Ludicrously Tragic

The sun bathed the top of the tent, protecting the people underneath.

Red roses, red eyes, red noses. A sea of black and pastel. All here to pay respect.

Flowing from the hearse like water from an open floodgate. One, two, twenty.

Rhythmic squeaking alongside a long pine box. A box no one would be popping from.

Such a happy life. No one knew monkeys were so mean, least of all Mr. Jingles.

If you live in the Edison, NJ area, be sure to check out Halloween in December on December 9 from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. with lots of vendors, performers, costume contest, Rocky Horror, murder mystery theater, zombies, costume contests, etc. Sounds awesome! Halloween is a far superior holiday to Christmas.

Clerks II was just released on DVD.

In London's West End, The Rocky Horror Show is returning at the Comedy Theatre from December 21 through January 27, 2007. David Bedella plays Dr. Frank N Furter, Suzanne Shaw plays Janet, Sue Blane did costume design, etc. The Comedy Theatre is located at 6 Panton Street, London, UK. For more info, call 0870 060 6637 or visit http://www.rockyhorror.co.uk.

Tonight's topic: Cast people who show up late or don't show up at all. We discuss different instances and how they should be handled. Also ride-sharing issues are discussed.

Tonight's Fantasy Cast was surprisingly easy: Hip Hop Stars.

Bad jokes. You may want to fast forward.

In honor of Clerks II, we review the original Kevin Smith movie Clerks.

Check out Margaret Cho's new MySpace video My Puss.

Laura's house is infested with airplanes.

Tonight's topic: What does your cast do about underage performers? (Thanks for the idea Bill, Unkie Bill, hey buddy you cant sleep here move it along, etc).

Next week's topic, unless we change our minds: Ride requests and cast members who just don't show up.

Fantasy cast: The Simpsons

Sean and Jeanne spent 13 hours waiting outside Toys R Us for their Nintendo Wii (snicker). Nobody in Laura's family has five nipples.

Howdy to bfierra from from the Rockypod Livejournal community. He does good fantasy castage.

Cleaning tips: Handwash your spacesuit and spraying Febreez is not cleaning.

For Thanksgiving, we give thanks to Richard O'Brien for giving us this bad movie.

Movie review: Milo and Otis, in which a cute kitty and pug dog have adventures in a box.

Sean knocks the wire out of his mic. Then Jeanne's cell phone rings. This is professional podcasting, folks!

Sean has to go because of personal grooming.

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First of all, please forgive the quality of this episode. Laura's Mac G4 has a faulty power supply, and while a refurbished one has been ordered, we did not have a computer that would run GarageBand (our usual audio-editing software) or even Audacity. Sean has a very nice PC laptop, but he is running a beta copy of Vista on it and Audacity is not compatible. We were reduced to recording with an iRiver. It worked, but unfortunately, we stopped recording at the end and didn't get it running correctly so the end of the show was lost. Laura tried to re-record what was lost but it just wasn't the same. As all our music is on the bad computer, we didn't have access to the old public domain recorded music that we use for bed music.

During this episode, we discuss what brought us to joining our casts. Everyone always talks about how they first lost their Rocky virginity, but no one ever says what motivated them to become cast members, if indeed they did do so. If you are on a cast, tell us why you joined!

Laura tells a few Basher of Scheme's Rocky Horror riddles until Sean puts a stop to it! Heh heh, you can read the rest of them in the November 8 blog post.

Our fantasy cast is made up of Disney villains and/or princesses.

We begin to discuss the 1980 comedy Airplane, but this is where the recording dies and Laura has to recreate it from memory. Oh well. Anyway, it's one of the funniest movies ever made and if you haven't ever seen it or it's been a while, check it out. You will laugh--I guaran-damn-tee it!

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~Laura

Pardon the crackly sound of the show. For bed music, I used blues from the early 20th century ("I'm So Glad" by Skip James) and it had a lot of pop and hiss. I think it's charming.

News: If you live in the Atlanta area and are a regular at the Lips Down On Dixie show at the Plaza Theater, be advised that they will not be having their show on Friday night November 10th due to Out on Film, the 19th Annual Atlanta LGBT Film Festival, which will be at the Plaza from November 10th-16th. Instead Lips Down On Dixie will be performing on Saturday Nov. 11. If you regularly attend both LDOD and Lambda Psi Phi shows, you're going to have to make a choice--warm up your coin-tossin' hand because it's going to get a workout.

McFarlane Toys has recreated The Rocky Horror Picture Show's movie poster as a 3-D collectible, to be released February 2007. You can see creepy and disturbing photos of the poster here. Sean rants about how difficult it is now to get McFarlane toys lately.

Kevin from Crazed Imaginations asked why don't casts do holiday shows? Usually our cast does shows for Christmas and New Year's but last year the holidays fell on Saturday, which is when our cast usually performs and we didn't have enough people in town to perform. We can't remember if our theater even played RHPS those nights. What does your cast do to celebrate the holidays? Nobody ever does a Thanksgiving show, it seems. Why not? Thanksgiving is always overlooked.

