I went to the Yeasayer Berlin show at Maria am Ostbahnhof in full Heath Ledger Joker costume only to find that i was one of perhaps 3-4 people dressed up (like less than, uhm, 1% of the crowd... wich made it somewhere between awkward and awesome. Double-takes, photos, etc.)
However I did get a shout-out from the bassist before he left the stage at the end of the show. He pointed and said "Hey, there's Joker!" Kind of rad
I deliberated long and hard about doing this costume fot the third year in a row, but honestly my inner obsessiveness compelled me to do it again - as I just explained to a friend "mainly because I was so dissapointed with my costume last lear - it just wasn't what I wanted - but this year it was like 99% spot-on (as opposed to last year being about 65%). My make-up took over 3 hours to do and I even bought brown contact lenses... (yikes. you'd think I have better things to do with my time... and I do but I also I just fraking love Halloween & Batman)" I do. and in Berlin it is hard to Have a great Halloween... I donät know why. Although the night before the Yeasayer concert we did go to the Peres Projects Halloween party (see: ZOMBIE BIKERS FROM MARS) and that was amazing. Decorations, music, costumes and a dance performance by a tiny dancer named
Helga Wretman... oh, and there was a 10-foot tall ninja girl (whoim I couldnät figure out if they'd hired or if she was just an amazing circus freak. I also befriended the German Kieth Richards, a saxophone teacher. If anyone has photos please contact me, I don't. note: Joker kostüm Kreuzberg neukölln berlin 2010.

LESS THAN 6-degrees of film wierdness.
After seeing inception I was googling Marion Cotillard (of recent Inception fame) and was not really surprised to find a link to a French film where she appears naked in a sex scene... afterall: French actress, French film...
although it was on par more or less the same pleasant surprise as realizing (after watching Casino Royale) that Eva Green was also in the Dreamers...

which - speaking of the ghosts of odd film histories - reminded me of this post: IRON MAN and SPIDER-MAN from two years back- a still from Wonder boys in which Robert Downey Jr. (who went on to become Iron Man) is in bed with Tobey Macquire (who goes on to become Spider-Man) ... and it all gets weirder. because...
IF
rumours turn out to be true that Joseph Gordon-Leavitt will become the Riddler in the third Christopher Nolan Batman installment
THEN
that means that 10 Things I Hate About You (with Heath Ledger as Petruchio to Leavitt's Hortensio- also embarrassingly one of my all-time favorite movies) is suddenly a film featuring the Joker and the Riddler... in High School. Right?

Pile on top of that Kenneth Brannaugh's appearance in Thor... (nope. We'll wait/aren't really that interested.)

But in really REAL reality maybe I am only really writing this post to get hits.... No, that isn't true, I am actually dorking out.