Halloween 2021 I was at some punk show about a week ago whe.. (OnlyFans)

Halloween 2021

I was at some punk show about a week ago where I saw this guy I kind of knew from work and we got to talking. He told me his band needed a drummer for a Halloween gig the next weekend. He also knew that I used to be a drummer so he asked if I would do it. I was a little less than sober (and overly confident) and, despite having not touched a drummer in seven years, I said that I would. 

A couple of days went by and I got a message from my coworker with a Spotify link to the set list. That was when I realized that I didn’t dream the conversation we had and that I did in fact agree to play a show with a band that I had never heard. I spent the next few days listening to the set list on repeat, trying my best to learn the songs. 

I realized at some point that I didn’t even have a costume for the event. I went to a Halloween store nearby but it had been ransacked and nothing was left. Then I remembered that I used to be a terrible stripper and actually have a closet full of costumes at home. So I went through my inventory and pieced together a couple of options.

On the day of the show I got another message from my coworker telling me where the venue was. I got there and it turned out to be an old church that someone had turned into a venue and was lit up with a bunch of multi colored spotlights. I went in and it was actually a Rocky Horror show. Not many people were there and it was clearly put together by some volunteers – you grabbed your own metal folding chair as you went in, the bartenders were clearly someone’s parents, and the MC was just the funniest guy at the water cooler – but it was very pure and still very fun. 

The band played after the movie so I sat in the back with the sound engineer while I waited to go on. We got to talking and even stepped outside and had a couple of drinks and a smoke together, and exchanged backstories. They were so cool!

We heard the movie end so we went back inside. I took the stage with the band and it was an immediate shit show: I obviously didn’t know what I was doing, the rhythm guitarist was super sick and kept falling out of the song, the lead guitarist kept going without us, and the bassist didn’t know whether to follow me or the lead guitarist. Eventually the band started playing songs that weren’t in the set list given to me which, ironically, turned things around for the better because then I could play without knowing how the song was “suppose” to be played and I wasn’t overthinking it. We got into a pretty good groove after that. Too bad over half the people had left by then. 

Afterward, I went to Some dive bar with the bassist and the sound engineer. It was an interesting place, some lady grabbed me by the face when I was in the bathroom (gross) and told me that I’m beautiful. We only stayed for one drink because they were closing, so we all went over to a friends house. 

When we got there we all sat in the living room, drinking bad beer and watching Cowboy Bebop. I sat next to the sound engineer again and we kept talking. At some point I was telling a story and made some kind of hand gesture that unintentionally hit their leg. I apologized and they said “it’s okay, you can touch me.” My heart sank and that was when I realized that I am attracted to the sound engineer. So, we kept talking and got a little closer with one another but then they had to leave. I was bummed because I thought that was the end of my interaction with them but, as it turns out, I work with them and didn’t realize it! I can’t wait for Monday. 

I came home and did a stream, trying to get as much mileage out of a full face of makeup as possible, then made a pizza. I honestly think I broke a record of some kind with how fast I ate that pizza after (figuratively) starving myself for a week so I would look good in my Halloween outfit. I fell asleep so hard after that, I don’t even remember it and didn’t even remember to take my makeup off. It was such a busy, hectic, and exhausting week – at some point in there I accidentally shot myself in the finger with a nail gun – but so absolutely worth it. 

Happy Halloween 

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