HALLOWEEN TREAT

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School buddies reunite after living separate lives.

Still Crazy After All These Years Jack and BoB are old school friends who reunited after decades apart.
Once, they sang together at a school assembly; then life carried them in different directions, careers, marriages, children, and all the adventures in between.


By candlelight, the Wizard and the Vampire are back at the piano. The years have changed plenty, but not the mischief, or the music.

Candlelit Wizard and Vampire at the Piano still crazy after all these years. decades and careers.

 

We sand at out school assembly decades earlier, and after graduating we went different ways tending to careers, marriage, births and all other considerations. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C58ttB2-Qg

The imagery of a candlelit wizard and a vampire at a piano creates a striking contrast to the mundane realities of careers, marriage, and parenthood. It suggests that while the world demanded we both grow up and fit into societal roles, the "crazy" creative spark you shared during that school assembly never actually went out.

 

The transition from the structured environment of a school assembly to the surreal, gothic atmosphere of a wizard and vampire suggests a reunion that isn't just about catching up on biographies, but about reclaiming a shared sense of wonder or rebellion. It's as if the costumes are a way of stripping away the "adult" versions of ourselves to find the buddies who existed before the responsibilities of adulthood took over.

 

A poignant beauty in the idea that regardless of how far our paths diverged or how many decades passed, we can sit down at a piano together and immediately return to that same frequency of eccentricity.