So that was the Hollywood Halloween!

What a Halloween Weekend! It's spinning faster and faster around me, I am meeting more and more people. I have a feeling that will go on until it apruptly comes to an end on November 13th when I have to leave this beautiful country.
We started Halloween on the 30th with a very rare event: the long promised visit to the spooky Villa in the Hollywood Hills, that was built by Charlie Chaplin and inhabited by the Rolling Stones and Marylin Manson thereafter. Patrick, the German AFI directing student - who lives an extremely bohemian life complete with a lot of women, drugs and odds like writing his screenplays in a strip club every night - threw a gigantic party around the pool and in the house. There was a band playing and the craziest costumes around. We arrived late because we had seen the screening of "Malibu Song" (directed by two very nice people that we met at the tea invitation at the Schoenbergs') at the Goethe Institut. It was a fantastic and witty documentary about the last Hippie Colony in Malibu/Topanga Canyon that has been destroyed by the State Park. The paradox was that they forced them to move and pulled down their houses in order to "make the nature available for everybody" by restoring that State Park to "its original state". This film is just so important! The people in the film were all there to do Q & A afterwards and they had sooo much to tell. A lot of artists' roots lay in that little spot of the world. Anyway, so we forced ourselves into the costumes while in the parked car and headed to that Villa where we also met our friend Timo. Much fun! But only until about 2 when the cops arrived and ended the party by sending everybody home.

The Halloween parade on Santa Monica Blvd. on the 31st was a crazy experience as well. Just beautiful to walk and watch people's creativity. The costumes ranged from Christmas tree and carrot over to giant penis and furry monster. Extremely popular where film figures like Charlie Chaplin, Queen Elizabeth, Joker in Batman, Teletubbies and other odd things. A lot of pirates, cowgirls and -boys, Playboy bunnies and many many drag queens were seen. some people didn't have a costume and used their working clothes (uaaa..), so a lot of hospital staff, soldiers and sportsmen around. The current issues in politics where also picked up, so one saw driver's licenses, Sarah Palens and McCains. I used my Burning man grape costume again, I was too lazy to make more costumes. Lena sported a fantastic self-made crow/witch costume with wings from some art project that somebody left in the office. We both wore violet and black, so it matched perfectly and every now and then we got asked to be in pictures with people, just like many of the very cool costumed people.
After the parade we were to meet a friend at a private Halloween party in Hollywood that kinda turned public because it was in a garden right next to a liquor store. It was a comedian's party, so there where a lot of funny people. We didn't meet that firend but made new friends, a Tarzan and a playing card from Alice in Wonderland. We hung out a little at the playing card's place and then tried to go to this other party but it was over by the time we got there - which was about 5.