What a weekend

I had a great weekend. I had been looking forward to a larp workshop, but a week ago the workshop was cancelled, due to too few participants. However, this didn't matter too much, I had time to do some chores at home instead. It was good to finally get some of these things done, after postponing them too many times.

Saturday night a very good friend of mine had a Birthday party. As usual, it was great. We had some serious discussions and many not so serious ones. And the second most delicious chocolate cake I've ever tasted. And a very unexpected suggestion that I had to consider seriously. And we briefly discussed our upcoming Hilastherion photo shoot next weekend. And we also babbled a bit about some Renaissance music concerts, if I remember correctly, I think they will take place in April 2013.

Yesterday was rather fun. Just before noon I sat with my laptop, waiting to register for next year's upcoming anniversary LARP*. In 2 minutes and 28 seconds after they opened the registration form, 15 people had already registered! And I got the character I wanted. Or should I say, I got my first choice. We were told to choose three characters. The character we wanted to play, one backup if we didn't get that part, and a third one if the second character was also taken. All this since it might happen that several players want to play the same character. But now, I'm SO ready to rock as this character.

/H

*I've linked to the "Briefly in English"-page about the LARP, but if you understand Swedish and want to know more about it, you can read more here.

Band pics and roleplaying

Well, it's been a while since my last post. Work has been pretty crazy lately, which leaves very little time for blogging. At least when I spend a lot of my spare time making new characters for a vampire tabletop role-playing game. And play in a band. And try to have a life somewhere in the middle of all this. However, I'm not so fed up with things anymore. But the vampire characters turned out really great.

Vaguely related to these vampire characters, the two lists of roles for next years anniversary Larp have been published. And the type of character I've been considering for quite some time was on the lists. I did mention my thoughts quite some time ago to one of the game masters, and to another one just a few weeks back. So they knew I was interested in playing this type of character.

On the band front, the mastering for Hilastherions second album is done. Next up: taking new band pictures, we're currently trying to find a time that's ok for everyone in the band. And we need new pictures, two of the members have been replaced since the first album (I'm one of the new members). This, of course, brings us to the eternal and very important question: What to wear...?

/H

TV Series/Movie Marathon?

I'm home alone this weekend, and I'm thinking I should do a TV Series or Movie Marathon. I have a few ideas, but I can't decide what to pick. My suggestions are:

Marvel movies. I can't do them all, that would take all weekend and more, but I could do a selection of the Marvel movies I have, e.g. Spiderman (1-3), all the X-Men movies (1-3 + Wolverine + First Class) or something else.

Star Wars. I don't have the Clone Wars animated series, but I could watch all the Star Wars movies, from the beginning to the end (so far). I'd like to take a moment to state that although I prefer the original trilogy, I think episodes 1-3 are better than many people say.

Lord of the Rings. The LotR trilogy is always a good choice. And an even better choice when S isn't at home, since she doesn't particularly like it.

Sons of Anarchy. I have seasons 1-3 on dvd, but I haven't watched them from the beginning for quite some time. It could be nice to watch them from the beginning again.

Suggestions?

/H