I don't think this post was put off enough. And guess what... I'm hungry so I left to go get dinner with Fett, so this was put off even more.
Today I spent my afternoon on the phone with verizon wifeless tech support trying to figure out why my text messaging wouldn't work. After this 3rd attempt, it was finally traced down to being a software interference. Turns out one of the apps I was using was cockblocking my texting for some reason. Dunno which one, but it works now.
Also, turns out I've had unlimited texting this whole time (since my upgrade, at least). So feel free to blow up my phone. If you want to feel neglected, I'm the perfect person to text in order to achieve that. You heard it here first.
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So like, whoa, what's that? Right?
It's like.... Cry Baby meets L.A. Ink (without the shitty drama/acting) at a convention center... but on a boat.
If you've never watched Cry Baby (you should) or L.A. Ink (no don't, good for you), it's a tattoo convention circling around 50's fashion/culture(?), customized "hot-rod" vehicles, live rockabilly bands, burlesque performances, and $10 hot dogs with $7 fries and $4 drinks... on a ship. Tons of vendors, art, and eclectic people gather 'round to enjoy... all of the things. This was a 3 day event, but due to bills, we only attended one day; which fell on a Sunday.
We could've totally just walked in without tickets. Which we actually kind of did. We went through a security check point, but no one asked us for our tickets or distributed wrist bands, lol. We got inside and wandered a little bit, then became a bit concerned, so we walked back to the entrance we came through and the guard didn't even know what was up. Apparently this event is extremely disorganized and he felt the need to tell us that there was even drama with the bands that were playing. Totally know how that goes, so it was doubly amusing for me to hear that. But he was like yeah whatever, you guise are good. And we were like.... lolkay.
So we went in!
BY THE WAY navigating the routes to get into the parking area for The Queen Mary was horrid. Like, I always like to imagine my personal hell, which up until that morning was being surrounded by crying babies, semi-rusted metal cages scratching on other like surfaces being the background noise for eternity, like that awful noise that makes you taste metal in the back of your head? and Satan would be a girl that never shuts up about her friends' lives. She just talks, endlessly, about shit that has nothing to do with her, but she just has to talk about it. And I have fresh burns on my fingertips, but the only water available is luke-warm, so it only slightly alleviates the burning sensation while simultaneously makes it burn even more. All this taking place in the middle of a chinese fur farm where everyone ignores the babies, and all the animals are half alive and skinless.
Yeah.
But no. Now it's all this, while navigating to get to the Queen Mary parking lot, in a chinese fur farm, with a billion left turns and no turning lights and chinamen are walking everywhere with corpses as padestrians and they have the right of way, but the light never turns red. It's just green forever, and no one can get there. AND SATAN WON'T STFU.
This was the worst intro ever.
Lets move onto the photos, shall we?
So we walk right on in-- first thing we do is enter the Queen. (zing!)
There was art and stuff on the first floor.
There were tons of vendors outside. I saw Matt had his booth here also.
Matt runs the Rock Rebel booth. I always run into him at cons, and he reached out to me once for a thing. Cool dude. Good to see a familiar face.
Matt runs the Rock Rebel booth. I always run into him at cons, and he reached out to me once for a thing. Cool dude. Good to see a familiar face.
There was also a car show with alllll sorts of vintage cars. They look way cooler than the cars we have now
Even the dumpier cars look cooler than the new models we have now, imo.
This one was my favorite. Someday I wish have have a matte black car. A Honda. WITH STUFFED ANIMALS EVERYWHERE :D
In the 3 lower levels of the ship there was nothing but tattoo artists and booths as far as the eye can see. It was literally this for 3 floors. And a mini stage at the bottom for a tattoo competition that had like...
best color
best best big color
best b&w
best tribal
etc, etc.
Contestants would get called up, and the judges would eyefuck their tattoos.
After that, we had some time to kill before what we really wanted to see. Soooo.... since we were on a ship WHY NOT GO EXPLORING :D
I'm basically Dora, and he's a map. So... right?
So we went upstairs.
and upstairs.
Main stage where all the (apparently dramatic) bands were playing.
Women and children first!
It was absolutely mind blowing. Soooooooooooo pretty! And a gorgeous day out. We walked along the decks hand in hand taking everything in. Le sigh... ^_^
What it is?
BURLESQUE SHOW? HOKAY.
You know it.
We were all about that shit.
We got to the room kinda early though, and there was a drawing session going on.
There was this chick who would do 5-10 minute poses for everyone, and they'd .. sketch her. This went on for like an hour I think. From time to time she'd ask people if they wanted to come up (I'm assuming she needed a break) and eventually I did a 5 minute pose. Of course Fett didn't take a picture. It was awkward, and uncomfortable. But she got to stretch and walk around for a brief moment to herself. Hooray!
