Oh, and did I mention that writer Zack Stentz is a guest for No Fate Con? Zack Stentz, Daniel Thomsen, Thomas Dekker and... well, you'll have to wait a bit longer for the next guest announcement. In the meantime, go register! The more attendees No Fate Con has, the more awesome the convention can be.
Sarah had the van rolling fast over the dirt, but it was futile and Derek knew it. And he knew she knew it. But she was determined to get to John. The stone intensity of her face against the jumbled blur of desert brush told him that. Even as the god damned wife's moans competed with rushing wind, Sarah's foot stayed hard on the pedal, knuckles tight to the wheel.
Derek just wanted this god-awful situation to end. He didn't fucking care if that woman bled out back there. Why should he? She's not important. Stopping Skynet is important. Changing the future is important. And smashing that metal mother fucker into junk is important — would be important if they could get to it in time.
He steadied himself with a hand against the dash and prayed the other metal wouldn't glitch again. It was all he could do — put his faith in one fucking machine to protect his nephew from another.
Um wow. Has it really been over three months since I last posted?! I have plenty of excuses, I assure you, but I'm going to assume that there's no one visiting my LJ anymore to tell these excuses to. On the off chance anyone does see this post, let me share the exciting news (in case, y'know, you didn't quite get it from the intro or anywhere else on the internets where it's been shouted out).
----> Thomas Dekker is officially a guest for No Fate Con! <---
Oh seriously?!
Ya, seriously!
As you know, I've been kinda busy with this con thing lo these recent months. I hope it's all worth it in the end because throwing myself this far into a fandom has kind of prevented me from enjoying any others. I'm not sure I would anyway, though. There are plenty of shows I'm currently watching and liking and a few I'm even loving, but still not a single one that grabs me the way The Sarah Connor Chronicles did. It remains my favorite show and planning a con for it is exciting, exhausting, exhilarating, frustrating, thrilling, stressful — you can't imagine the roller coaster ride. You just can't.
But here's the thing: I love TSCC and I love conventions. If I can have those two things combined, it'll be pretty fucking awesome. And I guess that's what this really comes down to. I want to stand in a ballroom full of fellow fans and see Thomas Dekker on stage, talking about playing John Connor — about the turbulent relationship with Sarah, about the confused feelings for Cameron, about taking a blind leap into the future. I want to hear stories about long days on set and the creative process that went into it all. I want to laugh. I want to be enthralled. I want to cry over how much I miss that show. And I want to share all that with those who've loved TSCC as much as I have.
I want to see everyone else from the show there too, of course, but it's one step at a time on this journey and this is Thomas Dekker day :)
So get excited with me and go register for No Fate Con!
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It was surprisingly difficult to find a suitable picture of Sarah Connor. I skimmed through every episode and came up empty. There just wasn't anything usable in the show. Fortunately, I found this on-set picture from the filming of Samson & Delilah. It's not perfect, but it got the job done.
For some reason, the embedded image is a little blurry. Just click it for a clearer view.
If faith isn't part of your programming, sit tight. We're expecting to have our first official guest announcement in a few weeks. Then you'll be a believer :)
The man and I were at Best Buy a couple weeks ago and found ourselves randomly browsing the instruments area. And that's how I ended up with this:
It's a Fender Squier Mini (3/4 size) and I totally fell in love with it just because it's small and cool looking. The man thought it was perfect for me and started building this fantasy of me forming an all-girl Rush cover band (because we watched some show about Rush a few months ago and the band members said girls never liked their music). I didn't indulge my whim that day (or the man's girl-band idea), but when I was still thinking about that guitar a few weeks later, I went ahead and got one :)
In the week that I've had this thing, I think I've already learned more than I had after eight weeks of lessons when I was 12. For one thing, this guitar actually fits me way better than the full size one I had back then. Also... the internet! People make videos to show you how to play and they make tab charts and write step-by-step guides and... it's awesome! So even though I expect the novelty to wear off after a few months, I'm having a lot of fun right now with my new guitar.
But don't expect any Rush cover songs anytime soon.
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* Well, I might also care about a story set in between T1 and T2.
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schmacky0 just posted this vid and it's so good I had to immediately pimp it far and wide. This is the best Sarah Connor character study video I've ever seen. For many years, I've had random nights where I'm awakened by the sound of someone shouting in my ear. Usually it's my name being yelled in the same way you might shout "BOO!" to scare someone. It's sudden and close and very very loud. I wake up startled, only to realize the sound I heard wasn't external (there's no one standing over me and my ears don't feel like they've been shouted into), but internal — it's a shout inside my head. Weird, right? Yeah. It's disturbing in how real it sounds, but I've always assumed it's some freaky sleep glitch in my brain and thought nothing more of it. Last night, however, I experienced something similar that I now know is part of this same phenomenon.
As I drifted off to sleep, I was blasted awake by what can only be described as the sound and sensation of a lightning strike in my head. In fact that's exactly how I described it to the man when I got up this morning. It was a crackling explosion of white light that jolted me up and had me wondering if I'd just experienced some sort of electrical disturbance in my brain. But a quick systems check let me know I was okay. My thoughts worked, I was breathing, didn't even have a headache — everything seemed fine. So I assumed it was something like those occasional weird shouts, shrugged it off and went back to sleep.
When I got up this morning, it was the first thing on my mind. WTF was that blast in my head last night? That can't possibly be normal. I started googling... loud electrical zap in my head, jolted awake. I didn't actually expect to find an answer, or if I did, I figured it would be some ramblings on a message board. Much to my surprise, this is known thing and it's called (wait for it)...
EXPLODING HEAD SYNDROME
LOL. I found a number of articles about this, but the one I linked to is the most interesting to me personally. Not only did it perfectly describe what I experienced last night, but it also talked about the shouting! It's apparently all part of the same phenomenon and as strange as it is, it's harmless. It's considered rare, but probably isn't rare at all because who the hell is going to see a doctor about phantom shouts and lightning blasts interrupting their sleep once in a while? Um, not me. It's a bit crazy-sounding. Also, unless you experience it yourself, you'd think it's an over-reaction to a vivid dream. But it's really quite different than that.
It was seriously cool that I could google something this bizarre and actually find info about it. Maybe someone else will wake up wondering what the hell they just experienced and they'll be glad to find this post.
Really hate that.
A lot.
*hiccup*
It is, however, amusing to see the cat on my lap bouncing up and down with each hiccup.
