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Mars
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I need a good Halloween costume for me and a few girls I know.
Some ideas I've come up with are,
Micheal Jackson as a zombie (not the MJ from Thriller, but a real zombie, with a missing nose.
A black guy in a business suit all shot up with bullet holes (Obama in a few weeks).
Pattrick Swazy as a ghost (For real)
I can't get off the totally wrong for a costume. After Bill Murher was Steven Irwin, with a Stinger tail sticking out of his chest, I can't get that out of my mind.
Women's Costume
Medusa
Gladiatrix
Pregnant nun
Wench
Emperor has no close on (Go naked, they didn't like that idea)
NAZI SS girl (one's black).
Pandora (they had no idea) |
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intelekshual
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Generally I try to avoid engaging anymore, but christ you are a fucking idiot. It is painful.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 03:05 Post subject: |
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I'm having this same dilemma in trying to think of a good costume. I had a list somewhere and have since lost it.
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arailt
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| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 15:50 Post subject: |
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Probably gonna do the dead celebrities with my band for our Halloween show. We're thinking MJ, Steve Irwin, and Billy Mays. Plus a couple more, but we haven't had any good ideas for the other two guys.
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no close on
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Berserk Sushi
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I so badly want to do Harvey Two-Face a second time, since I did such a rushed and sloppy job last year. And because this year I'm 22 years old.
Why don't you go as a clever and cool guy, and they can go as girls who are actually interested in you and enjoy your company?
Failing that, yeah, you should totally wear blackface and bullet-holes, and they should be Nazis with no close on.
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I have no idea what I'm going to be :( All I know is I don't want to be a slutty ______. And it has to be cheap.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 03:41 Post subject: |
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Because you're cheap, not slutty.
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Berserk Sushi
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| Der_Kommissar wrote: | | I have no idea what I'm going to be :( All I know is I don't want to be a slutty ______. And it has to be cheap. |
The staple of cheap costume has been the zombie, since 1939. You can always bloody yourself up for next to nothing. But I'm assuming you want to be something more clever.
There's a costume I want to try out; I'd have to do it for a Halloween party that doesn't fall on the day itself which is why I haven't done it yet (because the day itself is reserved for my special efforts).
Pac Man.
None of that awkward full-body bullshit, though.
Wear all-black. Paint your head yellow and paint black around your eyes (maybe the mouth too, your call). When painting around the eyes, though, try to paint it so that your actual eyes are towards the top of the black-oval-eyes.
In other words, try to make them suggestive of having huge fucking black bags under your eyes. You'll see why, in a second.
If you want to be real cheeky/corny, wear a Tu Pac shirt (all black, of course), and mention that you like him a lot. If your friends/the people at the party are really thick and don't get it, you can say you like him so much that your friends nicknamed you "Pac Man."
I shave my head, so I'd do this costume bald just to be that much more "complete." I don't know if you chicks are comfortable doing that. If you want to spend some extra money on this, though, and already have pretty short hair, you can invest in a bald cap, and paint it yellow.
That's it for the costume. Cheap. Next: Props. Also cheap.
Get a prescription pill jar (those little orange kinds with the RX sticker on them - the one that anyone at any distance can recognize as a pill jar) - or two, or three, or five. Fill them with round white pills (find any candy that looks like this - when in doubt, Tic Tacs or Altoids will do it in a pinch, though I'm sure there's some candy out there whose gimmick is resembling pills).
If you want, carry some fruit (bananas or cherries ideally because they're not likely to smudge your facepaint).
Cheap.
The reason why I thought of the costume, though, and what's going to make you stand out if you go for it, is the acting.
Act incredibly twitchy, like an addict going through withdrawal because he's broke - and has other psychiatric conditions on top of that. (If possible, whenever you're idle for too long or to fill in silences, chatter your teeth - or, if your friends aren't sharp enough to get that joke, open and close your mouth rhythmically. Whenever asked about it, "snap out of it" like you weren't aware you were even doing it.)
Complain about constantly being really hungry. At those moments, take a bite out of some of your fruit. Say that your doctor told you that fruit's good for you and you should eat more fruit to "stay healthy" or "help you recover." (If your friends are real nerds, mention that your doctor is this short fat guy with a huge pedophile moustache, and you can't remember his name but it was something Italian.)
Occasionally, mention that the vitamins in the fruits are good for your eyesight, for your vision, and that's important because sometimes to you everything gets really dark and dark and dark and it feels like you can't see anything but the food laid out in front of you, and you feel trapped like you're in a pitch-black maze that you can't escape from, even when you've explored the whole thing, that there's no end and you just keep going in circles and circles forever and there's no end and circles forever and -
At that point try to snap yourself out of it and take some pills. Twitchy. By the handful. Make sure you take pills pretty constantly throughout the night.
Overall, try to have mood swings between excitedly happy and nervously terrified, but always twitchy.
When you're "up," tell people that the pills make you feel invincible.
When you're "down," though, scream that the pills are the only things that keep the ghosts away.
That's probably going to be the real punchline for that costume. Other possibilities, to avoid seeming too much like a one-joke pony: Talk about why you're all tweaked-out, or why you see a doctor at all.
You can say you're looking for your wife, for instance. If you want to stay subtle/tongue-in-cheek, never mention her name but call her "Missus" or "the Missus."
Mention that she's all alone somewhere, trapped, and you're afraid the ghosts will get her too.
