Ep!K WorLd

My dream goal is to lose about 30-50 pounds, grow out my hair, work on props and costume to some day bring Lu Lu from the Final Fantasy series to life.

So far my hair is growing out quite nicely. Its been a little over 2 years (almost 3) since I started growing it out.

^^^ The last time it was at it’s shortest. 2009

^^^ High School Senior Photo. Taken in November/December? 2009 I just know it was later because it was a freebee senior pic. 

^^^ November 2011. 2 years later :D

^^^ May 2012. Recent. :) Its longer when down of course. More past my shoulders now.

I have also been fighting my acne as well. Doesn’t help my harmones have been sending me through a loop. But, I have been using Skin ID for almost a year now and I noticed (when I actually keep up with it) it has been making my face a lot better! So another check to the list.

Next is Losing the Weight… I’ve been struggling so hard with that. I went and even saw a nutritionist. She did help me and I noticed I had lost between 10-15 pounds! But then I shot back up close to the weight I first saw her at, she was a little upset. Its not eating thats my problem really, its being active and actually doing stuff I need to work on. I get tired from work and school and have no energy to work out. Well hopefully now that I am VERY SICK and VERY TIRED of being like this, plus I want to reach my goal in time, I have been trying to carefully tackle the problem.

I have been eating better. Trying to force sneak in veggies into my meals. I have also been drinking a lot more water and been trying to stay away from soda. I haven’t paid too much to my weight because the last time I checked I was ashamed of myself. Sooooo I went out and got myself wrist and ankle weights AND a Shake Weight. Go ahead and laugh but the little bugger works! Well, when I follow the DVD anyways. After I’m done with that thing my arms are killin. I’ve also been trying to make an effort of using my Boflex again and attempt going on walks more. So far I feel pretty good about myself. :)

HOPEFULLY I’ll lose the weight by sometime 2013 that way I can work on the costume. (When I’m down to my goal weight I can make the costume to that current body frame ;D ) If I’m no where close or haven’t exactly reached it yet then I would put it on hold and work on all the props. But I would like the costume done by 2013 or early 2014 before AB that year.

If the worse happens then I push everything to AB 2015 (the latest!!!)

I’d like to also mention that THIS is not my main reason for losing weight. I’ve been struggling to lose weight since High School. Now that I’m a bit older, words of the Dr’s scare me more and my own actions have made me fear the Dr’s outcomes. I’m losing the weight because I should and I want to. Its just a bonus kicker for me to get pushed in a direction of awesomeness! I love to cosplay and would very much like to make this perfect! Chears to the hopes I will succeed with this goal!

Thanks to my wonderfully amazing boy friend, Jake, he is helping me finally get my arse in gear of making my website!

EpikAsia.com

If I’m lucky I’ll put it up tonight. It just wont be “complete”.

Or maybe it can? Who knows. I want to get as much as possible into it before too late tonight.

I’m so excited! Finally when I post my link places I don’t have to worry about people going “Uhhh I think its broken.. there’s only a pic of a panda girl sleeping.”

“no.. its not broken.. that’s my site so far…”

Haha so yes :D gettin’ stuff done! LOVIN IT!!

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In the next couple of min. Ganna be working on my website stuff :) http://www.livestream.com/epikasia?t=760685

Damn Skippy! JoinMe is fun but its only a trial where as Livestream (i hope) is free. Check me out ;)

http://www.livestream.com/epikasia?t=760685

Tomorrow I’ll go live while working on my website :D

If you don’t know what it is, you are living under a rock in an abyss of nothingness. Hop to it and click this link: http://thedevilscarnival.com/enter.html

The Devils Carnival is by the same people who brought us REPO! The Genetic Opera. If you don’t know what that is… 

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Please check it out before Luigi kills you O_O

The carnival was in town last night and I went with 2 friends.  My boyfriend was very nice to drive us in and I greatly appreciated him doing that. (even though he wanted nothing to do with the carnival in the first place). We got there at 7 and there was about a small group of maybe 10 people already waiting. I dressed up in my new lolitta dress and wore my red contacts. I got a lot of good comments on my dress, contacts and my pikachu bag. A woman, who looked to have been a mom/aunt who was probably dragged along because of the kids, flipped on my contacts and kept constantly wanting to take a pic but couldn’t figure the camera on the phone out. It was fun. We talked, made some friends, walked around to find public bathrooms; it was a good time.

