Two years later in college, I decided to do it again and do it right. I still had the headpiece, so I worked hard on making the rest of the costume, polluting my dorm room with the smell of silver spray paint. And the best thing was, I had a place to wear it; there was a costume party being thrown by my music fraternity on the Saturday night after Halloween.

Then I ran into one slight problem: that year I also was in an alternative band named "Exclusion Process." We practiced in a basement that belonged to some guys the guitarist was friends with... But the guys in the house changed their mind on the day of the party/concert and decided to move the party/concert to Saturday night - the night of my fraternity's costume party, which was going to be elsewhere.

I was torn. Darn it, why did they have to switch? I put too much time and effort to make that costume to not show it off at the costume party. But I had to play our gig. I couldn't let the band down.

You can see the solution: I went to both parties. I first went to the costume party, then left early so I could play electric bass wearing a Klingon costume. I didn't have time to change. It was hot, uncomfortable - kind of crazy to do ... and it was a blast! The gloves have the fingers cut out, so I could even play bass with them on. (Although I eventually took them off.) And the great this was that no one knew who I was. The school paper did a concert review and described me as "a mad Klingon on the bass" because the guy who wrote the article never knew my name!

Halloween
Darth Vader	Stormtrooper	Klingon	Conductor	Bride	Judge	Darth Mime	Vampyre	Mummy	Ghoul
Other Costumes
			Sylvester	Jason	Spamlet	Fifties Party
Faces of Matt