October 30, 2005
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¡Feliz Dia de Los Muertos!
Tonight, A bunch of us met up at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery for the Day of the Dead festival. On this day, departed souls join the world of the living to eat, drink and be merry.
Throughout each period in Mexican culture, death seems to hold no terror. In Mexican art, legends, and religion, death has not been a mysterious and fearful presence but a realistic recognizable character as much a part of life as life itself. Dia De Los Muertos expresses this perspective:it is not a mournful commemoration but a happy and colorful celebration where Death takes a lively, friendly expression and is not frightening or strange.There is no place for sorrow or weeping for this could be interpreted as a discourteous to the dead relatives who are visiting gladly. - ladayofthedead.com
It was Eddie’s and my first experience of Dia de Los Muertos, and it was an amazing evening in a spectacular setting. There were many elaborately decorated altars, vendors selling cool ‘muertos’ artefacts, people with facepaint, music, dancing, and those Oaxacan taquitos & margaritas really hit the spot.
The pic above is of two little kids who deserve the best costume prize! Check out more photos HERE. (flickr photoset)
Comments (7)
That looks like a lot of fun, and the Hollywood Forever cemetery was a perfect spot for it. Loved the pic of Zippy the Pinhead at Johnny’s grave. Isn’t Dee Dee buried somewhere around there too?
Yes! Dee Dee is buried there! I heard later there was something going on at his grave too … but we couldn’t find it in the dark…
I think Joey was hanging out at Dee Dee’s grave…not sure if they invited Johnny.
Lili: have you checked upstairs recently to see if your neighbor has Dee Dee’s headstone?Eddie: wherever they are now, I’m sure that Johnny is bossing them around and stealing their girlfriends.
I like to think that Joey and Dee Dee have hooked up with Billy from Guitar Wolf
Hah. Here is Dee Dee’s headstone, with kiss marks! (photo by my neighbor Wes)
Very interesting!