Ok, I'm just going to give you the highlights because I really don't have the time to write an extensive report about the LA con, but I also don't want to leave you guys hanging, so here you go:
I only had the silver package, so I didn't go to the Sunday breakfast, but my friend and I still went down at about 9 AM to wait in line for Jensen's photo op line. We were pretty early so we were in the first row of people waiting for his turn. As we were sitting there, there was a moment I like to now call my "Jensense" acted up. I was sitting there with the stage right in front of me with the black curtains. All of I sudden, I was like, "Jensen is here", but my friend was like, "uh, no he's not." And I just said, "I hear his voice. Wait for it…" And not 5 seconds later Jensen walks by behind the see-through black curtains with Jared right behind him and the security guards following. After they walked out the doors, my friend and the other girl sitting next me both turn to me and say, "whoa…freaky…" and I was just like, "yeah, I'm awesome"…XP
Anyway, I waited for the photo op and when we finally went to take it with Jensen, I was near the front which in retrospect wasn't that great because he wasn't into the mood at the time so my picture with his seems very formal, but he was still nice. I feel like such a loser because after the pic, my friend asked Jensen for a hug which he gave her, and then he turned to me as if to give me a hug, but I totally froze up (and God, I still feel like such a dork for doing this), and do you know what I said? "That's ok, I'm good," AND WALKED AWAY FROM THE MAN!!!!! CRAZY, RIGHT?!?!?!?!!? He was willing and offering a hug, and I turned it down. *Facepalm* I epically failed. -__-
After the Jensen photo op, I got in line for Jared's photo op and ended up waiting for like 2 hours…it sorta sucked…but alas, the moment finally came. I took this pic alone, and wasn't too nervous. Right before I reached Jared for the pic, Jared got rid of the stool because it was annoying him, so I got him standing in my pic. Let me say, the man is pretty cute in person…^_^…I walked up and stood next to him, and he put his arm around me. The picture was taken and I was off!
After that, I met up with my two friends and we went to go wait for Jensen's panel to begin. (Side note: There was a 6-year-old girl sitting directly in front of us two rows ahead but the people in between our rows never appeared, so this girl was turned around her chair staring at us for the entire weekend, bored out of her mind. After first it was a bit disconcerting, but I got over it and ended up making funny faces for the ENTIRE weekend…I even taught her how do Sam's Hand of Ipecac…I was pretty hilarious…don't worry this little girl ties into J2). When Jensen finally came on stage, he came on pretending to play the guitar and just rockin out on stage.
He was hilarious and just awesome in general. As of right now, I can't remember everything that was discussed, but I do have some stories:
-Someone asked what the fans can do to help the show and J2, and Jensen said to just continue what we were doing, like wearing shirts with his face on it because as he said, "Dang it, that's gratification right there!" and he also said to tell your friends to tell their friends…
-A lady asked if Jensen could tell a story about Jared that would describe the type of person Jared is, and Jensen was like, "let's see; let me go through my files here…" and then he said, and I quote, "I can pretty much tell you a story of any aspect of Jared. I can tell you when he gets angry, how he is; I can tell you when he gets sad how he is; I can tell you when he gets in a fight with a girlfriend how he is…." It was adorable. He then when on to tell a funny story about how Jensen one time showed Jared the "pull my finger" trick and now Jared won't stop doing it. He says in between shots, all the time, Jared will just turn to him with this silly grin and stick out his finger, expecting Jensen to pull his finger. XD
- Jensen was also asked if it was hard doing funny scenes without cracking up, and Jensen said not usually. He said it's harder not to crack up on screen when he can see Jared laughing off. He gave an example of when he has to do a really emotional scene and Jared will be standing behind the camera. During the take, Jared will fart, and he will then proceed to turn his face away from Jensen and try really hard not to burst out laughing. So Jensen said there are a lot of scenes of Jensen saying his lines to the back of Jared's head as Jared tries to muffle his laughter…XP
reenacting what he sees from jared when filming his scenes
- Jensen was asked about the scar he acquired from Lazarus Rising, and he said he got it during the gas station scene when all the glass blew out because Kim wanted to use real glass and Jensen had to do shots of him landing on the floor so his arms got all scraped up and bloody, and Jen said when that happened he just turned to Kim and said, "REALLY?! I'm bleeding now! Happy?!" and Kim just said, "yeah. Now go get cleaned up; I need you for the next scene." Jensen said he would always have that scar as a memory of Kim...It was a nice story, but after telling it, Jensen sorta sounded like he got hung up in it and just moved on, as if he didn't really feel up to discussing the loss of Kim (But it was nice that every time Kim was mentioned, he got a huge round of applause, and Alona Tal asked for a moment of silence and got really choked up when talking about him).
