Lost With Fury.
Apologies for posting this after the fact but David Fury was guest of the Australian Writers Guild at the ACMI cinemas in Melbourne last night prior to his Buffy conventions appearances today and tomorrow.
This was an excellent Q+A. Two hours worth of high tales and adventure, Fury covered his early start in standup, a great anecdote about not wanting to photocopy his naked butt for Tom Arnold in payback to Julia-Louis Dreyfuss, but mainly spoke about Buffy and Lost, also briefly discussing 24 (current job), The Inside and Alias. He highlight was when he spoke about how they would design a season of a Whedon show and how they would prepare each act break. He inadvertently dropped a few spoilers regarding Lost and briefly mentioned a new show he and JJ are working on.
July 02 2005
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Anyone you know that took notes? That link is just an ad for the event. If you wanna write a full review I would love to read it as I'm sure would others. Maybe post it over at Flickr or even just on here.
Pleed, grovel, beg.
nixygirl | July 02, 12:42 CET
reidca | July 02, 15:44 CET
nixygirl | July 02, 17:10 CET
non sequitur | July 02, 17:53 CET
Woooooooow.
ElizaFan81 | July 03, 03:30 CET
i start this with "respect the cruller, and tame the doughnut" if for no other reason than I heard it again in the past day for zillionith time, I still find it funny and reminded me of my current hatred of el cruiso.
David "Sgt." Fury Q+A @ ACMI, Melbourne, Australia, 5.30pm, Fri 1st July 05
This was a highly entertaining Q+A for which the first hour and a bit the moderator asked (in Fury's words) well researched questions followed by about 45 mins of audience questions. Unfortunately I didn't take notes, but what I remember included:
I'm exhausted, time to move along...
James "Lil' Jimmy" Marsters @ Hi-Fi Bar, Melbourne, 8pm, Sat 2nd July 2005
We arrived to find a queue stretching down Swanston St and around into Collins St, ie. the longest queue I'd ever seen. Not wanting to join that queue, we instead went to Starbucks. Joining the much smaller queue around 8ish, we politely answered people when they asked what we were queuing for (they didn't know who James' was). Entering said Hi-Fi Bar around 8.30pm, we noted support band start at 9.15 and James' start at 10.15. Getting a reasonable position at the bottom of the stairs we played the waiting game.
Support band was average (lead singer didn't sing, so much as yell) and James hit the stage a little after 10.15. My sister was very happy as James' had on the all-important black rock shirt, plus it was open to reveal his manly chest. He played for about an hour, all acoustic by hisself. Unimpressed by the first few songs, I eventually warmed to the music and James' jittery style of playing (He plays like he prances a convention stage). There were a couple of great songs in the middle (sorry, no idea of song titles), and he played a few GOTR songs incl. Dangerous and Smile. Most everything else was off Civilised Man, and while it's not my cup of tea, I appreciated the warmth and honesty of his performance.
David "The" Fury @ Tabula Rasa Convention, Melbourne, 9.30am, Sunday 3rd July 2005
Finally for the Big Fat Geek Weekend we went to Tabula Rasa's last convention yesterday (Sunday 3rd July) with Fury, James and ASH. Not sure why it is their last but I hope someone else picks up the ball (not someone who is shonky though). Realising the error of my ways Friday night I purchased a notebook and pen on the way. We arrived just after 9.30 when the doors opened and promptly found a huge queue for tickets to James' photo session. Um, no, been there, done that. We got our tickets, received a new Serenity pamphletsat and waited for Fury to come out. Unfortunately for me (and I guess a handful of others) David repeated much of what he said Friday night. Extra tidbits included:
"Spangel" anyone?
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They then started taking people out for James' photos. We did this last year so we started watching OMWF. Everyone of course did the big sing-a-long.
We then went out about 30mins later for the Fury/ASH signings. It was around midday by now. We cleverly queued in both the ticket and signing queues so we we were fairly early. My sister and I both got ASH's autograph. I stumbled with ASH, overwhelmed by his loveliness, but got a brief chance to chat with David. An incompetent, unconfident and uncomitted, but aspiring writer, I asked Fury about these qualities in a writer and he admitted they all had them. They all got the block, and every script was like reinventing the wheel everytime. When I said my impression that Joss didn't have this problem, he said that Joss finds it fun. They found it hard work, but Joss genuinely loves what he does.
