niko | Random Stuff, as usual

Just some things that are making me happy today. :)

Trailer for the Nine movie, yay! I've been feeling a bit bereft of new movies to look forward to, now that Star Trek is out, so this comes at a good time. http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/nine/
I'm going to MediaWest*Con next week. This is the first con I've been to in a while, and my first ever media-fandom con. Again, this comes at a really good time. When I originally registered for MW*C, it was on a bit of a whim and I just wanted to try a convention that wasn't an anime-con populated by hordes of annoying teenagers. Since my fannish focus was pretty heavily on anime at the time, I didn't expect much content at MW*C to be tailored to my specific interests, but in the last six weeks, my focus has swung rather drastically back toward the live-action side of the spectrum. I'm currently obsessing over The Magnificent Seven ( yeah, only about ten years late... ^_^ ) and NCIS ( Hey! A show that's still on the air for a change! ) , and looking over the MW*C programming schedule, it turns out that both series are well-represented in the panels, so that's a big "Yay!"
Speaking of Mag7 and NCIS... GAWD, I'd forgotten how much fun reading fanfiction can be. I think I've read more fic in the last three weeks than I had in the past ten YEARS. There was one active period in there when I first discovered Weiss, but other than that, I haven't devoured fic like this since back in my Sentinel days.
Just got a notice from HLJ that the "Real Action Heroes" Roy Mustang figure that I'd put on backorder and *totally* forgot about ordering has shipped. (http://www.hlj.com/product/MEDRAH-350) I love these "real action heroes" figures. Their poseability and the attention to detail in their costumes gives them a notch up in terms of their acceptability for me to display in my geeky-yet-tasteful home-decorating schema. :) (Plus, they're actually for *male* characters, rather than half-nekkid babes.) Now I just wish I hadn't missed out on the matching Ed & Al figures from the series... though the price for all three would probably have been prohibitive anyway. *harumph*