Remember last year where posts mysteriously stopped for about 6 weeks? Yeah, it’s that time of year again, I’m PMSing… Or Manifest ing at the very least. Seriously, the event takes a lot out of me, like a succubus vampire crack dealer that works as a lawyer by day… or something. Please come along to it and make me feel like I haven’t just wasted 6 months of my life.For those of you wondering what’s going on, in case you weren’t aware of it, Melbourne actually hosts Australia’s larget anime festival.

It goes over three full days and a night, running for 12 hours a day (from 0900 until 2100). It’s a major fucking effort as for the past two years, I’ve been the one holding all the strings together.

Last year wasn’t so bad. I even managed to hold down a full time job, but this year there’s a lot of extra shit on. I’ve organised concerts and for those of you reading this blog, the Saturday night concert featuring Faeble and Twelve Foot Ninja will probably be of interest. They are both very good progressive metal bands. One is kinda Evanessence meets Tool, the other is the Australian bastard love child of Mike Patton (Faith No More) and Saturday morning cartoons.

But it goes further than that. I’ve also been organising international guests for the event this year, like Spike Spencer. His name probably doesn’t mean much to you, but if you were watching anime in the 90s on SBS, he was basically in every single fucking one of them! You’d know him best as Shinji from Neon Genesis Evangelion I guess.

On top of that is the regular dramas and llamas that one gets in any volunteer organisation. What should be about two hours of works calling around to organise this or that ends up being about 30 because some people simply cannot get shit done. Seriously, the sort of people that join a volunteer committee and stay are generally people that are so committed they’re completely blind to anything outside of their narrow scope of interest and are therefore incompetent at anything else, or are insane petty power mongers. Either way, they probably shouldn’t be on a committee.

P.S. I fall into the latter category.

Anyway… blog: NOT ABANDONED!

Just wishing I could blow my brains out at the moment.

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