Lights! Camera! James!
Jun. 22nd, 2009
09:52 pm
Alas, the last performance of The Importance of Being Earnest is over. I wants more. Could get more of James with this same theater group, because word is that they want him back. All massively intelligent people there, obviously.
So, James. He's such a theater guy. It's where he shines and thrives. What a joy to be able to watch him there for three performances.
He did come out afterwards for a meet and great, although he had Father's Day things to do later.
Posing with a fan:
( More! :-D )
I hope you've enjoyed. There'll be more up on my site in a few days. :)
ETA: Pics up on my site now.
Jun. 21st, 2009
01:15 am
Back from the Saturday performance of The Importance of Being Earnest. What? YES, I caved and bought another ticket. Don't judge me! Haha. OK go ahead, I can take it. Um so, for this performance he wore a dark suit with a dark button down shirt. Looked absolutely gorgeous and GQ. Don't worry though, he came to his senses and was later seen wearing a Ghost of the Robot t-shirt for his meet and greet. Makes ya all nostalgic, doesn't it? ::sniff::
This performance was even better than the Wednesday one. James really brought it. And also, kinda misplaced a page of script. Dang, I hate when that happens, don't you? But without missing a beat, he stepped over to the actor next to him (Matthew Wolf, playing Algernon) and shared his script and mic. Matthew was eating a banana at the time, but did not share that.
So a very fun, successful performance. With added bonus of a meet and greet afterward! Yay!
See? GotR t-shirt:
( More meet and greet pics and my convo with James and stuff... )
I'm going to Sunday's performance too, as planned. Since it's Father's Day, I have no idea if he'll want to stick around for another meet and greet, but I'll be happy either way. \o/
Jun. 18th, 2009
02:17 am
The Importance of Being Earnest, performed at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 17 June 2009. Recorded live for later broadcast. And by later, I mean a few months later. James played Jack aka Ernest. Next to him is Matthew Wolf who played Algernon aka Ernest.
A lot of fun. Posh British accents all around, which James did very well with, by the way.
All the actors (I believe) came out afterwards to talk with us, sign autos and whatnot. All except James. A lady who works there told us that James had been there all day and had somewhere he needed to go afterwards, and that he felt bad about not being able to talk with us, and that he really loves his fans and would be available after the other performances.
Mar. 27th, 2009
06:04 pm
I love my Piccolo action figures! The 6" one has punching action. No really! You put this plastic Dragonball thingy in his back and pull it up and down, and Piccolo punches wildly. Fun, right!?! Yeah. Right now, he's standing next to my monitor, hiding from my 12" Spike. The 4" Piccolo is all articulated and comes with a dragonball, a hooded robe and a part of Oozaru. I have no idea who Oozaru is, but I got his arm. Yay.
Haha. So, when he does his punching action, extra fists come from underneath his main fists. You can see an extra fist on the left there.
( More plastic fun inside... )
::twirls them both::
And they love it.
Feb. 26th, 2009
04:07 pm
OK so. James did this concert at the end of the Your Funny Valentine event. After a long day during which he talked practically non-stop, I was curious to see how well his voice would hold up. He did all right actually. At first his voice did waver a bit, but it got better as the set went on. He seemed happy, and as promised, took requests.
I read one review that said he was doing a sex fiend act during this concert. Gotta say I didn't see that at all. And I've seen him do that, during the Ghost of the Robot gigs. But this concert? Nah. But there are vids up, so you can decide for yourself.
On the other hand, you can't blame the guy for being sexy while just standing there. I mean, really. :-D
( More... )
So, I hope y'all have enjoyed the pics from this event. Thank you for letting me fangirl all over your flists. :-D I've got all my photos up on my site now:
Autograph session
Q&A
Concert
<3
Feb. 23rd, 2009
07:08 pm
And on we move to probably the prettiest Q&A James has ever done. Already mentioned the film noir lighting flown in especially for this event. And then we have James dressed in clothes given to him by Twentieth Century Fox for the Dragonball press tour. Tight black jeans, gray vest and striped button down shirt. Toned bod supplied by James.
So. Um. Uh...yeah. Is it hot in here?
Where was I? Oh, Q&A pics. Right.
( More here... )
Up next: concert pics. (yay)
Feb. 20th, 2009
03:54 pm
Got some preety preety James for you. The autograph session was a photographer's dream. They put the table right in front of the stage facing the audience, and arranged for some moody film noir lighting perfect for highlighting cheekbones, oh yes. My seat was on the second row on the aisle, and as it turned out, I was surrounded by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
seductivembrace, RavenU, ghostgirl13 and oanimation, among other photogs. So we made up the paparazzi section, and happily snapped away while James did his thing.
