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Jack N' Spooky's Massive Halloween Party - Friday 31st October 2003, Southampton

 
  

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Jack The Bodiless
16:20 / 30.08.03
Right then, me hearties. Spooks and I have decided to have an enormous Halloween party this year. We are very nearly finished with the purchase of the new house, which is about three times the size of our current two bed flat, and has a lovely garden. Provided nothing goes wrong, and it's highly unlikely that it will, we'll be in in about a month or so. The house is semi-detached, so we'll be able to make a lot of noise, and I figure we can offer to put up around twenty people, maybe more, in varying degrees of comfort.

Warning: we do not intend to go to bed until sometime around Saturday evening, and I personally would like to skip Saturday entirely and collapse sometime on Sunday morning.

Fancy dress is mandatory, ie you don't get your foot through the door unless you've made some kind of effort to join in. Halloween or horror fancy dress only, the more creative the better. Should there be enough people there to make it worth doing, there will be prizes - a bottle of champagne goes to the winner of the Best Costume award, a tub of Marmite for the Worst Costume award. Originally I wanted to suggest that any and all Barbelith peeps attending all dressed up as zombie pirates in honour of Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl, but spooks vetoed this, saying it's more fun if everyone gets to choose their own costume, rather than being all homogenous and stuff. I'm sure there'll be enough pirates there anyway...

Bring your own booze, naturally, and anything else you'd like. It's quite a ways off just yet, and we've not actually finished buying the place yet, so this could be slightly premature, but what the hell...
 
 
Cherry Bomb
08:14 / 31.08.03
This sounds awesome - I'm going to try to come, if it happens that is. Now if I can just get a cheap ticket to Southampton...
 
 
Tryphena Absent
13:08 / 31.08.03
Oh Jeeezus, I'm going to have to find a horror costume now... I wish I was a lyncanthrope, Halloween would be so easy!
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
13:51 / 31.08.03
What is it with you and your boyf and the werewolf thing? Enquiring minds want to know...

Goes without saying that I want Anna and Flyboy there. Mandatory. Cherry, luv - am very, very happy you'd like to come. Train tickets without a discount card run to around £25.00 return, takes about ninety minutes, maybe less, from Waterloo. A Network Card is a discount card for those who aren't students or OAPs, which will set you back £20.00, and provide a third off all train journeys across the south east of England for you and three random friends for a year, fact fans (subject recently to a £10.00 minimum fare per ticket purchased on weekdays, but that's not an issue here). I've saved about £300.00 (and spooks has saved about £100.00) on train travel in the last year with my now-expired Network Card, so it's definitely worth a look.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
16:33 / 31.08.03
I've been reading the trashiest book in the world about werewolves and he just wants to be Oz. Acceptable I feel as all right people in the world want to be or want to screw Oz!
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
19:26 / 31.08.03
Tez has already been muttering about this, though the thought of planning this far ahead terrifies me....

I have no idea what on earth will be happening on the 31st October, but am flagging early interest. Be really good to see you both, and the rest of the Soton posse, its been too long...

(are you guys heading bton-wards at any point? yr totally welcome to crash here if you fancy a visit...)
 
 
mixmage
00:05 / 01.09.03
RIGHT! You Bloody asked for it.

Anybody in the midland's region planning on making it, PM me for a Pro-Style make-up job... I've got plenty of prostheses lying around after the last job... more than happy to dress my cohorts.

heh... shall i bring that shirt?
 
 
_pin
08:29 / 01.09.03
See, although I'll even be in the So'ton posse proper by this point, I'm far too intelligent and sophisticated and better then you all tobe dressing up.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
10:43 / 01.09.03
pin will be there. pin will be there even if I have to capture him in a butterfly net, dress him up as a gimp, and truss him up in our pirate's ches (where we keep the booty, heh heh). Your sister and I agreed on your seventeenth birthday that I'd be good and resist corrupting you until you reached eighteen, and that then you'd be mine. Well, you've had nine months grace, little boy, and now I'm coming for you. More precisely, you're coming to me. Ain't no stretch of water and overpriced ferry between us now, chicken-legs. Gonna make you squeal...

Ahem. Tezcatlipoca has managed to finesse his way out of attending all of our recent celebrations to date. I understand that Brighton is a long way away, and indeed, miss spooky and myself have not been able to head that way for some time ourselves. But this must end. We miss his shiny head and pirate beard. Arrrr.

Plus he can bring bengali with him. Yes. This is a good plan, with no drawbacks. Excellent.

Mixmage, prostheses (!), the slinky shirt and your magnificent self are more than welcome. Costumes-wise, I do believe I'm going to either be making a fridge, a chainsaw, or going as anime...
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
11:51 / 01.09.03
Alas, I have hemisphere syndrome. So I can't be there.
 
 
Mono
12:55 / 01.09.03
it would be far too easy for me to dress as anime...

i'll try my best to make it (so many team halloween costumes, so little time)
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
15:23 / 01.09.03
Mono - I intend to watch Spirited Away again tonight to see if it is possible for me to dress as No Face... I have my doubts, though.

Rothkoid... ah, Rothkoid. One day you and I will share a bottle of scotch together and bitch about old times...
 
 
Seth
22:01 / 01.09.03
I was going to come as No Face, with Bee as Chihiro.

But alas...

You're never going to believe this...

I've been nominated for a Financial Sales Award at a huge London bash that evening. I'm going to be sitting at a table with ten senior HSBC managers wearing a tux.

