halloween

halloween
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People have been talking about what an amazing party Boom has for Halloween. So I was pretty excited. The theme was "Sin CIty" and Dan made a great costume for Elijah Wood's character that was dead-on.

Dan, Tarik, and I were talked into staging occasional "gun fights", in the Sin City vein with squibs and fake blood (I am to play Bruce Willis' character) which we were game to do as it meant we could come to the party for free, because despite being Boom actors, we have to buy a ticket. The only thing we didn't want to do was figure out those fights for the Boom's promotional staff. We left the logistics up to them, and we never rehearsed.

The night of the party, we were affixed with our squirting flower squibs (the flower part removed, and the tube pinned to the inside of our shirts) and eventually, and the guys and I figured out something to do for a gunfight. The party got off to a slow start, which shocked the party planner's, so we kept waiting for our big moment to arrive once a real crowd had formed.

Eventually, closer to midnight instead of the 10:30 show time that was originally planned, we went on to do our first of 3 performances. Dan took the stage, creeping around the stage, and then Tarik comes one, I enter, and we shoot each other, squeezing the plastic pump at the end of the tube and watching a small amount of fake blood finally squirt onto our shirts. Once Tarik and I slowly died, every one went back to whatever they were doing. We didn't perform again.

I put on my real costume, that of Kobe Bryant, with Erica as the woman he was accused of raping, and went down to enjoy the party for real. But there were few people we actually knew, girls doing pole dances, it was a weird vibe.

Matt was pretty wasted but had still managed to find a pretty girl from the crowd and decided to sit with her on top of the huge speakers on stage. They both sat on the edge of the speakers, tempting fate, which eventually took hold of Matt as he fell off the speaker and onto the floor, a good couple feet down. He turned out fine, his ego bruised more than himself.

The rest of us (Tarik, Lauren, Dan, Laurel, Erica and I) went up to the shiny and hung out there, eating noodles and hanging out. With the sound of the party below us, we had a great time trading bits, laughing and being together. This is a great cast.