Excal interview

So Whitney contacted me on Facebook (drink) to ask questions for her article on party houses for the Excalibur. She asked 9 questions and myself, B, Gordo, Flu and Travis sat around and discussed. This is what we sent in.

1. Why is your house a party house?
2. What do you do, if anything, to party proof your house?
3. Do you use any sort of system to control alcohol consumption?
4. What themes have you hosted?
5. What do you do to draw attention to your party?
6. Any tips for throwing a successful party?
7. Any serious problems?
8. Any funny anecdotes?
9. In your opinion, what are the three best themed parties you have ever attended?


1. our house has evolved out of the realm of home free, our old house along the ol' 106 bus route. the naming began with the feeling of the place... we spend our days waiting to walk in the door and proclaim "HOME FREE" as we had so many times in our childhood games. the 3 origional members then named sucessors to thier lair to join forces with thier friend and former college rezmate in another well known party house, and added a fifth amazing personality to became newhomefreeland, and have been rocking the party house ever since. the thing is, they dont really try to hard. with the five of us, its already a party, and when you add the numbers of part time residents, the place is always buzzing.
the abience is aethetically pleasing, including a zombie wall for apocalyptic emergencies, a hat wall for hat parties, art projects on all the walls, ceilings, doors and floors, (which by the way, is hot lava) soundproofed bathroom, and 5 very chill roomspaces including: a forest (tent included), a handpainted boho upstairs library redlight bedroom studio complete with wall poetry, and a doctors office.
entertainment is endless, with music that could play to the end of time, enough dj power to host the wickedest of dance parties, every nintendo system, movies, and all the drinking games to go with each. dont forget about the classics: chess, puzzles, and bottle cap fights that last hours.
basically, you put enough amazing people in one place, and its bound to be a good time, regardless of where you are. this place just happens to be where we live and everyone runs home free.
quoted by newhomefreeland
2. to party proof our house... id say we clean up. take out all the mcdonalds and pizza boxes to make room for people and maybe sweep and do some dishes if the beer hasnt arrived yet. - matt armour
nothing. occasionally drastic rearrangements of furniture for no reason. - brendan gilhuly
3. vomit usually works, just try to keep it outside or in the bathroom if there isnt a line. - matt
we too poor to afford enough alchohol to kill ourselvs with so chances are were fine - gord, part time resident with 3/4 vote.
if someone falls down the stairs theyre cut off. at least for an hour or two.
generaly though, and quite seriously, people should know thier limits and we usually have good group of people who watch out for each other and nothing gets too crazy. - matt
4. Vampire Party , Burlesqure Party, BYOTheme Party, 24 Party (Watching an entire Season of 24 with a few 2-4's), The Newhomefreeland move-in party... bender, Spelling Bee party, Mexico (Two 26ers of Tequila), Practice Edwards 40 Hands, Edward 40 Hands, NewYears2008 and the NewHomeFreeLand Scavenger Hunt Kegger, in which we had a list of tasks to be completed by the end of the night. Oh and kegs.
5. Tell people.
6. Keep the randoms out, make people feel comfortable
7. Cleaning up glass is always a good idea, its bound to happen. Trying to keep expensive things dry, with the flowing booze all around. Vomit.
8. Everything that happens, everyday, all the time.
Drop shots of vodka in everything... beer, wine, more vodka, gin, soup, a funnel.
Pre-drinking too much tequila, deciding we needed beer as well, stopping by two houses to predrink and then going to a party screaming Mexico - Sustained many injuries and dirtied a sink and a back alley before midnight (Sorry guys).
9. 1. Scavenger Hunt
2. Vampire Party
3. Underpants parties. Half the works already done!


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So hopefully some of that will get published along with some crazy pics from the Kegger!!

Keep on rockin', yall

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