"For a lot of people Halloween is the one day out of the year that
they can truly be themselves. It was always my favorite holiday and then
one year it seemed like almost a let-down, like it wasn't really any
different from any other day. Which, in a way, meant that I guess I'd
made the right life choices to get to be who I wanted to be all the time,
[...]" -- Amelia G of Blue Blood
(
amelia-g),
2007-10-28 (first part also visible
on LJ with
a link to the rest)
Relatedly (and I realized I had to quote this alongside what Amelia wrote even before I clicked through to read the rest of her post and saw that she'd quoted it too) some of "(Everyday is) Halloween" by Ministry:
Well any time, any place, anywhere that I go
All the people seem to stop and stare
They say 'why are you dressed like it's Halloween?
You look so absurd, you look so obscene'
[...]
Well I let their teeny minds think
That they're dealing with someone who is over the brink
And I dress this way just to keep them at bay
'Cause Halloween is every day
It's every day