AM~Erica Experiences the Music Project

So anyway...

We have been having quite the day, so far. Can you tell? And loving every minute of it so far!

But we are actually going to move into checking out what the whole museum actually is...it's about the music!

Welcome to the EMP Museum (Experience Music Project). This is a place where you can see & hear music that began in Seattle.

You know...like...

Jimi Hendrix:

We also got to go thru a whole exhibit based on AC/DC! Check out some of Angus Young's costumery on display:

With hubby & I being prodigies of the 80's, seeing Eddie Van Halen's iconic guitar was so exciting!!

We also took a moment to get a cheesy photo opp of pretending we were on the AC/DC stage! And we rocked it:

Hubby hitting his best hot guitarist pose

Lil Guy rocks it out

Teen Boy has appropriately hit a grunge pose without realizing it...
As close to the Nirvana scene as this post will get.
(bad Gen X'r parents)

Teen Girl bustin' out her own tunes

I, of course, had to hit my ultimate rocker pose!

Plus we formed a family rock group & did a rock group experience thing. There's a video of our group, Leave Me Out of It (it's a phrase that Teen Girl gave while trying to get out of doing this activity...Bwah-hahahaha!), as we "performed" Joan Jett's "I Love Rock & Roll". Plus there's a poster of us wandering around...but it mysteriously disappeared. Which is fine, y'all. But it was still fun!

There was also a place in there where you could test out all kinds of percussion sounds & do some recording studio type stuff!

Teen Girl testing out her song skills. That was so much fun to watch her.
I think it's definitely in her future...

Lil Guy getting to beat on some drums & work off some energy & boredom *face palm*

Also...I, of course, had to get a picture of one of the sounds you could test:

"I've got a fever..." and you all know this is the only prescription:

LOL!!! Teen Girl found it above the exit of the room. Loved it!

The last exhibit we went thru had to do with the movie "Avatar"...yes the blue people from Na'vi. Not many pictures due to lighting...but here's some of the plants & concept heads used:

It was a full day just being there. Wish we had more time to do stuff that day. But had been an exhausting & fun-filled day, for sure!

Stay tuned...

God Bless, AM~Erica

AM~Erica Finds the Horror in the Music

So anyway...

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As we were having an amazing time at the EMP museum, and totally geeked & freaked in the Icons of Science Fiction exhibit, it moved right into a very creepy exhibit...it was all about horror flicks...

It was dark & set up kind of like being lost in a forest. Many pics that I got didn't really turn out due to the extra low lighting throughout. However, there was some pretty cool stuff.

And, I would like to point out that I am very happy there were no birds anywhere in there. I might have died of a heart attack, landing in an ugly puddle of something. So...we all survived!

Teen Girl with the mask & machete of Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th movies

The ax used by Jack Nicholson in "The Shining"

The glove of Freddy Krueger in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movie series
and the gloves of Edward Scissorhands
(no...I have no idea why the scissorhands were in this exhibit, but they were Johnny Depp's...so...what)

One of the iconic costumes used on one of the zombies of the Thriller mini-movie

Hubby & the kiddos doing the Thriller dance (kind of) with the Thriller zombie costume

A movie being shown on the floor, so Teen Girl played dead in it.
Hey, it's about the horror of it, right?

This screen was SO cool! This is the kids in front of a projector that would give their silhouettes
extra hair, eyes, birds, strange bubbles, etc. on this shadow wall. It was AWESOME!

One of the most awesome parts of the exhibit was doing the "Scream Booth". It was like a photo booth that would record pictures of you screaming. You had to pick being either "fight" or "flight" (otherwise choosing predator or victim).

Teen Girl screaming

Teen Boy screaming

Lil Guy screaming

And once you picked which screaming picture was best, it was added to the ongoing digital display while the horror exhibit was there. All three kids showed up together...

Hubby took a turn...

...and he was SCARY!!

My turn inside the scream booth

My pic in the scream digital exhibit with Teen Boy
(look familiar? See my opening photo.)

This exhibit was kind of weird, kind of creepy, but still kind of cool. It was a traveling exhibit that left the EMP at the beginning of September.

But the museum continues...time to check out some Seattle music...

Stay tuned...

God Bless, AM~Erica

AM~Erica Has Been Geekily Looking Forward to This

So anyway...

We now have full bellies of yummylicious pizza...we are now headed to the one place hubby & I have been counting down for WEEKS to get to...

Wanna know where?

Well...do you wanna?

DO YOU?????

I got to get my geek girl on again. How you ask? My going to the EMP (Experience Music Project) Museum! It's a place that showcases Seattle-based musicians & some interactive exhibits, too.

And...

AND????

AND...they just acquired an ongoing exhibit of of Icons of Science Fiction!! *happy dance*

Part of this exhibit includes a holy grail of much of the science fiction world...well part of mine anyway...

This, my friends, is what I geek-girl squealed & cried over when I saw it...Captain Kirk's chair from Star Trek The Original Series! It was pretty glassed off...so we couldn't sit in it...*sigh*

Hubby in his best James T. Kirk pose & I giving LLAP sign...

that I've been trained to do since childhood.)

And around Kirk's chair just happened to be something else iconic from ST-TOS:

...TRIBBLES!!!!!!! Loved it!!

And...I about left a puddle when I saw THIS displayed right next to The Chair and Tribbles:

That excitement on my face is not a pose...that's the real deal. I almost peed my pants when I came this close to Lt. Uhurah's dress & earpiece!!!! My heart really did skip a beat, I think.

And to keep up the Trek Geek Girl in me...

...in a showcase of Sci-Fi weapons, there was a Klingon bat'leth used in The Next Generation! I prefer to believe Worf used it. Don't try to tell me otherwise!

And here is Data's uniform, also from TNG (in case you're aren't familiar with the canons). I was so excited, I wanted to hug it the best I could...but it was in a glass case, too. And, according to the picture, I became Tasha Yar for just a moment. And I would like for you to note that hubby took the pic. So we were unaware of how exactly the pic turned out until WAY later. D'oh!

We saw things from the Matrix movies (like Neo's coat from :Reloaded), Independence Day (aka ID4), and Men in Black...

And...AND???
I got to get my Star Wars Geekiness on again!!

From Star Wars, this is. Belonging to Yoda, this necklace & cane did.

Darth Vader's light saber used during the, "NO! I am your father!" fight scene with Luke.

Demasked Vader-back-to-Anakin headpiece from death scene.

And this moving on...was...SUPERMAN!!! One worn by Christopher Reeves in the 4th of the series:

The boys were inspired to stand in their best kimbo pose...
and Lil Guy unintentionally wearing a very appropriate shirt

And we ran into...The Tew-mah-nay-tah:

We also came across something that Teen Girl burst into her fan-girl tears & squeals:

Teen Girl posed with a dalek used in Dr. Who. So this is for all of you Whovians out there! And remember that bowtie she bought at Pike Place? Yep...she's wearing it. And, no, the dalek did not exclaim, "Exterminate!"

Then, on the outer part of the museum, I saw this...and had to take pause...uh...to pose...

OK...realized I could see my reflection...so still needed to give the LLAP sign...DUH!

And off we stumbled to the Horror Exhibit nearly connected...

Stay tuned...

God Bless, AM~Erica