BA's annual tribute to halloween

I posted this last year, and the year before....AND THE YEAR before...
So here  it is, the annual costume countdown:

2006: Not just downtrodden pluto, SEXY Downtrodden pluto.

This was halloween night. me and papper ended up at alanna's amazing halloween party when hoards of tribute bands in full costume took the stage for 10 minutes a piece. I got kicked in the face by a crowd-surfing wolfman during the misfits. It was awesome.more pix here.

FYI - this party is happening again this year, and I'm DJing. COME!

PLuto wasn't my original costume idea. Me and Dee thought it would be hilarious to dress as the wonder twins.
Upon getting into costume at my pad for my party, I realized it's not a good idea to dress up as your aerobic instructor friend unless you too are an aerobic instructor. a 1/2 hour before the party, we aborted mission and raided my closet.


more pics from that party here.

2005-

Primary: Me, Lil Dee, LauRenn and Steph dressed up as the crew from Heathers.

SEcondary: Space Slut. (I also transformed lauRenn into a Space Slut in 2 minutes.

Tertiary: (Work party costume - the theme was dead celebrities)

I dressed as the Cake we commisioned minty to make:

Minty is awesome.

2004 - curling fury 

 It was awesome being a part of a beligerent gang, and administering the "Sweep DOwn" on anyone who got in our way. We went to the warriors party, then a few more, but still kept that gang mentality.

2003 - Rebound Girl!

Fun year. The Vic Thrill Salon made a float for the village parade. it was so ghetto.

Plus, the generator busted and we went 1/2 the route without any power till Vic and Rizzo ran to a local bar to borrow theirs. They carried this generator across the west village and rocked out the rest of the route. Then there's the whole story behind "rebound girl" and running into the inspiration  for my costume at an after-party. You know, MR "I think your really cool but my girlfriend called and she says we're not broken up anymore" - but thats another story. More pix here

2002 - Space Monkey

This was also a fun year. OK, when is halloween not fun? Once again, I had 2 parties to go to. For one I was a "good" space monkey:

and for the other party, I was an "evil" space monkey:

We threw a party at Showworld (worse place ever to throw a party btw) But I did get to do a haunted house installation. Basically it was video of BUSH doing his state of the union with blood curdling screams as the audio. I also had skeletons hanging from the ceiling with supermodel faces.  But the best part about this halloween was the night before, when I got to dress up, but only I was on stage with the fucking flaming lips - and opening for beck!

2001 - Cyndi Lauper
2000 - Cyborg

Don't have any pics handy from these 2, but these years will be immortalized on a few different mediums. We made our own parade around the village, but this was also the time we were hanging with Curly Oxide.

They'll be a book, a feature film and a doc. We'll see if they hold a candle to my blog.

1999 - Hyperactive retard

hehehe. I was also on a leash that my friend kevin was holding. I also had bloody band-aids on my knees. I was totally hyper that night and we passed Joan Jett on the street. She laughed her ass off at me. AWESOME.

This pic was actually taken a few months later for "Salon Class Photo Day" - everybody insisted I bring her back.

1998 - Booty Star Galactica, Intergalactic superhero, porn star extraordinaire.

That's my sidekick, Theadora (aka my pa Marci). We tore up the streets of NYC that night constantly running around like maniacs screaming and shooting people. We caught probably my favorite Bogmen show at the Bowery Ballroom, then some nutty party on the LES. ( mind you at this point, the only bars on ludlow street were the luna lounge & max fish)

I became so obsessed with this costume, people started calling me booty star for at least 2 years after that. No shit.

1997 - A huka

Me and Natasha and Janine were gonna be a huka smoking catepillar (us crazy stoney-hippy college kids), but Janine flaked so we were just a huka and a mushroom.

I got a real kick out of this pic I found of Natasha doing her make-up. Check out my crazy art school room!

The prose painted on the mirror and the psychedelic figure drawings. Thats definitly a Marley poster in the back. And I believe that black & white photo is Ahmet Zappa. I was gaga over him and actually thought i had a chance because he was a D celebrity. BUt my favorite has to be the toiletries & make-up sharing space with the cans of spray paint, and rubber cement and acetone.

1996 - Blue Meanie - This was before they re-released yellow submarine (us crazy stoney college kids!), so everyone was calling me and natasha blue balls

But we didn't have it as bad as Janine, who was the nowhere man, yet i think someone actually called her a zit.

1995- gogo girl - Can you believe it? Me! a gogo girl!

I couldn't find a full body shot, but I was definitly rocking the boots. And then I realized I can dress like this all the time. And I started to.

1994- Snap, as in snap, crackle and pop.
I made all those costumes. And I was so excited about it, when someone asked me about halloween, I'd spit out "We're gonna be CRACK, SNAPPLE, & POT"

1993- some incarnation of beetlejuice

Before that it gets all fuzzy.

I was smurfette one year...

An in fourth grade I was a marshmallow (although everyone thought I was a washing machine). .

 Oh shit, I was donnie warlberg one year from my beloved NKOTB (did I mention I'm the coolest person most of you know), but ended up donnie covered in shaving cream and eggs.

 

I think I was a bumble bee one year.

Then 2-3 years i was different incarnations of a punk.



And about 3 -4 years in a row I was different incarnations of an alien.

 

Sidenote: One of my good friends in who I knew most of my life, Mary Scally (or crackle of snap, crackle and pop fame) had an awesome quote.

"You know that one costume you were as a kid? The one you repeated 3-4 years in a row? Well I think that says a lot about who you grow up to be. Like, Beth, you were always an alien and you're a fucking freak, and I was always a princess and I think I'm great."

BEST. HOLIDAY. EVER.

I mean, come on, I was raised on this shit. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Miale's circa 1970-something...