Being a guy, I shouldn’t be admitting I’ve even heard of the movie Mean Girls, which is one of the quintessential chick flick of the ’00s. But I bring it up because there’s a part where said girls are getting ready for a Halloween party and Lindsay Lohan comments that Halloween is the one time of the year a girl can dress like a total slut and other girls can’t say anything about it (something that Lohan took up 365 days of the year in real life!).
Young Aussies who grew up on American movies and TV are already celebrating Halloween too, getting their friends to dress up and party like it’s the last night of their lives before they end up becoming the monsters they dressed up as. Though still nowhere near as big here as it is in the U.S., more Aussies are throwing parties at their houses or nightclubs to celebrate the day of witches, demons, ghosts and other ghouls. Everyone dresses up in wicked costumes, and it just simply kicks arse.
Being an American holiday, us Aussies won’t understand the finer points of Halloween, such as celebrating it in late October and not early November. So Gertrude’s Brown Couch are going to be a bit late and Americans would laugh at us if they knew about this party, but Gertrude’s Plonk! Halloween Party is sure to still kick major ghost arse!
Though it’s still a month away and none of us live in America, Halloween is fast approaching, so do you want a trick or a treat? I recommend Melbourne and Brisbane’s trick-or-treaters pick going to the Creepshow Halloween Festival; it’ll be a way better treat than any of your