halloween 2006 october 27, 2006

Holy shit, I just realized that with this entry, I Keep a Diary now spans ten years of my life! (The very first post I ever did was Halloween 1996!). Wow, just wow. So here it is, the 421st photo-installment of my life!

Halloween 2006 was pretty chill. It always sneaks up on my and I'm forced to come up with a costume at the very last minute possible - this year was pretty much my laziest costume ever (as I'm sure you'll see down below)

Past Halloweens include:
Halloween 1996 - The Very First Post I ever Made (10 years ago!)
Halloween 1997 - My Senior Year in College
Halloween1998 - Modem Media
Halloween 1999 - Visiting Boston
Halloween 2001 - Halloween Model Party
Halloween 2002 - Halloween Model Party Again!
Halloween 2003 - In Bas Vegas, Essex!
Halloween 2004 - In San Francisco!
Halloween 2005 - Random Parties in NYC



On Friday night, we decided to have invite a few people over for a last minute housewarming / Halloween party at our awesome new apartment!    tags: flyer halloween


Check out our living room all cleaned up and ready to party!    tags: 239 e 7th


Ratso and Roxy were climbing their cage in anticipation! Since getting them as pets, Meredith has sort of become obsessed with rats - which is which you probably saw this coming...


...she decided to be a rat for Halloween! Hahaha.


Check out the homemade cuteness. The costume's incomplete in this picture - her friend Mandy made her a rat-tail but hadn't brought it over yet.

edie the dog
We were dog-sitting Edie so we made sure we dressed her up in her best Bill Cosby sweater so she could be "Dog Cosby" for Halloween!    tags: edie dogs sweater


Usually, I wait until the day of Halloween and then I go to a costume store and concoct a costume based on whatever costume-dregs are left on the picked-clean shelves. When we decided to have a last-minute party on Friday (4 days before official Halloween), I was caught totally unprepared. I didn't feel like running to the costume store, so I instead decided to scrounge our apartment looking for things to use in my costume! I found some fake blood and decided to go as...

brian battjer
..."Somebody who just had a REALLY SERIOUS aneurysm!" (Worst Halloween costume EVER, I know!) But we told people that they should come in a costume and I at least had to pretend like I put in some effort after asking everyone else to dress up!)    tags: me aneurysm blood halloween


And....we're ready to party! Hahaha.


A little after 11pm, people started showing up. First guest: David Kreitman!

, catrinel bartolomeu
Then Catrinel and Sarah Harrison showed up together as chimney sweeps! SO AWESOME!    tags: catrinel sarah h chimney sweeps halloween


Mandy and Rosie opted for the symbiotic team-costume route and showed up as a "Lady Bug" and "The Plant that the Lady Bug Lives On!" Amazing!    tags: mandy o rosie halloween ladybug plant

meredith silverman
Here's Meredith showing off her "completed" costume after Mandy Mandy pinned-on the (sequined!) rat tail she'd made for Meredith!    tags: meredith halloween rats


Julia came as a NERD...    tags: julia li halloween nerd


...complete with "Kick Me!" sign on her back. Hahah.    tags: julia li halloween nerd

brandon reilly, sarah lewitinn
Sarah and Brandon showed up with...    tags: brandon sarah

edie the dog
...Monkey (who was also wearing a dog sweater!) and she and Edie were thick as (dog-wrestling) thieves for the rest of the night.    tags: edie dogs monkey sweater

, ellen hart
Sean and Ellen!    tags: ellen hart sean m

aileen puymano
Aileen's wearing a white, turtleneck knit-sweater, tights, a huge silver cross necklace and a Wii hat - and for the life of me, I can't figure out what the heck her costume is! Anyone want to venture a guess?    tags: aileen halloween

brian battjer
Somehow I accidentally ended up getting pretty drunk and didn't take too many photos of the party. Boo!    tags: me aneurysm blood halloween


