Here's a shot of me actually wearing the Vincent Price Gothic Steampunk Monster Hunter costume from the Halloween party last Saturday.
With my hot flapper wife.
And lest I forget, I've been directing this for the past couple months. We open on Friday night and close on Halloween. If you live in the Seattle area and want to experience a very cool performance, you have a small window of opportunity. Tickets available here.
It's that time of year again. Last year I had very little time or interest, and ended up with my fallback costume, the Awesome Pirate:
...with his hawt rocker girlfriend.
But this year, I wanted to go a little bit darker, a bit more steampunk-esque, and channel my inner Vicent Price...
Yeah, that's the ticket.
The concept is an early-Victorian monster hunter, in the tradition of the classic Hammer and American International films of the 1950s & 1960s. It's a concept I hope to parlay into some original fiction, and it starts right here:
The only newly acquired elements are the velvet-finish top hat, goggles and 19th century vest. The velvet front-flap Regency trousers were custom made by my high school theater pal Andrea Edelman, who is an amazing historical seamstress and milliner. The deerskin gloves are part of my pirate/swashbuckler ensemble, as are the replica firearms, black shirt, knives and baldric (in which the pirate cutlass has been replaced with a mallet for stake-driving). The boots are one of two pair I own for costume work, and are best suited for later-period endeavors (the others being massive gray cavalier boots). The black suede jacket was one of those amazing $16 Goodwill finds, and is incredibly versatile. Add in the brass-handled cane, silver cross and bottle of "holy water", and you've got a vampire-slaying, demon-exorcising, ghost-hunting, werewolf-shooting badass. Can't wait to show it off at the neighbors' Halloween party on Saturday. More pics (with me actually wearing the costume) to come, I promise.
Had a burst of creative energy yesterday and finished the outline of Green Light, which I followed up by actually drafting the first five or so scenes - with dialogue. And of course when I write, I require a music playlist of appropriate mood. And since Green Light is about the end of one life and the beginning of another (as referenced in Rhymes With Drowning and My New Life Out Here), there are some tracks in the mix which perhaps have more emotional power than would normally be expected.
Like this one:
When the time we have now ends
When the big hand goes round again...
Can you still feel the butterflies?
Can you still hear the last goodnight?
I know people get married to the song, but it has a different meaning for me.
No, not referencing the English neo-lounge duo. I'm referring to the packed weekend in which we managed to be all kinds of productive while not exhausting ourselves. We were up early Saturday to head to the Lynnwood office location of The Collectibles, meeting a skeleton crew to shoot some promo material for the show, including this:
And this:
And this:
The rest of Saturday consisted of Raechelle and me running errands, Halloween shopping, grocery shopping, and then retiring to the house for Halloween decorating and what ended up being a 5-hour Mad Men marathon. We're getting Raechelle caught up for the new season.
Sunday morning consisted of me shopping and cooking brunch while Raechelle cleaned. I made a nice brunch and we watched the first half of the Seahawks game (which was the team's first victory in the east in 5 years), then Brian Beardsley and I roughed out the second half of Airship Daedalus chapter three while Rae cheered from the living room (not us, the Hawks game). Then Dan Humphrey (aka The Quick) and I went over some editing notes for The Collectibles. Then Dan Heinrich called and we ended up heading over to Dan & Trish's for dinner and another couple Mad Men episodes. When we got home, I colored and lettered today's Daedalus strip, uploaded it, then turned my attention to editing the PSAs for The Collectibles.
I've been really inspired to write recently - not just throwing stuff into the blog, but real screenplay material. I did a writing pass on The Collectibles episodes 4 and 5, and have made a start on the Daedalus script for chapter 4. Also been thinking more seriously about Green Light. Tomorrow we rehearse Sorry Wrong Number with our Foley guys.
