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[oakenguy]

Okay, look. There is a PERFECTLY good reason I'm now on videotape singing and dancing to a Cole Porter song while half-naked. 1/3 naked, really: I was wearing a chef's hat, demon mask, bloody butcher's apron around my waist, black pants and my "when we said they go with anything we didn't think he'd test us THIS much" black hiking shoes.

See, I was put in the Belcourt kitchen to be the Demonic Butcher for the haunted house last night. And we were really understaffed, and Dean and Robin were stressed, and Dean asked me to get right up to the audience and put on as much of a show as I could to help stretch things out.

And I thought about this, and about watching Dave stagger around in his (full) apron last year roaring and flailing, and I thought to myself, "Gosh darn it, if Dave can do it, so can I (just not as well)". So off with the shirt.

(I'm told that my performance caused one patron to go into hysterics and be unable to go any further in the tour, which is like the Olympic Bronze for haunted house performers*, so I feel good about this decision).

As for the singing and dancing, well, about an hour into the show I'd begun getting bored with just roaring unintelligibly, so I began mixing words in. Quotes from the Swedish Chef, comments on the Belcourt pantry...and after a few minutes of this it struck me, I sounded just like Shane MacGowen. Only less drunk and more demonic. And, well, *that* made me remember Shane's performance on the Cole Porter tribute album singing "Just One of Those Things" (LOVE it), and, well, I got the music in me.

And if the security camera which Belcourt apparently mounts above the safe where they keep all their fine silverware caught it all, well, THEIR fault. NOT mine.

Okay, except the five minutes of jazz dance.



*The equivalent of Olympic Silver would be causing an adult patron to pee him/herself. This was achieved in the Hammond Dungeon Friday night. Gold is when a patron passes out, something I have yet to see.

Comments

[snowwand.livejournal.com]

see! thats why I'm not going to either belcourt or hammond for this even though I love the past times peoples.

scary scary

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

But if you volunteer and *be* one of the monsters, it's not scary at all! And you get to see it all for free. And you'll get carried around on peoples' shoulders and treated like a hero.

Not that we're stretched a little thin or anything...

[snowwand.livejournal.com]

you just want to drag more people into the madness that is pasttimes :)

Evil Brian!

lol

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

*blinks big huge innocent eyes*

Me??

Not that it wouldn't be total payback for introducing me to the addictive joys of letterboxing. Hmmph.

[snowwand.livejournal.com]

whoo hoo!
Thats another person I can count as corrupted!

You and Tiffany should come out and get the andover boxes...there are like, 4 or 5 around my house.

btw, I'm not sure you can do innocent :) You have too much mischief in your eyes

[simply-juniper.livejournal.com]

Funny I was thinking of suggesting the same thing to Brian. Ooooh Brian!!!!

[snowwand.livejournal.com]

lol

I'm here on saturday afternoon, its supposed to be cloudy and mid 60s

hehe

[simply-juniper.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. I so want to go out and take pictures then.

[snowwand.livejournal.com]

whatever you decide :) I'm just on a little endorphine high right now and bouncing around ideas in my head :)

hehe

[simply-juniper.livejournal.com]

that's very good. :)

it's such a great day. we should all be on endorphine highs.

I still really really want to go get the Boston Public Gardens box.

We should get together soon and continue with those ideas we had over Mexican after CTRF last time. Doing any thing tonight? I have to pick up pottery from Harvard Sq and they have the cutest pumpkins that you would like.

[snowwand.livejournal.com]

just do some moving around...doesn't take much to get the endorphines moving...and I love the feeling that they give you :) hehe

Boston Garden box, check. maybe the weekend of the 8th or 14th? There are a couple of other boxes in Boston, now, also

I would love to go in and paint pottery tonight, but I'm on a strict no spending diet this week. I'm going to make a budget this week and see what I can work out

maybe in two weeks or something? Pumpkins are a thanksgiving-ny thing too, right?

[bellebet.livejournal.com]

Now THAT's comedy! I'd stick with it if it works.

A demonic Pogue Butcher singing show tunes. :)

May I suggest some Berlin thrown is as well tonight?

"There's NO (chop) business like SHOW (chop) business like NO (Chop) business I know..."

or how about some Abba? Abba's always scary.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

good thing you're not running for office, huh?

[lordbleys.livejournal.com]

Dunno, I might vote for a candidate who would do that

sure beats who's in office today

[akycha.livejournal.com]

Oh, I WISH we had time to go see it this year! This performance sounds like something beyond "worth seeing." It sounds like a treasure...

(But we don't. I must chain myself to my desk and grade, grade, grade essays. Explain to me again why I wanted to teach?)

Just your description, though, got me to laugh out loud in my office. You should get prizes for that. :)

Other Rose

[malterre.livejournal.com]

FAbulous, just fabulous. a MUST OWN for the video collection.. :)

[simply-juniper.livejournal.com]

If I come to the haunted house I'll pass out, okay? Just so you get a gold medal.

Just don't make me pee myself. You make me laugh so hard sometimes as it is and I wouldn't want to have to run all through the castle to find the bathroom.

[eroika.livejournal.com]

I know where the secret bathrooms are! ;)

[simply-juniper.livejournal.com]

There are secret bathrooms!! Just remember you have to loud really loud to distract people for me True.

[crossbonestyle.livejournal.com]

You didnt mention that on Saturday we got somebody to go poopy in their pants!
-LauRen

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I didn't know!

*wipes away tear of pride*

Details, details! Was it an adult?

[missmelissa.livejournal.com]

But, we made someone poop themselves saturday in the plague room, what does that equal?

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

NO! Really?!

Ooooo. I think that's the equivalent of a hometown parade and modest statue.

[missmelissa.livejournal.com]

Yup my brother did! I am so proud of him...

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I can't remember. Are you guys doing this on the 1st and 2nd, too?

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

November 1st, aka "the day we blow out our voices because there's no reason to hold back" is our last day. :)

[crossbonestyle.livejournal.com]

Hmm as a back lawn witch and Tour guide I get no such satisfaction like people losing bowel control.
Usually they just get nervous.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as a back lawn witch pretty much the only way to make people lose bowel control would involve actually catching fire, grabbing a tour member so that they catch on fire too, and then going over the security fence and into the ocean with them. And we just didn't get the safety harnesses for that this year. :(

[crossbonestyle.livejournal.com]

harness sharness, I need no such thing. You forget I am LauRen!!! I can fly. Thats why they must tie me to the stick.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Ahhh...and here I thought it was so you'd be unable to cut loose with your Mad Monkey Kung Fu.

That must be the other witch.

[crossbonestyle.livejournal.com]

Now how would you react if I told you in addition to my ability to fly, I also had mad monkey kung-fu skills?

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Well for starters, I'd always let you go first whenever we were standing in line together.