Renaissance Pleasure Faire 2012 Recap

The first day of Renaissance Pleasure Faire 2013 is upon us. To celebrate, I’m finally posting our Ren Faire photos from a YEAR ago lol.

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Ren Faire game faces: on.

 

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This guy is killing it from head to toe.

 

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This was an amazing free form battle. I can’t believe we got to witness it.

 

Renaissance Faire Buds

Look who we ran into – Renata, our favorite Vulcan!

 

Renaissance Faire Beard Braids

Beard braids!

 

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Working it with that turkety leg.

 

Renaissance Faire Turtle Race

Now this is the attitude I’m looking for in a turtle race game master – ultimate zen.

 

Renaissance Faire Hunters

Hunters score big game at Ren Faire – a tri tip chili bowl!

 

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The Queen’s College.

 

Renaissance Faire

It’s nice to have a mage or mercenary of some kind silently looking out for danger so you can enjoy your lager.

We’re going to try to make it to our first Gay Day on May 4th! Will you be there??

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Resistance is Futile ~ Star Trek Art Show

HAPPY 2013 TO TREKKIES && NON-TREKKIES ALIKE!!

What a fun night I had a couple weeks ago at the Q Pop Shop!! There was a Star Trek art show called “Beam Me Up” where tons of folks spent their Saturday night on Feb. 16 – quite the eventful meeting of the United Federation of Los Angeles Star Trek lovers. Here’s a link to the sweetest Q Pop Shop exhibit of the year – Beam Me Up!

There were all sorts of paintings and sand drawings of various Star Trek series characters, embroideries and action figure collectibles, antique tricorders and screen-printed shirts, tons and tons more. I didn’t get to drink any Romulan Ale. I heard it sold out pretty early in the night, so I’ll have to get it next time! The dj was supposed to be playing “Star Trek tunes” but I couldn’t hear a thing, wish I had some borg implants to help me hear better!! Hahah.

Anyway here’s some photos of the show. I’m hoping to attend a convention this year, wish me luck! :)

Star Trek Art

Glitz & Glam & Nerds

There was a huge line to see the Star Trek exhibit at Q Pop Shop!! Everybody wanted a piece of the future!

Star Trek Art

Epic Gadgets

There were so many communicators and tricorders!! It was super classy gear and original Star Trek style.

Star Trek Art

Art by Anna Hollingsworth and ‘Neon Spock’ by Kevin Sukho Lee (avail. here)

Can anybody guess who the top painting is? He’s a special guy for Star Trek, definitely a special guy. And of course, Spock keeping it logical.

Star Trek Art

Red Alert

This couple was so cool! The dude made both costumes and he owned all the gadgets on display in the previous photo. I asked for a photo while debating what series is the best, too awesome… (we agreed TNG then Voyager).

Star Trek Art - Worf

Worf by Nick Bachman and Susan Nguyen (avail. here)

This won my heart, what a jem. You can practically hear Worf growling!!

Live Long and Prosper,
Jesse Marie Picard//Di Carlo-Wagner

Thanks to Angie for telling me about the show and letting me write this article on the best site ever!!

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Building a Mystery Korn Hole Room

In the late nineties/ early millennium there was a secret place that spawned the world’s most famous musicians. It wasn’t a large city nor a small town. It could not be found on a map of any kind. It was a secret room which we like to call the “Korn Hole Room”.

This “Korn Hole Room” was not a place for playing the traditional game of Cornhole that we all adore. It was a room where stardom was incubated. This room contained a luminous magic that could help propel a human person from being unknown to world famous. All that  was required of this human person was to have the ability to sing or speak in a manner that was indecipherable. The light energy would engulf the singer/rapper as he or she performed an entire musical song and like magic, the human person would become world famous.

