So, Halloween/October is my favorite time of year ever. I wish I could have enjoyed it more, what with being all stressed out about one thing or another. I am currently at work on this fine All Hallows Eve, waiting on a script that won't come for untold hours. No trick or treating for me. (Yay, another maudlin, self-pitying post from Surly. "Something good had to happen this month, didn't it?" he asked himself in some bizarre self-reflexive third person.)
"Why yes, funny you should ask," he replied in response... to himself.
Friday, me and my gal went to see the Johnny Vatos Tribute to Oingo Boingo show at the House of Blues on Sunset. I love me the Boingo and to see a great many of those tunes performed by the original band (minus Danny) was totally awesome. I drank, I danced, I sang real loud.
And when it's all been said and done . . .
Better that you had some fun
Instead of hiding in a shell-Why make your life a living hell?
So have a toast, and down the cup
And drink to bones that turn to dust ('cause) . . .
No one, no one, no one, no one . . . . . . .
No one lives forever!! (Hey!)
Words to live by! Dammit!
On Saturday went to a Halloween party. Since there would be people who work in TV there I went as a zombie Aaron Spelling. He smoked a pipe and would you believe finding a (cheap) old man pipe is quite the challenge. Every smoke shop in LA has a billion glass weed pipes, but there's no love for the Ward Cleaver pipe. Go figure. My gal went as Nikki from Videodrome, with fake cigarette burns and everything. While our costumes weren't perfect, we certainly did our darndest to work in as many cool details as we could. I'd put up a picture, but I have to get them from our friend first (see previous post about our deceased camera.)
Sunday, we lit a bunch of candles in all our Halloween-themed holders and watched "Black Sheep." It's a mutant/killer sheep from New Zealand. A fun flick...and now my woman is freaked out every time I 'baa-aaa" near here...so I do it every chance I get.
"Why yes, funny you should ask," he replied in response... to himself.
Friday, me and my gal went to see the Johnny Vatos Tribute to Oingo Boingo show at the House of Blues on Sunset. I love me the Boingo and to see a great many of those tunes performed by the original band (minus Danny) was totally awesome. I drank, I danced, I sang real loud.
And when it's all been said and done . . .
Better that you had some fun
Instead of hiding in a shell-Why make your life a living hell?
So have a toast, and down the cup
And drink to bones that turn to dust ('cause) . . .
No one, no one, no one, no one . . . . . . .
No one lives forever!! (Hey!)
Words to live by! Dammit!
On Saturday went to a Halloween party. Since there would be people who work in TV there I went as a zombie Aaron Spelling. He smoked a pipe and would you believe finding a (cheap) old man pipe is quite the challenge. Every smoke shop in LA has a billion glass weed pipes, but there's no love for the Ward Cleaver pipe. Go figure. My gal went as Nikki from Videodrome, with fake cigarette burns and everything. While our costumes weren't perfect, we certainly did our darndest to work in as many cool details as we could. I'd put up a picture, but I have to get them from our friend first (see previous post about our deceased camera.)
Sunday, we lit a bunch of candles in all our Halloween-themed holders and watched "Black Sheep." It's a mutant/killer sheep from New Zealand. A fun flick...and now my woman is freaked out every time I 'baa-aaa" near here...so I do it every chance I get.
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DUDE...Zombie Aaron Spelling? That's AWESOME!!!!
I'm sorry I'm so far behind the times but I have to say wow...I wish I had cable so I could see this Flash Gordon you worked on. I am also curious as to the flavor of a Rift Blaster.
Sorry to hear your new married life has had so many outside stresses. But it's great to hear that you two are happy in spite of the madness and very much in love.
I hope that this whole strike thing gets settled favorably very very soon. Because it's just not right and it hasn't been right for awhile and it needs to change for the better for you guys. Cause you guys work your asses off...but I don't have to tell you that. These blogs are evidence enough.
So yeah. Solidarity (even though technically theatre people and tv/film/media people aren't the same union. What evs.)
Big hugs to fight the stresses!