you look so absurd, you look so obscene
Halloween... traditionally, one of my favorite holidays. However, my zest for halloweening has been steadily declining -- due to apathy? soul-sucking aspects of growing old? who knows. -- I just haven't been up to speed in coming up with creative costume ideas. This year I used two different last minute jobbies, both of which weren't even mine. Thursday, got some "Hello my name is" tags and wrote different names on them, wore them all, and went as an identity crisis. (Via Google) Sad, I know. Yesterday, an idea cribbed from someone at a 727Myrtle party, the generic Price is Right contestant (I don't even remember whose costume this was.) So much for originality.
I actually sat down and wrote a list of my past costumes, just mulling over past 'weens, and their corresponding photos (I have a LOT.)
While a full illustrated retrospective would take too long, I figured I could at least share one... So, here you go, an idea born out of a discussion with Dan H. about how so many ska bands have the word "SKA" in their names, like SKAnkin' Pickle and.... uh, The Toasters. Er, no. Uhm....the PieTasters. No. OK, I can't think of any more right now. But I swear, there seemed to be a bunch at the time. Anyway, true to our geeky liberal-artsy-fartsy selves, we were The PhiloSKAphers. Yes, we were. And we had nametags reading "NietzchSKA" and "DeSKArtes" and "SKAcrates"... I forget the others. But yes, we did. $10 spent on plaid shit at Salvation Army, and you're done.
See?
Y mas aquí. (Why I just used two different photo-uploading thingees, I don't know. I am that A.D.D., I guess.)
Speaking of which, back to making figures for my poster (woo-hee!)
Happy halloween kids.
I actually sat down and wrote a list of my past costumes, just mulling over past 'weens, and their corresponding photos (I have a LOT.)
While a full illustrated retrospective would take too long, I figured I could at least share one... So, here you go, an idea born out of a discussion with Dan H. about how so many ska bands have the word "SKA" in their names, like SKAnkin' Pickle and.... uh, The Toasters. Er, no. Uhm....the PieTasters. No. OK, I can't think of any more right now. But I swear, there seemed to be a bunch at the time. Anyway, true to our geeky liberal-artsy-fartsy selves, we were The PhiloSKAphers. Yes, we were. And we had nametags reading "NietzchSKA" and "DeSKArtes" and "SKAcrates"... I forget the others. But yes, we did. $10 spent on plaid shit at Salvation Army, and you're done.
See?
Y mas aquí. (Why I just used two different photo-uploading thingees, I don't know. I am that A.D.D., I guess.)
Speaking of which, back to making figures for my poster (woo-hee!)
Happy halloween kids.
posted by Nicole at Monday, October 31, 2005
8 Comments:
AriSKAtle (Regnier)
ZarathuSKA (my ex)
Gwen Stephani, even though she's not really a philosopher (Dan, though I am guessing that's one's pretty easy to spot)
hee hee
damn my coat was GREEEEEEN!
Wasn't it Gwen SKAphani?
This was hilarious. I think I still have the plaid jacket I didn't wear that night.
And Nicole, just to support the "s-k-a in the name" thing, Cara has the compilation CD called "California SKA-Quake," which pretty much takes that to the extreme.
What?! The word "ska" doesn't even SOUND like or SLANT RHYME with "earth."
I'm sure a college somewhere teaches a philosophy of No Doubt.
Or not.
SKAtellites! I remembered another!
OK. I don't know why I didn't just google "ska band names" earlier...
but anyway, this is funny: http://www.i-mockery.com/ska/ska-bands.htm
I'm really going to go back to work now.
at least you have a poster to make figures for. :( sniff...sniff.
Ok darlin'
I saw it with my own eyes.
You got your wish! Sephora's going to open at the Green Hills Mall!
Hot damn. Sephora. Here. I'll be made up, perfumey, and broke in no time.
Reecently, I've become infautated with the writings of SKA-lan Watts.
*titter*
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