Whos going to GATECON 2001?

[Anni]

So we look for the 'blue, slightly creased, red streaked lady?"

LOL, you should be easy to find in that case....

Pyewacket was the name of a black cat in a childrens story that I read many many moons ago. He was a witche's familiar. But I also think that Pyewacket was the name of cat in one of those US TV shows about witches.

I'm not sure what the origins of the name are at all, I just liked the name, and wanted to call one of our cats Pyewacket, but nobody would let me and we ended up with Harry and Rumble!!

 

[Abydos6]

ummmm the name is still familer and not sure which it is lol..

and yes, more than slightly crumpled, red streaked lady in blue is me alright lol....with a blush and hiding....believe it or not, i'm notorisily shy lol

aby(who may have to change that lol)

 

[CynVision]

I'll have leather jacket and some kind of camos so I don't have to care about creases

 

[Anni]

Well I wore military clothing day in and day out for 10 years and looked like a bag of sh*t tied in the middle in them. So there is no way on this earth that I would actually CHOOSE to wear anything like that now I am a civvie.

But then I HAD to wear them......

 

[CynVision]

I gotta get my Will Smith voice out: I make this look goood.

Okay, maybe not. I suppose I don't look whumping super running around in men's camos and leather jacket, but I turn heads. I'm going to be on vacation and this means wacky t-shirts and climbing pants. For the con I actually broke down and bought my first leather jacket ever! It took me twelve years to actually buy one even though I've wanted one since high school. Next stop is the surplus stores for green flight jacket. I tell you I need a freaking trunk to haul a week's worth of gear up to Vancouver!

 

[Abydos6]

Who you telling lol

I always bring way tooooooo much lol

aby(that'll be me hauling the trolly load of cases lol)

 

[Anni]

Well, like most military and former military, I know how to pack..... I'll be the one with one solitary holdall..... which will carry all of my worldly goods and chattels.....

Yeah I know I'm boring, but I figure that the less I bring, the less time I will need to have to make my mind up what to wear!

:rolly2:

 

[Abydos6]

lucky you,

never having been in the military, i pack like most women...only more so lol...something for almost every contingincy...and then some lol....

aby(who will be staying for three weeks.....so....lol)

 

[CynVision]

I have a rolling bag. That's a must for navigating the streets of Chicago and O'Hare. I think I'm adding a large camping duffle to the top. That might handle all the costuming extras. If you're saying you're staying for three weeks, you better have your own personal FRED meet you at the airport

 

[Sj Shortea]

C-YA!!

I will C all of you at 9am on
the 19 for the bus tour!!

BC in 14 days and counting

Shortea
out

 

[CynVision]

reaintball outing

On a side note, the Yahoo Gategoers group is trying to get some groups together for a paintball outing. From the count we have two interested in pre con Thursday paintball, three for post con Monday, and three for post con Tuesday. We need a few more on each of those days to make it good.

I'm hoping to locate a few more people over here

 

[thanatossg9]

Okay...I know this does not have anything to do with the current conversation here but I just gotta ask : What the hell does a person DO at a cocktail party???
My VIP tickets include this cocktail party thing and I'm stumped! I've never been to one and I cetainly never thought I'd consider going to one! I'm not a "cocktail party" person...I'm more of a local pub and getting plastered kinda gal . My mother always tried to instill a bit of culture in me but I turned out to be decidedly low-brow

 

[CynVision]

cocktail party

I'm with you there. We'd have opening night parties at my theatre jobs. There was booze, eats, standing around. The really scary part for me was when Chicago actors from stage and TV showed up to see their friends. I was shy and still in my blacks and sometimes had to run the trash out and reset the stage for the next night. I sort of just goggled and hid behind my stage manager who was friendly with more of them starry folks. I'm full of advice about what to do because I'm that way, I guess. I'm a wishful thinker that I would do better if thrown into this sort of thing again. Yah right!

I expect that you'd get all of the above only bigger than theatre lobby size! And more post-production designer gals and guys mixing? I don't really know for sure. I'd expect someone will grab a mike and yack a bit about how great it is to be at Gatecon a second year, how there will be two more at least because of the fantastic support. Maybe a presentation? Thanks to the hard work of people in three continents?

Trick is to not fawn and not hide if you come into contact with someone you know from TV. They real people deep down. Be a good listener. Talk about stuff that is stuff you'd talk about in long wait situations out in RL and someone's chatting you up. The weather would be lame, but maybe "must see" places in the city? If you get a chance and do get to chatting up someone, ask for pics with them over autographs. I wager they'd have been doing that autograph thing all day and pics is easier.

