The radio and dancing crowd mimes the fighting in the streets.

[reddragdiva]

• Slashdot comment of the day.

• Illegal Engineering. (Contains occasional awful spelling.)

• Joey Ramone Place.

• The Pet Shop Boys' Ten Commandments of Pop.

• And I thought I got the best wannas by going on IRC as 'Diva'. (Courtesy q_skud_.)

What an unbelievably wonderful B-Movie! Here are the photos, including the process of me getting made up.

redcountess was ill with the last of a cold, so missed both Neil Gaiman and B-Movie; arkady and I went in her stead. Possibly just as well; the weather is colder, so B-Movie was very crowded when we arrived at 9:30pm, and stayed this way until at least one. (Even I had to go outside for air at one point.) I expect this will hold through winter.

We found seats (courtesy _nicolai_), arkady did my makeup for the public amusement and, a pint and two cloves later, I was pretty much capable of speech and socialising. Danced to "Into The Valley", "Rain" and "Beers, Steers and Queers". childeric is a Dance Floor Rock God.

lproven's new goatee is very silly. But I was introduced to theladyeve at last.

My wonderful breastage was horribly mistreated all night. Particularly when people GRABBED hard enough to pull at the nipple ring underneath and still didn't let go at the yelp of pain! From now on, it's a *pint* to cop a feel. Probably.

(At Whitby April 2002, ciphergoth traumatised me with his expensive silicone fake breast forms that looked like uncooked chicken fillets and wobbled like a Doctor Who special effect. These have come down in price stunningly, and I think they might be on the shopping list. It certainly beats being told my breasts feel grainy.)

[On the other hand, they are in fact kitty toys.]

We thank ciphergoth, greap, purple_terror, _nicolai_ and damerell for pintage. Spitfire on tap!

Crash space was provided for _nicolai_ and owdbetts.

Special kisses to t_werevyrn, fluffymark, kmazzy, emarkienna (who I thought was a girl when we saw him walking ahead of us on the way there - excellent legs, young man!), cyberpunkgrrl, lnr, d_floorlandmine and flickgc.

fluffymark covered me (and several other people) in red lipstick.

Comments

You know, boy bands can sing. Whoever thought that would happen?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

The Pet Shop Boys rule.

[vampwillow]

next time make sure I know who you are so I can say hello! (Maybe I should have worn a badge or something .... ::thinks::)

[reddragdiva]

How many six foot four men were there with long blond hair, full makeup and fake breasts?

OTOH, "HELLO, I'M ..." labels might actually be a good idea. B-Movie tags, like the netgoth tags (RIP) at Whitby.

[vampwillow]

it isn't so much as I didn't see someone fitting that description ('cos I did - *very* memorable!) but I'm not that great at associating what I see with what I (might) know without prompting of brane cells ... useless at remembering names too :-(

[random-haze.livejournal.com]

Being a bear of very little courage, I saw you there but didn't say hello. Probably something to do with you looking better than 'most every _girl_ there, grrr.

[reddragdiva]

Not merely gorgeous, but unfairly gorgeous. *preen*

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Well, he does have the advantage of having his own personal makeup artist. ;-)

[random-haze.livejournal.com]

damn, where can I get one of those?

[t-werevyrn.livejournal.com]

Kisses right back atcha! Mmmmwwwwah! *grin*

B-movie

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

This sounds like copious amounts of fun.

[girfan.livejournal.com]

I feel honoured that I was able to meet the Ramones (the first time) back in the late 70's. The last time I spoke to Joey was the early 90's-one of the ugliest men in rock, but also one of the nicest!

Gabba-gabba-hey!

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

Raa excellent photos.

Any chance of seeing the b-movie photos from the 1 year anniversary schoolies one? The ones with the goth line-dancing the macarena? Or have you already put those up and I missed the link somewhere...

[reddragdiva]

Still not up. I guess arkady should really just put 'em on the fotopic site. Or I could if she doesn't feel like it/have 'em on hand.

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

If you have the time/inclination that would be really cool.

Btw, hope I wasn't one of those squeezing your kitten toy breasts too hard...

[reddragdiva]

As long as I didn't actually yelp in pain, you are entirely welcome ;-*

[fluffymark]

*kisses*
What colour lipstick do you want next time? :)

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

It was good to meet you *kiss*

I hope I didn't mistreat your breasts, ISTR being privileged to feel them during the evening. I met someone at the last Whitby who had some special fake breasts - he'd ordered "medium" out of the sizes small/medium/large, and then another category after the large, and they were still pretty big. I prefer mine small, so have yet to be tempted away from the cheap'n'easy sock method;)

[lproven.livejournal.com]

The tuft is meant to be silly. So there. Nyeeerrrr.