“And
crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in time
and lost in space... and meaning.”-The Criminologist - An Expert
So, we
watched Rocky Horror Picture Show for
the first time this season last night.
No, we didn’t watch the POS Fox wasted bucko money on a few years
back. Not that we have anything against
Laverne Cox and Adam Lambert. I like her
in Orange and he’s a good singer, but
she’s no Tim Curry Frank-n-Furter and he’s no Meatloaf Eddie. He actually made a HORRIBLE Eddie! It was cool that they had Curry pull off the
Criminologist, though. Otherwise, they
were just trying to be modern weird, which really didn’t have the social impact
the ’75 original had.
Actually,
back then, the film didn’t hit it with audiences until hit started hitting the
midnight Halloween circuit and people dressed the parts and acted their fave
parts.
A funny
story: Joey used to think the movie was
over after “Time Warp” until her big bro let her in on the bigger world. Her mom’d cut it off before Frank’d come out
to protect her virgin eyes. I’d’ve loved
to see her face.
I’d always
known, my last girlfriend got me watching it in college. I’ve watched it at least a handful of times
every season since…not counting the random times during the year I chose to
pull out the DVD or pull it up online.
I’d just put
it on without telling Joey, so the next I’ll get a movie of her doing the Time
Warp to post.
Of course, it
has my fave saying in it, which I’ll shout out to all you: “Don’t dream it, be
it,” which takes us back to the quote I chose from the end of the film. It speaks of the times of the lack of
acceptance, the lack of self-esteem to be what we’re truly meant to be.
Be good to
each other.
-J-
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