- Someone asked what helps Jensen keep going, especially in this season where he had so many emotional scenes. Jensen went on to say that the support of the fans really helped as well as cocaine. Everyone started laughing, and then he was like, "Kidding, Kidding….Crack," which just made people laugh harder. After the question Jensen was like, "Don't do drugs!" XD He also mentioned he has no projects this summer (and neither does Jared) and that he just plans to attend the cons with Jared and fit in vacations in those countries.
- Jensen was asked about how he feels always having to wear the silly costumes on the show. He said that he met the new writer who wrote yellow fever and some other ones who came up to him and apologized for dreaming of Jensen dressed up in all these crazy outfits, before realizing that Jensen is a grown man who then has to actually wear these costumes. XD
- Most awkward question was actually Jensen's last one, and it wasn't even a real question. A woman came up to the mic and was like, "we see in Route 666 that Dean comes down with Jungle fever," and Jensen, looking all kinds of awkward is like, "well, I think dean just has Girl fever" but the woman wouldn't stop and continued to say "true, but this time around you got down with the black ones." Jensen still tried to lighten the question and was like, "Dean doesn't see color; he sees girl," and then the woman goes, "yeah, but you know what they say: once you go black, you never go back!" And at this point Jensen has nothing to say to get out of the awkwardness but Jared saves the day because he comes out to "bring Jensen coffee" and then changes spots with him to do his solo panel. Jensen stands up and starts doing this dance thing with Jared while singing, "we got jungle fever, we got jungle fever" and then dances off the stage. It was a pretty nice save.
dancing about "Jungle fever"
So now it was Jared's turn for his solo panel. Some highlights from that:
-Jared was suffering from baby fever, I swear. There was a baby in the audience and jared heard it, and he was like, "Is there a cat meowing?!" and then the audience responded it was a baby, where Jared then proceeded to freak out and got this crazy grin on his face, and was like, "HEY BABY! How old is Baby?" The mom said "9 months" and then Jared says, "When was baby born" and literally the audience just gave him this look and we're all like, "9 MONTHS AGO!" XD Jared is all embarrassed for asking such an obvious question, so he goes on to ask the same question in a gazillion different ways to make it funnier…it was hilarious…XD At one point the mom was taking the baby out because it was crying at Jared noticed and he was like, "Where are you taking Baby? Stop, SEIZE HER! BRING BABY BACK!" It was freakin hilarious like no other…
Jared's face when he saw Baby…XP
- Jared was then asked how hard was it to work left-handed in The Christmas Cottage as Thomas Kinkade, and he proceeded to say he was basically a "gimp" with his left hand and can't do anything with it. A left-handed artist was brought on set to help Jared, but Jared said the man just kept on saying, "nope. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. No, " with every way Jared used his left hand. He then turned to the audience and was like, "Any lefties?" and about 30 of us (yup, I'm a leftie!) raised our hands and he did a power fist pump in the air and then proceeded to say into the mic, "FREAKS!!!!" meh, used to hearing that one…XP
Then it was time for the duo panel. Highlights:
-Jensen did this thing where he pretended to control the audience, so he raised his hands and we all cheered and then lowered them and we all stopped. He smirked at jared and then did it a couple of more times. Jared, not wanting to be outdone, nudges Jensen and is like "watch this" and then turned to the audience and was like, "where are all my lefties?!" and we raise our hands and then Jared turns back to Jensen as if to show that he totally won, but Jensen looked at him and just had this look on his face that clearly said he was not impressed. It then became a thing between them to manipulate the audience. At one point, Jensen made fun of Jared's hair, saying that it needs to be cut, thinking that the audience would cheer for this, but the audience was like, "NOOOOOOOOO!!! We love the hair!!!!" and Jared just smirks at Jensen and was like, "That sorta backfired…"…XP