So, I may turn up late after a limo ride home from the capital. Still in a tux, in all likelihood. Not strictly Halloween dress, but it'll be a pretty fucking scary sight.

Best I can do, bro.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
22:13 / 01.09.03
you are a deeply frightening man.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
05:14 / 02.09.03
There you go, my boy - you've frightened la plumsbitch just by talking about it. Sounds horror enough to me (by the same token, evil clowns are also allowed). Come when you can, we ain't going to sleep for years...

No Face is now definitely an option... I even have the makings of the mask. It does seem a little easy, and the fridge does beckon...
 
 
Perfect Tommy
05:46 / 02.09.03
I don't, as a rule, bitch about the fact that I'm geographically challenged with respect to goings-on across the Atlantic. But, goddamn, I'm missing a costume party. =(
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
06:42 / 02.09.03
Ahem. Tezcatlipoca has managed to finesse his way out of attending all of our recent celebrations to date

Ah, but I have an excuse. I'll be spending that weekend in Buckinghamshire dressed in mud and playing the lead role in a medieval event, and I can't let my audience down...

Actually, there's still only an 80% chance it's going ahead, so, if not, I will look forward to remaining in Brighton whilst you have your party.
 
 
angel
08:50 / 02.09.03
Boo Hoo! I'm going to have the same hemisphere syndrome that Rothkoid has that weekend I'm afraid Jack! I don't return to the Uk until the 4th of November. Damn, it sounds like much fun!

I really will get to one of your parties sometime JtB and Spooky! Sigh!
 
 
Bill Posters
11:11 / 02.09.03
i will almost certainly be there.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
11:28 / 02.09.03
Tez: you're a vapid, gutless bastard. Now come to my fucking party.

Bill: you mean 'most certainly', right? That 'al' was a typo. Right?
 
 
Bill Posters
11:40 / 02.09.03
i feel i can't offer total commitment this far ahead, for I could easily be struck by a meteorite or kidnapped by monkeys between now and then. But barring such things, yes, most certainly.
 
 
mixmage
16:31 / 02.09.03
Damn... those monkeys were trained to head straight to the party once you were trussed and bagged. Jack... Plan B.

Let Loose the Marmosets!
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
10:21 / 03.09.03
Wait... do you mean the Winged Marmosets, or the Marmosets Of War?

Have been asked to remind everyone that this is a provisional thing only at present, as, although the house purchase is moving on without much of a hitch, we have not yet had the land searches back, and we won't be able to give a date for moving out of our current place and into the new place until they are. Still pretty positive we'll be in by 31st October, though.
 
 
Ma'at
11:41 / 03.09.03

I'll do my best to make sure you are in the house by then Jack darling.

I of course will be there and I suspect I'll let J come as well, if he promises to behave and not insult anyone, or lose any of personal possessions.

Can I come as The Angel of Death again? Only with a different sword?

Does this also mean I may get a chance to meet the legendary Bill Posters? *very evil grin*
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
19:13 / 03.09.03
Um... well, probably, yes. Do you promise not to eat him?
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
19:23 / 03.09.03
Jack, you might want to check whether Bill has views re eating before you start negotiating.

 
 
_pin
23:25 / 03.09.03
Of course, if you're not in the house by then we could always have it in my halls, where more then six people in any given room will be designated a party, and said gathering will promptly be disanded "with force".

Just... the fuck??
 
 
mixmage
01:35 / 04.09.03
It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you of my unexpected inability to come.

... and I won't be at the party either

All those months of patiently training the Primate Strike Force... those grand designs of unspeakable horrors involving my prostheses... the bunch of Midland 'Lith now unable to cadge a lift in the mixmobile.

I appear to be double-booked, and TWO MONTHS in advance.

It's just... gah. what pin said.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
08:21 / 04.09.03
Don't worry _pin, after fresher's week they'll forget all about that rule, or even during fresher's week. Soon you'll be smoking dope with the security and dancing in the street with all the other students to an incredibly bad dance track that you never wanted to hear in the first place. Or possibly not. And remember you can always have six people in every room.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
05:23 / 05.09.03
... and I won't be at the party either...

Dude. Dismay... ah, well. if you're booked, you're booked. I shall no doubt see you anon.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
08:39 / 06.09.03
*BUMP*

Looks like it's a go - our moving date is very likely to be Friday 10th October.
 
 
adamswish
14:35 / 06.09.03
if I can get my shit together and most importantly the finances I'll be there, flying the flag for the midlanders.

I just need Jack to let me get changed at his for the party, as there is no way I'm travelling on PUBLIC transport for that lenght of time in any of the outfits parading in my mind at the moment.

Although on the other hand, a boiler suit and hockey mask is one way to get a whole four lot of seats to myself...
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
15:51 / 07.09.03
can i get away with a 'frock horror'/'crimes againt fashion' costume as i'm currently obsessed with this... it'll be pretty fucking horrific...
 
 
_pin
22:11 / 07.09.03
No, seriously, I don't know what to wear except possibly a Bright Eyes t-shirt and go as a Bright Eyes fan.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
10:54 / 08.09.03
pin - you can wear the Bright Eyes T-shirt provided you're coming as General Woundwort. He's scary as all hell, and definitely qualifies as horror.

bengali - the horror/Halloween fancy dress browser does not support irony frames.
 
  

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