Music Monday – PHX Songs

I just came back from AZ and OMFG, am I TRIED!!!  Here is a few of  "Theme Songs", for lack of a better words, to sum up my trip with my besties.

Keri Helson "Pretty Girl Rock" (Everyone knows why I am posting this. Thank you Sassy Apple for singing along.)


Iggy Azalea "Fancy" (Seriously kinda hate this song, but I can't help but sing along.)


Jason Derulo "Wiggle" (For Kdubs - she knows why...)


LMFAO feat. Lil Jon "Shots" (I love this song... I can never hear it enough. Or have enough shots.)


Finatticz "Dont Drop that Thun Thun" (Just 'cause.)


Stone Sour "Bother" (Thank you 2bits, for blowing my mind with this song.)


3LW "Playas Gon' Play" (For 2bits and his woman - stay strong.)

Nathan Fillion at PhoenixComicon Part 1

Can I just say I would love to be invited over to Nathan Fillion’s house for a barbeque some weekend? Once I got past the awkward speechlessness and staring I think it would be a great time. He tells great stories, gives people gifts and just seems like a guy you’d want to hang out with once you got past the awkward speechlessness and staring.

Saturday afternoon at Phoenix Comicon was beyond crowded. It was wall to wall people wearing Jayne hats and Firefly t-shirts competing with those of us wearing Castle shirts and Dr. Horrible costumes. We were a zillion sardines crammed into several hundred thousand square feet of space all vying for a choice spot when the panel started.

I am pretty sure there were at least four thousand people wedged in line outside the auditorium while another four thousand had already stake their claim to Nathan’s panel inside. My only complaint here was if the staff at Comicon was really going to enforce their rule of everyone must exist at the end of each panel then they needed to put bodies in the room to make sure that happened. There were probably two thousand people in line behind us that didn’t get in but stood in line over an hour anyway. Just a thought for next year if you can coerce Mr. Fillion to come back – have two panels and put them on different days.

We got two seats in the nose bleed section on an end but were happy to have them. The auditorium has great audio and video screens everywhere so there was still a great view regardless. The panel started at 4:30 and it was the fastest hour in my life. The man is charming, funny and handles an audience deftly.

After the cheers and poses upon his entrance Nathan made the obligatory remarks about how hot Arizona is in the summer. For those that have never been here, imagine putting your head inside a convection oven. It’s hot. Nathan commented about how bright it was outside and that he suffered from Phoenician blindness. It’s true that effect does occur – the sun goes right through your eyes and seers parts of your brain.

Then, he took questions from the audience for the rest of the panel. When he’d answered the first fan’s question he gave her a watch. Everyone was stunned and there was instant “aww” factor until after the next question and there was a new watch on his wrist. We were all so mesmerized by him speaking we didn’t notice he’d slipped another watch on. I think he gave away probably twelve or fifteen watches and then moved onto the envelope they came in and the water bottles on the table.

One of the fans who asked a question was wearing a salt blaster with her costume and this turned into a story involving wasps at a barbeque and Nathan’s addiction to gadgets. Evidently, this gun shoots salt at bugs but when Nathan shot it at the wasps one of the bugs flew up the shorts of a friend’s dad. Can’t imagine the wasp was too pleased by that bit of business.