By 8 they separated the Ring Masters from the Sinners/Carnies because they had special access of getting in first and talking with Darren Lynn Bousman (Director: SAW 2-4, REPO! The Genetic Opera, The Devil’s Carnival) and Terrance Zdunich (Producer, Writer, Actor: REPO! T.G.O., The Devils Carnival). :P They still had to wait about 40 min though. After they got in, this guy Spooky was running around checking our tickets. If you were a carnie you got a poster. When they finally finished going through everyone we were able to go in around 9:10. 

My friends and I got pretty good seats. :) we were only a couple rows back from center stage. Once everyone was filed in they started with a side show. Charlotte Be Good? I believe that was her name. She did a bit of a tease strip, playing with whips, and throwing blades at balloons. We then watched Behind the scenes of REPO! The Genetic Opera. They were scenes that I at least never seen before and it was really cool! After that they had a costume contest where people who dressed up came on stage and people cheered. Believe it or not but Repo Man won HAHAH. Also, before the movie started Bousman and Zdunich came out on stage, made us stand and pledge an oath about not video taping/taking pictures of anything. And that if someone next to us did we would punch them in the dick/vagina and oh, Hail Satan :)

My personal opinion on the movie was… it was good! It wasn’t as great as REPO! though. It started off with 3 people, I’m assuming all happening at the same time, where they were all doing something… One man locked himself in a bathroom, very upset, his wife (?) on the other side of the door trying to get in, we see him reach for the razor and he begins cutting himself. A woman is seen running into a trailer. She has a bunch of jewels all over her table and shes trying them all on. But then the police showed telling her to come out on the count of 3. At the same time another woman was trying to run away from her “boy friend”. He was apologizing about something and making promises and asking her to come out of the car. When she refused the man pulled out a gun and also gave her to the count of 3. Once the count was over we hear a deep evil sounding voice finish the count and everything became warped. The woman in the trailer experienced carnies and confetti. The young girl’s car become clouded by frost and there was an appearance of a man coming towards the car. As for the Father, he saw a devilish figure in the mirror and his son was with him. They were all dragged down to hell and when they awoke they all found letters with tickets to THE DEVIL’S CARNIVAL.

It was fast paced. I believe it was only an hour long. Everything seemed thrown at one another and I never really had the chance to figure stuff out in time. I got the basic idea of what was going on. I thought it was very interesting how Luci was telling Aesop’s Fables to represent the 3 sinners stories. I recognized the Dog and His Reflection (or in the movies case, Her Reflection). I believe I’ve heard of The Scorpion and the Frog before. And the Devil and his Due was new to me. I can’t seem to find the story anywhere. 

There was also a handful of special guests (Taken from the site): “THE DEVIL’S CARNIVAL stars Victoriandustrial rocker Emilie Autumn, Dayton Callie (Sons Of Anarchy, Deadwood), M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan (of the Grammy award winning, cult metal giants Slipknot), Briana Evigan (Step Up 2), Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints), Maggie “Captain Maggots” Lally and The Blessed Contessa (of The Bloody Crumpets), J LaRose (Insidious), Jessica Lowndes (90210), Mighty Mike Murga (of Mini Kiss), internet star Hannah Minx, Ivan Moody (of the chart-topping heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch), Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects), Ogre (of the legendary industrial band Skinny Puppy), Marc Senter (The Lost), Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas), Alexa Vega (Spy Kids), and Terrance Zdunich (Repo! The Genetic Opera).”

