Oct
30
2010

The Golden Girls Of The Yucca Tap

Strange Young Things @ Mary Helen's Dazed & Confused Constume Party

(Add / View Comments) (0)PhotosSaturday, October 30, 2010 - 11:59:43 pm
(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music, Live Shows, Halloween)
So we got to Yucca and Dry River were packing up, so once again we rocked the Teakwoods to Yucca thing! Though, there was admitadly no sign of Strange Young Things.

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The sight at Yucca was much more Halloween-y than it'd been at Teakwoods, us now being in the majority rather than the minority. Plenty of great costumes out there. I commented on how much I enjoyed the 80's rockers, and later realized one of them was Rich.

Photobox ImageAfter a while we went inside to check out what was going on, and Katie exclaimed "they're about to play". Pretty weird, since we hadn't seem the load in. And, it took me a double take when I looked on stage. Now, we'd seen Corey on Wednesday night, who'd told us that he'd been planning this costume for years, and that he didn't want to tell us what it was or give it away. And then, proceeded to effectively do just that. Or so I thought! However, once glance on stage, and I totally had to do a double take, and work out who the fuck was Corey, Adam, Pat and Dan. Well, Dan was pretty obvious being behind the drums, and the full beard kinda gave Pat away. [wink] But when it came to Corey and Adam, all I could see were the Golden Girls! Once again, this band had completely upstaged everybody, and this time before they'd even played a note.

Photobox ImageThe reaction from everyone inside Yucca was pretty much the same - laughing, getting composed, and then dying laughing again. It was cool seeing Rich up the front, amused as hell at the whole thing. I could definitely relate. The costumes were ridiculously good, which made the first two songs fairly disturbing. Watching Bang The Dash come out of the Golden Girls was an absolute mind fuck. That's how good the costumes were. Particularly given that you can recognize a Glodie move anywhere, your brain was trying to tell you that it was him, but your eyes just weren't seeing it!

Photobox ImageNeedless to say, the entire set was a riot. To be honest, I can't even recall that much of what they even played. It was that sort of night, where there was just too much ridiculousness happening on Yucca's stage to even process the music. I vaguely remember yelling the words to Bang The Dash and Spoils Of War, and that's about it. (Although, if I think about it hard enough, other details are coming back). But honestly, the outrageousness of these four old ladies on stage was overwhelming.

Photobox ImageMidway through, Corey yelled out to Katie to do her usual "microphone holding" task during Bitch which was pretty cool, especially with it being such a big show. Norm showed up after a while, said hey, and not surprisingly expressed his amusement with the whole thing. There wasn't much to say other than "I know!". We were both glad he didn't miss out on the madness.

Photobox ImageTowards the end of the night I managed to snap this killer photo of Adam that he was posing for. As always, my camera let me down at the worst time, refusing the focus, but I snapped anywhere (to avoid Adam having to pose like that any longer) and thankfully the photo came out focused regardless. My favorite of the night, although there were so many good ones.

During Lonely Hearts, Corey wanted people to come up with them. How could Katie and I resist that? We were up on stage singing with Andrew and Adam before no time. It was one of those things where you get up there, then question "what the fuck am I doing", and then you just go with it! It's a little over a year after moving here, and I guess I now know what Yucca looks like from the stage. I'd love if someone had a photo of us up there!

The whole night was just a riot! Definitely my best halloween to date. We'd actually had such a great day all day, but y'know....god, the final hour and a half of it definitely upstaged everything. It just did!

Incidentally, Glodie's Superman undies, weren't actually visible as the photos suggest. It's a flash thing. But god, it sure does add to the ridiculousness all the same! [smile]

And speaking of photos, here's some more of the gals...

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Oct
30
2010

Let Go & Ghetto @ Teakwoods

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(Posted Under: Tempe Music Scene Tempe Music Scene, Music Music, Live Shows, Halloween)
On top of the added getting ready time, we also had to get gas, which proved to be somewhat a fuck around, which wasn't helping the cause of getting to Teakwoods on time. Kinda funny pumping gas in our costumes though. The upside is that we weren't the only ones.

Photobox ImageDespite that, when we got to Teakwoods nothing was happening, thankfully. Somewhat surprisingly, we were about the only ones there in costume, at least initially. Had a brief chat with Thomas, who enjoyed the costumes before going out for a smoke. The best sign that we'd done good with the costumes was when Norm called me over as I was going back inside, saying that he'd seen me over there but hadn't realized it was me until he heard me talk. I pointed out Katie inside, and he commented that he had been standing behind us and had no idea it was us. I don't know if there is a better sign that we'd rocked the costumes than that! [smile]

We'd snagged one of the tables up front, which seemed like a major coop, but despite what I expected, there just weren't a lot of people there. I thought it would fill up, but it didn't really.