( More here... )
I hope you enjoyed. It was a challenge picking only ten photos to share here. :-P But they'll all be up on my site in a few days. Up next: Q&A photos, woot!
Feb. 19th, 2009
03:06 pm
Hey y'all. I got to attend the "Your Funny Valentine" Newark, NJ event on the 15th. There was a Q&A, photo ops, autographs, concert and special theatrical performance all squished quite nicely into one day. It was all held at the theater in the South Orange Performing Arts Center, with the photo ops, concert and theatrical performance being on stage, and the autograph session and Q&A being held in front of the stage.
So! Reportage of my interaction with James. First up was the photo op session. I rarely like my photo ops because hey, they have me in them, but James is always pretty and lovely to talk to, so it's worth the nervousness to get one done. (Heh. When I first started this photo op thing with James years ago, I was so freaking scared that I was eyeballing the exits and seriously considering making a run for it. Now I get only a little nervous, so I'm improving. lol)
I walk up to him and we shake hands.
James: [smiles] Hi. You really look great!
Me: [smiles]
James: Have you been working out?
Me: [Huh? That's random. Oh, wait. I do lift weights. So...] Yeah, I have.
James: [bounces on his toes and smiles real big] So have I.
Froggy snaps the photo. I turn to James and give him a hug. He turns it into a BIG hug. Ah, James hug. It's a good thing.
Me: [mid hug] It's so good to see you.
James: [takes my hand, and smiles] You really do look great.
Me: [smiles] Thank you.
So that's it. I got a doyouworkout from James. If he had added an air kiss and having his people call my people, it would have completed the Hollywood experience. ghostgirl13 suggested that he brought up the working out thing because he wanted a chance to say he'd been working out. Hee. I think she might be onto something.
I don't know how the photo turned out because it never got printed. :-/ ETA: Froggy never found my photo op on his hard drive, may it rest in peace. Bummer. So now I'm getting a re-shoot done at the next DragonCon, plus a free one on top of that. At least I have the pics (under da cut) that my friends took of me getting my autograph at this event, yay. Awesome friends are awesome. Oh yes. ::massive squishy hugs::
And next we had the auto session. This is the photo I had signed: 
( Autograph experience and photographic proof I got one, squee. )
Wheee! Fun stuff, peeps. Fun stuff. :-D
So, I thought I'd post pics that I took of the auto session in a separate post. That'll be next. Whooo boy. James pretty. Oh, you already noticed that? :)
Nov. 7th, 2008
03:10 pm
Peeps! I finally finished processing my DragonCon pics! And it's been so long since my last post, I feel I should recap the sitch. See, I went to DragonCon held in Atlanta, where I saw James Marsters, who is an actor/singer/mime and is totally not a massive tool, but in fact a pretty cool dude, and I took photos of him, and he's so pretty I thought I'd share. Good recap? Alrighty then. I see that I haven't posted any Q&A pics. WTH, self? That'll never do, so I give you:
One of my favorites from this D*C. From the Saturday Q&A (Torchwood panel):
( More pics and ramblings... )
So, linkies! D*C photos, sans my blatherings, which you might prefer. :-D:
Friday Q&A (solo) (shirt warning)
Saturday Q&A (Torchwood) with Gareth David-Lloyd
Saturday night Party/Concert
Sunday Q&A (Smallville) with Michael Rosenbaum
Others (Nathan Fillion & Alan Tudyk Q&A)
Enjoy. :)
Switching gears here, from my favorite escape, to real life stuff. For the past four weeks or so, I was on the short list to possibly serve on a jury. A capital murder case. Guy accused of stabbing a woman to death. The special circumstances (which allow them to seek the death penalty) is that he's already been convicted of first degree murder on another case. I could tell from the questioning from one of the defense lawyers that their defense is going to be something along the lines of "My client didn't do it, but if he did, he wasn't responsible because of xyz psychological problem." That defense rarely works, but could keep him off death row, since the jury can also choose life without parole. Earlier this week, we finally got to the part where they do the actual choosing of the jury (we'd already filled out questionnaires and had an interview with the judge and lawyers) and they called us randomly to sit in the jury box and undergo final questioning. I must be living right, because they chose the jury before my name was called, so I was excused. I can not tell you how relieved I am to have escaped that, but I think you can probably guess.
So. I think I'll find some good escapist Spuffy fic. :-D I hope you all are well.