Korn Hole Davis

Korn Hole Davis

Musicians such as Korn and Lil’ Wayne have reaped the benefits of performing in this secret room. After performing the single “Freak On Leash” in the fantastical room, Korn dominated the musical charts. The single was released in many places around the world. The music video if you look closely at the picture above, actually gives a glimpse into the mysterious Korn Hole Room. The video was hailed and won the Best Form Music Video award at the 2000 Grammy Awards Ceremony of Awards for Music and Music Videos.

Holes of Light of Succe$$

See Lil’ Wayne in the Korn Hole Room performing his debut hit single “The Block is Hot” The single was released on his debut album “The Block is Hot” which became #1 on Billboard’s Hip Hip/ R&B charts in 1999 and he’s been a household name ever since.

Juvenile Holes

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Singer/ Songwriter Sarah McLachlan can also be seen performing in the Korn Hole Room. Her chart topper “Building a Mystery” debuted in the room back in 1997 before Lil’ Wayne and Korn was a thought in the Korn Hole Rooms brain.

Sarah in the Korn Hole

With all the mysterious success behind the Korn Hole Room, we became increasingly curious about it…WHERE IS THIS ROOM? WHAT IS THIS ROOM? we needed answers and we needed them fast mostly because its been more than 10 years since this room was even relevant.

The answers to all of our Korn Hole questions were answered after watching the entirety of Sarah Mclachlan’s video for “Building a Mystery”. The Korn Hole Room was none other than…

Sarah’s Korn Hole Dress

Sarah McLachlan’s Dress!!!! It’s a Korn Hole Dress! By god, why didn’t we think of it before? It makes sense that this beautiful women with her beautiful heart songs would have the soul bearing ability to wear a dress that is a room which illuminates success upon aspiring male musicians!

Korn Hole

Korn Hole

It’s revealed that a seamstress man wielded the gown especially for Sarah. The magical seamstress man remains a mystery for us still. We have only screenshots of what he looks like and they are not well lit.

The magic, we suspect, is wielded into the fabric and a magical light is ignited. The carefully placed korn holes allow just the right amount of high power light through and into the skirt of the garment.

Korn Hole

Korn Hole

The only question we had left was how it was possible for Sarah to be both wearing the dress and also be inside the Korn Hole Room? Don’t worry we figured it out.

There is a single hole which allows the chosen one to pass. This hole only allows the one who can activate the magic that lies within dresses fabric. This human is Sarah McLachlan without her it would merely be your everyday Korn Hole dress.  Mystery solved, K thanks.

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Holdin it in

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Rollin’ Hard: Beautiful Katamari

Pretty Cool Land’s Royal Court Presents…

Beautiful Katamari

Lord and Lady of the Cosmos

While on an all-American, West Coast vacation, I couldn’t help but think, “Wow! this is so beautiful. So beautiful that I really want to roll all of this beauty up into a ball. The cows grazing in the meadows, roll em up! The picket fences and flower patches, roll em up! the sea shells and drift woods, roll those up too!”

What?! Why would anyone want to roll up the beauty into a ball? Well, when you spend countless hours playing the third-person puzzle game Beautiful Katamari you might begin to understand.

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Game Manuals: Ultimate Fantasy Literature?

Fantasy literature did not appeal to me at all when I was younger. It was annoying to have to sort through books about unicorns and castles when I was just trying to find a book about hive mind aliens and putting the internet into a female human body.

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(image via science fiction universe)

But now I love it! After reading some of Margot’s amazing game manuals, I finally realized how dark and brutal and totally entertaining fantasy literature can be!

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Hengao for Your Body by Angelina Jolie

Remember Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and her hengao (facial contortion beauty art) revival last year?

kyary pamyu hengao

Well, I’m so happy that this trend has finally made it to the US, in BODY FORM via Angelina Jolie’s LEG!!!

legonie

Angelina kept sticking her leg out of this dress all night at the Oscars. It was goofy. Then I saw this today:

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(via reddit)

Gorgeous. It really got me thinking. Hengao is not just for your face anymore! Look out for some highly elegant/beautiful photos of me coming soon. And from you too I hope! I love how supportive Brad looks.

