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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

A Slice of American Pop Culture Pie

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CC is listening to: Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34: I. Heart's Wounds (Allegretto Espressivo) --New Philharmonia Orchestra (Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites No. 1 & No. 2 / Norwegian Dance No. 2 / Homage March)

This entry is going to be interesting to my Filipino readers who haven't lived in the US or haven't heard of this phenomenon. I'm kind of new to it myself.

Steve is going to try to educate me about:


What have I learned about it so far? Steve has told me that The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a TERRIBLE movie that was made in the 70s. As a matter of fact, it's so terrible it's developed a cult following through the years.

You know how, when a movie/performance is so bad, that people start heckling and making fun of it as it's happening? That's how the cult following started. People, in the course of their heckling, have said some really funny things and people just kept adding more and more lines until a standard script emerged. Today, the heckling includes such things as:
People say it's so much fun that some of them have actually started dressing up as the characters when they watch the movie (which is customarily shown at midnight).

Steve ordered the DVD that had a section on audience participation so that he can show me what it's like. Unfortunately, there isn't a showing of the RHPS in Memphis anytime soon so I won't be able to fully experience it just yet :-).

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