Being back here in good ol blink-and-you-miss-it Leon, NY is still a little surreal. I haven't been here for freakin years and now here I am among all the artifacts of my youth. It's wierd stumbling on certain items that had a huge meaning at one point, and while faded and sometimes stained, some of those memories are still there and they come tumbling back.
When I came back here to spend the night in March it was a full on 'OMG I SO REMEMBER THAT' night. My dad made me go through ALL of my old stuff and deem what could get tossed/thrown away/donated. I dunno why he couldn't have just put it up in the attic with the rest of the unknown amounts of shiznit, but here I was and so it would be that I would rummage.
I found journals and pictures and all sorts of crap, mostly stuff that I wouldn't be too fussed about going away as long as I didn't have to do it. I picked out a few choice things and set them aside to go into Mum's barn with all of HER stuff that just cannot get thrown away.
Today I stumbled upon another choice relic that Kaotix would know all too well...and on mention of this object would cringe.
The fabled chicken dress. It makes those who know of it, and especially those who have worn it, tremble.
(I wish I could post photos...stupid me didnt bring my camera stuff because I didn't think I'd be here long and plus this computer would probably implode.)
But yeah, this infamous chicken dress is a treasure I happened on during one of my many ventures to the Salvation Army when I was a kid. I specialised in dressing like a weirdo, and the thrift shop was THE place to find everything I needed.
When I happened upon this yellow dress with green chicken wire pattern PLUS! green chickens running across it, I HAD to have it.
Now, what made this dress so scary...especially for a boy, is the infamous Video Tape, which is possibly lost to us all forever, and while that is not a bad thing, it is also freaking hilarious. Probably moreso at the time (1996ish) and even more to those who were featured on it.
A bunch of my friends and I went out in like, November for a dip in Lake Erie with our clothes on even though it was buttass cold. We rush in, we freeze our booties off and make for my house because the parentals just happened to be gone for the weekend and my house was ze perfect place for a buncha teenagers to lounge around. And what with it in the middle of nowhere with no neighbours to complain should there be any noise...poifect.
It's been a while so I forget all the good details that make a great story, but I know I got out my dad's video camera and Mum's guitar and made video of us doing stupid shit. There was the bit called 'Guitar With a Nude Man' named so not because one of our friends was naked playing the guitar, but because he changed out of wet clothes into a towel and the angle of the camera made it LOOK like he was. Then there was the bit where we were all chasing each other around the house like pirates or something and Kaotix and another friend of ours were holed up in my room and I somehow thought it was a REALLY good idea to go downstairs and get a freaking knife and when they cracked open the door I jabbed it through assuming that they would see it and I very nearly stabbed someone in the face. But I didn't so we are allowed to laugh about it and Kaotix thinks that was like, the best part of the video, when really, the part where he was somehow coaxed into wearing the chicken dress and a scarf on his head and make-up was the best because we got him on video in this horrible drag and he will NEVER live it down because I am a mean friend.
But hopefully that video is hidden like the Holy Grail or something. | posted by Whatsername again....? @ 4/19/2006 10:49:00 pm |
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When I came back here to spend the night in March it was a full on 'OMG I SO REMEMBER THAT' night. My dad made me go through ALL of my old stuff and deem what could get tossed/thrown away/donated. I dunno why he couldn't have just put it up in the attic with the rest of the unknown amounts of shiznit, but here I was and so it would be that I would rummage.
I found journals and pictures and all sorts of crap, mostly stuff that I wouldn't be too fussed about going away as long as I didn't have to do it. I picked out a few choice things and set them aside to go into Mum's barn with all of HER stuff that just cannot get thrown away.
Today I stumbled upon another choice relic that Kaotix would know all too well...and on mention of this object would cringe.
The fabled chicken dress. It makes those who know of it, and especially those who have worn it, tremble.
(I wish I could post photos...stupid me didnt bring my camera stuff because I didn't think I'd be here long and plus this computer would probably implode.)
But yeah, this infamous chicken dress is a treasure I happened on during one of my many ventures to the Salvation Army when I was a kid. I specialised in dressing like a weirdo, and the thrift shop was THE place to find everything I needed.
When I happened upon this yellow dress with green chicken wire pattern PLUS! green chickens running across it, I HAD to have it.
Now, what made this dress so scary...especially for a boy, is the infamous Video Tape, which is possibly lost to us all forever, and while that is not a bad thing, it is also freaking hilarious. Probably moreso at the time (1996ish) and even more to those who were featured on it.
A bunch of my friends and I went out in like, November for a dip in Lake Erie with our clothes on even though it was buttass cold. We rush in, we freeze our booties off and make for my house because the parentals just happened to be gone for the weekend and my house was ze perfect place for a buncha teenagers to lounge around. And what with it in the middle of nowhere with no neighbours to complain should there be any noise...poifect.
It's been a while so I forget all the good details that make a great story, but I know I got out my dad's video camera and Mum's guitar and made video of us doing stupid shit. There was the bit called 'Guitar With a Nude Man' named so not because one of our friends was naked playing the guitar, but because he changed out of wet clothes into a towel and the angle of the camera made it LOOK like he was. Then there was the bit where we were all chasing each other around the house like pirates or something and Kaotix and another friend of ours were holed up in my room and I somehow thought it was a REALLY good idea to go downstairs and get a freaking knife and when they cracked open the door I jabbed it through assuming that they would see it and I very nearly stabbed someone in the face. But I didn't so we are allowed to laugh about it and Kaotix thinks that was like, the best part of the video, when really, the part where he was somehow coaxed into wearing the chicken dress and a scarf on his head and make-up was the best because we got him on video in this horrible drag and he will NEVER live it down because I am a mean friend.
But hopefully that video is hidden like the Holy Grail or something. | posted by Whatsername again....? @ 4/19/2006 10:49:00 pm |