Sep. 15th, 2008
01:53 pm
Hello lovely flist! I want to thank everyone who commented on my last post, especially the kind thoughts and condolences expressed regarding my father. Thank you all.
I've got more DragonCon reportage. Yeah, like you thought you'd escaped that, huh? Ha. I thought I'd share about the autograph sessions. It wasn't rushed as I thought it might be. James took his time with each fan, and no one was there trying to make him go faster. So yay.
My first autograph was on Sunday (31 Aug), and I walk up and we shake hands.
James: [Looks at photo I'm having him sign.] Oh my god. This a great photo. Did you take it?
Me: [chuffed] Yes.
James: Really, you take the best photos. [Looks up at me.] Really.
Me: [chuffed some more] Thank you. It was taken at the San Diego Music Fest. Where you kicked ass.
James: Thank you. It really was one of my best gigs.
Me: It was. And I hope you do it again. Will you be doing any L.A. concerts?
James: Yes. I don't have anything set up right now, but I will. I want to do small clubs. [nods]
Me: Do it. [We smile and shake hands, and I leave.]
::glee:: Well, I'll be all ::glee:: when he actually does some L.A. gigs. In small clubs. Before, whenever I asked him about singing in L.A., he'd be all, "Oh, I can't without backup." And I never agreed with him on that, but he was adamant. Apparently he's seen the light now, so: YAY.
Photo I had him sign:
( More auto session talk, with piccies. And what's Nathan doing there... )
And that's my auto sessions report, woot! I'm still working on getting my photos onto my site. Slow going, because I'm painting a few rooms, and assembling furniture and whatnot. But I'll definitely get them up soon. Ish. Soonish. :-D
Sep. 3rd, 2008
01:00 pm
So I went to DragonCon! Wackiness ensued, natch. Like queuing for ridiculous amounts of hours to score a ticket to James’ party/concert. Who does that? Heh. I do, when they’re only offering sixty tickets, and not selling said tickets online ::hairy eyeballs Steve Himber:: But as it turned out, it was like a big slumber party, with people bringing their pillows, blankets, snacks and gossip. No braiding of hair.
The party was held at Max Lager’s American Grill near the con. They surprised us with group photos at our tables (suhweet), that included both James and Gareth David Lloyd. (Photo scan inside the cut.)
Then James sang for us. Peeps at our table noticed that we were getting quite a lot of eye contact with James during the concert. Not that we’re complaining or anything. :-D
Katie
Smile
This Town (Sung to ghostgirl13 because she had requested he sing that song.)
Looking at You
Don’t Worry Son
Button Down Vandals
On the Moon (Brand new song. Said it was about Buzz Aldrin. LOL Turns out, it’s about his girlfriend. Pretty.)
London City
Birth of the Blues
( More report and piccies under the cut. )
I hope you've enjoyed my report. Will have more pics and reports later... :)
Apr. 18th, 2008
10:58 pm
Had a wee bit of James interaction at Grand Slam. Got a pic signed (see below). I walked up, we shake hands.
Me: Your hands are always so warm. [Lame intro line, but true.]
James: [Smiles and looks at the photo.] You've taken another great photo.
Me: [Smiles] You make it very easy to take good photos of you. [At this point, I was expecting him to get all shy and quiet, which is what he usually does when I give him the least bit of a compliment. But instead:]
James: [Beams at me.] Thank you! [Signs pic.] I hope you keep taking photos.
Me: [Smiles. We shake hands.] I will. Good seeing you.
And that was that. I was pondering about what he said to me about hoping that I'd stay with the photography. He claims he can read peoples' faces. What did he see in mine? Lately, I've been wondering how long I'd keep doing it. Real life right now sucks beyond the telling of it, and sometimes I don't know...But then, photography and going to James events are my escape. So I doubt I'll give it up. It's been on my mind though. Oh well. Perhaps James was just being polite, anyway. Nothing more. :-P
Oooh, one final Jamesy moment happened when he was leaving the building after he was done with the con. I was standing next to the exit and he was walking past me, so I said, "Bye, James." And he looked at me and said, "Good-bye, love." ::iz goo:: Way to end a con, yay! LOL
Here's the pic he signed (without the copyright notice.) It was taken last year at the Mile High Club. Someone's flash went off and gave it that nifty look:
( Click for some concert pics! )
And thus ends my Grand Slam piccie goodness. I hope you've all enjoyed. I've enjoyed all of your comments very much, and I thank you for those. :) More concert pics can be found here. Saturday Q&A pics here. If you're brave enough, Sunday Q&A pics here. And finally, other guests at the con here (two Spocks, eeee!)
