Halloween!!! And Devil's Night (the night before Halloween, when we attended the party)!! I'm pretty excited to report about the big party despite the fact that I slept through most of it. I actually thought Mom and Dad would be upset that I slept through the event, but they actually told me I was a really good girl. One man's lazy is another man's good. Although it wasn't laziness on my part, just sleepiness - there was a lot going on the last couple days. So Mom and Dad took me down to Reading on Thursday night to set up for the party, and I got to hang out with Jay and Hallie again. Dad set up his DJ booth, and Jay and Hallie finished with some last decoration details. The outdoor movie projector was set up and tested, and it was soon time to head back home. The next day, Mom helped Dad do his make-up for work. See, this was a special day for Mom and Dad because they transformed into different people. Mom put on her Merlotte's server uniform and became Sookie Stackhouse from HBO's True Blood. Dad freshened up his arm and chest tattoos, put on his make-up and linens, popped in his fangs, and became Godric the 2,000+ year old vampire from the same show. They made a strange couple since Sookie was actually William Compton's girl (and sometimes Sheriff Eric's in her dreams), but love connections are strange affairs. Perhaps she was drawn to his love of humanity and self-sacrifice. And one look into her beautiful eyes makes it obvious why he was drawn to her. Either way, they were no longer themselves by dark. And I wasn't quite myself, either. When we got to Reading I was transformed into a Gothling - an infant with predelections toward the morbid and punk side of life. I wore some sweet leg-warmers and super-sweet purple-stitched black vinyl shoes. And, to top it all off, Mom painted my nails with some dark purple nail polish to complete my "let's visit a cemetary at night and write some poetry" look. We made a dark and awesome family and fit in well within the dark and brooding Corby household. The decorations were extreme and everywhere. You couldn't find a part of the house that didn't contain a figment of a dark imagination brought to bloody, thrashing life. From the mason specimen jars containing bloody body parts scattered throughout the house, to the severed feet hanging from the bloody shower curtain in the bathroom, to the torture chamber in the basement, to the creepy portraits and scratch marks lining the walls, the atmosphere couldn't have been creepier if it were Ed Gein's farm-house. Actually, that place is probably pretty creepy, but the point I'm trying to make is that nightmares had given birth to interior design within these walls, and it made for an excellent Halloween party.
So here's the good news and the bad news. The good news - I'm going to let pictures tell some of the story for me, so I included a lot of them in this post. The bad news - I'm not in many of the pictures. Sorry. As I said, I fell asleep early into the evening and that was the end of pictures for me (except for the picture of me cashed out in the yellow sleeper - that picture is from Sunday afternoon, when I got a chance to get some good sleep). So, let me post the pictures of me first. That way, if you are here for pictures of me you can get your fill without having to read the rest. If you are here to also find out about the party, you can do that too, but first - pictures of me:
So those are the photos of me this time around. I hope you enjoyed them. I enjoyed taking the ones in which I was awake. Now for the party. I'll group the pictures into a few different categories. First, the people. Everyone at the party was not themselves. Jay and Hallie, for instance, had become Jessica (the vampire Bill Compton created in 'True Blood') and Tyler Durden from 'Fight Club'. And Dad and Hallie weren't the only vampires at the party. There was also a scary red-eyed vampire who was actually a published author on the subject! Who else was there? Among those in attendance were Quail Man from Nickelodeon's 'Doug', a couple officers of the law, Kevin from 'The Office' (wearing his patented tissue-box shoes), a Mexican Bandito, Charlie, Mack, and Dennis from 'It's Always Sunny' (Green Man also showed up to dance at one point), a hunter, The Wicked Witch of the West, Bat Girl (who was happy to learn from Dad that she did actually exist - in the comics - and was Commissioner Gordon's daughter Barbara, an intelligent investigator who eventually goes on to become The Oracle after The Joker paralyzes her with a bullet to the spine), The Burger King, a demoness, a monster, and even Borat! It was quite a collection of characters.
Next, a quick look at some of the decorations I mentioned earlier, as this sets the stage on which the cast of characters played the night away:
And even though I slumbered the night away in a bedroom, I was located directly above the DJ booth and was able to hear the music in my dreams. Was it an iPod playlist that vibrated the walls throughout the night? Nay. Well, sometimes. But when he wasn't on a break it was my dad who periodically transformed from Godric the vampire into DJ Hazbro! He does it old-school, with 2 turntables and a microphone:
And one thing I've learned in my short time here: where there is beer and music, there is a party. And in this case, there was a keg, a DJ, a beer pong/flipcup table, an outdoor movie theater (playing the greats like 'Evil Dead 2' and 'Planet Terror'), and snacks. So, yes, there was partying:
And at the end of the night the keg was empty, the records stopped spinning, the characters made their way to whence they came, the lights were extinguished, and the hosts found their way to bed to sleep perchance to dream.
