As my last journal said, we were lucky enough to attend "The Gathering of Gods" with Neil Gaiman at the House on the Rock. It was over Halloween weekend, and was a special gift (birthday and anniversary) from my wonderful hubby. And, it was so much fun, it made me start to love convention-type situations again.
Now, because I'm a nerd, I'm a huge fan of both Neil Gaiman and his fiance Amanda (Fucking) Palmer of the Dresden Dolls (and solo projects, and EvelynEvelyn, which is where I actually first heard of her…) and I wanted to do something to show my appreciation. I thought that it would be a little weird, and I still fear I've come off as a creeper, but you know what, I'm happy I did!
During our book signing, I asked Neil if he would be kind enough to deliver something to his fiance, as he was going to be there at their Bandiversary show (the first time the Dresden Dolls performed together in a rather long time). I gave him one of my Kimona wraps (the red one, because she always keeps a glass of red wine by her side for shows, or so I have heard) to give to Amanda Palmer, with a rambling note on it (as per Sam-usual) about how much I love both her, and Neil, and creative artists in general.
((Oddly enough, during the ride home, I was randomly reading the Wikipedia entry on her, and found out she's also a theatre person. No surprise, but still, amusing none the less… but I digress.))
He graciously agreed to do so, and I was so incredibly happy (and, I still fear that I came off as a creeper). I got this Twitter message (Chris made me put my Twitter name down) from AFP later, and spazzed out, running around the house and generally terrorizing my cats:
I then dug thru Flickr looking for pictures, and found a few of them! You have no idea how absolutely shocked, amazed and flattered I am for these… I'm still not completely believing it :3 I'm so happy! So, here are the pictures that I have found:
Also, Neil Gaiman wrote an article for Spin magazine (posted online here) about the Dresden Dolls first reunion show, and there is even a picture of Amanda Palmer wearing the kimono in that :3
I'm so insanely happy, you have no idea. This is a while later, and I'm still giddy about all of this!! So… yeah!! So awesome!
(I'm almost tempted to make her a corset and randomly send it somewhere in the hopes that she gets it, but that would be uber-creeper, I think… although I'm still considering it ;P Whatchoo all think? Too starlker-ish?)