A little after 1am, I acquiesced to party-crowd requests and broke out the old school XBox so that people could play Dance Dance Revolution!    tags: julia li DDR

aileen puymano, meredith silverman
Aileen and Meredith: THE DANCE OFF!    tags: aileen meredith DDR

edie the dog
Dogs! Fighting tiny dogs! (In sweaters!)    tags: edie dogs monkey sweater

sarah lewitinn
At some point during the night, Sarah discover that if you hold a cigarette out in front on Monkey, she'll take it and just hold it in her mouth like she's a smoker! Hahahaha.    tags: sarah dogs monkey smoke

sarah lewitinn
This photo makes me laugh so hard. I love how Monkey looks all stiff and fake like Sarah's holding some sort of "smoking dog" novelty toy.    tags: sarah best dogs monkey smoke

sarah lewitinn
Don't worry, we didn't actually light the cigarette. (Yet).    tags: sarah dogs hoodie kiss monkey


Saturday, October 28th
brandon reilly, sarah lewitinn
On Saturday night I went over to Apt 3a to meet Sarah and Brandon and then we headed over to...    tags: brandon sarah elevator hoodie





...MisShapes to see The Horrors play...    tags: band misshapes the horrors


...and to celebrate Geordon's birthday!    tags: birthday cake misshapes

, karen ruttner
Don Hill's was WAY too crowded and sweaty, so I spend most of the night hiding in the little secret section drinking free booze (woo!). Ilirjana and Karen.    tags: ilirjana karen misshapes


Mahsa and Jenny.    tags: jenny penny mahsa misshapes

, sarah lewitinn
Sarah with Ryan from the (UK band) Littl'ans    tags: ryan blagrove sarah misshapes

, sarah lewitinn
Blood-spattered Jenny decided to make an ugly face...which ALWAYS spawns a series of Ugly Faces!    tags: jenny penny sarah misshapes ugly face

sarah lewitinn
Sarah stepped up to the plate and delivered this pretty sweet "Zombie" ugly face!    tags: sarah misshapes ugly face

brian battjer
Hehehe.    tags: me misshapes ugly face


Mahsa. It's her first time so I'm gonna let her slide, but suffice it to say, she really needs to step her ugly-face game up.    tags: mahsa misshapes ugly face

karen ruttner
Same goes for you, Rutner.    tags: karen misshapes ugly face


Ilirjana tried to make an ugly face but pretty much just ended up making a Pete Wentz face.    tags: ilirjana misshapes ugly face


Ryan did pretty, pretty decent for his first time! Bravo!    tags: ryan blagrove misshapes ugly face


My two favorite costumes of the night? This guy, who was like 6'5" tall and dressed like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. And...    tags: dorothy halloween misshapes

sophia lamar
...Sophia, who was dressed up as...er, Topless Minnie Mouse?    tags: sophia lamar halloween mask minnie mouse


Tuesday, October 31st
alessandro cortini, brandon reilly, sarah lewitinn
Tuesday night was official Halloween, but I was tired and had to get up early the next morning, so I just ended up going over to Sarah and Brandon's to hang out! My buddy Alessandro was in town staying with Meredith and I because he was playing a few CMJ shows with his side-project band Modwheelmood (I consider that band his "side project band" just because the other band he's in is Nine Inch Nails! Hahahah), so he came along!    tags: alessandro brandon sarah apt 3a

brian battjer
Sarah had all these creepy Lady Sov masks at her apartment that she got from work.    tags: me mask

brian battjer
Me as Lady Sov = CREEPY!    tags: me mask

alessandro cortini
Nine Inch Sov, UNPLUGGED!    tags: alessandro apt 3a guitar mask

brandon reilly
I was trying to get another photo of Monkey "smoking" in this photo, but the cigarette fell out of her month (you can see it falling!) right when I snapped the picture.    tags: brandon dogs guitar monkey smoke

alessandro cortini, brandon reilly
Take two = Perfect! There's SO much amazing stuff going on in this photo: Brandon's doing a spot-on accidental impression of his brother, Monkey's smoking (a smoking dog!) and Alle's jamming out as Lady Sov. Hahaha. Happy Halloween (and Happy Official 10 Year Anniversary of this site! Whoa!)    tags: alessandro brandon guitar mask monkey smoke

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