Topic: It's just a jump to the left... And then a step to the right (Read 15878 times)

FruitKat · « **on:** 29 Oct 2005, 21:04 »

Yes, thats right, Rocky Horror Show people! (or the picture one).
Last night I went to a live performance of the Rocky Horror Show and it was marvelous!
The madness, the mayhem, the makeup... oh and the men

All the crowd participation was really cool and getting to do the time warp, OH YEAH

And to top it all off Richard O'Brien himself was there!
Now I have a T-shirt that says "I'M JUST A... SWEET TRANSVESTITE"
What more could a girl want?
So this is a thread for everything Rocky Horror (fav characters, rocky horror experiences, hate it/love it? EVERYTHING).

TheLoweringTide · « **Reply #1 on:** 29 Oct 2005, 21:13 »

I've seen the movie; it's pretty entertaining. The people who are really into it scare me.

visceralviscous · « **Reply #2 on:** 29 Oct 2005, 22:46 »

the movie is hilarious.. but as far as drag queen rock-operas go, i tend to prefer hedwig and the angry inch. in fact, i'd love to do a photoshoot with the same sort of glamour-makeup-thriftesque style as was in that movie.

as for the cultish thing around rocky horror...i try to stay away from that stuff, cos while it's cool that people do that sort of thing, it's just too much crazyness.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #3 on:** 29 Oct 2005, 22:54 »

Let's just say, that it's the peeeelvic thruuuuuust, that really drives me insa-a-a-a-a-aaane.

*ahem*

Bunnyman · « **Reply #4 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 02:23 »

Gaah. Evil. EEEEEEVIL.

normz · « **Reply #5 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 02:32 »

my mother made me watch that movie at 12 ... to say i was traumatised by it well hmmmm ... but yes it is fun fun fun indeed (i do beleive there is footage of me drunkenly singing kareoke to the timewarp somewhere)

Bunnyman · « **Reply #6 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 02:55 »

I'm so sorry. Do you need a hug?

normz · « **Reply #7 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 03:27 »

*snuggles into bunnymans arms and sobs* I just wasnt ready at that age for transvestites no matter how sweet

FruitKat · « **Reply #8 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 03:44 »

Transvestites are awesome!

... Sometimes I wish I was a man just so I could dress up in womens clothing...

Is this wrong?

ASturge · « **Reply #9 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 04:42 »

AWWWW HEYAL NO!

Switchblade · « **Reply #10 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 08:35 »

The scary thing is, I'm playing in a game of DnD at the moment. any time we fast-forward a period, the DM gets up and does that dance...

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #11 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 14:52 »

My club has adopted the Time Warp as our official dance

Justin · « **Reply #12 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 15:23 »

the la paloma theater, a little historical landmark theater in my home town does that show every friday night, and a special one on halloween. i used to work there, but never for that show.

Meh. Whatever you say... · « **Reply #13 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 18:26 »

Leeeeet's do the Timeeee Warppppp Againnnnnnn!

Woo!

I love that movie.

</3 Kerry

Kai · « **Reply #14 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 18:56 »

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2763

I is Grammar · « **Reply #15 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 19:08 »

When I first got that movie on DVD, I watched it 3 times in 3 days, just so I could see everything that I missed the first two times. Yeah, sad, pathetic, just keep adding on the insults.

My parents scream and run out of the room if I even mention the movie.

...yeah.

Maui · « **Reply #16 on:** 30 Oct 2005, 20:24 »

haha that article is pretty damn funny.

Also, i loveeeeee it!!!!! I too was introduced to the movie wayy before I was mentally able to deal with it lol but i still grew to love it. My dad dances along with the movie EVERY time heh. My friend Kyle and I have drove around cities blaring and singing along to Time Warp with the windows down. Good times.

Nettle · « **Reply #17 on:** 31 Oct 2005, 03:08 »

Mum and Dad were going on about it since I was about 5 years old!! And Mum would sometimes randomly sing me some of the songs. And then they wouldn't let me watch it until i was 14! :( And yes, i understood all the concepts by that time. So i probably enjoyed it more. And after my first viewing, i'd already memorised the tunes! (not the words yet). The first time i was freaked out a bit, but i loved the songs. By the second time i could understand/ get the jokes!!

stammgm · « **Reply #18 on:** 31 Oct 2005, 20:26 »

My best friend asked me to go with her to a live performance my junior year in high school, and I had no idea what it was, so then we had to go through the whole initiation thing.

Needless to say, I was in shock for about a week, but then I decided that it was really cool, and I went every chance I had until they stopped doing it at the theater near us.

noise_wave · « **Reply #19 on:** 01 Nov 2005, 01:42 »

My highschool drama club did Rocky Horror Picture Show for one of their smaller plays/musicals. That's what happens when you are in Orchestra, you get roped into playing for the drama club. Though that was a WICKED musical arrangement to play, especially since I got to play Eddie's saxophone solo. It was damn sweet. The guy on stage pretended to play while I actually played. It was pretty sweet.

