Lunatics and Princesses

Life has been psychotic.

I did the costumes and makeup for "Bitten"- that being the Binghamton University Circus Arts Association's Halloween play/spectacle/extravaganza thing. The show was awesome; everyone did such a spectacular job! It was a huge hit with the audience and what's more, there were only five empty seats in the house and there were people sitting in the aisles. Yayyyyy!!!!

The costumes were simple, but cool. Cat and I dyed canvas in different colors and sewed it onto tshirts in designs representing water, fire, and air. We dyed undershirts for the fight scenes. I made a pair of "transformation pants" to go over Edwin's stilts, and while they weren't perfect, they weren't bad... especially considering that this was the first time I've made a pair of pants in my life!

Quinn and Tom came down to see the show. Quinn debuted his Pyramid Head cosplay, which was a hit with everyone who saw it. He got so many looks and points and OMGS! as he walked across campus- everyone was so impressed. Tom was also a hit in his "ninja pretending to be a pirate" outfit. Heeeee. Yosra and I wore saris for our bollywood theme. I got accused of dressing as Betsy Ross by a fratboy giving drive-by costume critiques.

Yay Halloween!!!

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Nothing going on here; everyone's flown home for Yom Kippur. I'm all alone. Just me and my internets. Which is just as well, considering that I'm not feeling that great and the peace and quiet is nice.

I also have a ton of work to do, so I can get going on that.

I've got two of the t-shirts sewn for the CA show; all that's left to do is add the paint and sequin details. Mark's shirt still has to get done, though, but I can't do that until we do the red dyebath, which won't be until Reyna gets her skirt ordered. I hope she gets it over the next couple of days, cause I'd like to get going with it. The show is only a couple of weeks away and I've still got a paper and a midterm to deal with.

And after that? COSPLAY TIME!!!

Dad's given me a corner of the office to use as my own costume shop, which is great- I can have a clean, controlled area to work in... no greasy tables that are used to eat off of, no crumbs, no people to move things and disturb them, and a large space so I can do large-scale costuming. There's even a space out back where we can do all kinds of messy paint work and not have to worry about stupid things like paint droplets in carpet or whatever.

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Have to leave for work in ten minutes. Then I have class at six- chemistry, which I just kind of blew because I forgot a quiz that was due on Friday night. Whoopsie.

Anyway, for those of you who don't know/remember, my Halloween party will be at my house on Saturday night, 8PM to whenever (although we usually get done about one.) I'll post the actual invite/flyer thingy later. Here's the reason I'm bringing it up now: if you want any particular songs on my party mix for my iPod, commment with them in this post. Otherwise you get what I consider a party mix, which is not the normal party mix taste. Unless you're into Lords of the Rhymes (which will be on there, regardless of what anyone thinks. Muahahaha.)

Costumes are still up in the air. Quinn has decided he wants to be a dark elf. He made me a nurse design, but I kind of really wanted to do a Silent Hill nurse. However, I probably won't have the funds to get it together in time, so... eh. Tried to talk Q into going as Pyramid Head. He said it was too complicated a costume to make. I said that you get a box, rework it, paint it red, and put it on your head. People will know who you are, even if your ass isn't showing. "BUT IT'S MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT!" Whatever, dude. It's a pyramid. On your head. With a staple gun and some spray paint, it ain't that hard.

Maybe I'll go as Pyramid Head. My ass is nicer than his, anyway.

This costume was worn to the Gathering of the Fellowship Masquerade Ball in Toronto in December of 2003, and the pictures were actually taken last spring. Took me forever to get them developed, but here they finally are.

My biggest thank you in this whole project goes to armyj, who let me use his sewing machine the day before we went to Toronto. Never would have finished it without his help :)



The first in the "Wow, who ran over your dog?" series (according to my dad.)

( Wherein Feather tries to get the whole Elven vibe goin' on )


( Making it )

And finally...



Galadriel and Luthien, from the Lothlorien PD Crime Lab Graveyard Shift!

Yeah, in other news, I think I've decided on a Halloween costume. Finally.

Here's a hint: it has something to do with "Without A Trace" and "CSI: Miami" in a very roundabout, six-degrees-of-separation sort of way.

Guesses?

*laughs devilishly at her own cleverness*

“Yee-haw and Merry Fucking Christmas.” ~ Joanie

Merry Christmas and all that jazz. I hope you all got lots of stuff, and ate lots of stuff that you didn’t need to eat, and then went to the movies since that’s the only thing left to do, unless you’re at a family reunion-type holiday thing, in which case you’re probably arguing with someone or other.