 

[mingo]

cocktail party at Gatecon 2000 ...

absolutely anything went for attire ...

you purchase the beverage of choice from the overpriced bar ...

mingle with e- pals you've met in the flesh for the first time ...

there were ~ 5 - 7 SG-1 cast/crew in attendance that I counted ...

smoozing and picture taking was the name of the game ...

 

[xst]

Ditto! Just like mingo says. It was neat-o bumping into e-friends (like mingo, max, maxlynx, shadowwalker, neith, bree, & jb) that you have "only" met on boards like this one. I'll bring out my Armani's or Mr Jax and see what happens. I only wear them once a year.

 

[Anni]

Well I personally don't expect to meet any of the so called 'stars' and I use the term loosely. I won't be attending the cocktail party. But those I have attended were usually very boring events at which if you were female you wore the obligatory little black dress and the guys black tie. But I don't think that the Gatecon party falls into that category somehow. You drink.... and circulate around the room gatecrashing little clique-y groups that have usually formed, listen to the occasional joke and if you're very lucky you'll meet the one fascinating person in the room and end up having a great night.

These 'stars' are as CynVision says real people, and not just deep down. They have to pee, take a dump, eat, break wind and they drool on their pillows just like we do. They're nothing special and standing in front of a camera getting paid for playing make believe doesn't make them special. It just means that you might recognise them in the street. Don't act like anything if they talk to you. Treat them like you would any other person you are likely to meet at a party or in a bar.

Above all, BE YOURSELF! You don't have to go into an act or behave in any particular way if Chris Judge or someone came up to talk to you. If you sit and worry about whether you're fawning on them, then you're lost before you start.

ALLof us are just as important, AND special as any of those people who are appearing as guests.

Perhaps when one of them finds a cure for cancer or solves poverty and world hunger, then perhaps I might treat them differently. But for just appearing in front of a camera?

Not in this lifetime......

I'm coming to the Gatecon to meet with all the great people I have talked to over the past few months, not to stand and chat with a bunch of actors, producers and writers. I don't know who they are...

You guys are the real stars of the Gatecon, and the people who organise and help out. And you're the only people who interest me.

 

[CynVision]

Originally posted by Anni
You guys are the real stars of the Gatecon, and the people who organise and help out. And you're the only people who interest me.

Can you be my self-confidence coach? I've not been called a star in a long time.

 

[Anni]

CynVision.... I think you underestimate yourself!! You are as good as anyone else in this world. Including any of those people who prance about in front of or behind a TV or movie camera!! Or on a stage for that matter, but in my experience those actors who are primarily theatre always tend to be a lot more grounded in reality than the TV or movies actors.

But I would understand how people might have a lack of confidence in themselves considering the way the media, TV and fashion industry say how the human being is supposed to be and look. If you're not the right shape, size, or if you don't drive the right car, get seen in the right places or live in the right kind of house, then you're nobody.... sez them. Basically, its a big crock.......

It took me right up until I was 40 to learn to like myself and be able to look in the mirror and say 'You're okay kid!'

And I constantly come up against the 'age' thing all the time, especially where the male sex are concerned.

It took a little 60 year old Welshman, former Sergeant Major in the British and Australian Special Forces who made me see myself as a special human being. He was my PTSD counsellor after I came out of the military. He was 5' 2" and one of the most tremendous men I have ever met. Unlike most small guys, he didn't spend his time trying to prove to everyone that he was really 6 foot tall. But he set me straight, that's for sure.

 

[CynVision]

Originally posted by Anni
These 'stars' are as CynVision says real people, and not just deep down.

I say deep down because I known a few that suface-ly you'd wonder what planet they did fly in from. You also mentioned that theatre folks are more grounded. Well, depends on how big the pond is. As with anything, if you're SO is the artistic director you get an even bigger head than normal when cast in the production. I tend to tred eggshells around actors until I know how real they are. It helps if they're SF and XF buffs, then I can just go on with my reviews of the ep of the week. I connect a lot more for the lights and sound guys. They had to listen to me because I was the crewhead. :coolorang

 

[Anni]

Yes, very well put..... I think that sometimes the world most actors live in in so unreal that their reality gets a bit skewed! It could happen to any of us if we chose make believe as a career! I've only ever done amateur theatre, but before I joined the military I was a professional musician and musicians are definitely a weird bunch (probably me included), but I never got a big head, mainly because I got my real grounding in the Working Man's Club scene in the north east of England.

When you've had the Concert Chairman suddenly interrupt you in the middle of a song in the middle of a set to announce to all in general that "the pies have arrived" and then watched a general exodus of the audience because they'd all gone to buy a pie, you got grounded and a massive shot of reality in double quick time!!

The technical crew in the theatre have a real concrete job to do and a lot depends on folk like you as a crewhead CynVision, so it doesn't surprise me that you got on better with them!