halloween 2008

[spoonless]

Well, it's not quite as sexy as last year's costume, but here are a few pics of my halloween costume this year:













Yes, even supervillains must enjoy a nice slice of pizza now and then...





In 1989, the year the first Batman came out, I went as the Joker as well... Jack Nicholson style. (I had a lot shorter hair then.) I was 12 years old and in 7th grade. And I remember coming home with my mouth hurting because I had tried to not stop smiling all day long :) So this year feels like I've really completed some kind of circle, by going as the Heath Ledger Joker.

Alphabetically, this makes the sequence for the last 5 years: Z Z V V J. And I seem to be more prone to playing villains than heros... hmmm. A girl I knew at Georgia Tech once said to someone while giggling and pointing at me like a little puppy dog "The funny thing about Jeff is that he would *love* to be evil if he could. But he can't!" At the time it made me feel humiliated and small... like I wanted to prove her wrong, either by demonstrating how truly evil I was, or by denying that I wanted to be evil. But the funny thing is, the more life experience I have, the more I realize she was *so* right about me :)

Comments

[roxymartini.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD. your costume is so awesome. I saw about 15 jokers when i went out Halloween night and none of them even come close to this. it looks professional!

you've inspired me to post pics of my halloween costume. (=

[spoonless.livejournal.com]

Thanks... I enjoyed your recent "post-mortem" photos, but none of them actually reminded me of death, just resting/sleeping.

[roxymartini.livejournal.com]

did you see the real post mortem pics i linked to? some of them were obvious, but in most of them, they were meant to look like sleeping pics. i think it's very interesting.

[spoonless.livejournal.com]

oh, I guess I hadn't. Apparently, post mortem photography isn't about death... it's just a particular style?

[roxymartini.livejournal.com]

i mean, it is the photography of actually dead people. but the point wasn't to emphasize that they were dead. just one last nice picture of a loved one before they were buried.

[spoonless.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see... I'm a bit slow sometimes. ;)