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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Steyn Online ^ | 21 Mar 2020 | Kathy Shaidle

Posted on 03/22/2020 9:04:27 AM PDT by Rummyfan

The death of industrial music pioneer and perpetual provocateur Genesis P-Orridge got me thinking.

Not that I liked his "music." (I decline to use his preferred pronoun, "s/he.")

But because P-Orridge died at age 70, I enjoyed picturing bummed out young "trans" poseurs learning through these obituaries that body modification and "gender fluidity" weren't their ideas.

I also thought ­— not for the first time since the advent of what Steve Sailer calls "World War T" — about The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975.)

The enduring cult film started out as a campy London stage musical that spoofed science fiction B-movies while dialing up the tropes of then-trendy glam rock.

"Space age" androgyny, often awkwardly slapped on top of incongruously macho, stomping tunes. (Think: Gary Glitter, Slade, Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie, Alice Cooper).

The plot is simple: Stranded clean-cut newlyweds seek shelter at the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), "a sweet transvestite" from the planet Transylvania. He and his minions suck the couple into their hedonistic lifestyle, but the party can't last forever...

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


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KEYWORDS: belongsinbloggers; bloggers; genesisporridge; meatloaf; pictureshow; rhps; rockyhorror; timcurry; translife; transvestite
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To: Rummyfan
Last paragraph in the story is the kicker. It was all a game, and it never was anything but:

"I agree with Germaine Greer and Barry Humphries," he said recently. "You can't be a woman [just because you've had a sex change]. You're in the middle and there's nothing wrong with that. I certainly wouldn't have the wedding tackle taken off. That is a huge jump and I have all the sympathy in the world for anyone who does it," O'Brien added. "But you aren't a woman."

21 posted on 03/22/2020 9:30:50 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Rummyfan

I loved it then and still do.

However the fan sing- and quote-alongs are way dirtier than they used to be. That says more about modern culture than about the movie.


22 posted on 03/22/2020 9:31:17 AM PDT by Moonmad27
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To: Fido969

It almost wasn’t Meatloaf. Show started on Broadway. Backstage at one show was the most famous singer on earth who liked the show so much that there were talks of him doing the part of Eddie in the movie. But they never were able to work things out so Meatloaf got the part instead of Elivs.


23 posted on 03/22/2020 9:32:28 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Tax-chick
No one is too old for RHPS. And didn't you just have another kid a few years ago? The only people who will understand all the references in the movie's opening song would have to be in their 60s or 70s anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MHNvOVl8Y

24 posted on 03/22/2020 9:34:19 AM PDT by BillyBoy (States rights is NOT a suicide pact)
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To: NurdlyPeon

Yup. I hit 100 back in High school. It was the “thing to do”. before Social media. It was social, sick and twisted, but social.

I doubt I could ever watch it again, but heck back then we had nothing else to do on the weekend. Kept us off the street and for the most part out of trouble.


25 posted on 03/22/2020 9:34:30 AM PDT by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!! (this post approved by the NSA))
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To: Rummyfan
The Rocky Horror Picture Show- The Time Warp Dance

When My Kids Were Teens They Saw This Movie Every Chance They Could.


26 posted on 03/22/2020 9:34:32 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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Oh-kay . . . what does Throbbing Gristle really have to do with Rocky Horror, other than having freakishness in common?


27 posted on 03/22/2020 9:36:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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BTW, Wikipedia uses the pronoun “they” for the late Mr. Megson rather than “s/he”.


28 posted on 03/22/2020 9:37:43 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Artemis Webb

It’s just a jump to the left....


29 posted on 03/22/2020 9:40:46 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Messaging to Snowflakes: They stole it from Bernie AGAIN!)
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To: Rummyfan

I went to a midnight showing in the 80s, the crowd antics were great, such as in the movie when they proposed a toast, the audience threw pieces of toast.


30 posted on 03/22/2020 9:45:41 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I like that your entry appeared in my feed as:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show —where’s_the_Outrage?


31 posted on 03/22/2020 9:46:41 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The living will envy the dead.)
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To: Big Red Badger
If you’ve been to a Midnight showing at a Theater the Show turns Into a “Group Participation” Event. I think rolls of Toilet paper are used.


32 posted on 03/22/2020 9:49:02 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The living will envy the dead.)
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To: sima_yi

Are there any others? The closest I can think of (and thankfully it didn’t last) was “Mommy Dearest”.


33 posted on 03/22/2020 9:54:19 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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To: Rummyfan

When I read Bill Clinton’s excuse for abusing that woman, Ms Lewinsky, I thought of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

I was ‘doin wrong
With an intern in a thong
But she was good for relieving
My

Tension


34 posted on 03/22/2020 9:54:34 AM PDT by Kickaha (See the glory...of the royal scam)
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To: Artemis Webb

when I was in college, it showed as a midnight movie every night for years. It does have a good soundtrack, but most fun was the college kids who dressed up and made it an interactive event. Of course most were drunk, stoned, or most common...both.


35 posted on 03/22/2020 9:56:11 AM PDT by allwrong57
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To: Lazamataz

I like that your entry appeared in my feed as:
The Rocky Horror Picture Show —where’s_the_Outrage?

LOL


36 posted on 03/22/2020 9:56:16 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: Rummyfan

only saw it about a hundred times,,,,


37 posted on 03/22/2020 10:13:14 AM PDT by Craftmore
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To: BillyBoy

>>The article makes a good point that a lot have noticed: what was considered shocking and obscene by 1970s standards is now considered “not woke enough” and “insensitive to transgender people”

except Genesis P-Orridge will never get in the RnR Hall of fame but Trent Reznor did. No Throbbing Gristle and other 70s-80s industrial bands, no Nine Inch Nails.

GG Allin is still beyond the pale.

Nardwuar vs. Psychic TV (interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4suhp5QNpE

BBC Music For Misfits: The Story Of Indie - The DIY movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz36_a0G7gk

Throbbing Gristle - The First Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWoQPlC9yJE

Throbbing Gristle– Hot On The Heels Of Love (20 Jazz Funk Greats)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpIJgSLgI2Q


38 posted on 03/22/2020 10:15:39 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: allwrong57
A lot of us who watched it '75 only did so once.

There lots of movies that were only shown at midnight.

The Groove Tube comes to mind.

39 posted on 03/22/2020 10:17:03 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
But they never were able to work things out so Meatloaf got the part instead of Elivs.

That's great. Now I can imagine Elvis doing: "Hot Patootie, Bless My Soul."

40 posted on 03/22/2020 10:19:36 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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