The Unicorn Theatre (I use the term theatre very lightly) holds 122 people for a sold out show. There are only six rows of seating. I was shocked when I walked into such a small room, the front row was intimidating! I was close enough to reach out and touch the stage, and there were only five rows behind me!  It isn't like those big theatre's where the lights on stage blind out the faces in the audience. It remained surprisingly well lit and there was a lot of eye contact and minor interactions with the audience.  (It is hard to explain how they managed interaction all the while pretending we weren't there, but they did it, lol)  There was no need for audio/sound devises or speakers, they just spoke in voice.  It was an incredibly intimate setting, and an amazing experience.  I, of course, got over my fears rather quickly as I became so immersed into the show.

I thoroughly enjoyed the play itself, but I am tired and it is definitely a thinky piece so I will keep that for another day. Instead let me be shallow because we all know the real reason I wanted to be there so badly. OMG Randy was a dream come true.  Not only was he the definition of talent, but he was wearing the tightest black jeans ever, and you should have seen his dance! The thrusting and I swear if his pants were just a little loser (not that I wanted them to be) he would have done a complete split, not once but twice. He blew me away during his monologue, it was nothing short of amazing, he was nothing short of amazing! Even if he may have sprayed spit all over me a couple of times, lol. As I said, it was a very small theater! He was all Lucky through and through (but he still has that baby faced look to him). After the performance was over, when they came back out on stage a second time, this time to a standing ovation, I did finally get to see that smile that would earn anybody the nickname "sunshine", it was a fine way to end the evening.

Nobody stuck around after the show to wait for the actors to come out and sign things, so in an attempt to not be some creepy fan we decided it best to just make our way home. Mike did buy this for me during the intermission though, because he is sweet like that (and, I should add, he had a wonderful time as well).

( another little poster )
Thank you again Amy, this was such an amazing experience.  I started watching Queer as Folk no more than two weeks ago, I fell in love with the show, the characters, and the actors, and before I knew it I was watching one of my favorites up on a stage right in front of me.  Words can't describe the feeling.  This is Randy's fourth summer in the Berkshires, hopefully he continues the tradition, so I can start a new one for myself.  And hopefully next year you will be there with me too *hugs*  I love you babe.

It took a lot more posts than I expected to recap my weekend at Eyecon so I thought a masterpost might be helpful.

Feel free to link to my page, I will leave all of the posts open. Please credit me for my pictures. Ask before using or reposting anything. Stealing is wrong! I don’t want to watermark, but I will if I have to.

Eyecon Part One, Thursday and Friday (Downtown Disney, TIH, Cocktail Party)

Eyecon Part Two, Saturday (Celeb Panels)

Eyecon Part Three, Saturday night (Banquet and Platinum Party)

Eyecon Part Four, Saturday night (Steve’s concert)

Eyecon Part Five, Sunday (Jared's Panel)

Eyecon Part Six, Sunday (Jared's Panel continued)

Eyecon Part Seven, Sunday night and Monday (photo ops, autographs, after party, Steve at The Social)

And finally, a special thank you to ames1010, for everything. I love you.

This is the hardest con post yet, I have lots of great memories from Sunday and Monday, but other than Jared’s panel I really don’t have many pictures, and I have been really counting on them to tell my story. Looks like I have to wing it this time around.

Here we are, more Jared.




I think I probably have one more Eyecon post coming up, just random stories and photo ops, things like that. Thanks for all the comments guys, I am glad you are enjoying the pictures because I love sharing them.

Sunday was mostly all about Jared, at least during the day it was. It was hectic, but it wasn’t really rushed. The schedule had to be reworked last minute and I think they did a good job of it. They somehow managed to fit it all in, and even have an awesome after party that went well into the night. I’m sure you have noticed the lack of detail in my con reports, that is because other people already have all of that covered. I figure by now, if you are here, you are here for the pictures. So why not just get on with it?




I will get the rest of the pictures up soon. Hope you are enjoying them.

Sorry I am sort of spamming the flist here but Saturday was so hectic that the post really needed to be broken up like this. Steve’s concert was Saturday night, and it was so much more fun than Chicago. I don’t mean to compare, and I am really trying not to, but I can’t help it. I guess Eyecon was just a lot more relaxed, instead of sitting in my seat, Amy, myself, and a bunch of other girls we knew all got up and moved to the side of the row to sing and dance and have a wonderful time. Steve chatted with the crowd and told stories about the songs, and… it was just really just FUN!

( Steve's Saturday night show )
Told you it would be picture heavy, sorry about that. I really have to learn how to pick and chose my favorites prior to posting, lol.

After Steve’s show we got changed for the PJ Party, but we hung out in the lobby working on scrapbook pages for lfg1986’s scrapbook project instead of attending. cloudy_daze, her little sister, shannenb, ames1010, and myself worked until… oh, it must have been at least 3 am, on our scrapbook pages. It turned out to be a great little party, even had some good music and Gabe, lol. In the end we learned that Amy is the best polka dotter ever, Sam and Dean flowers grow better in pots placed on grass, and it is super hard to come up with fun Sam quotes when you are over-tired. Also, and most importantly, these are the days!

