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I was sure that Halloween would suck. The girlfriend of the older lesbian Eric plays with (he's in TWO different lesbian fronted bands. word.) mentioned that I'd like the band that would be headlining the Rhythm Room. She had shown me pics of this band previously and I thought they would rock. The band, Liviya Compean, is fronted by an impressive hottie (eclectic/goth grrl, mature, god lyrics and a wailing voice). Her brother is on drums, her father plays horns and flute, various percussion etc, there is a male rhythm guitarist (Liviya on lead) and a female bassist. The pic I saw of them had Liviya playing a flying-v, on her knees, bent backward wailing away with just wild hair.... The same woman (her name's Mad, she runs www.gogirlsmusic.com check it out) said this band would be playing Halloween so I figured that's where Eric and I would end up. I don't like not having plans for Halloween. There's ALWAYS been some major blow-out end-all party, even the years I was stuck working the haunted house till 2am (oh that was the best party, substitute miranda!). This year there were no plans, so I was worried. Halloween's very important to me and I've been in such a funk lately that it was extra important that things go well. They actually did.... I reverted to that old Halloween costume stand-by 'The Crow'. Though this is the first time I had black hair (I have mentioned I dyed my hair black a couple weeks ago, right?). I sewed the lace back onto my black bustier. It's black vinyl (cheapo patent leather). I wore my black jeans and my steel-toe doc martens and Eric had bought me some black tights with white skulls on them so I wore those as a shirt, had on my push up bra so my titties were just like KABLOWIE!! What topped it all off was Eric's leather biker jacket. The make up looked awesome. I was a serious hottie. Eric was originally going to be a dead soldier but I couldn't find any woochie bullet holes and they were out of liquid latex so what I did get woulda still been ok but without the latex it wouldn't have looked right and Eric would have ended up sweating off the make up and the blood woulda stained his cool military man outfit. The make-up kit I got for myself was for a pirate, it was cheaper to buy a kit and that kit included all the colors I needed for the Crow (white, black, red), Eric ended up wearing the pirate patch and going as a mercenary. For accesories he brought the air pistol and I had a toy (yet good looking) ninja sword. The first band was echoset and they were awesome (www.echosettheband.com) After they were done the sound man announced there would be a pumpkin carving contest and the most pornographic pumpkin would win. Eric and I went out front and started carving our own porn.... What's funny is that I had gotten the idea that morning watching the Early Show or some other bubble gum prepackaged "news show" bullshit like that. They were showing 3-D pumpkins that had pictures carved in relief and then others actually were carved and folded outward, the one on the Tv was an owl and the wings were carved off the pumpkin, folded frward so it was flying.... so I did the same thing with a penis on my pumpkin. I carved the member in relief, shaving the skin off of the pumpkin around it. Then I sliced underneath it so it would fall forward. It ended up snapping off but I fixed it and it turned out better than I thought it would (I was a little tipsy after two stiff drinks, one of which I had to bolt at the door to be let outside, I was a little too tipsy to be brandishing TWO very sharp knives, or maybe not drunk enough... anyway....) Eric had carved a vagina, he even remembered the clit! So after pulling seeds out of my pumpkin and piling them up under its penis, then adding some to the vagina... positioning them so that it looked like a still life painting of a post-money shot porno.... Don't worry, we took pictures. I'll let you know when we get em developed and online.... So while I was perfecting the whole scene I noticed the other contestants were carving traditional pumpkin faces and that's when I was informed that the soundman was just being silly... that the whole "most pornographic wins" thing was a joke... "uhhh..." We ended up winning anyway. And they were VERY good prizes (first prize -the penis- was a $45 gift certificate to outback steakhouse, the second prize -the vagina- was a $20 certificate to some italian place. I entered the costume contest as well and was pissed because they never called me up there to be judged and when I was getting the gift certs from the girl who did the costume contest too she said "sorry I skipped you in the costume contest but I had a feeling you'd be going home with all the prizes...." there were better cotumes than mine (hotter looking chicks) anyway. mmmmm steak.

Always remember to quit while you're ahead.

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