Halloween!
Nov. 1st, 2008 02:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseHalloween has a reputation for being the ultimate party night in Juneau, so, being finally in possession of some bar-hopping experience, and since Monica wanted to go, I thought I'd check it out.
It was...pretty damn crazy. Awesome, too, in large part thanks to a very on-the-ball staff at the (two) bars we went to. I didn't drink anything but water, but still had a great time just dancing and people-watching. And I did manage to squeeze into the karaoke queue at the Viking - "Baby Got Back" is way too much fun to sing when you've got an active crowd doing the responses. I just wish I'd known the words better so I could've made more eye contact with the audience.
Monica had asked if she could borrow my leather corset and platform boots, and when she was trying them on with a black peasant skirt of hers I had a brain wave. I proceeded to make her a hood and capelet out of some red velvet I'd had lying around for a while; all told, she made an excellent Goth Red Riding Hood (pictures coming as soon as Brian gets them processed). I just wore my 80s rocker outfit again, but it was awesome enough already. (Come to think of it, maybe I should've done "The Final Countdown"...)
Some other highlights of the evening:
--A dude who could really rock the crotch-on-barbed-wire vocals doing "Back in Black", while a micro-kilted and wigged Angus Young looked on
--A girl who was absolutely convinced, in her world, that she was singing a beautiful rendition of Faith Hill's "Breathe", despite the fact that to the rest of us it sounded like she was alternately groaning and gargling into the microphone
--A chick in a wedding gown covered in Alaska Airlines baggage stickers with a sash made of Priority Mail tape
--Three different Sarah Palin lookalikes, two mediocre and one uncannily good
--A dude in a full-body suit of empty Budweiser boxes (the "Bud-Bot")
--A woman in a near-movie-quality Queen Elizabeth I outfit
--A guy pulling a Karate Kid, complete with towel around the neck, scrub brush and rubber duck
--A guy in a baseball jersey with a Wheaties box built around it
--A chick in a super-short fluffy-skirted Strawberry Shortcake costume - with the legs to pull it off
--Several excellent riffs on various traditional themes - pirates, princesses, cartoon characters, bunnies, devils
Earlier in the night we'd had Chris & Jeanne over to play Dead Space (an appropriately ghoulish game, I think), and one of the guys Brian's been working with lately stopped by with his son and played with them. So even though I was out late and C&J had to go home early, I wasn't leaving Brian alone, which was nice. I always feel a bit guilty about that, even though he insists he doesn't mind.
I'll also have to put up pictures of Brian's annual pumpkin extravaganza. He got a 120 pound giant for a particularly special idea...
Unfortunately, all fun things must eventually end, so I guess it's time for me to go clean off all this makeup. Still, it's been a great time. If holidays (and everything else) are what you make of them, I must be doing a better job making them fun this year.
It was...pretty damn crazy. Awesome, too, in large part thanks to a very on-the-ball staff at the (two) bars we went to. I didn't drink anything but water, but still had a great time just dancing and people-watching. And I did manage to squeeze into the karaoke queue at the Viking - "Baby Got Back" is way too much fun to sing when you've got an active crowd doing the responses. I just wish I'd known the words better so I could've made more eye contact with the audience.
Monica had asked if she could borrow my leather corset and platform boots, and when she was trying them on with a black peasant skirt of hers I had a brain wave. I proceeded to make her a hood and capelet out of some red velvet I'd had lying around for a while; all told, she made an excellent Goth Red Riding Hood (pictures coming as soon as Brian gets them processed). I just wore my 80s rocker outfit again, but it was awesome enough already. (Come to think of it, maybe I should've done "The Final Countdown"...)
Some other highlights of the evening:
--A dude who could really rock the crotch-on-barbed-wire vocals doing "Back in Black", while a micro-kilted and wigged Angus Young looked on
--A girl who was absolutely convinced, in her world, that she was singing a beautiful rendition of Faith Hill's "Breathe", despite the fact that to the rest of us it sounded like she was alternately groaning and gargling into the microphone
--A chick in a wedding gown covered in Alaska Airlines baggage stickers with a sash made of Priority Mail tape
--Three different Sarah Palin lookalikes, two mediocre and one uncannily good
--A dude in a full-body suit of empty Budweiser boxes (the "Bud-Bot")
--A woman in a near-movie-quality Queen Elizabeth I outfit
--A guy pulling a Karate Kid, complete with towel around the neck, scrub brush and rubber duck
--A guy in a baseball jersey with a Wheaties box built around it
--A chick in a super-short fluffy-skirted Strawberry Shortcake costume - with the legs to pull it off
--Several excellent riffs on various traditional themes - pirates, princesses, cartoon characters, bunnies, devils
Earlier in the night we'd had Chris & Jeanne over to play Dead Space (an appropriately ghoulish game, I think), and one of the guys Brian's been working with lately stopped by with his son and played with them. So even though I was out late and C&J had to go home early, I wasn't leaving Brian alone, which was nice. I always feel a bit guilty about that, even though he insists he doesn't mind.
I'll also have to put up pictures of Brian's annual pumpkin extravaganza. He got a 120 pound giant for a particularly special idea...
Unfortunately, all fun things must eventually end, so I guess it's time for me to go clean off all this makeup. Still, it's been a great time. If holidays (and everything else) are what you make of them, I must be doing a better job making them fun this year.
