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Hallowmass is the annual Halloween celebration thrown by the World//Inferno Friendship Society. In the 2001 series of photographs, the band ended their show at the Good/Bad Art Collective in Brooklyn by playing their song about the Great Pumpkin. To prove their sincerity, the singer, clad in a white suite, brought a pumpkin-headed white-suited doppelganger outside while the band played on inside on the stage. Most of the crowd of mostly drunk, mostly costumed revelers followed outside through the opened garage door. The singer, one Jack Terricloth, climbed on top of a dumpster, still singing to the pumpkin headed dummy, and doused his gourdheaded twin in high proof liquor. Towards the climax of the song, he spit flame onto the dummy, which was then smashed by the assembled crowd who had been dancing in the street and on parked cars. I thought to myself that this was perhaps the best celebration of Halloween I had ever seen, and that I was as lucky to have caught this on film as when I got that photo of the skinhead doing a stage dive off a twenty foot plus balcony onto an unsuspecting crowd. This and the Submission Hold/Antiproduct show at the Old Mill in Lawrence, MA are the two musical events I've been at that have felt the most life changing.

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