Wednesday, October 17, 2018

286/365/Scary Stuff

The first time I saw Rocky Horror Picture Show, maybe, was in a university town with Alison and Dana in 1978. One of them—I think the straitlaced-seeming Dana—snuck in a flask. I was scared of getting caught, but Alison, who had recently been kicked out of boarding school, was not. Of course I was just paranoid, all was well, and it was a great show.

The next time I saw Rocky Horror Picture Show was a few months later, in 1979, in Toronto. This was another world. The theatre was huge, the crowd down and dirty. Props were plentiful, and Leyla and I were asked to pass joints between rows. Stay sane inside insanity.

These days I watch within my own haunted house.

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  1. I need more Rocky Horror in my life.

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  2. There's a statue of Riff Raff in a town about 7 hours north of here, where Richard O'Brien (who wrote Rocky Horror) lived and worked. The horror part is that it is in Hamilton.

    (That's a Kiwi joke - Hamilton is notoriously dull.)

    You can see a webcam of the statue here - http://www.riffraffstatue.org/ Apparently people visit it and do the Time Warp. Now I can't get the song out of my head. Thanks.

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    1. That is cool! Thank you! (I listened to the soundtrack today on the way to work, so the Time Warp is in my head too...)

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  3. I used to play Rocky Horror soundtrack when my kids were in the car. I remember them belting out "Let's do the TIME on the HILL".

    Now, thanks to Mali, I can either stick to list of things I need to get done today or watch Riff Raff to see if anyone stops by to do the time warp.

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  4. Wonderful. I have only seen it in a theater once -- in Pittsburgh, so much fun. I've seen the movie a few times at home.

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