July 13, 2005

  • Before I continue with my post for today, I thought I'd point out that
    it's been a year and two days since I started my account with xanga.
    I'm not going to change the design to commemorate this or anything like
    that, but I did add a public guest book for people who don't have a
    xanga account (like some friends from work) so that they can leave
    comments if they want to    . The guest book link can be found at the upper
    right hand side of my blog's header ("-- have a comment?"), in my xanga guest book itself, or
    just click here...
    http://www.guestbookworld.com/cgi-bin/gbwshow.exe?27351121234028:7:0

    Well, I'm about three hours away from driving down to the San Diego Comic-Con International. 
    I tried to go to sleep, but this is my "Christmas in July" and I guess
    I'm too excited.  Actually I think I drank too much soda.

    This year at the Comic-Con will be the first year that I will actually go to all the days available.  That's the Preview Night on Wednesday,
    and the regular days from Thursday to Sunday.  I've also did the
    math properly this time and I realized that I've been attending this
    event since 1990, and only missed one year so far (1998). I used to go
    exclusively because of the comic books, but now it's exclusively for
    the movie / TV show promotions that includes the celebrities that go
    with those panels. Last year, those panels were all hella packed with
    people, and I guess to alleviate that problem, the coordinators set it
    up so that popular crowd drawing panels are now scheduled to run
    parallel to each other.  I suppose to split the crowd to more
    bearable levels.  I'm a little annoyed by this turn of events, but
    I understand that it has to be done.

    I've already planned out the main panels that I will be attending, so
    if anybody reading this is going, you might be able to catch me there.
    I cut out the other panels that I could or would have attended (like
    Lost, Justice League Unlimited, King Kong, etc... ) but these are the ones that are definite.

    - Thursday -

    12:00-1:00 * Summer Movie Preview — Room 6B
    4:00-5:30 * Seducing Hollywood  — Room 1AB

    - Friday -

    11:00-1:00 * Warner Bros. Presents (V For Vendetta, Harry Potter and
    the Goblet of Fire, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, The Fountain) — Hall H
    1:00-2:00 * Advance Pilot Screening: New WB Network Fall Series Supernatural! — Room 6B
    2:00-3:00 * Veronica Mars — Room 6B
    3:00-4:30 * Disney Coming Attractions: Chicken Little, Sky High, and
    Pixar’s Toy Story 10th Anniversary , Cars and Pirates of the Caribbean
    2 — Hall H
    4:45-6:15 * Lucasfilm Presents: Star Wars Spectacular — Hall H

    - Saturday -

    10:30-11:30 * Warner Bros. Presents: Superman Returns — Hall H
    11:45-12:45 * Paramount Pictures Presents: Aeon Flux and War of the Worlds — Hall H
    1:00-2:00 * Kevin Smith — Hall H
    2:15-3:15 * Universal Presents Serenity and Slither — Hall H
    3:30-5:00 * Sony Presents (Underworld:Evolution, Ghost Rider, The Fog) — Hall H
    8:30-11:30 * The Devil's Rejects Presents the Comic-Con International Masquerade — Room 20

    - Sunday -

    10:30-11:00 * Movie Trailers Park — Hall H
    11:00-11:30 * Rogue Pictures Presents Cry Wolf— Hall H
    11:30-12:30 * Universal: Doom ( The Rock )— Hall H
    12:30-1:30 * Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media present The Chronicles
    of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe —  Hall H

    These are also the celebrities that I should be able to see while I'm down there.

    Christine Taylor, Lucy Lawless, Bruce Campbell, Rachel Weisz, Charisma
    Carpenter, Natalie Portman, Veronica mars cast, Maggie Grace, Charlize
    Theron, Kevin Smith, Serenity cast, Kate Beckinsale, Eva Mendes,
    Tenacious D, The Rock, Carla Gugino, Brent Spiner, and more...