come down in the street and dance with me...

...but wait! there's more to the weekend than what you've heard!

yesterday was the final day of our four-day weekend. and although it was still pretty strange, given the events of the past day and the rental car retrieval and phone calls and all that, it still got even stranger late last evening.

sometime shortly after 9pm or so, we get a phone call from Shin_Jon. apparently, Wired magazine was doing some sort of article either on anime cons or on Acen in particular, and so they'd been working on that all day with high-ranking Acen staff members, as well as taking photos and such.

and then, he tells us, they decided they wanted to take some photos of SWEK.

o.o;;;

thing is, the article and all associated photos apparently needed to be handed in sometime today. which was "tomorrow" when he said it yesterday, of course.

UM. O.O;;;

so he wondered if it would be okay if everyone assembled at our house (since it's fairly central to the rest of the band) to take the photos, and apologised for it being such short notice and so late and all that. and if we had problems with it, we could use the cartoon drawing we've been using of ourselves for fliers and such---the main reason against using that is that we've no longer got the brass section playing with us, and they're very prominently included in that drawing.

i replied sure, it's already been an amazingly surreal past few days---why not?

appropriate phone calls ensued; everyone else was game, and thusly they descended upon Spaz' and my house.

it was fun, and entertaining. i have my doubts as to whether or not the magazine will actually use these photos that we took, but if they do, the article's supposed to be in the May issue. and either way, provided Shin_Jon throws them up on the server sometime soon (which he said he'd do last night already, actually), i'll make sure you know. they were taken with a really nice digital camera, and i saw some of them already last night. most turned out quite well. Mike looks like he belongs in a L'Arc en Ciel video (well, he did after borrowing one of my glammier jackets...XD yay gunmetal pleather & black fake-fur collar and cuffs! XD XD XD); just needed some eyeliner. and Milo's in a couple of the photos! XD

there was more i had to write, mostly just random stuff. i've forgot it all mostly, except to mention that i've watched a bunch of Willow/Tara-arc episodes of Buffy over the weekend. and i keep squeeing over how ky0000000t they are. <3 <3 <3

too bad i know how it ends. :P

still need to see the beginning of the ep where Oz returns; missed most of it when it was on yesterday. and missed finding out why Riley's on the run, which seems like it might be kinda important. (even though i don't particularly care for him as a character; though he seems a bit more interesting now that he's on the run. XD)

*coughs* anyone care to help me? *gazes pointedly in someone's direction*