Then the show started! It began with this older dude that resembled a ring master coming out doing a song number all fancy like. It was cool. And one by one the girls came out one after the other.
(Don't pretend like you don't like my redundancy.)
Totes vaudeville.
She was cool. Sword swallower!
This was Fett and I's first burlesque show. It was cute watching him at the edge of his seat trying to peek over the people in front of him when the dancer would go off to the side of the stage. XD
She was my favorite. Traditional burlesque performance-- super pretty to watch ^^
Also... makes me love being a woman. HEE.
This dude was supposed to be a magician, but ultimately it was more of a comedy act.
From there we went off towards the room with the pole dance show, but once we got there it was jam packed and couldn't see jack shit. So we got in line to get some Starbucks licensed drinks (which they absolutely butchered) and headed to find a good spot for the final burlesque performance.
it's that ring leader dude again!
This time the theme was time travel, and he had this cute, short, supposed-to-be-ugly assistance named Ingenue. They'd push buttons and knobs and turn wheels for the "time machine" to bring back a lady from ages past. The first one was "Eve"
She came out with a snake outfit and got dressed instead of strip teased. Get it? Because Satan was like noooo wear clothes, and they were naked originally? Get it? Do you get it? They put ON clothes? GET IT!?
This chick was supposed to be from the future. She looked like Amy Lee 80 lbs ago.
Russian queen chick who was fond of the horses in her stables.
Aphrodite. My favorite! She was really bouncy and fun, haha.
And finally Ingenue.
She went into the 'time machine' to go searching for a missing girl and returned as a viking.
Shocker, I know.
It was really fun.
Funny story, intitally there was no seating in that room. People were getting antsy about waiting around while having to stand so two of them went off behind a curtain to the side and pulled some chairs, brought them over to the seating area and made themselves comfortable.
This had a domino effect and before we knew it everyone in the room hauled ass to grab a chair from the side of the room behind the curtain. Fett grabbed two for us, while I saved our spots. I heard someone go "wow..." because I wouldn't move from between the chairs that were on either side of me. That's right dick, and we got good seats!
Hoomans are so competitive..
Fett had a headache, so we weren't going to linger much longer. He did wanna see the last band that was playing for at least a song or two before we split; Suicidal Tendencies.
So we went up to the deck and watched them for a couple songs until he felt ready to go.
We made our way back down to the main floor and through the crowd.
The Queen Mary looked awesome at night. Everything did.
We were pooped, and ready to pass out. It was a long, hot day but really really cool.
Neither one of us had ever been to an event like this before. Makes it extra exciting, methinks!
I did leave asking myself a question though; What do sugar skulls have anything to do with rockabilly style? Isn't that a mexican day of the dead thing? I don't see the connection, like...whatsoever. At all. Nothing. If it was just adopted because it's a skull with flowers... gotta give it to them, that's a special kind of shallow.
Anywho, apologies for the tardiness!!
Can I tell you guise how excited I am to drive 1.5 hours to my first class on Monday in 7 years? Can I tell you? Because I'm not. It's a two hour class in the morning from Monday through Thursday for 5 weeks. And then I go to work right after.
One of the things that's really motivating me is a former co-worker named Nova who I saw before I moved to another location. She was a single mom who went to school full time, and came to work at 4am almost every day before she went to class. She'd tell us about her exams and home work while at work, casually, and I always admired her for that. She said she did it for her daughter. So... if Nova can do it, I can do it. No excuses, no bitching, no whining. Just gotta pull myself together and .... pretend the commute is .... a really long, grueling, roller coaster all the way down the 5 at rush hour. It'll be fun, I'm sure of it.
Also, yay more nice things!!
A commission! Two bearded dragons for my girl Becca who is the owner of Smaug's Dragon Den.
She breeds bearded dragons, and runs her own little shop with several other kinds of amphibians and reptiles. Really neato. She wants to do a give-away, which means you can win one of these!
Go to her page for more info ;)
HEEEE TUMMY TICKLES
They were fun. She ordered one to be matte, and the other glossy.
AND.
Ramen take out.
So weird how they give it to you. Everything is separated.
BUT JUST AS DELICIOUS ^_^
On that note, I'm gonna finish my din din. Fett's napping in my bed and he might want dessert when he wakes up.
:D
OH! Before I forget, I'd like to mention one last thing.
You're SO welcome for all the ideas my boyfriend has provided in order for you to entertain your several enlightened visitors. What are you on now, the 5th one? I'm really glad he could be of service to you. We'll keep new ones coming along, but can't promise we'll keep up with your turnover rate.