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[absolutedestiny]

I dont know if I can say much at the moment about AWA but I just got the following comlpliment:

"Nice cunnilingius tounge action"

ok it was for IWIWAL but it's nice to read :P

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[ersatzinsomnia.livejournal.com]

Hey Ian, glad to see you got back OK. Two quick questions:

1) At closing, you mentioned a possible recipient of the Fan Favorite award. Like an imbecile, I didn't write it down. Which one was it?

2) Another thing I didn't write down was that director you reccomended to me when we were talking about movies. That stupid review of mine is only about half done, so I don't know when I'll get to 'em, but anything that highly reccomended by you has to be worth checking out. (Loved the David Lynch short you showed during the panel. Lynch is a fav of mine, so much so that I tacked on a piece of Blue Velvet at the front of my Tool video way back when. And the waving cell-phones during the Lain video was pure, unprompted genius of audience participation... kinda creepily apt, really.)

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

Hey Matt!

1) Istiv's "Shonen Bishidou" to "The Spirit Never Dies" in Pro. It got a great reaction and despite many nominations never received any of the Pro awards. I figured it would be a possible.

2) Takashi Miike.

Particularly intersting works of his are (in no particular order)

Bird People of China (arty)

Audition (stunning horror - probably good to see first)

Dead or Alive 2 (no need to see the first in the trilogy, they arent related - surprisingly charming yakuza movie about growing up!)

Visitor Q (quickly made but fascinating sick look at familiy disfunction and repair)

Ichi the Killer (based on the manga - blindingly violent but with a really interesting cinema rationale at the end)

Gozu (one of the most incredible movie endings ever... totally surreal freudian oddness)


I also recommended the clever arthouse zombie comedy Dellamorte Dellamore (aka Cemetary Man) if you can find it or you see it on tv.


Oh and there's one other thing. I discovered just now that the VAT guest award slip I was supposed to give you was still in my bag. ><

The award was untitled and went to Sean Thordsen (Wired Knight Productions) for Shinji's Nightmare (Evangelion to Heffalumps and Woozles). Sorry ^^;;

[kusoyaro.livejournal.com]

Heh, speaking of which, I want to give my VAT award to doki's Avalon video :P I forgot to fill out that form at the con.

I guess it's not much of a surprise to announce it here like this, but most of the VAT award recipients already found out on Sunday....right? ^^;;

[brakusjs.livejournal.com]

If it weren't for the fact that your "Shake Your Tailfeather" was in the competition, "Shounen Bushido" would have been a co-odds-on favorite with "Silence" for the Best In Show award. "Shounen Bushido" would have also won Best Upbeat and Best Dance as well had you not been nominated as well.

I'm sorry I didn't work up the courage to apologize for my behavior in person... I just don't know what you would have done. Regardless, what a kick-ass job you did at AWA Pro. Congratulations!

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

Best Upbeat, sure, but I doubt that Best Dance would have been nominated as a category if my video was not there (not enough potential nominees)

[moonlight-soldr.livejournal.com]

Eh I finally saw that AMV at my anime club, it was impressive ;)