If people ask about the ghosts, you can tell people that you killed a family of four. But they were trying to catch you, which is why you did it. If people ask what they were going to do to you, or why, space out, like you just realized for the first time: "You know...I have absolutely no idea. I just know that I have to avoid them or - boom! Game over."
Say that the doctor doesn't think you really killed anyone, that the ghosts are in your head, that the "box" they come out of or retreat back to represents that part of your subconscious, locked away, where your troubles live. And that "this game will just continue forever until you can figure out how to break that box, get inside, and solve your problems (the "ghosts") once and for all."
(Again, if your friends are nerds: Say you're starting to distrust the doctor, because he just seems to be stuffing you full of pills, like this is all just a game to him.)
Another bonus touch: You're broke. Ask people to spot you for food from time to time, and explain that you only have quarters. (Make sure to have quarters and no other money on you.)
If people ask you why you don't just spend the quarters, look horrified, and explain that if you don't have enough quarters - "boom! Game over!" or "no more pills!"
Describe the ghosts as "these hideous, amorphous blobs of color - devoid of all human features, except for one...their eyes...oh god, THEIR EYES!" Even when you kill them, when you devour them, when the doctor's pills lets you see the ghosts for all the empty nothingness they really are (zing!), "those fucking eyes survive!"
etc. That's just what I was able to think up one night. I'm sure there's more you could do with it, but yeah. Cheap costume, cheap props, some creative acting, and you're a hit.
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Berserk Sushi
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| Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 06:00 Post subject: |
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Alternatively, you could just be Slutty Ms. Pac Man.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 08:15 Post subject: |
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Mani, so basically it's the Bloodhound Gang's pac man. But better.
I've since decided that I'm going to be the Monarch (link for foreigners and rock-dwellers) for Halloween.
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| R wrote: | Mani, so basically it's the Bloodhound Gang's pac man. But better.
I've since decided that I'm going to be the Monarch (link for foreigners and rock-dwellers) for Halloween. |
GOD DAMMIT Ryan i was going to go as dr girlfriend (dr mrs the monarch!) but i wanted to do a pair costume and no one would go as the monarch with me :(
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Pac Man. |
my friends and i made a Pac Man costume a few years ago.
cheap as could be. i grabbed the cardboard (washer or dryer or something) from work, walmart supplied the tube of yellow paint and poinsettia bow and someone had an extra pair of shoelaces hanging out. think the costume came to $5 total. it helped that two of our friends were lazy and did the ol' sheet over body cut out eyes and mouth costume, so we had a Ms. Pac Man, Pinky and Blinky. it was awesome.
i'm doing steampunk this year.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 17:31 Post subject: |
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I'm doing corpse bride, even though it's boring, because my friend has a hilariously ugly wedding dress I can get muddy, and I give great Helena Bonham Carter hair. Add some makeup and you're done. Free and easy!
Hey, Der, go as the milk carton from the coffee and TV video. Just paint up the cardboard box, and wear a white top and leggings. My friend did it and it looked awesome. AWESOME. |
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| angered_lutraphobic wrote: | | GOD DAMMIT <span>Ryan</span> i was going to go as dr girlfriend (dr mrs the monarch!) but i wanted to do a pair costume and no one would go as the monarch with me :( |
Roommate is going to be Dr. Venture.
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| moussaka_thief wrote: | I'm doing corpse bride, even though it's boring, because my friend has a hilariously ugly wedding dress I can get muddy, and I give great Helena Bonham Carter hair. Add some makeup and you're done. Free and easy!
Hey, Der, go as the milk carton from the coffee and TV video. Just paint up the cardboard box, and wear a white top and leggings. My friend did it and it looked awesome. AWESOME. |
Oh jeez that is awesome. I just might do this.
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My favorite cheap costume ever has to be the communist bloc. You just wear a big red box.
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Mars
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 05:22 Post subject: |
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I was thinking of buying a wig and going as a long hair surfer, but I would like a historically accurate costume.
There's plenty of vintage shops downtown.
also, if you're going to drink, masks should be avoided. |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 20:46 Post subject: |
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I've been thinking this:
but, like, making it better?
Any suggestions?
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I have no ideas for this year but my friend is throwing a glow in the dark party on the actual holiday so I may embrace the theme some how. Any ideas? No costumes ideas with the word "sexy" in it will be accepted.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 05:25 Post subject: |
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I too am at a loss this year.
So far I have seriously considered the zombie thing as I am broke and it is relatively cheap.
The boyfriend of course thinks I should be a zombie stripper from one of those awful zombie movies with zombie strippers.
Anyway... that is where I'm at.
At least I have Korben's costume picked out. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 22:36 Post subject: |
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Virgil should go as a giant cock. Oh wait.
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Berserk Sushi
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| Green wrote: | I've been thinking this:
but, like, making it better?
Any suggestions? |
Geez, zombies...I don't know...I mean, I don't know shit about doing zombie SFX, maybe I can ask someone? Has anyone here ever done zombie SFX?
(I own that shirt, incidentally.)
PS OK seriously so what specific wounds are we talking about here, what sort of disfigurations are you aiming for.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 04:45 Post subject: |
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I figured it out. I'm going to get some cheap second-hand clothing, and write "RICHARD" in huge letters all over it.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 16:13 Post subject: |
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And carry around an almanac at all times?
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