The last week and half or so has been somewhat overwhelming. So I’m going to tell you all about it, except backwards from today, since I just want to shout from the rooftops that I am now the proud owner of a Legolas T-Shirt.

There’s something very gratifying about having an androgynous, sexy, beautiful elf with an admirable grasp of the obvious plastered across your boobs. It says something. Something like “I am a fangirl.” *squees* (see also: “I am a dork.”)

We all made out like bandits this year. I got two new sweatshirts and a sweater that’s kind of bizzare but really pretty. It reminds me kind of what the women in Minas Tirith were wearing. Dad picked it out for me when we were getting Mom’s present last night at TJ Maxx. I tried it on while I was wrapping it and it looks pretty good.

Nana got me a Jester hat to wear to the Gathering in Toronto. Never mind that it was last week. Mom told her that I was going as an elf, and she’s all, “Yes! It’s the perfect elf hat! But there’s no bells on it.” Lol. She also made my sister and I a scrapbook of our entire lives to date, which is really cool; there’s lots of pictures in there that I haven’t seen before, and she adds in little comments underneath the pictures like, “Why did they put the flowers in my best pot?”

*dances around happily* But the best present I got was a gift certificate for my bow! Kelsey actually got hers this morning under the tree, but they only had one in stock so I have to wait a week to get mine. Dad won’t let us get the arrows until spring, though, since he doesn’t want anyone getting maimed. *dances again* I am SO EXCITED!!!!

That was all this morning, which began by Kelsey screaming in my ear and waving her bow in my face.

Last night was kind of delusional. We decided to skip church and just stay home instead. Mom started reading that passage out of the Bible that she does every year that we stay home, with the glory unto you blah blah blah except she was using the stupid Good News Bible. So the story was simplified to the point of, “Mary was pregnant. They went to Bethlehem to be taxed. The Angel scared the shepherds. Blah blah, woof woof.” It was incredebly stupid, and we were all cracking up, so Mom finally got the other Bible and read out of that. Rockin’ with the fancy language. Verily I beseech thee, show me the way to Camillus.

Before that I fell asleep during the Nutcracker. I managed to stay awake through most of it, but the Sugar Plum Fairy pas de deux is really kind of tedious. She just does the same thing over and over again to really slow music. The next thing I know Mom is shaking me awake and trying to shove fudge down my throat.

Okay, rewind. Return of the King!

Okay. All I have to say about the movie itself is this: I loved it, however, I think they tried to jam too much into the end, but I also think that the EE will straighten out the end lumps. Pippin rocks my socks. I never paid that much attention to him before, but wow! He’s one of my favorite characters in this trilogy now.

Overload with the eye candy. Had to put up with acerbic comments from Justin telling my not to cream my pants when Legolas came on the screen in a tiara. Bastard.

Legolas was pretty but useless. However, he was pretty but useless in the books too, so I guess in some weird way PJ stayed true to the orignals in that.

Actually getting to the movie a challenge. Eventually we all got there- way after we were supposed to, so we wound up way down in front and on the side- even with Magoo hitting Justin’s car with his truck in the parking lot. My idiot sister insisted that she had to buy popcorn and so missed most of the previews. Due to Kelsey, Anastasia, and my mother being in the snack line (the other two trying to talk her out of it) they lost their seats. (Kate let them go to two random guys.) So they had to sit in the first row next to the wall and my mother wound up in the back someplace. She was really pissed about that.

No one got much sleep. Tom crashed on our couch for a while. This was due to the Gathering Ball.

Okay, so, we left B’ville at noon on Tuesday. Drove up to Canada, perfectly fine, okay. When we got the border the customs guy asked us where we were going, and then informed us that our event had started at one thirty and we were just a bit late. Patiently explained that it was a three day thing with lots of events, and we were only doing one and it started at six.

Drove on to Toronto. We listened to Kate’s tape of the “Rite of Spring”- possibly one of the most disurbing pieces of classical music ever written- and got on the wrong highway going north because they don’t seem to label exit numbers in Toronto. Finally got out of the hellish traffic and turned around to drive to Queen Street and find the hotel. When we got there they didn’t check out confirmation numbers or anything, just handed us our tickets and wham! that was it. So we rushed into the bathrooms, changed into our costumes, and headed out to find the shuttle bus but wound up taking a taxi instead.

Costumage: Jim went as a knight of Gondor, Tom went as Aragorn, Kate went as a Modern Elbereth, and I went as Arwen.