Eldirial · « **Reply #20 on:** 01 Nov 2005, 18:16 »

I actually went to a midnight showing on the 31st up at a friends College- Lets just say it was very interesting since most of those attending dressed up and it is an all girls school- made my night. But, it is a wonderfully strange movie.

Bunnyman · « **Reply #21 on:** 01 Nov 2005, 22:34 »

Wonderfully strange is Repo Man. Wonderfully strange is Alphaville.

I *barely* dodged a bullet this weekend, as I got roped into seeing a showing of it and arrived 30 minutes late after circumnavigating the entirety of the Berkeley-Oakland metroplex. We can't have four of seven people in a car giving directions. Oy.

SeanBateman · « **Reply #22 on:** 01 Nov 2005, 23:01 »

Quote from: In another Thread, SeanBateman

ROCKY HORROR IS NOT A MUISCAL! IT IS NOT A FILM! IT IS NOTHING BUT A STEAMING PILE OF TRIPE THAT IS INFLATED BY PEOPLE WHO CAN'T LET GO OF THE PAST INTO SOME BIZZARE FETISH THAT THEY PASS DOWN TO YOUNG CHILDREN WHO ARE DESPERATLY LOOKING FOR SOME WAY TO SEEM COOL, ALL THE WHILE CONTRIBUTING TO THE DEMISE OF AMERICAN THEATER AND FILM! FUCK THAT SHIT!

ASturge · « **Reply #23 on:** 02 Nov 2005, 12:27 »

I agree that it isn't THAT good.

But last Sunday at a Halloween party I time warped my ass off all the same!

Luke C · « **Reply #24 on:** 02 Nov 2005, 12:56 »

I saw the show. I thought it was lame but I dont really like musicals.

Plays > Musicals.

Eldirial · « **Reply #25 on:** 02 Nov 2005, 14:55 »

See, Im not sure if I could stand behind it and say its a work of art, or amazing.. but It is enjoyable because of how strange it is, at least to me.

RollOfDimes · « **Reply #26 on:** 22 Nov 2005, 14:48 »

Words cannot express the mass awesomeness that is the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Tessie · « **Reply #27 on:** 11 Dec 2005, 20:26 »

That article IS effing hilarious...

I for one ADORE RHPS... I also find Magenta endlessly alluring. Yahyah, I know she screws her brother but when I think of her and dear Columbia, ooh baybe.

I also love doing that song "Science Fiction Double Feature" in an awesome falsetto right before watching anything mildly science-fictiony. Like X-Files. ^_^

pip_helix · « **Reply #28 on:** 14 Dec 2005, 18:23 »

^.^

i just saw it for the first time over the summer, and ended up super-addicted. there used to be weekly live shows in providence, but they disappeared a few years ago..dunno why. *sad*

ah well, good times.

"and say hello to oblivion!"

(yay)

Bunnyman · « **Reply #29 on:** 16 Dec 2005, 00:46 »

Now...The Crow, there's a cheesy goth-y movie to get excited about.

"Let me do an impression for you. Caw, caw, bang, fuck, I'm dead."

It's lines like that that forgive a plank-like performance by Brandon Lee (then again, he was dead for like half of filming...how oddly ironic).

KharBevNor · « **Reply #30 on:** 28 Dec 2005, 11:02 »

Some girl commented on the Crow fan-art on my Elfwood page and asked me if it was supposed to be Brandon Lee or the guy from the shitty third Crow movie. I was all like "No, bitch, it's from the stupendously awesome graphic novel you've never read. I am Pilot Error, I am Fetal Distress, I am the Random Chromosome, I am Complete and Total MADNESS, I AM FEAR!" Then I shot her.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is, was and maybe always will be one of my favourite films of all time. It's terribly fun, it has good songs, It has cult movie references, it has Meatloaf, and it has a wonderful plot/concept. Maybe it's just because I'm a bisexual wierdo, but I just love the whole idea behind the film: The dull, boring, straight Brad and Janet getting bent into moral pretzels by Frankenfurter. Plus, Riff-Raff is the most awesomely cool dude ever. Richard O'Brien is da man, and he has an incredible singing voice come to that.

"It's astounding...time is creeping...MADNESS takes it's hold..."

Wonderful. If you don't appreciate it, you're a boring git.

vegkitkat · « **Reply #31 on:** 29 Dec 2005, 21:01 »

Rocky Horror makes me happy. It's just so camp. I went to the midnight showing on Halloween this year for the first time. The initiation wasn't bad at all, just some insults, but nothing more. I can't wait to go next year and have another great time.