Was really good to see Let Go, especially given that I had watched a bunch of their rehearsals over the past few weeks. The levels were much better (as is always the case at Teakwoods) than when we last saw them at Long Wongs which was very welcomed.

Photobox ImageGhetto were awesome as always. Highlights of the night were hearing Catastrophelia, and even moreso Paralyse. Neither of which I think I've witnessed live before, and more to the point, I had no idea that they even did Paralyse. Hearing that full band was awesome.

Photobox ImageThroughout Ghetto's set a few more costumed people showed up. And Norm left the stage and paced back and forth in front of the couches, and all round rocked things up. Kinda similar to a Strange Young Things show, you had a shit big grin on your face most of the time. And that was all Norm! Throughout the set, Jason came up and said hi and complemented our costumes before heading off, it was cool he noticed us sitting there.

Things were pushed awefully close to 12, and so it we did quick goodbyes to Tom and Marc (and mentioned how cool Paralyse was) before darting out the door for Yucca and Strange Young Things. Y'know, that common thing that we do after Teakwoods!

Oct
30
2010

Frockin' Up

(Add / View Comments) (3)Saturday, October 30, 2010 - 08:30:32 pm
(Posted Under: This Desert Life This Desert Life, Halloween)
Photobox ImageWell, despite our plans to leave enough time, as well as attempt the makeup last night, we ended up being somewhat rushed to get into our costumes. Actually, reflecting on it, it would have been smart to paint our nails on Friday night. Not only would they have been done, but we could have flashed them during Big Time. ha!

So, for me it was my first foray into both nail polish and eye makeup. Given that I grew up on Hollywood glam rock, it's mildly surprising that I've never worn any sort of makeup before the age of 33. [lol] Being so pressed for time, and having had not given it a trial run, the eye makeup thing was a little daunting.

Photobox ImageI started out looking like a bad Alice Cooper. And then started to look like Tim Minchin, which was admittedly and improvement on the situation. [smile] Both looks were freaking my the fuck out though. As was the nail polish actually. It was cool, but really bizarre to look in the mirror and not see what you expect. While it was kinda cool, neither of us was sure it was working. I was pretty confident that I needed to suit up to get a feel for if it was working or not. Thankfully it all started to come together once I did, and not a moment too soon given that time was ticking down!

Katie's costume came together relatively easier. She had the same makeup experience as I did though, we weren't sure until she suited up. But then it was all good.

So much for getting out the door at 8:30 as planned, at 9 we decided I didn't need a second coat of nail polish. It was photos, and then out the door.

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Oct
30
2010

Stepping Up The Pumpkin Carving

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(Posted Under: This Desert Life This Desert Life, Halloween)
Photobox ImageWith the re-potting of McStabby out of the way, it was then onto doing the pumpkin, which was our original plan for the day. After a bit of a consult, we opted for stepping up the design a bit this year.

The guts of this New Mexico grown pumpkin were interesting, resembling grated cheese more than anything else. Weird. With a bit of tag teaming, we had it finished at around 7, just leaving some enough time to put down some dinner, and get to our costumes...

I must say, we're both pretty impressed with our handy work.
Oct
30
2010

McStabby

The Re-Potting Thereof

(Add / View Comments) (0)Saturday, October 30, 2010 - 05:00:00 pm
(Posted Under: This Desert Life This Desert Life)
Despite having said all this week that she wanted one day this weekend not going, KT woke up proclaiming she wanted to go out! Pretty incredible turn of events. Without much effort we developed a plan to re-pot McStabby. That is a plan, with some substances behind it, as opposed to all the times we've said that and followed up with "it'd be nice, but I can't be fucked". "We" being more so me, admittedly. But there was something about this morning that made it more "okay, let's do it", despite all the other stuff we had to do today.

So we got our shit together and went out to Ace Hardware to pick up some gardening gloves. The beauty of which is that they had free hot dogs, popcorn, soda as well as a free bucket with anything put in it being 20% off. Which I guess KT had noticed during the week, so there was double purpose to everything we did today and she didn't miss out on the free crap. [smile] The 20% off turned into somewhat of a buying spree, and getting a free lunch was pretty sweet.

Photobox ImageBack home we got to the task of re-potting. Kinda amazing, since we brought McStabby a year ago last week, and we're supposed to re-pot him ASAP. No small part of the delay on that was how much of a pain in the ass (or thorn in or side as the case might be) the task seemed. So it was pretty amazing how easy, and reasonably quick it was to actually do. The key to our success was probably the cowhide gloves we brought at Ace.

Definitely rewarding to finally have that done.

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