The next day we had a relaxing morning reliving the night and watching YouTube videos (you have to check out 'Chad After Dentist' - the video response to 'David After Dentist' - hilarious!). Dad packed up the DJ booth, Mom packed up the bedroom, and we all went out for Thai with Jay and Hallie, where Mom and Dad learned a fun new knife trick - well, Mom learned it, I don't think Dad ever got it. Then we did a bit of shopping and headed home. Somehow it still turned out to be a long day for all of us, and we only made it to about half-time of the OSU/Texas game before sleep overcame us like an avalanche. The game was getting hard to watch anyway. If you don't know the ending to that story, I won't tell you, as I didn't like it the first time around. And Sunday was a day of rest, where I got to update the blog, and Dad got to catch up on some Ghost Adventures. So far, Halloween is definitely my favorite holiday. But I have heard good things about both Thanksgiving and Christmas, so we'll see how those go. In the meantime, I'll tell Dad to get back to taking Azja pictures now that he doesn't have to practice mixing every night. The next blog entry should be all me : ) Yay!
So those are the photos of me this time around. I hope you enjoyed them. I enjoyed taking the ones in which I was awake. Now for the party. I'll group the pictures into a few different categories. First, the people. Everyone at the party was not themselves. Jay and Hallie, for instance, had become Jessica (the vampire Bill Compton created in 'True Blood') and Tyler Durden from 'Fight Club'. And Dad and Hallie weren't the only vampires at the party. There was also a scary red-eyed vampire who was actually a published author on the subject! Who else was there? Among those in attendance were Quail Man from Nickelodeon's 'Doug', a couple officers of the law, Kevin from 'The Office' (wearing his patented tissue-box shoes), a Mexican Bandito, Charlie, Mack, and Dennis from 'It's Always Sunny' (Green Man also showed up to dance at one point), a hunter, The Wicked Witch of the West, Bat Girl (who was happy to learn from Dad that she did actually exist - in the comics - and was Commissioner Gordon's daughter Barbara, an intelligent investigator who eventually goes on to become The Oracle after The Joker paralyzes her with a bullet to the spine), The Burger King, a demoness, a monster, and even Borat! It was quite a collection of characters.
Next, a quick look at some of the decorations I mentioned earlier, as this sets the stage on which the cast of characters played the night away:
And even though I slumbered the night away in a bedroom, I was located directly above the DJ booth and was able to hear the music in my dreams. Was it an iPod playlist that vibrated the walls throughout the night? Nay. Well, sometimes. But when he wasn't on a break it was my dad who periodically transformed from Godric the vampire into DJ Hazbro! He does it old-school, with 2 turntables and a microphone:
And one thing I've learned in my short time here: where there is beer and music, there is a party. And in this case, there was a keg, a DJ, a beer pong/flipcup table, an outdoor movie theater (playing the greats like 'Evil Dead 2' and 'Planet Terror'), and snacks. So, yes, there was partying:
And at the end of the night the keg was empty, the records stopped spinning, the characters made their way to whence they came, the lights were extinguished, and the hosts found their way to bed to sleep perchance to dream.
The next day we had a relaxing morning reliving the night and watching YouTube videos (you have to check out 'Chad After Dentist' - the video response to 'David After Dentist' - hilarious!). Dad packed up the DJ booth, Mom packed up the bedroom, and we all went out for Thai with Jay and Hallie, where Mom and Dad learned a fun new knife trick - well, Mom learned it, I don't think Dad ever got it. Then we did a bit of shopping and headed home. Somehow it still turned out to be a long day for all of us, and we only made it to about half-time of the OSU/Texas game before sleep overcame us like an avalanche. The game was getting hard to watch anyway. If you don't know the ending to that story, I won't tell you, as I didn't like it the first time around. And Sunday was a day of rest, where I got to update the blog, and Dad got to catch up on some Ghost Adventures. So far, Halloween is definitely my favorite holiday. But I have heard good things about both Thanksgiving and Christmas, so we'll see how those go. In the meantime, I'll tell Dad to get back to taking Azja pictures now that he doesn't have to practice mixing every night. The next blog entry should be all me : ) Yay!See you soon,
Azja Kathleen
