Spooky Parties of the Week! The Halloweenie edition.

Halloween is unfortunately upon us and it begins four days early on this wonderful Wednesday at Angels and Kings for the Rockstar costume and live band karaoke ball. Hosted by Ryan Manno and Cheeky Chicago, its a good excuse to get all yer ya yas out and shake your tail feathers drunkenly in front of fellow music lovers. Starts at 10 PM.

Tomorrow at Angels and Kings, the dress up continues as local DJs Heaven Malone, Members Only AV and La Dolce Vita are dressed up like several musical icons (See the above poster) in an effort to get the hipsters out of their current costumes and into something relatively clean. Unfortunately, we will be at another outing that evening....


The Perfect Circus is ressurected! Thursday marks the 3rd anniversary for Debonair Social Club and Chicago's finest supergroup The Perfect Circus (Alkaline Trio, Local H and Kill Hannah!) are gonna deliver another tour de force for the inebriated zombies revelling in the coolest "couple based costume contest" all week. Winners get free bottle service for the evening from Belvedere. Not bad! Party starts at 10 PM and goes til 2 AM. Guaranteed standing room only so get there as the moon begins to shine.

Friday Night Oct. 30th is a secret. If you're not on the list, then we won't see you. Sorry kids. Trick or Treat! Here's a clue though.Terrifying, no?!?

Saturday Oct. 31st is the night to get your bloody charity for the fourth fiscal quarter out of the way by supporting the Chicago Cultural Center Galaween with Co-Chairs Scott Cannon, Lally Daley and David Weinstein. You can order the $75 tix in advance HERE or pay $90 at the door. With costume prizes reaching $1000, this is the best bourgeouis party of the week with Chicago's young movers and shakers getting together for a great cause. The old folks home does the same gig on Friday, so be sure you know what day it is that you get your groove on. Our brother from another mother DJ Whiteshadow is the table scratcher and we'll drop by to take a few pics.


For the hippest place on Saturday night, Sonotheque rules with some our current favorite music showcased at the Spandexxx.010 UR Chicago jam. With Dragonette (Live) and DJ sets by Moneypenny, Kid Color, Heaven Malone and Midnight Conspiracy this is the coolest late night set unless you want to get R&B old schooled, in which case you come to....A Night at the Roxbury with Montell Jordan at Manor. Nothin' says Trick or Treat like a little smooth soul in a pumpkin candy container to close out the weekend. Montell will be bringing the hits live to the ghoulish greenspenders at River North's A-list hangout.

Something Wicked This Way Comes....

Only 9 Days til Halloween! Fuck man, grab the bags of blood and dead dog's eyes The Day of the Dead and Drunk Assholes in Costumes is upon us! There's something about Halloween that opens peoples messy brains to the notions of illicit behavior whilst wearing disguises that I both embrace and am cautious of. I was recalling a time when I travelled to Athens, Ohio for their annual car burning, riotous Halloween Weekend Extravaganza. It was so great and the hospital staff was so nice for not pressing charges that I went back the following year. Here's a highlight reel of what 3,000 people costumed drunkards are capable of in the the most important state for a Presidential Election. Welcome to Ohio.

Photographers live for this shit. Everyone gets into character and loses sight of their sanity for like 48 hours. Like all the guys that were swinging their swords last year that were dressed up as Spartans from "300". I saw a guy get dented in the head when one Spartan reared his sword and when the bleeding finally stopped, he looked that guy and said:"Don't worry. I'm Batman. I can handle it." A little Alcohol + Costumes = Amazing Photo Opportunities.

To be honest, Halloween already began for us with appearances from some gnarly ghouls last week in Chicago: Heidi "Fleiss" Montag and Spencer Pratt dropped in to support Bright Pink Cancer Awareness for an undisclosed sum and Brody Jenner was spotted inspecting many a boob, failing to ever find a mirror. Reality Stars are terrifying. Reality Stars with A-List appearance prices? Even more terrifying. Nonetheless, they were all very well behaved. As is protocol for these talentless husks. 

But we had plenty of the Real Thing to combat the Pepsi products of MTV. Wunderkind band Cobra Starship kidnapped Reeves for, like all of Wednesday and even stole his camera at one point. That, and they got some wild girl on girl, mutli-participant debauchery going on in the middle of RiNo.

Then Joel Madden came in and pointed at some red tongued fat guy with the exact finger he touches Nicole Richie with. 

And then Kill Hannah decided to set fire to their bus in the Swiss Alps on tour this week. While I'm glad they protested the whole "double decker" idea, methink they should have removed their belongings first. We are ever grateful that they're all fine, and even more appreciative of Mat Devine's brilliant narration in this video.

Kill Hannah Bus Fire Video

  Anyway,  I'd just wanted to remind people of what I, narcissist extraordinaire, wore last year because this year its gonna be the most annoying costume ever. That, and the army of Sarah Palin/ Tina Feys.  Just think of the bloodbath that will ensue when armies of dead Heath Ledgers take on the one chick in Alaska that didn't like "Brokeback Mountain." 

This Year, Reeves and I are following our childish hearts further down into the world of 8-Bit Bliss and no, were not gonna be Sark and Tron. But our costumes will rock you like a Decepticon.

Stay tuned...

Early Halloween Costumes appear....

Mr. Paris Hilton
Mr. Ashlee Simpson

BOO!