No Heavy Metal Sunday today. Have a musical instead

Amazing as it sounds, I really need to be in the right mood to post these. I have to be excited about the band or the clip, pull up the relevant websites for the links, come up with witty things to say, yadda, yadda yadda. After a week of nasty Con Crud, I don't even want to listen to music much, let alone The Dillinger Escape Plan (who are next up in the queue.)

So instead, enjoy some absolute awesomeness. From Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th birthday celebration which first aired about 11 years ago. Antonio Bandares (drool) as Che Guevera singing Oh What a Circus from Evita. One of my all-time favorite musicals, mainly due to the topic and great lyrical by-play. If you haven't seen it, this occurs very early in the first act. The show opens with a crowd in a movie theater being told that Eva Peron has "entered immortality" and mourning sweeps the nation. Che Guevera, who acts as both a character and a sort-of narrator, comes on stage to marvel at the national spectacle. Lyrics here.

The man can tango. Makes me wish I was gay. And that he was gay.

A solid idea for a costume..

Thanks to britgeekgrrl being utterly awesome, I now have a doublet. This one is very dark blue and black, with little blue highlights. Very nice, and it fits me nicely. Now that I have this piece, my mind turned to what I could do with it. This jacket is very sturdy and not ostentatious, the kind of thing someone of some means but still lives a little rough might wear. I also own a lovely black hooded cloak. It's far to thin to be authentic period, but it works very well with the jacket. So what to do....

Then it hit me. Magic cloak. That's the reason why it's so thin and light, it's not there to keep me warm, it does something. Which made the costume obvious.

A low/mid-level magic user. An adventurer. Rather than sitting at a desk pouring over spellbooks, he's out pillaging tombs, fighting fell beasts, and always searching for items of wonder and new spells. Unfashionably random and untamed to the more staid mages, but they are than willing to buy the things he finds in ruined cities.

Which brings us to what else I'm going to need. An authentic set of pants, leather or wool, and a period shirt to wear under the jacket. Good boots. A nice floppy hat. A cool staff. And a belt with various pouches for my potions, material components, and the like. If I can find one, a small leather-bound book and a belt case for it.. everyone needs a spell book! More likely I'd have two, one for my established spells, one for notes, which means adding a quill pen set to the ensemble. A nice magic ring and/or amulet. Maybe leather gauntlets. And a dagger. The first two items are going to be the expensive ones. Luckily, these fine folks seem to have just about everything I could wish for. Just a quick pass on this site shows I can get the big ticket items for right around $200 in total.

Obviously not something I'm putting together tomorrow, but I will have it ready for next year's Epic Sweep of Conventions!