at both Gencon and Game On but I went to both those things on the WRONG DAYS Damn myself!)

But a bar for crazy drunken gaming? In my city? Involving Yahtzee Crosshaw and I guess those other Australian Gamer guys who I care not as much about? YES PLZ

Also I finally bought Half-Life 2 the other day. I've played HL1 and a bit of HL2 ep 1 (And also inexplicably read all of Concerned) so I figured why not fill in the gaps. Hurr hurr. It's fun!

Got Pokémon Platinum yesterday, as a celebration of having finished my last assignment for this semester. (I've still got two 50% exams left but you can just SHUT UP.)

I got a female starter for the first time ever (Chimchar!) which was awesome, but then I couldn't think of a clever name. (I guess if it was a male I was going to be uncreative and call it Wukong or something. I don't really make these decisions in advance.) Also I caught a Starly and named it Sarah Jane yeah I really have no excuse for how nerdy that is >> (And you can bet the instant I catch a bronzor it's going on my team with the name "Metaltron" or something.)

Hoshits I squeed SO MUCH in the trailer when...

"Any objections, lady?"

AHHHHH You have no idea how much I love Metroid Fusion people
NO IDEA

I never really got into Prime because FPSs don't do that much for me unless I've got a mouse and a keyboard. But this is third person and AHHH ADAM AHHH

WANT WANT WANT

Saw STAR TREK! (I am so slow shut up.)

Amazingly, I have never even seen an entire episode of Star Trek before. I mean, I know the gist and have seen bits, but never even a whole episode. So I was excited to increase my nerd cred. XD

It was really good! I had expected it to be from the general joy I way hearing about it from everywhere and I was not lead astray!

Also dude Kirk/Spock being basically the first slash pairing historically or whatever totally coloured my perception of the movie (Or maybe it actually was that slashy dammit Old Spock was all GO TO HIM FOLLOW YOUR HEART at the end SHUT UP) XD;;;; It can't help that I saw it with a bunch of girls (Permission to come aboard? IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN)

Also it was extremely pretty. *o*

UNRELATED BITCHING: My two IT subjects next semester are Maths for Computer Graphics and Business of IT. THIS SUCKS Y NO PROGRAMMING :C (On the plus side I have "Programming for visual designers and artists" on the CI side but I imagine that'll be super easy because the point is that it's for people who know bugger all about programming. Oh well, bludge subject hopefully? XD)