Gonzai Gallery

Lots of thinky thoughts about Season 2 Daredevil, some related to my little jaunt to NYC last August http://gonzai55.livejournal.com/#post-gonzai55-500420, some spoilery, some not, but to be safe, putting everything behind the cut.


1 - Kudos to the Daredevil makeup crew for remembering all of Matt's injuries from last season. Good to see a show that doesn't just hand-wave that.

2 - Although they never said so explicitly, Matt had a concussion. Interesting idea to explore the effect of a concussion on someone with supersenses.

3 - I think there may have been too many characters shoehorned in here, although certain cameos were appreciated.

4 - It's about frickin' time Matt told Karen he was Daredevil. Should have done it a helluva lot sooner.

5 - The place I first conked out in Brooklyn, & finally found out where they were filming, was in front of a bar. That bar is where the Irish gangsters were taken out in the first ep and the street scene with Brett, Foggy & Matt is where I was sitting for a rest.

6 - Tony Curran was at Shore Leave last summer, which would have been right about the same time he was filming Daredevil. Wish I'd known.

7 - My pretty little hill where I sat for hours waiting? That's the hill in Ep 4 where Frank collapses on the gravestone and makes his long speech. Jon Bernthal is now forgiven for ignoring me when I was outside the dining hall, he must have been doing some serious getting into character. (Glad Charlie only had to sit and listen to Jon all night, so he could say hi.)

8 - Damn, but the stunt crew were busy bees this season. Good job fellas!

9 - I genuinely thought Reyes or Tower was the Blacksmith. I should know better. How often is Clancy Brown the good guy?

10 - I am amused at how much time and effort was put into putting Daredevil on top of the archway, only for about a 3 second shot.

And now for the big question - what happened to Frank's dog?

Without me, at the moment, I'm not into masquerade and I didn't know anyone at the game room, so I cam home to try and catch up a bit on things. I've spent more money than I should have (surprise, it's a con) but not a lot comparatively speaking. Got my vinyl 'Talk Show' signed and had a nice chat with Jane Wiedlin, spoke briefly with Thomas Dekker and hopefully will talk with him some more tomorrow. Lots of panels, been running my yap plenty all day. Talked with a bunch of authors last night, including terri_osborne and tiggerallyn, visited briefly with jslinder although I've seen much more of his better half Pam than I've seen of him, and today I saw and chatted with  aprilvalentine on my way out.

Two days down, one to go.

That is, as opposed to being a volunteer/staff member attached to the art show. So far, the biggest difference is I worked all day at the day job (yuck) and snuck up back roads trying to dodge rain and traffic to get to the con in time for panels. I used to do that on Thursday, so I could help set up the show. Then take off Friday from the day job and work at SL all day. And, apparently, at least a couple of people showed up at the art show looking for me and left not only disappointed, but in one case scolded out the door for having the nerve to ask where I was. I didn't stay long today, besides being worn out, my tummy was distressed all day and the chairs at the con are killing my back. (Took all of 90 minutes for my back to rebel; in that regard, it'll be one long weekend.) But I collected some hugs - which is why I decided to go in spite of all else, I wanted to see my friends daggone it - and hopefully the guests will be worthwhile. And I'm not staying at the hotel. That's a good thing. It flooded last night. Both pools closed indefinitely, an elevator down and apparently a serious mold/mildew/stink issue downstairs and around said elevators. Ah, cons.

No con-party for Gonzai. I worked eight straight hours in the art show, leaving the room only to use the facilities. Didn't even have proper food for dinner. So when I called it a day, I meant it. No parties, and no game room. Although the game room has been dead all weekend, few gamers and even fewer games. There's a library of maybe a dozen there. jslinder brought Dominion and we may play a couple games tomorrow, but that will probably be about it for gaming. The art show is more or less done now, artist pickup in the morning is it and several artists picked up today, including me. I agented for Theresa Mather and Charlene Taylor D'Alessio; I bring home one D'Alessio print and that's it. Sold everything else. Didn't sell a lot of my own, but my print of Abby Sciuto became my first ever auction item at Shore Leave. Started at the min bid of $15, wound up selling for $55. So pleased about that, although my overall sales were way down. (I brought no 3D art and less 2D than usual, so that didn't surprise me greatly.)

The funeral was very well attended, which rather surprised me as Rick had been very reclusive the last several years. (Reclusive as in, even his brothers didn't know where he lived.) I did get the impression most folks there either knew him many years ago, or were friends of Donny, the brother who organized the service. We met Rick's son Aaron and Donny's son Joe for the first time in over 30 years. But Donny was the only person there we actually knew, so we didn't stay too long.

One more day of con...but this time, I'm unobligated. Panel, games and autograph time!

Parked in the art show, waiting for the next pieces of paperwork to be entered in the computer and/or an artist to come in. We had a quick sale crush when the show opened at 11am, mostly Theresa Mather's stuff, but now it's quiet. We're settled in and playing with Rosy's Bert the Hippo and Abby the forensic rabbit. When the dealer's room opens I'll head upstairs, but the rest of the day I'll likely be...here.

With me not doing a whole lot. I did go to the Y and swim for pretty much the first time in 8 years. I expect I'll be in a lot of pain tomorrow. Felt good at the time though. Finally finished cleaning all the duplicate files out my ITunes drive, something I've been working on since February or so. Now I get to add the music I acquired since then into the ITunes folder, Also have to put all the stray files into their appropriate files, and double check the whole thing against my old drive. For some reason a lot of the music didn't copy, I think I found most of the missing files but I ought to make sure. Oh, yeah, also burned a bunch of DVDs, downloaded some things, played a lot of games online, made some prints, pulled the art for Shore Leave and did all the remaining paperwork, and mainlined series 7 of 'Spooks'.  Come to think of it, maybe I did get a fair amount done today...

More adventures in art shows, although this time it's more the buyers than the artists (aside from the guy who sent his art to the hotel instead of the art show). But we've had buyers taking photos with their cell phones, and a lot of quick sale adventures. Mostly people seem to think they can personally write 'quick sale' on something and it's theirs. Even if there's already bids on it. Even when the signs specify you must bring it to a staff member. We're counting them as regular bids for now.

Meanwhile, I hit the dealers room and landed a copy of Ticket To Ride: Nordic Countries, which is out of print and going for outrageous prices on Ebay. I got it for MSRP, no tax or shipping :) Happy me! And a stuffed squirrel, he's quite cute. Obviously my netbook works in the art show, which had been a concern. Speaking of concerns, had an interesting conversation with the conchair of Shore Leave. (jslinder I'll e-mail you.) Back to it...

I just looked at the calendar and realized...it's exactly one month until Farpoint. And I have done no art. Not since before Shore Leave, in fact. Nothin'. Nada. Uh oh. Must...try...to...make...something...new...And do it with an achy-breaky hand. Time crunch!

Home, for what feels like the first time in ages.

Watched the last two eps of Torchwood, so now safe to go back on the Internet (growls at people who spoiled the eps).

And I'm too tired. Haven't slept much at all the last several days, so conking out instead. Will react to Torchwood and Shore Leave over the next few days as time and thoughts allow.