( Nice Page! )
Here ends Eyecon Post, Part Three

Photo ops were next up on the days itinerary, but I am going to post all of those at the end instead. For now we will just skip to the Platinum Party. I’ve seen a lot of complaints about it, but I had a great time myself. It was not crowded in the back of the room, you had a great view of the stage, and who needs to be entertained at all times when you are with your friends anyway? So yeah, I thought it was great.

These pictures are completely unedited, it is 6 am and I just can’t be bothered, lol.
Again, remember the rules. Don’t make me watermark my pictures, ok? I don’t ask a whole lot. I am sure some are bound to be reposted, but for the time being, I would really prefer people be directed to my journal if possible. Please credit me if you are using them for graphics, ask first and link me so I can see what you have done. If you want the hi-res just let me know and I will try to get them to you. Shall we move on now?




Next up, Eyecon part 4, Steve Carlson’s concert.

What has it been? Three days maybe? The details are already very hazy, but I will do my best. Saturday morning we had some poptarts and hung out in the hotel for a while. I believe that was also when I bought my poster and extra autograph passes. The autograph tables were set up in the dealer’s room. I was shocked at how much more was in there than in Chicago’s, it was really quite impressive. Anyway, that morning I was able to get everybody’s autograph but Steve, Jim, and Jared. I loved how it was set up, there was no rush, you could just go up to the tables and chat with the celebs while they signed autographs for you.


You will notice that most of Saturday’s panel pictures aren’t really the best. Heads kept getting in the way and the camera kept focusing on the blonde in front of me. I am sure I could make them look a whole lot better with photoshop but a.) I prefer to not touch up pictures when I can help it, and b.) I am lazy.


Next up were the photo ops and then we got ready for the night’s festivities. All that will have to wait for tomorrow though because I am going to bed. Goodnight :)

Let me just get this out of the way real quick.

• I am not posting the super hi-res pictures like I did for Chicago. It isn't because I had a problem with anybody using them, it is because they are huge, take forever to load, and screw with the layout a whole lot.
• If somebody needs the hi-res for some reason, let me know what ones and why and I will see about getting them to you.
• Most of my pictures are fine to use for graphics, just use common sense, (panels and concerts are fine, the other ones probably not so much). Just let me know and be sure to credit.
• There won't be video this time, plenty of people were on that so I decided not to juggle two cameras and just go with photos.
• I am leaving out some things that probably meant the most to me during this con, I might post about it one day, I might not.

Now, on with the show.
Up next, the very busy day that was Saturday.

E!Online debunks rumor
De-spoiled by woodsbaile_02

Buddy TV's interview with Eric Kripke
Spoilers through Episode 9
De-spoiled by woodsbaile_02

TVGuide.com's interview with Eric Kripke
Spoilers through Episode 9
De-spoiled by woodsbaile_02

Thanks to woodsbaile_02, who was kind enough to de-spoil this for the good folks over at spnfencentral. You are awesome.


original Buddy TV article can be found here.

I loved the last episode so much that I made some icons. Go easy on me, they're not my usual look. titheniel    shared some textures and brushes with me yesterday that I really wanted to try out. (She told me exactly who made everything but I don't have a credit page up yet. Sorry about that, I'm working on it.)

3.08 icons

I’ve had a few people friend me over the past week or so, some I knew, some I didn’t. New friends are awesome, I’m all for it, but if you could just introduce yourself that would be great. I haven’t friended some of you back because I don’t know you. Just say hi, seriously, I don’t bite or anything.

Random note to my flist.  I love you.  Thanks for everything today, you are all amazing. ♥ ♥ ♥

Now that we have that out of the way, I come bearing convention icons. They sure aren’t fancy but the boys are pretty, that’s what counts, right?

First things first.  My friends were nice enough to let me use their pictures, that means that not all of the pictures found in this post are are mine.  They will be labeled appropriately if you want to talk to the person who owns them, but PLEASE DO NOT REPOST WITH OUT THEIR PERMISSION!. Thanks.  I started typing this up last week in Word, ten pages later and I think I am finally ready to post it to my journal.  I have done this mostly to keep my memories of the weekend documented, but you are welcome to read through if you are feeling daring, or exceptionally bored!

It has been one week since I left Chicago. How is that even possible? A week? It can’t be. Or maybe it has been longer, because I can’t seem to remember anything about it. Maybe it was last year and not last week. I have posted a few times with pictures and videos but I haven’t really said much about my experiences. I guess I’ve sort of been putting it off because it’ll make it feel like it is really over. Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? Of course it is really over.