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Studio Ghibli Screenings

ghibli castles in the sky
American Cinematheque is screening 15 (!!) Studio Ghibli films in Los Angeles. Actually, there’s only 14 more because the series already kicked off yesterday with “Porco Rosso”. But 14 is still a lot and some of them will be shown more than once. It’s going to be hard to choose which ones to see since I want to see them all. I think I’ll limit it to the ones I haven’t seen before. The event page has links to all the trailers and shows which ones will have subtitles and which ones will be dubbed. For your convenience (and mine), I’ve sorted the screenings by date below.

Fri. 1/27
SPIRITED AWAY 7:30pm, Aero Theatre

Sat. 1/28
NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND 7:30pm, Egyptian Theatre

Sun. 1/29
MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO 4:00pm, Aero Theatre
WHISPER OF THE HEART 7:30pm, Aero Theatre

Thu. 2/2
OCEAN WAVES 7:30pm, Aero Theatre

Fri. 2/3
PRINCESS MONONOKE 7:30pm, Egyptian Theatre

Sat. 2/4
THE CAT RETURNS 4:00pm, Aero Theatre (I’m super excited about this one. It’s a sequel to “Whisper of the Heart” and involves a kingdom of cats.)
CASTLE IN THE SKY 7:30pm, Aero Theatre

Tue. 2/7
SPIRITED AWAY 7:30pm, Egyptian Theatre

Wed. 2/8
MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS 7:30pm, Aero Theatre

Thu. 2/9
ONLY YESTERDAY 7:30pm, Aero Theatre

Fri. 2/10
POM POKO 7:30pm, Aero Theatre

Sat. 2/11
KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE 4:00pm, Aero Theatre

Sun. 2/12
HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE 4:00pm, Egyptian Theatre (If you can’t make it to the screening, I highly recommend watching it on Netflix Streaming. I just watched it for the first time and loved it.)
MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO 7:30pm, Egyptian Theatre

Mon. 2/13
THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY 7:30pm, Aero Theatre (This is a sneak preview. The movie premieres on 2/17.)

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Underworld Awakening 3D Review

Underworld Awakening

Underworld Awakening 3D. Saw this. Liked it.

Compared to all the other Underworlds, this one had a really simple plot. The main focus was on Selene just killing everyone while looking like Trent Reznor. So you don’t really need to have seen the other movies to get it.

The new character is cool.

The lycans (werewolves) were really claymation-ey, which I enjoyed (monster throwbacks).

Even though there was only one scene where I noticed the 3D, it was worth it cus we saw it at Regal and they do that amazing rollercoaster of snacks thing. LOVE THAT! 100 gazillion times better than that boring actors in robotic flower-chairs thing they do at Edwards. HATE THAT. Why are you showing me people pretending to be entertained instead of just entertaining ME? So dumb.

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Best V4G1N4 Technology of 2011

1. Vibrance Kegel Device
kegel device
Because, like most ladies, kegels are #1 on my list of things I need help doing. Here’s to rock hard vaginas in 2012! Purchase product here. (via Cheeserland)

2. Vibrator Alarm Clock
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So just put this in your vagina along with all those other things you store in there all night long. Why? So you can wake up to a “snorgasm” duh. Which I’m assuming is supposed to be a good thing, even though it sounds more like “So how was your date last night?” “So boring!! Talk about having multiple snorgasms.” “Hahahaha.” “Lol.” “Lol that sux.” Purchase product here. (via Geekologie)

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Hongdae Holidays

Leila Khastoo has recently started a series of KPOP (Korean Pop music) events. Each event has it’s own theme and is centered around Korean Pop music and the club scene that is popular in the area of Hongdae Seoul, South Korea. Come join us at her next event which will take place in Downtown Los Angeles, CA the theme is “White Christmas”. Leila will be playing the latest and greatest KPOP videos and D.J. Banchan will be spinning Old School KPOP and Trance. Check out this article on Leila and her first Hongdae event in the Italian design magazine ARBITARE!

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