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'L' party..

  
 
rizla mission
11:26 / 15.11.02
Ok, I should really have started this a week ago or something to get some cool replies but..

For reasons largely beyond my control I'm goping to a fancy dress party tonight, and, god knows why, the theme is, everyone dresses as something beginning with 'L'..

So, needless to say, I'm going as Lester Bangs, which basically involves getting a false moustache and otherwise wearing what I normally wear. This is made better by the fact that one of my friends is going as Lou Reed, so we can have fun arguing all night and stuff.
(and before you ask, I DON'T CARE if nobody knows who I'm supposed to be).

But anyway, even though it's too late, cool fancy dress suggestions beginning with 'L' please..
 
 
sleazenation
11:31 / 15.11.02
If you could manage going as every member of Le tigre i'm sure flyboy would be eternally grateful...
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
11:31 / 15.11.02
Lopez, Jennifer. Easily done by wearing some tucked gauze and a pair of so called sunglasses that have no effect as the lenses are clear. An ideal opportunity nail Ben Affleck as well. What more could you want.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
11:33 / 15.11.02
As an afterthought I will pay good money to see you attend as Lolita.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
11:38 / 15.11.02
Lumiere from Herr Walt's Beauty and the Beast. Complete with flaming hands and head.
 
 
rizla mission
11:46 / 15.11.02
Hot damn!

That would be good.

Le Tigre did actually spring to mind, but I don't think they deserve the gross indignity of having me drunkenly imitate them..
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
11:57 / 15.11.02
If you wanted to be more obscure (which I *can't* imagine ) with yr dykegrrlband thing, you could go as Luscious Jackson.

Damn, and Potus got in before me with Lol.

(I love)Lucy?

Linda Hamilton (circa T2, for sure)

and there's always...

Lucifer
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
12:00 / 15.11.02
Lady [insert name of dignitary}
 
 
Rollo Kim, on location
12:03 / 15.11.02
Lumiere would be fantastic and would make for some fire-based hillarity as the wax from your hands drips painfully onto the rest of you, and other people's laps. Later, carpets and curtains ablaze... then you can attempt to put them out with said hands... Luscious Jackson has my vote too! Lady Fingers anyone?
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
12:04 / 15.11.02
Lionel Blair

Linda Lovelace (the late)

Laurence Llellew...you know

LaToya Jackson
 
 
The Natural Way
12:16 / 15.11.02
Lally.

You figure it out, but, I should tell you, "lally" is actually two people - so you'll need a partner.
 
 
bio k9
12:21 / 15.11.02
A giant piece of licorice.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:59 / 15.11.02
LL Cool J!

Starts with two Ls for supreme cachet. You have to go for the old skool LL though: either a tracksuit (preferably Adidas) or baggy but plain jeans with a long-sleeved sweater (preferably red with white stripes down the arms); one of those floppy hats formerly worn by men fishing by a river and later by Reni from ver Roses; cool old skool sneakers; actually quite cheap but shiny chunky metal chain necklace thing. You also have to be willing to take off your top (or at least strip down to a wifebeater/vest), and do a dance that looks like you're digging up a road with a piledriver, whilst shouting:

"LL Cool J is hard as h - DRRNNNNGG!
Battle anybody I don't care who you t - DRRNNNNGG!
I exc - DRRNNNNGG!
They all f - DRRNNNNGG!
Something something something DRRNNNNGG! DRRNNNNGG! DRRNNNNGG! ROCK THE BELLS!"
 
 
No star here laces
13:00 / 15.11.02
Legume.

Attach some nitrogen-fixing nodules to your feet and carry some peas. Everyone will chortle in delight!
 
 
No star here laces
13:03 / 15.11.02
Leper!

smear your naked body in mince (or dog food if you can't afford mince). Then wrap filthy stinking bandages around yourself loosely. Make sure to leave fetid meaty chunks wherever you go so that people know you're a leper and not a mummy. Which doesn't begin with L.
 
 
No star here laces
13:04 / 15.11.02
'L'-Raiser

Get a friend to hammer nails into your face and wear a trenchcoat.

Or dress as Richard Harris - young, aged and dead versions all equally acceptable.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
13:21 / 15.11.02
Leonard Bernstein! Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs! Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
 
 
Whisky Priestess
14:57 / 15.11.02
wear your worst clothes and go as "ludicrous"
 
 
The Natural Way
15:06 / 15.11.02
Love Will Tear Us Apart

- He looks like a bit of a prick with his dandy shirt and wilted roses, but, oh, the beautiful despair.

Little Grabbing Hands

- you want it all. In yr little hands. And now in the mouth
 
 
grant
15:21 / 15.11.02
Lazarus.


I imagine sheets and a strong smell component.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
15:36 / 15.11.02
Lemmy. Linda McCartney. Lil' Abner. Linda Lovelace. Louis Armstrong. Linda Blair. Lois Lane. Long John Silver.
 
 
that
16:08 / 15.11.02
go as the 'Lith...
 
 
Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
17:28 / 15.11.02
Leo Sayer

As long as you’re short, can get a big curly wig (or already have big curly hair) and can act in a slightly camp manner, you’ll be a shoe in for the coolest person at the party.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
17:31 / 15.11.02
A luvverly bunch of coconuts.
 
 
Saint Keggers
17:40 / 15.11.02
Go as the letter L...and tell people that you, along with the letter z and the number 4, bring them Seasame Street.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
22:31 / 15.11.02
Lugubriousness.
Leviathan. (Either the Barker or the Hobbes. Or the biblical.)
Leviticus?


Or, if you know my real name, go as me. That should be... interesting.
 
 
Ganesh
22:47 / 15.11.02
Laparotomy: fake sternum-to-pubis incision and a few pounds of butcher's offal hanging out.

Lycanthrope: don't pluck your eyebrows for a month.

Liz: wave, wear a crown and "come through" for people.

Like A Virgin: crucifixes, wedding dress, diamante, mucho Lascivious writhing.

Laila: predict 'something unexpected' at some point in the future, sniff random males then declare them, 'Crucible' style, to be 'paedophilians'.
 
 
Ganesh
22:53 / 15.11.02
Oh yeah, and LOL: maintain a ridiculously high-decibel volume of irritating laughter for the duration of the evening.
 
 
Jack Fear
23:17 / 15.11.02
Better yet: go as the Log Lady.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
23:24 / 15.11.02
Lorraine Kelly, she's so very strange.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
23:53 / 15.11.02
Jack Fear has it in one.
 
 
rizla mission
12:43 / 17.11.02
Why didn't I think of Long John Silver? Any excuse for the whole pirate thing..

'Twas pretty fun anyway. Some people even knew who Lester Bangs was.
My friend Pete did Velvets-era Lou Reed brilliantly, and we had loads of fun taking pictures like "Lou smokes a joint outside the butchers", "Lou hangs out with a Lumberjack", "Lou goes to the all-night Spar" etc.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
18:44 / 18.11.02
Buy a sausage and a meat cleaver and go as Lorrena Bobbit.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
20:28 / 18.11.02
La-la.
 
  
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