All in All the experience was amazing. I enjoyed the line, I got a limited signed copy of the soundtrack, I enjoyed the side shows and previews. I greatly enjoyed the movie! At the end they had a Q&A with Bousman, Zdunich and another man whos name escapes me, and it was amazing. I asked the first question about when TDC will be on dvd. They aswered they were in the process of working on that and that they are trying to make it special. They want to add stuff to it where you WOULD HAVE TO HAVE AND WANT IT. So they said roughly 3-6 months. I liked how they also mentioned that they want people to enjoy going to the movies again and doing it will fellow people who share your interests. ;) 

A man who mentioned himself and his lovely girl friend have been fans for a long time. They recently had a baby and named her Shilo after the lead female character from REPO! The Genetic Opera. They also just got Repo! and Devils Carnival tats done. He was brought up stage and was explaining this. Then he asked his girlfriend up. He explains he wanted to ask one more question. He turned to his girl, got down on one knee and whipped out a ring and Proposed. She started crying but the crowd was in such a positive up roar I guess she said yes and everyone went crazy happy for them! It was beautiful. I hope if they have any tour stuff on the DVD I really hope that makes it on there.

When we got back to the Q&A they kept passing a bottle around and sharing the drink between the 3. At some point a girl asked to hug Zdunich. She was on the balcony though so while she was coming down they answered another question. In the middle of answering it though that girl ran up stage and quickly hugged him. She had her face down low though and kept it down, but smiling very big while walking away. Shortly after another girl said, “Well since there has been a lot of touching and DNA swapping and someone else hugged you, Can I kiss you Terrance?” (words from what I can remember) He laughed and covered his face, without saying anything I believe Bousman said YAH COME UP! And Zdunich kept laughing and turning red. The girl comes up and it was a little shaky at first but then they went in for the kiss and it looked like a good one. Oh man, such a good night. 

One last thing from the Q&A, someone asked all three what there second deepest darkest secret was. Reason for it was because the second is usually more interesting. Zdunich replies with “I masturbate to crime files!”. Bousman’s wife (who had a busted leg and had to crawl on stage) answered for him and said, “He exfoliates like a mother fucker! He has face creams and lotions from all over the country and constantly takes care of his face”. Everyone laughed and loved the answers. They get to the third guy and he said he couldn’t exactly think of one. Someone from the crowd shouts out “HE EXFOLIATES TO CRIME FILES!” After he was done laughing he  explained to the one who asked “Ill come to you in your dreams and tell you privately!” 

It was just a great time and everything keeps replaying in my head. I wish to have gone and met Bousman and Zdunish but the line grew huge fast, I was tired and had to pee so I said eff that and tried to hint we should leave to my friends. We listened to the soundtrack on the way home and it was very good. Such a good night!

Had a fantastic time today!!! I was a little unprepared considering I scanned what I wanted copies of but never made it to Staples. I was on my way and the Art Studio was also on the way. As I got closer to the studio I realized I would end up running late. I didn’t want to do that. I gave up and went straight to the studio to set up.

7 people showed up. I was surprised in the turnout. Only 3 of them were in the specific age range I posted. 2 were an older couple of maybe 50’s or up. 1 was 9 (I think) and the other 10. But I really didn’t mind! I loved the fact they came anyways.

We all had a great time. I showed off my old artwork, New work, explained a brief history about myself and manga, started drawing and walked around to view and help any questions. I also bought yan-yan and kool-aids for our snack break.

By the end of it, pretty much everyone plus the parents that came for the kids all asked if I will be teaching more. I explained to them I would love to and to speek with the owner of the store since she is the one in charge of making the classes. They did go to her and gave her feedback.

ALSO, My red contacts came in today so I plopped them in before and have had them on all day. :) I love them!

I plan to have more classes in the future and hope to have just as much fun. It was a great rush and a nice ego boost to help me keep going!

Next Saturday, March 31st, I will be hosting a How To Draw Manga Workshop! I have been informed that only 1 person has signed up. I was also informed that most of the times people sign up last min. DON’T BE LAST MIN!!! Its only a 3 hour workshop, one day, 1pm - 4pm, in Marlborough Ma, 12-17 year olds, and for only $15!!!

ALSO, If we get a good turn out and more people are interested in more lessons, I am trying to speak with the owner about having summer classes that go for either 6-8 weeks. But we need to know who’s interested to even get anywhere close to thinking about doing summer classes.

If you know someone who is interested, please inform them and let them know!

The link is here: http://www.postroadartcenter.com/Asia_Bennett.html