And here we are, a week later, and I am slowly coming back down to reality. I finally finished unpacking this past weekend, but I still have random souvenirs all over my living room. I’m still wearing the black Sam/Jared bracelet I put on after winning it at the dinner party, and the necklace that Dee gave me, and I have not cut off my gold Creation bracelet. My friends are made of awesome, they shared all of their pictures so I have more than enough to keep all of my memories alive over the next year until we can do it again. I have this very long journal entry, which I wrote mostly for my own purposes, but if you have made it through I applaud you. And I have the promise of a convention next year. Yes, I am pretty upset with Creation right now, first and foremost because of what happened with Nicky, but also because they went ahead and sold tickets for next year already. I know it was their way of giving those who attended a chance at getting the fist pick of seats, but we aren’t all made of money, I did not have $800 at that convention to spend on next year, and I won’t have it until well after the holidays. So my reward for attending the first convention and spending all of my money there is to get crappy seats next year. So yes, I am upset with them, but I still plan on attending. It isn’t about them, or even getting front row seats. It is about seeing my friends and having the time of my life… again.

one last EDIT - as of now I won't  be able to attend the convention next year and I am indeed very sad.  I guess these memories will have to hold me over for quite some time.  I hope everybody who is lucky enough to go in 08 has a spectacular time (maybe even remembering all the goodies I shared, and being kind enough to return the favor, lol.)

Feel free to link to my journal, I will leave all of the posts open. Please credit me for my pictures. Ask before using or reposting anything. Stealing is wrong! I don’t want to watermark, but I will if I have to.

The other guests (Sam Ferris, Fred Lahne, and Nicky Brendan)

Steve Carlson (photos, reports, and panel videos)

Steve Carlson concert videos (Do not repost or upload anyplace else, especially youtube!)

Jared and Jensen (photos, reports, videos)

The really big con report (personal accounts, pictures, and photo ops)

If you have kept up at all with my little con reports then you saw my pictures. They weren’t as close up and perfect as some I have seen, but I think they were pretty impressive. You may also know that Saturday night after Steve’s concert I dropped my camera and broke the only lens I had. It wasn't reparable, and there was no time to replace it. I don’t have any good pictures from Sunday, not a one. It makes me very sad, more than I would like to publicly admit, but it looks like I have just done so. I took ten pictures that day with my spare camera, the one I had brought solely for video purposes. They came out dark and grainy.

( See what I mean )

And that was even after screwing around with them in photoshop. It isn’t worth posting them all, not when there are such amazing pictures out there right now. I decided to post them all, doesn't mean I like em though. I did get some video but I was a complete fool and didn’t bring my charger. That means the battery was dying fast so I didn’t get much. I missed most of the good stuff because I was always reluctant to turn it on and fast to turn it back off because the low battery light was on the entire time. I uploaded the videos to youtube earlier today, figuring there was already so much out there that there wasn’t much point in drawing attention to them. Well, to my surprise they have gotten all sorts of hits even though I didn't tell anybody I put them there. This must mean that people are still eager to see what ever they can, even if they have seen it already, right?

( video )

I did have photo-ops with Jared and Jensen, but I am feeling a little bit insecure about how they came out at this point, so I am just going to skip ahead to the autographs.

( autographs )

I think I will save my actual thoughts on Sunday’s events for another time when I am not so upset over my broken camera, dead battery, and not so perfect photo-ops. I’ll just quickly say that it was an amazing experience to see Jared and Jensen, there is no picture or video, no matter how perfect, that could convey what it was like seeing them on Sunday. It was worth every cent of that gold ticket and every second of stress Creation caused me over the past five or so months. This convention was like a dream come true.

Jared and Jensen were not the only guests at Creation this past weekend. In fact, I hear that Samantha Ferris, Frederic Lehne, Nicholas Brendan, and Mark Lutz were there too! Can you believe it?

Sam Ferris was the first to take the stage on Saturday. She was wonderful, I loved her immensely. I haven’t been keeping up with the con reports but I have a feeling anything I say about her will have been said already. Instead I will just share some of the pictures I took during her panel.

Oh, lets get this out of the way first. Yes I am keeping them as large as photobucket will allow, no I am not watermarking them, and yes you can use them. Please just show some respect, if you do use them, credit me, and throw a link my way so I can see what you have done. Thanks.

Warning, if you are on dial-up, this will in fact kill your computer.  For some reason the cuts all seem to bring you to Sam's pictures, not sure where I went wrong with that, I think Livejournal just hates me ;)


Fred was up next. As you all know by now he came out with his guitar and sang ‘Sympathy for the Devil’. If you have missed that somehow you should track it down, it was great! Fred had me laughing the entire time, great guy.


I don’t have any photos of Mark Lutz which is really a shame because he left there loved by many Supernatural fans. Bikini made of coins. I bought a photo op with him Sunday, but I won’t actually have it until later in the month. I will be sure to post it when it comes in.

And then there was Nick. I am sure everybody has heard by now what he went through on Saturday night. I am very upset about that, he deserves a very big apology from Creation. I love Nick and I was so happy when he signed on. I don’t like how under appreciated he has been. He sang for us, more than once, and he did the snoopy dance. *loves all over him.*


Next up… Jared and Jensen, the little bit that I managed to get.

I do not want to see these videos reposted or uploaded anyplace else, especially youtube. I am trusting you, please don’t make me regret it.

( videos under the cut )