As a result of a brief lull in my workload, I’ve decided to make some posts on this old and tired blog.

The first has to do with when I finally watched the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

For those of you who haven’t seen it, the movie stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, and Meatloaf (pre-fame). There are others, but I figure those are the only names which will mean anything to most of you (and mentioning Meatloaf may have been a bit of a stretch).

It is an interesting musical. The songs are really amusing, even if the story seems slightly incohesive. Despite that, I can see why this movie has created a cult following in many major cities in North America, where the RHPS is shown at midnight on weekends in local cinemas.

The story surrounds the recently engaged Brad Majors (Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Sarandon), going to see their mentor Dr. Everett V. Scott, since they met in his refresher course.

En route to his home, they get a flat-tire and stop into an old castle to use the phone. Inside, they encounter Riff-Raff, Magenta, Columbia, and a host of Transylvanians who are dancing the “Time Warp” at the Annual Transylvanian Convention. They are quickly introduced to Dr. Frank-n-Furter (Curry) - a transvestite from the planet Transsexual, in the galaxy of Transylvania.

Frank-n-Furter invites Brad and Janet up to his laboratory, where they witness the creation of Frank-n-Furter’s ideal male sexual partner, Rocky Horror. The remainder of the musical involves crazy sexual exploits and other horrifying things that would be frowned upon by a Catholic community.

Here are some images:

(I was going to add images of my own, but apparently there is some sort of glitch with my video encoder that forbids me from taking print screen of playing or paused video).

(Apparently, images are a bitch to find. I wanted to show the movie cast, not some of the amateurs who act it out in cinemas.)

Check it out at imdb.