Cult movie review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory vs. Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Let the yummy battle begin! Sean rants about the most evil man in the movies.

Fantasy Cast as suggested by Jessie aka Loserface from MySpace: Super Heroes.

Megan on MySpace is on the cast of The Black Hole, which will open March 1, 2007 at the Chicago Rock Cafe, Lincoln, UK. The cost is ÃÂ5 and the ticket hotline is: 07857 019 577. Check out the music from the show on the MySpace page.

As always, Rocky Horror Pod Show is proud to be a member of blubrry.com, where you can find lots of great podcasts.

This was an awesome time. The audience was large--approximately 300 people showed up--and the last I heard we nearly sold out of prop bags. Much toilet paper was thrown all over the auditorium and a lot of folks dressed up. This was the first time I have ever performed RHPS on an actual theatrical stage and we weren't blocked for that much staging area real estate. The lights were low in the back so that the movie could be projected there and Rod, who was doing photography, complained that people needed to play more toward the front of the stage to take advantage of overhead lights. But we were all so used to almost touching the screen that it was hard moving outwards.

We had the bare minimums in props, basically what had been saved from when our old theater closed from when our cast was performing at two different movie theaters at the same time(!). Those props had been stored in our cast leader's attic for three years and then when I brought them in they smelled like dead animals so I sprayed them with Febreez and then washed them!

We had one space suit which I wore as Magenta (with a banged-up foot and a walking cane). Sean brought a Space Ghost suit for Jason, who was playing Riff, to wear in the space suit scene. No Eddie stuff. Two floor showish pieces of lingerie. I brought my Riff jacket for Jason. I brought my Playtex gloves for Jessie, who was Frank. Eyepatch Josh brought his late grandmother's wheelchair.

We had a great canvas laundry tank which had been stored in a rehearsal theater. Sean fit inside as Rocky and also he and Renee, who was playing Janet, easily fit inside. It rolled easily and we kept acting like we were going to push it off the stage just to freak Sean out (didn't work).

Afterwards, Sean, Jeanne, Jason, Rod and I went to Marietta Diner, where we used to go back in the Blackwell and then the Marietta Star days. The floor manager who tried to throw us all out once and whom we called Lurch still worked there.

Good times.

We're still interested in setting up phone interviews. If you'd like for us to call you, let us know your phone number and when we can reach you. It's really fun. Just email the information--rockypod at aim.com.

On Wednesday, I was struggling to open and load a new roll of 24" paper and clumsily dropped it on my foot, which was clad in cotton kung fu shoes. I think I broke my toe. At any rate, it has the appearance of the discolored and bloated foot of a drowning victim.

It hurts like hell, but I am now able to put some weight on it. I have been keeping it wrapped, icing it and using my daughter's crutches from when she tore a ligament last spring.

I am going to play Magenta tonight at a special show at Kennesaw University. Should be interesting.

I may send my dear husband out to buy a walking cane, because crutches are so clumsy.

Whatever you do, don't tell me to break a leg!

~Laura

Does anyone have any show topics or discussions we haven't yet covered? Are any events coming up that you'd like us to contact you about? Do you have a podcast and want to share promos with us? Do you know anyone who we should interview or should we interview you?

Please let us know in the comments or through email at rockypod -@- aim.com (remove the dashes and spaces).

Thanks! Your pal Laura

Absolut Vodka ad features Frank N Furter

Newest rumor news about remake of RHPS: Marilyn Manson as Frank. However, podcast Subject: Cinema says that it would be Alan Cumming.

We try to call Muppet, our fellow cast member.

Roundtable discussion: Laura has been reading the newsgroups and we want to address the issue of kickline perfection, or do you have your cast do practice sessions for blocking and such? How do you do it? We also gripe about poor cast practices such as turning around to watch the screen and not bothering to make an effort. (However, there are times when you have to peek because the movie doesn't give audio cues.)

A trick-or-treater comes and gives us a bad trick.

We review The Lost Boys.

We try to call Muppet yet again. No luck.

Fantasy Cast: Muppets

Shrimp on a treadmill YouTube video

Hyper Nonsense podcast song: "Halloween is Awesome"

We decide to call Jason White, who will be in charge of Rocky Horror, November 4th, a free-for-students show at Kennesaw University.

Podcamp Atlanta is in the planning stages and is tentatively set for March 2007. If you live in the south and are interested in podcasting, you may be interested in this.

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News: Queen of the Desert con was a success, we hear. Any word on Screamfest? Last week in 1974, filming began on Rocky Horror Picture Show. Barry Bostwick was hired by Donald Trump to read a book on tape.

Ed from Fishnet Mafia emailed us to say:
Hey guys -
I'm responding to your question of "What do we do, for the Halloween show?"