For those going to the UK events, have a great time! :-D
Apr. 16th, 2008
01:34 am
Hey, I've got some Saturday Q&A pics for you from Grand Slam.
He does this because he loves us. ::nods solemnly::
( More this way... )
I hope you enjoyed. :) Next up I think I'll post some concert pics. And sometime I'll share my James encounters too, which luckily had nothing to do with particle whatevers. More Saturday Q&A pics can be found at my site here.
Apr. 14th, 2008
04:57 am
I know people are dying to see what James looked like on Sunday at the Grand Slam con. So here ya go.
Well now.
And then there's the shirt. And yes, he wore it for the photo ops too. Someone please put that shirt out of our misery. But the rest of him is just about perfect, methinks. ::studies pic some more to make sure:: Yup. Perfect. :-D
I'm afraid that's all I've got for right now. Gotta get some rest. But there'll be more pretties from the con coming up. Thank you so much for all the comments from my previous post. I'll be answering as soon as I can. :)
Apr. 13th, 2008
03:00 am
Got just a few pics from the Grand Slam con. In short: James pretty. No longer poofy. But he fixed his toofy. Oh, and he's slightly insane when discussing a Spike movie. Just so you know.
No clue what he's doing here, except that he's sexy while doing it:
( Four more here... )
That's all I have time to post right now. But there'll be more soon. :)
Apr. 1st, 2008
06:30 am
Oh hey. A really rare thing: No James pics in this entry. But I've got some pics I took of some other performers at the San Diego Indie Music Fest that I like. I hope you'll like too.
This is Danielle LoPresti & The Masses. Danielle was one of the organizers of the event.
( Six more under the cut... )
I've finished uploading the James pics to my site. Eighty nine of them. :-D Also, if you didn't see my Indie Fest report, it's here.
Mar. 31st, 2008
12:44 am
The San Diego Indie Music Fest was made of awesome. Thanks to oanimation, who hooked me up with the guy that was in charge of photography at the fest, I got to be one of the official photographers. Yay. That meant that I was assigned to shoot different performances all day (for about 10 hours, actually.) For some reason though, they told us not to take photos of two of the headliners, including James. ::hairy eyeball:: So when James came on stage, I tucked my "official photographer" lanyard inside my jacket, and took pics like the rest of the fans. Like, duh. :-D (This means that the fest peeps will be getting all my photos, except the James ones.)
Well then. Hee. I wanted to take some backstage photos during James' concert, like I'd been doing for the other performers. So *cough* out came the lanyard, and presto, I was backstage doing my thang:
( It's a cut! )
Cool beans, yes? There was squeeing afterward, especially when kimrae1977 was all dude, James kissed you on the cheek. And I was all "WHAT???" LOL I told you it had fried my brain. Seriously, I had totally forgotten about that, because I was so intent on telling him how well he had done. But yeah, I remember now. And although those who've been similarly kissed by The Marsters might be all been there, done that, got the t-shirt, I never thought I'd be on the receiving end of one of his cheeky smooches. So yeah. There was shock and squee there.
I so enjoyed being a photographer for the fest. I got to see some performers that blew me away. I especially enjoyed Danielle LoPresti & The Masses. Took many photos, some that I love, and will probably post them in a different entry. It'll be non-James stuff. Don't de-friend me too much. :-D
I've been working on processing all my Jamesy fest pics. Will post most of them to my site soon.
ETA: I've got all the pics up now on my site. I hope you enjoy. :)
Mar. 25th, 2008
07:03 pm
Aw. I've been Michelled (a form of being Jossed, but with shinier hair.) enisy was kind enough to send me a YouTube link to the Angel/Spike question at the Buffy reunion. Turns out it was Michelle Trachtenberg who said "He's sitting right here on stage." Bangels are all ready with their "Look who drools now!" comments. Bah. If you watch the video, you can clearly see Sarah considering the question, then turning her head towards James, signaling him with her eyes, then is just about to answer, "A world of SPIKE!!!" when Michelle interrupts with her very true and insightful comment. So, what we glean from the video is that not only is Spuffy canon, but it's twice as much CANON as we thought! ::flaily hands::
::wipes brow:: Wank is hard. :P
OK. So, I finally got all my pics processed and put up on my site. James rocks x a gazillion. He had just gotten back from Mexico, his teeth having been "bashed in" while shooting Dragonball, didn't even have time to go home and shower, but shows up bone-tired, still managing to give coherent comments. Seriously, what other actor would make that effort? ::crickets:: Exactly.
