Tonight Matthew We're going to be.....

Theres a big Halloween party that I've been invited to this weekend, a week early but the hosts have tied it in with their Daughters birthday and the fact that they are away on holiday next weekend. The theme is Halloween, obviously, and my good friend Jonah and I have decided to do something as a pair. He originally suggested dressing up as KKK klansmen, suggesting to me that for those not in the know we would just be ghosts, to those in the know we really would be the scariest people out that night, but the idea fell down as neither of us wanted to carry the burning cross.

The news from the party hosts was that the party has now been thrown open to just fancy dress as everyone was going seemed to be turning up as either a witch or one of the ghost pirates from 'Pirates Of The Theme Park Ride Money Making Franchise' films. This gave us another option.
Jonah is smallish, roundish and with a full blown ZZ TOP beard, the next option was easy...ZZ Top's Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons. Jonah is a natural Dusty Hill.
The Billy Gibbons bit is mine. I'm smallish, slimish and apart from todays 3 days worth of stubble, clean shaven. So the search is on for my 'Stars In Your...Squint And I May Look A Bit Like Them...Eyes' make over kit.
A quick look through google images and the list is made, plus some stuff for Jonah. Blow-up guitars, 2 off..check, Cowboy hats, 2 off...check, Rayban Wayfarers (copies...Cheap Sunglasses...one there for the ZZ Top fans out there!), jeans, black jacket, white shirt, 1 off each..check (Jonahs got these). Now for the beard...3 hours on the phone finally procured me a 14" long beard. Job done, just need a crate of beer and a bottle of Jack Daniels to complete the image.

So the subject matter is not quite halloween I grant you but I assure you that If ZZ Top knocked on a door and a five year old answered and they did trick or treat thing it would scare the living day lights out of them and would probably get them arrested...expect for Frank Beard (the beardless drummer) who would just confuse them with his eighties perm.

Happy Halloween...ten days early.

Jonah and I posing for the Halloween party photo album...or...Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and a bloke with a really scary perm