Halloween as everyone knows fell on a midweek, Wednesday, which meant that festivities began the preceding Friday through the weekend and then culminating in an costumed orgy on Wednesday night. While I like the concept of Halloween, I've always been resistant to this holiday, because of past bad experiences from childhood to present. There's nothing more ridiculous than two people in costume arguing. Anyway, I went to a couple parties over the previous weekend and then on Halloween itself, I went to a Neck Face opening at a Soho gallery, followed by Madame X.
Lea with insanely fancy cat ears. Seriously fancy. They were made from leather and real cat hair I think.
Tony being...Tony, but more calm than the last time.
I apparently dressed up like a skeleton in a V neck and glasses. Memo to self: eat more! God damn.
Rally hipster cars!
Cat woman and guy with a posterboard...
Some of Neck Face art.
This totally cool couple brought their kid. She didn't seem faze by the graphic art at all. I think it's good to not shelter children, but I like my original caption for this photo: "This is what happens when you don't eat your broccoli, Virginia."
Neck Face art (and his corporate sponsor Apple?).
A sweet mechanical bat...thing.
We arrived at the gallery early and were among the first there (as well as the first to hit the open bar, heh). But it soon started filling with various hipsters in costumes.
This is a pretty straightforward costume that probably wouldn't win many fans in the bible belt regions, but it's a pageant winner with her aborted baby. For effort alone, both girls should receive a crown because they were attached all night to one another by an umbilical cord. This photo doesn't do it any justice, but that cord was absolutely disgusting and amazing in its bloody glory (you can see it hanging down pageant girl's dress). Pageant girl kept telling her "baby" to get back in the dumpster. Awful. AWFUL. Awfully amazing.
Name all the costumes that you see!
This cat (not Mr. Reflective) was aggressive of his Desi familiarity when interrogating Lea, after she asked him for a light.
This is by far one of my favorite costumes I saw the entire Halloween night.
Spice Girls (uh....British Spice and Leopard Spice?) getting it down at Madame X. I hadn't stepped foot into this Houston Street lounge in approximately 5 years. Very weird to think about how different things are now from when I was there then (for my friend Ramya's going away party as she was about to depart for London, where she still lives).
Beth, Chris, Me, Lea.
"This table is reserved"...so Chris can bite girls' asses.
Extreme lip puffage action.
These "ghosts" totally broke the illusion by taking off their masks!!! Don't break the third wall!
Nothing sexes up a situation like a finger to the nostril.
Spice Girl again!
Delicious spaghetti and meat sauce from this awesome hole-in-the-wall place Chris knew of on Sullivan and Houston. We ate on the church steps next door and watched the freakish costumes walk by.
I don't know why, but this Viking couple freaked me out.
Earlier in the night, Chris and I had a conversation about how celebrities must love Halloween because in costume, they can go out and blend in with the rest of the crowd and essentially be "normal" for a night. Well, maybe not. Here's Josh Hartnett's "costume."