- FUNNIEST QUESTION EVER (AND MOST RANDOM): A man went up to the mic and asked if the boys had ever had a stuffed Pickle with Fried rice…funny thing was, it wasn't even that funny…but Jared COMPLETLEY lost it laughing, and Jensen was laughing SO FREAKIN HARD he had to hide his face in his forearm and literally wiped away tears from his eyes…and watching the boys lose it so completely, the audience started to laugh uncontrollably…let's just say it was some crazy times in that room for a few minutes…and once Jensen finally controlled the tears and laughter, he was like, "I haaaaaaaate pickles…" and Jared was like to the audience, "who likes pickles?!" and a whole bunch of people raised their hands and then Jensen was like, "You disgust me…..I haaaaaaate pickles…" XD
first reaction to the pickle question…
Jensen having to wipe away the tears…XP
- At one point, a person dressed at the teddy bear in Wishful Thinking showed up (post- suicide attempt) and J2 lost it over that one as well…they were like, "this is the craziest thing to happen…" but Jared was like, "not to me…"…XP
- The boys were asked if they have experienced anything supernatural, and jared turned to Jensen and said "you", like to make Jensen answer, but Jensen was like, "Yeah, I'm out of this world…" It was pretty hilarious…
- ANOTHER FUNNY MOMENT: A woman brought a picture with her and asked if Jared could explain the circumstances behind it. Jensen went to grab it from the security guard, and when he looked at it, he almost lost it all over again. Like, he looked at jared and was like, "there better be a good story behind this one." He then asked for the camera to zoom into his hand and showed the picture of a shirtless jared wearing a cowboy hat and kissing a rooster, or whatever the heck it was. Jared literally was like, "WHERE DID YOU GET THAT?!?!?!" and was like, "HOW?!" Jensen just shook his head and was like, "I am so ashamed of you right now" and then proceeded to stick the picture on the inside of his shirt front and said, "I'm going to get a lot of mileage out of this one…"XD Jared explained that the pic was from Ft13 and he said he couldn't remember it much but that it was very early in the morning and he wasn't thinking clearly.
- at the end when the boys signed the banners on the stage, Jensen was annoyed that Jared signed so high up, so he grabbed his chair and stood on it so his signature could be higher, and Jared then walked over and pretended to kick the chair down…pretty funny
General pics:
Anyway, I know there was way more, but I really can't remember the rest of J2 panels right now.
As for autographs, they took forever and the con was running late. Jensen was supposed to leave at 4:30, but he was trying to finish all the autopgraphs so his line was being really rushed so everyone could reach him. Jared's line was longer since he wasn't in a rush. Oh and Danneel was there, sitting behind Jensen for the autographs. I heard from another con-goer that they had a little bit of a spat over Danneel signing a TIH DVD, but my experience was better. I actually didn't notice her until I reached the table for Jared's line after getting Jensen's. I looked over at Jensen and saw Danneel, and I totally spazzed out because even though I don't watch One Tree Hill anymore, she was still Rachel from the show! So I thought I was calm about it and I turned to my friends and was like, "DUDE! It's Rachel from OTH!!!" and she must of heard because she looked up (from looking completely bored at whatever she was doing on her phone) and smiled over at me, as did Jensen! Guess I wasn't so chill about it…XD
When I reached jared, I asked to shake his hand and he did, and then winked at me. Pretty nice fellow..XP
But now here is the story of the little girl I made funny faces with during the weekend: (We nicknamed her Matilda because she looked like Matilda from the movie) When her mom reached jensen's table, Matilda hid behind her mom, and Jensen leaned over and waved at her and was smiling, trying to get her to come over to him, but she continued to hide. When the mom reached jared, she still hid, and Jared turned to Jensen and was like, "we got a hider" and then they both proceeded to get her out from behind her mom. Jensen was like, "I seeeeeee yoooooou……I seeeeeee yoooooooooouu". It was pretty adorable….hehe…^_^
and since this is too long...to be continued...