No Costume … No Candy! The Devil Inside Samhain
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 by Chad Cherry
Well, well, well, kiddies. It seems to be that time of year again. The summer is over, the air is a bit cooler, and where I’m at right now the leaves on trees are starting to change their color from green to lively shades of red, orange and yellows before they completely die and fall to the ground. It’s harvest time for 2010. Which means Samhain is coming … The God of Death. HALLOWEEN.
On the last day of October, when the harvest season has ended and the days get shorter and colder, the God Samhain allows the souls of the dead to visit where they once dwelled. For those of you who still think Samhain is just a Glenn Danzig musical act, then good for you! You’re not right, but you are cool for knowing that.
I’m gonna get brainy on ya for a sec … I know you Lip Service junkies love it when I do this … You’re all such smart lil’ fiends!
Historian Nicholas Rogers noted “… some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman Feast of Pomona, the Goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the Dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic Festival of Samhain. Original spelling – Samuin, an old Irish name meaning Summer’s End”.
This festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the “Lighter Half” of the year and the beginning of the “Darker Half”. Samhian is to be believed to border between this world and the otherworld, allowing spirits (not vodka tonics), some harmless and some harmful, to pass through. The good spookies can go home for a few and see who’s been sleeping with their spouse and the bad spookys are there for pain and mayhem. Those bad bitches need to be chased away … How are ya gonna get rid of a bastard spirit? … You wear a costume or a mask, genius! The purpose is to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit, thus avoiding the bullshit a ghost can pull. (I guess bad phantoms are afraid of their own likeness and are pretty fuckin’ stupid … -Note to ghosts- I’m just kidding, please don’t mess up my house or break my fine China … Epp!!)
Samhain is also time to take stock of food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter (In mid-western tongue this means getting fat as hell for the rest of the year.).
Bonfires!!! Fire! Fire! Fire! Uh-huh, uh-huh! A big part of this festival. The bones of the slaughtered livestock (aka Little Debbie Zebra cake wrappers and empty Doritos bags, in clearer terms) were cast into the flames. Bonfires would be built side by side and people and livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual. Food and drink we’re also involved. To be more clear, once again, this means cow, corn and P.B.R. … I think … I’m getting off track here.
Anyway! Listen! You have to dress up for Halloween! Or yer screwed with the whole spirit harassment thing. It will mess up your night, trust me I’ve seen it. Halloween costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as vamps, ghosts, skeletons, witches, devils, and aliens etc. This is cool. There are also costumes of pop culture figures like presidents, athletes, celebrities, film, TV and cartoon characters, too. However, these costumes are not cool. They are lame unless you get creative with ‘em. And by creative I mean lots and lots of BLOOD!!! The more morbid the better kiddos.
Really though, for me the true meaning of Halloween is the excuse … I mean … The popular trend for women to wear the most revealing and sexiest costumes ever!!! I want ya to show off more skin until you ladies are socially unacceptable … Which is very acceptable! Thank you so much for this evening called Halloween, sweet Satan.
My costume suggestions … Just for the ladies. Vampirella is a very, very, very good one. And don’t forget Elvira!!!! Bikini beach-time Elvira is nice. She will never not be cool. Can’t wait to see it!
There will be more Halloween madness from Lip Service next month. You’re not gettin’ off that easy punks.
All is ROCKING with The Last Vegas this month. We are in the legendary Groovemaster Studios for the next several months (if not more) conjuring up the wicked music that will make hearts beat to the rhythm of voodoo drums and souls go to the other side of reality with deep hard grooves that will make you feel as sexy as you do when yer wearin’ Lip Service … Or when you’re not.
Loving you freaks all to death, C.Cherry TheLastVegas.com
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