Oklacon 2011,

Wednesday,
Me and Christoper left on Amtrak early in the morning on our way up to Dallas to meet with Draklor, trip was uneventful except that i later found out that Ebony Tigress was on the same train (lol)
Anyways we got picked up and taken to Draklors house in McKinney where we crashed for the night.



Thursday,
After a late start we were finally underway around noon, again the trip was uneventful and we arived at the con around 5pm.
Once we got all our stuff unloaded me and Chris went to go check in at reg, all went fine for me but chris didnt know he couldnt use his school ID. Thank the gods Blue Otter helped him out and we just had to go get some stuff faxed from town so he could reg in the morning. I spent most of Thursday just hanging around and meeting people then i went and played werewolf for awhile.



Friday,
got up fairly early and hung around until i met up with Wolf and Jared Fox and offered to help with A/V since i had worked with Draconis and Rhubarb before and Togo wasn't there and I knew his rig from TFF (mostly). I spent about 2 hours helping before opening ceremonies then went back after with  kodiwolfe to finish set up.

All went fairly well we got everything set up, I put in some extra cables I brought and an extra mic and then headed back to camp until the dances. Hung around and Bs'ed with several friends i hadn't seen in a long time then headed back to the dances. Togo arrived and checked things over and we discovered that part of his crossover died and we both worked on how to bypass the dead section, with that fixed we did sound check got the lights finished (I really just watched at this point) and then opened the doors for the dances to begin.

Jared fox was up first and he ripped up the decks, it was one of the best dances ive ever seen, and it turns out it was a good thing I brought the extra mic and cables because everything I brought got used, next up was Wolf with some tunes that were also pretty awesome but he cranked it so loud I got a headache and left for the night, right about then  kyofoxtrot showed up so we hung out for awhile and I hitched a ride back to camp with him and then went to go play some werewolf. After that I bumped into  zephyrpanthur and Daxter and stayed up till suuuper late hanging out with them.


Saturday,
Woke up and walked around at random hanging with  corsi and friends around the campfire for awhile until I was able to get a ride to the lodge so i could see how the setup for Julie bunny was going. Hung out with Kodi while he got ready for the show, It went great and i cant wait to see them again! Next up was the variety show. Again my mic got used and many lolz were had. It was bye far the highlight of the con for me, I must thank  corsi  kodiwolfe and Draconis for all that they did. Wouldn't have been the same without any of you <3

Now we come to the part where I talk about why I will not be djing at Oklacon again and potentially will not help with a/v again.

I was not thanked once for the help I provieded with Julie Bunny or the Variety show (aside from by Draconis and Ruhbarb) nor was I thanked for setting up the audio gear or for the gear I provided. To add insult to injury I was asked to DJ Saturday night only to have somone take over my set without a word 5 mins in.

Here's how that went,
Right after the variety show I talked with Jared fox and he said I was going to have a 30 min slot right after Horses Ghost and I was happy because for a second I thought I would get to play something other then the same damned music that everyone else was. Of course before that though even finished Wolf comes by and tells be that they don't want any of the "Techno trance bullshit" and that it needs to be basically top 40 club music. Anyways, HG went and did his set and then it came to my turn on the decks, I got through 2 songs and called for requests, I got one that was for a slower song and played it knowing it was about time that some of the suiters would want to cool off after dancing for like 70 mins, I also got a request for a "disco song" because Matsi wanted to have a disco duel with Ruhbarb. So i got that cued up while Jared was chewing on my ear about people leaving, I explained that they proably wanted to cool off and he went back to danceing, i cued up another harder song since he was complaining and pushed back Matsi's request then he came back and said Wolf wants to talk to me. So I go over and wolf says "Ive been hearing that you aren't playing what people want and aren't listening to people" I ask him what hes talking about and he sites an example of me playing music before the dances when he came over and told me he doesn't what that type of shit played because it might scare away the dancers (it was jump style) The thing is i Changed it to something else the minute he said that. When i explained that to him he said that I "screwed up my face at him when he said it" And i said of course i did but i still did what you asked. At this point i turned around because the track changed and saw that Jared had taken over my set without a word to me. So I picked up my stuff packed it up and left.

I do not fault Jared Fox for This. I feel that it was presure from higher up that got to him. I would like to think he would not pull this kind of thing without said presure since I enjoyed working with him so much.

Anyways enough of the Drama.

I had a freaking blast at the con this year, I feel that Oklacon greatly improved from last year. Security was how they should be and I had lots of fun at werewolf and helping rubarb with Julie Bunny as well as the amazing Variety show and seeing so many awesome friends again.

Shoutouts,
 zephyrpanthur  LaserWolf
 BluefyreA.Wolf  Matsi_wuff
 Corsi  RhubarbTheBear
 draftstallion2005  Silverback_CP
 HollieHyena  DragonKid
 kodiwolfe  soulcat012
 kyo_foxtrot  HazelHeart

Daxter, Zif and many many more then I can fit here <3 all of you!