TheFathomist · « **Reply #32 on:** 22 Jan 2006, 13:25 »

I heart Rocky Horror. There is a theatre in D.C. that has a midnight showing of it every Saturday. My friends and I go there all the time when I'm home from college.

strawberrybumfluff · « **Reply #33 on:** 18 Apr 2006, 17:05 »

I adore men in drag, so it is especially warped that I had a fear of Rocky Horror for years. It all started when I learned the Time Warp in dance class when I was little. Even at that age, I knew I shouldn't be singing about pelvic thrusting, never mind doing it! I've been scared ever since... until the other day when I went to an interactive screening of it. It was scrumptious, and I have now conquered my fear.

Some applause s'il vous plait?

Jarne · « **Reply #34 on:** 26 Apr 2006, 10:30 »

How young were you when you learned it? In my dance class, we've got seven year olds learning it.

JodyAnthony · « **Reply #35 on:** 26 Apr 2006, 10:36 »

the movie makes me sad in the pants.

fortheabsurd · « **Reply #36 on:** 30 Apr 2006, 08:11 »

Seriously, I used to go to showings once a month. Where else can you throw toilet paper and squirt people with waterguns. Incidently it is the only place on the planet where I can get away with prancing around publicly wearing a corset fishnets and panties. Seriously if i left the house in this elsewhere i'd go to jail

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Lines · « **Reply #37 on:** 30 Apr 2006, 08:56 »

i have yet to go to the show that they have at a theatre nearby, but some of my friends went and they had a blast. and i never thought my friend aaron would make such a ... not pretty transvestite.

Holy Magenta · « **Reply #38 on:** 25 May 2006, 17:19 »

I love RHPS.
My friend and I are going to try and go to a showing of it this Halloween.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #39 on:** 25 May 2006, 17:55 »

I am actually quite the fan! I have yet to attend the stage version,but I have attended a live viewing of the movie. Goddamn..surrealism.

sjbrot · « **Reply #40 on:** 25 May 2006, 23:37 »

The only time I've seen it live, it was performed by a bunch of high school aged kids between the ages of 13 and 18. It's really weird watching a fourteen year old girl prounce around on stage in her underwear while her parents are in the crowd cheering and calling her a slut (as per instructions).

KibBen · « **Reply #41 on:** 26 May 2006, 00:30 »

RHPS = a way of life. I am not joking you.

est · « **Reply #42 on:** 26 May 2006, 02:30 »

I'm not obsessed by it, but uh

it's pretty cool.

I have been known to burst into snatches of "I can make you a man" whilst drunk. It is quite definitely a song for drunken theatrics.

Morokrat · « **Reply #43 on:** 02 Jun 2006, 13:44 »

while i do not dress in drags myself, let me just say that i once sat in the gushing rain, throwing toilet paper around while middle-aged people told me to stay quiet, because they wanted to watch the movie. that did kill my love for a short time. but right now, i tend to watch it about once a month. it never gets old. and after all, i'm a wild and an untamed thing...

Kai · « **Reply #44 on:** 02 Jun 2006, 14:47 »

Quote from: sjbrot

The only time I've seen it live, it was performed by a bunch of high school aged kids between the ages of 13 and 18. It's really weird watching a fourteen year old girl prounce around on stage in her underwear while her parents are in the crowd cheering and calling her a slut (as per instructions).

Hella awkward.

Johnny C · « **Reply #45 on:** 04 Jun 2006, 12:58 »

Hellawkward.

Did you guys know that one of the DVD versions (I think there's more than one) has an audio track which is a live recording of a theatre audience shouting at the screen while TRHPS is playing? And instructions so you can join in?

Ravenbomb · « **Reply #46 on:** 06 Jun 2006, 11:18 »

AFAIK, the regular one-disc version is just the first disc of the special edition, which is the one that definately has the audience participation features, so I think the single disc version might have them too

Kai · « **Reply #47 on:** 06 Jun 2006, 12:38 »

I actually just finished watching this again, actually. Fancy.

sunniegreen · « **Reply #48 on:** 13 Jul 2006, 21:31 »

I sort of love RHPS, though I'm not a fanatic. I have always wanted to go to a live performance but I would have gone with a group of dear friends who are much experienced so that I could try and avoid the Virgin thing. They told me about it, and now I live too far from home to go with anyone that I know is "safe" so I'll have to wait. I'm a killjoy when singled out like that. It irks all the pride that I have but didn't earn, because I despise being forced into anything.

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TheLoweringTide

Bunnyman

normz

Bunnyman

normz

ASturge

Justin

Meh. Whatever you say...

Maui

stammgm

noise_wave

Eldirial

Bunnyman

SeanBateman

ASturge

Eldirial

RollOfDimes

Tessie

pip_helix

Bunnyman

strawberrybumfluff

Jarne

JodyAnthony

fortheabsurd

Holy Magenta

sjbrot

Morokrat

Ravenbomb

sunniegreen