October is the only month, that we perform a third show. As a treat for the audience, we have the entire cast perform at this show. How we do this, is that the primaries split the roll at key points of the movie. So, for example, the role of Janet... One will play till the lights go off, during the Creation scene. Then switch, and the other will be there, in the white robe. The first, can now start getting ready for the Floor Show, including the make-up. And then, be back on stage for that.

Also, we encourage the audience to dress up in their Halloween costumes. We do hold costume contests, during the Pre-Show. One is a regular costume contest, and the other is to crown the Goth King and Queen, for Columbus, OH.

.....Also, I wanted to let you know, that you guys have a permanent link, on our website.

- Ed
The Criminologist / Webmaster
The Fishnet Mafia
http://www.columbusrockylive.org

He also sent a preshow music list:
I heard you talking about making CDs to be played, while the audience is filtering into the theatre. I do the same thing for us. I enjoy it a lot, since I used to DJ, plus it's another outlet for my creativity.

I call the releases, "PRE-SHOW ENTERTAINMENT", and they are a full 80 minutes of special remixes, regular versions of songs, soundbytes, and commercials. Generally, it works out that I'll play the first half on the first show of the month; the last half at the second show.
For the month of October, I made a special Halloween Edition, to be played at all 3 shows. Here is the playlist for this month:

1) "Treehouse of Horror V" (intro)
2) Haunted House (megamix) - Various Artists - a house/techno beat that uses samples from "Tales From The Crypt", "Halloween", "A Nightmare On Elm St.", and Vincent Price's laugh off "Thriller"
3) Let Me Prey - Van Helsing's Curse
4) "This city is headed for a disaster" (Ghostbusters)
5) Ghostbusters - Ray Parker, Jr.
6) "RHPS Commercial (Riff Raff)"
7) Weird Science (remix) - Oingo Boingo
8) "It's alive!" (Young Frankenstein)
9) Monster Mash (remix) - Bobby "Borris" Pickett
10) "If a witch betrayed her coven" (The Craft)
11) Dead Man's Party (remix) - Oingo Boingo
12) "There are certain rules" (Scream)
13) Thriller (remix) - Michael Jackson
14) "One - two - Freddy's coming for you" (A Nightmare On Elm St.)
15) Dream Warriors - Dokken
16) The Weapon (live) - Rush - introduction by Count Floyd
17) "RHPS Commercial (Belt You Around The Mouth)"
18) Somebody's Watching Me (remix) - Rockwell
19) "Feed me!" (Little Shoppe Of Horrors)
20) Something In My House (remix) - Dead or Alive
21) "Werewolf" (Young Frankenstein)
22) Twilight Zone (remix) - Golden Earring
23) "When a vampire bites it, it's never a pretty sight" (The Lost Boys)
24) God Of Thunder - KISS
25) "You should never say, 'Who's there?'" (Scream)
26) Nature Trail To Hell - "Weird Al" Yankovic

TOTAL TIME: 79mins: 57secs

Ed, you win the coveted podcasters' pet award for the month of October! ;-D

Past Halloween shows for our own cast. Nightmare Before Christmas theme. Disgusting Twinkie spit. The famous Batty Bat preshow.

Hello Ren from MySpace! We needs more Monchichis!

The show goes on a downward spiral.

Costume contests for the Halloween show.

Roundtable discussion: The rumored Riff/Brad buggering scene. Did this really happen? Has anyone listening to this actually ever seen this?. We are skeptical.

Joke of the day.

Fantasy cast: Totally Samuel L. Jackson characters

Rocky Factoid

Cast lists

community.livejournal.com/rockypod

www.myspace.com/rockypod

facebook group: Rocky Horror Pod Show

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Promo for Subject: Cinema podcast

Meatloaf's new album Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose is coming out October 31 in USA.

Disney digital 3-D version of Nightmare Before Christmas is coming out next weekend.

World of Warcraft Halloween Treats are available until October 31.

Laura's hair is purple. It is no longer bright red.

An ode to gummy worms.

Accidents that have happened during shadow-cast showings of Rocky Horror Picture Show, at least those we have seen. Sean hates Icy Hot.

Night of the Living Dead is reviewed.

Fantasy cast: Movie Monsters as Rocky Horror shadow cast members-- thanks for the suggestion Eyepatch Josh!

Rocky Horror Puppet Show is playing in Philadelphia, PA. at Little Fish Theatre Collaborative, 2111 Sansom Street. The next shows are Oct. 20, 21, 26, 27, 28 at 7pm and a matinee at 3pm Oct. 22. Tickets are $15.

Joke of the Day

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Promo for Subject: Cinema

~~Laura

Sal Piro is going to be at Queens of the Desert con.

Get well wishes to Dori Hartley, who was the first fan to ever dress up for Rocky Horror back in 1977. She was supposed to be at Queens of the Desert con but had to cancel. Get well soon.

Screamfest 2006, Orlando, FL Oct. 13-15

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