Jim’s costume: Handmade chainmail coat (drool) and a cloak and stuff. It was really cute, kind of non-specifiic but really nice. Tom’s costume: Aragorn’s battle outfit, with the cloak, the tree jerkin, and red shirt. His was awesome; it came out really good, especially the tree, which was really impressive, all silver lamé. He had the wig to go with it, which was cool. He really looked like Aragorn :-D Kate’s costume was a bit edgier; a tight, low-plunging blue dress over black leather pants with a rhinestone diadem. She was definetly the hottest thing on the dance floor. My costume was cool too, I guess- Arwen’s dress from the Two Towers, the periwinkle dream gown. It’s really simple, so… yeah. It’s in the movie, if you want to know what it looked like, lol.

So we danced the night away (or at least I did. I danced till I couldn’t lift my feet up off the floor anymore. Hee!) to an awesome band (Glass Hammer.)

There were absolutely gorgeous costumes there, including on Aragorn that was an exact movie replica, down to the embossed plate armor, two girls dressed up as the Argonath, a Sam pulling a Gollum around on a leash, and last but not least CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW!!!!! Which was the fucking best part. Oh, that was cool.

Of course, being a schmuck I forgot my camera. Bastards.

The rest of this entry will be finished later, I guess, since my sister and I are off to see Peter Pan now.

Tra la la, all you beautiful people. *blows kisses*

Oh yeah- Legless says hello, too.

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Blah.

I'm tired as fuck and don't feel like doing anything in particular. Which doesn't really matter since I don't have too much to do.

Life has been uneventful for the most part. We had champagne on Sunday and Andy brought over a bottle of wine last night, so that was cool. (Am still kind of reeling from the fact that I can go out and have a drink if I feel like it. Hee.) I don't have to work tomorrow, all the gods be praised, so I can stay up a little later and sleep in. However, I'm busy from about nine on. I've got a ton of cleaning to do; around eleven I have to go back downtown to talk to Carol about my costume; I have a voice lesson at 1:30; I have to buy fabric at some point; finish Tess's headpiece; and put my laundry away. Whew.

Okay. I talked with Carol about it; we kind of decided that the pattern I picked for my Luthien dress is kind of advanced. I'm glad I picked out the other ones, too, since I'm having second thoughts about it, but I still can't make up my mind what dress to make. Right now I'm thinking about doing one of Arwen's, since at least I've got visual references and tips and stuff, and I can make the other ones up later. (I plan to have lots of them, you see.)

So do me a favor, and answer this honestly? Thank you.

[Poll #210612]

WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I EVER MAKE UP MY MIND ON ANYTHING? AND WHY DO I ALWAYS WAIT TO THE LAST MINUTE TO DO IMPORTANT THINGS??!?!??!?!?!? ARRRRRGHHHHH!!!!!!!!

What. An. Incredible. Soundtrack.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING ON THE COMPUTER I ONLY HAVE A MONTH TO FINISH THESE COSTUMES I HAVE TO GO WORK ON THEM RIGHT NOW.

What the hell am I thinking?

*so in over head, so in over head*

I CAN'T SEW!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

*runs for sewing kit*

My sister's Halloween dance at school was tonight (how come we didn't have a Halloween dance in ninth grade? Hella jipped.) She went as Selene (the Greek goddess of the Moon, for those who don't know) and guess who did her costume? So I went to Walmart, bought fabric, cording, and beading, washed a sheet, cut it up, sewed it back together, fitted it, tied it up, draped silver fabric, finished the whole thing off with a killer makeup job and a Queen Amidala hairstyle, complete with little pearly dangly things.

That is one fuck of a run on sentence.

Watched "The Mummy" with Joe and made hybrid milkshake-eggcreams. Go me.

Important reminder: Dowload "Lose Yourself" by Eminem and watch the Quidditch scene of Harry Potter and listen to it while the TV's on mute. So cool. Can't wait to do that for some of the Draco/Harry things from the next movie. I think I should make a music video for it.

RIP Richard Harris. That is really, really sad.

I almost forgot! The most important thing!

I was in Smith's with Mom getting ice cream before Joe came over and we saw Mr. Bick. Mom was all, "Is that Mr. Bick?" so we ducked into the next aisle over to sneak up on him and see. When we peeked around the corner, there was some tiny, shriveled up old man feebly reaching for a can of vanilla icing. Mom lets out this huge snort-laugh and we both ran into the next aisle, only to see Mr. Bick at the end. So we run down and hide in the eggs for a few minutes till he's gone.

I always end up hiding in the eggs in that store. I've hidden from Mrs. Orth (my singing teacher) three times in the egg section. If I die in Smith's, I'm going to be the ghost who sees someone, yelps in fright, and hides in the eggs. At least I won't be alone- a couple of years ago someone in the checkout line dropped dead. She was signing a check to pay for groceries and WHAM! just keeled over.