James "The" Marsters @ Tabula Rasa Convention, Melbourne, 12.30pm, Sunday 3rd July 2005
Then it was time for a lunch break at the Casino. We came back just in time for James' Q+A. Although everything seemed to be messed up in terms of queues, they seemed to be getting through them (about half hour late at this point). One of the reasons maybe, is that there was less seating this year than last year. James bounded the stage is his typical jittery style and talked about:
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Another break and we wandered around a bit before settling at the start of the queue for photo with ASH. I decided early on that I wouldn't go in the photo this year - my sister happily obliged. We chatted about various things and looked at some of the photos James had done. He has only one straight on pose in every photo except when one, where he and a couple do a really outrageous out-there screaming pose. The ASH photo was over quick and my sister commented she got a great hug with him and thinks she grabbed him around his belly button. He seemed happy also. During this, they were playing something where James was wearing a dinner suit - is this Cool Money?
When we came back in, we saw most of the rest of Tabula Rasa, from where we left off earlier in the day. Great ep, but never did like Mr. Shark.
Anthony "Frank" Stewart Head @ Tabula Rasa Convention, Melbourne, 4.15pm, Sunday 3rd July 2005
ASH came out finally, and got everyone going when he said he would sing at the end! He asked if someone in the audience had a pen and paper and asked her to write down some lyrics - at the time I had no idea what this was!!
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The three then came out together at the end. The organiser got quite emotional as she said this was the last Tabula Rasa convention.
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(One picture removed on request of person in it.)
All in all this was a tremendously entertaining weekend, feeding my aspiring writing ambitions with Fury, my Buffy/Angel fix with JM and ASH, and the performances by both of them was the icing on the cake. Fury repeated himself a bit, but that was not his fault, and was unavoidable. Although the music isn't to my taste, i was impressed by the performances of both JM and ASH, and they are hugely entertaining storytellers. ASH, especially, is incredibly sweet, gentlemanly (he apologised to the young ones for swearing) and comes across as very unaffected by success. A magic time was had by all.
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reidca | July 03, 19:25 CET
Madhatter | July 03, 20:09 CET
That has to be the most detailed report ever posted here. I haven't read it yet, but thanks so much for writing and sending it, reidca.
SoddingNancyTribe | July 03, 20:10 CET
the side barthe front page.Simon | July 03, 20:32 CET
thank you
debw | July 03, 20:36 CET
Great report, thanks.
roadrunner | July 03, 20:49 CET
newcj | July 03, 21:13 CET
fruit punch mouth | July 03, 21:23 CET
Q: What did ASH mean by "flames outside the Casino and the expressions on people's faces at them" ???
laimelady | July 03, 22:23 CET
Moscow Watcher | July 03, 23:30 CET
aapac | July 04, 02:45 CET
reidca | July 04, 03:18 CET
Thanks for sharing with us!
Pmacca01 | July 04, 03:29 CET
Jonas | July 04, 03:55 CET
lynnie | July 04, 05:11 CET
orphea | July 04, 06:19 CET
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BD | July 04, 11:07 CET
Paul_Rocks | July 04, 14:19 CET
giles (yes, it is my real name) | July 05, 07:38 CET
eddy | July 05, 19:16 CET
I am so happy to know that. It's exactly what I thought but I didn't think I'd get that confirmed.
He briefly mentioned some things which were planned for season 7 but didn't materialize, like Oz coming to town with a pack of werewolves
Sounds like they kept trying to bring him back. Weren't they also planning an appearance for AtS S6?
Someone asked about gag reels and he said they didn't really have much. Joss would cut a little film at the end of each season, but they concentrated more on the crew.
That was interesting to find out too. Maybe it explains why there's so little of that on the DVD extras?
Thanks for the post!
yourlibrarian | July 06, 20:08 CET