We start out with the giggly, because I lurves me some of that:
( More fun this way... )
I hope you've enjoyed the PaleyFest photos. There are a lot more on my site. James pics here. And non-Jamesy pics here.
This Saturday I'm off to see the San Diego Indie Music Fest, where a certain James Marsters will be performing. ::gleee::
Mar. 21st, 2008
11:33 pm
I went to the PaleyFest Buffy Reunion last night at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, yay! Got to sing along with Once More With Feeling (giant Spike pretty), saw freaking Joss Whedon and freaking SMG, and I freaking took a few gazillion pics of all the pretty (damn awesome) Buffy people there. I'm busily trying to process them, but I'd thought I'd quickly share just a few.
This is James' joy as he realized I was there. Or not. :P It was actually his squee upon finding out that some Buffy writers were in the audience.
And next ::cue drum roll of excitement:: an Extremely Important Moment in Buffydom. Yes, the eternal question of who Buffy would choose is finally answered.
( Cut for those who can't take the awesome!!11!! )
And also, this happy note for those who ignore the comics and don't consider them canon: Joss said that if he made a Buffy movie, he'd ignore what's happened in the comics if he had to, no problemo.
More pics to come! :)
Dec. 10th, 2007
10:02 pm
I got to see the red carpet shenanigans at the P.S. I Love You premiere held at Grauman's Chinese Theater last night, woot. oanimation and I actually got there at 7:30am to get a good spot, with folding chairs in hand. Upon realizing that we were the only ones there (if you don't count Captain America and The Flash), we were suitably embarrassed and tried to hide our faces from the webcams. Oh hi, internet world! This is us being the dopiest fangirls evah! Enjoy! :-P
After bouncing back from that embarrassing start, I decided to take some practice shots, and wondered why I wasn't getting the focal length I thought I was going to get. Hrm. I checked the lens and realized I had brought the wrong one. Um. Argh. The one I had wasn't nearly long enough. Did I mention ARGH? At this point, I was threatening to flip off the world via webcam, just because I could. Then I was planning on leaving and going home. Wah. But oanimation had a longer lens (200mm ::pets::) at her apartment, and she let me walk over there and get it. I heart oanimation so very very much, oh yes I do. <3 <3 <3 And she really isn't dopey at all, like I said before. That would be me. In spades. Obviously.
Lens trauma ended, we continued our long wait until the premiere. They made all the fans go across the street and closed off the Chinese theater courtyard to us. I decided to be a rebel and went to a balcony off to the side of the courtyard at the mall, where I waited by myself for hours. I was cold even with my uber layers and gloves, woe.
Finally, the event started. Actors posed and interviewed and generally looked hot. Well, they should look hot since the theater had thoughtfully put outdoor heaters there for them. James didn't notice oanimation's clever sign that said "P.S. We Love You, James Marsters!" that she, Patti and SA had tied to a baracade across the street. Darn. But, he saw it later. Heehee. But I digress. James looked wonderful in a black suit and shirt. You could tell he was there to do a job, although he did loosen up towards the end. Mr. Professional Guy that he is (see photo inside the cut.) :-D
After the event, oanimation, Patti, SA, Carmen, Greenlady, D, and I went to have some dinner and gossip discuss scholarly type things. We then went back to the Chinese theater, and found they had the courtyard barricaded. We stood behind the barricade, tied the oanimation's P.S. We Love You, James Marsters poster to it, and hoped we would see James when he came out from watching the movie. We did see him yay! He saw us, more yay! And he came over and bent his formerly Broken Finger for us, to show that it's all better now. He gave Patti and me hugs, said the movie was great, signed some autos and posed for pics with some peeps who had no idea who he was (quit taking our time with James, you ignorant people. And watch some Buffy for pete's sake.) His publicist asked James if he had seen our sign, so he looked down at it and laughed real big and said, "You guys make me feel like a star." Then he did metal fingers. Rock on, James. He then said he had to leave (partay to attend), and there were byes all around.
James left in his limo with his publicist. At this point, his manager Steve came by and upon finding out how long Angela and I had been there, called us crazy. I heartily agree. ::nod nod:: He talked a bit to Patti about an idea she has, and then he left too. And that, lovely flist (and everyone else) is my story, and I'm sticking to it. :-D Hugs and kisses to all those fellow James fans who made the evening so much fun for me. It was wonderful seeing you all again. :)
And now for the piccies. The whole cast poses:
( More here, natch... )
More pics from the premiere can be found here. I hope you've enjoyed. :)
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