Monday, January 5, 2009

Rocky Horror

Sports thought: Oh my god this Fiesta Bowl is so indescribably boring.
Food find: I am really proud of the fact that the Harvard dining hall food, for the most part, is equivalent to that of EVK (arguably the lesser of the two USC dining halls), and doesn't hold a flame to Parkside when it's on.
Currently: Half typing, half reading the Harvard Crimson. They deliver the newspaper to every room on campus. Wow. Update: What is this?? All day I was looking forward to doing the Crimson crossword puzzle, and now I find out that there isn't one.

Accomplished one of my life goals a few nights ago, which was seeing the Rocky Horror Picture Show at a midnight. For those not aware, RHPS was a musical (then made into this movie) from the late seventies spoofing horror and sci-fi movies. For the most part, this movie is pretty lame and weird and cheesy. But, it pretty much created the cult film genre. Since it's release, it has been showing non-stop somewhere in the country at midnight showings. There's essentially a script for the audience, who is supposed to yell various things back to the screen at any time. Combine that with any range of props (we threw rice during a wedding scene, put on party hats during a party), plus eight or so actors who act the movie out as it goes on, and it's one of the coolest experiences ever. They start of before the show making all the people who have never seen it before (the "virgins") stand up, and pick a few to come down on stage and harass them. One of which was me. It wasn't too bad though--all I had to do was take off my shirt and do the Time Warp, the big dance number in the movie. Now that I know what to expect, I really want to go see it again. And all of you should too.

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