F911 - The New Rocky Horror Picture Show?

[VolcanoJen]

Think of the possiblilites...

Throw pretzels when Chimpy comes on screen.

Scream "GO FUCK YOURSELF" whenever Cheney shows up.

When Rumsfeld comes on screen, everyone chants "They're east, west, south and north somewhat."

Bring plastic pocket combs, and lick them.

Everyone stand at the appropriate moment for a loud and boisterous sing-a-long of "Let The Eagle Soar."

Anyone else care to play?? }(

[StaggerLee]

1. Throw baking flour or something of that nature

On cue when the Cocaine hook is played?

[MikeG]

2. Bring golf clubs for "Now watch this drive?"

[Babel_17]

25. engaging Mr. Burn's voice ........

"Excellent!" :)

[Zomby Woof]

3. don't insult F-9/11 that way

Rocky Horror is a really bad piece of putrid shit. :-)

[VolcanoJen]

4. I'm talking, like, five to ten years from now...

... kind-of mirroring that putrid piece of shit's popular trajectory.

dumbass.

[Zomby Woof]

6. the popularity of Rocky Horror

Is a perpetual testament to Americans' bad taste and crappy judgment. Insert an H.L. Mencken or P.T Barnum quote here.

I just can't really go into all the reasons why Rocky Horror is the worst dreck to float above the rest of inexplicably profitable pop-culture pond scum. Talk about self-consciously-hipper-than-thou in-crowd emperor-has-no-clothes-but-that's-okay-because-'camp'-excuses-lots-of-crap-from-being-justly-criticized shit! Can you tell that I REALLY hate Rocky Horror and everything it purports to represent? :D

Ok, I know i sound like I am taking your (beer-influenced?) idea too seriously. But F-911 is ART, about a VERY REAL AND PRESENT DANGER, even if satire and humor are used effectively. Rocky Horror is just midnight-movie masturbation for people not getting enough oxygen to the brain and a malnourished sense of the absurd.

But hey, you don't want me to diulte my opinion for the sake of peace and love and all that shit, do ya? ;-)

[VolcanoJen]

7. Well, ok. But you know what else RHPS was? It was fun, dammit.

I'm of that age and generation, and I never considered myself some kind of poseur by going to the theater and playing for a night.

Jesus, I'm from Ohio... my school was one flavor, one size fits all, so escaping to go see Rocky Horror was actually exotic to me at the time. It helped to open my eyes, and it was good fun.

I reject your notion that young people gathering at now non-existent downtown art theaters to get silly and show their colors is nothing more than midnight-movie lemming masturbation. Maybe that was your experience, but I learned a lot from that little "scene."

At any rate, I can agree that F911 is a serious piece, and shouldn't be ridiculed or made light of. At the same time, after the election is over and we begin to rid the government of the people portrayed in that film, the film will live on as a comedy, and a cultural and political touchstone.

That's exactly the point at which people will begin to have a little fun with it; it's just the way pop culture works in this country.

I dunno, ZW. I brought this silliness out of GD and into the Lounge just to have a little fun with it, is all.

[Zomby Woof]

8. hehe

Hey, you are rarely at the receiving end of one of my rants, but just ask CatWoman (my oldest friend on DU) - she knows what it is like to have a piece of her ass bitten off by me, lol. She still complains about the soreness 2 years later. ;-)

We're the same generation, and I lived in the stinking hellhole known as Va Beach VA during those formative years. So we created our fun in lieu of that film (there was always "The Wall" for our midnight movie self-pleasuring). It's just that I am a goddamned contrarian that despises 99% of everything.

Read this and forgive me: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1874234

Oh, and :loveya:

[VolcanoJen]

11. OK, here's my well-thought-out response:

Thanks for the buzzkill!!

Oh, and I went to midnight screenings of "The Wall" too... it was no less mainstream (Pink Floyd fans = non-conformist rebels?) than Rocky Horror, let me tell ya.

The crowd at "The Song Remains the Same" were more fun, anyway.

:+

[Zomby Woof]

13. I embrace contradiction

Despite The Wall's enormous popularity, it transcended pop-culture banality, and delivered both entertainment AND a powerful message at once.

I saw "Song Remains" a few times. We snickered at Plant's hard-on and I bet you did too. ;-)

[VolcanoJen]

17. You know what the powerful message of The Wall was to me?

Maybe it's just me, but here's what I got out of it:

"Women, when not being slutty, are evil and manipulative; they are a crucial piece of the authority mechanism which is holding you down, and they will make you miserable while ruining and controlling your life, until you give them up all together."

I liked the music, though.

And yes, I did enjoy that cucumber Robert Plant liked to stuff down his trousers. :D

[Zomby Woof]

22. I was referring to the anti-war part

The rock-star-as-fascist-with-unresolved-Oedipal issues was the dark side of Waters. He could be both pompous and brilliant. That was the pompous part. Not all of the anti-authortarianism was anti-woman. The school and legal system bore their brunt of abuse. When you consider how terribly authoritarian English schools were in the 50's, it makes more sense.

Waters lost his father in World War II, which is the 'powerful' part. The loss of Syd Barrett's mind was the other half of his obsession, and perhaps making women as a metaphor for bad acid and a a literal catalyst for rock-star isolation woes was a really dumb idea... I would agree with your assessment.

But yes, it came down to the music and what seemed innovative at the time. Gilmour's solos are what endears me to the album to this day (and that anti-war stuff).

[Spinzonner]

9. Assuming you're not pulling our legs as suggested by your simleys

LIGHTEN UP

[Zomby Woof]

10. my sense of fun is more highly developed than yours

Also, I take "lighten up" to mean, "Hey! Just let your brain go and be a stupid conformist!"

Fuck that. And I really do loathe Rocky Horror, and I am not too fond of people who tell me (of all people) to "lighten up!", "get with the program!", or other conformist slogans.

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[Zomby Woof]

18. appreciate that

Unlike 90% of DU, I neither need nor want medication. Your personal attack goes... nowhere.

[Political_Junkie]

5. Man, I loved Rocky Horror!

Tim Curry's my hero!


Jen, I already added one to the other thread.

[FizzFuzz]

12. well I was walkin down the street, jus' havin' a think....

when a snake of a guy gave me an evil wink!

It was the music and the costumes, I think.

Loved RiffRaff!

anyway, for 9-11 midnight camp...(which I haven't seen yet but will ASAP)--- Everyone sticks a potato in their pants and does the pelvic thrust when the Great Fighter Pilot comes along

[Zomby Woof]

14. looks like someone beat you to it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1870738

I AM a buzzkill today.

Not easy being an asshole, but I try my best. :evilgrin:

[VolcanoJen]

19. Nice job kicking it, though!

I wasn't even awake during that thread's first life... night shift, you know. }(

[Zomby Woof]

20. I think you should claim...

Some kind of "great minds think alike" situtation.

Because despite this one serious difference of opinion, I never think less of your wonderful mind.

[VolcanoJen]

21. You know, I don't think I'll do that.

I like my list better, anyway.

And, there's nothing "serious" about this difference of opinion, not on my end, anyway.

[Zomby Woof]

23. then let's have a beer

And yes, your list is better, but then some things go without saying.

(Don't be slipping Xanax in my beer though) :eyes:

[m-jean03]

16. I haven't seen it yet

(it hasn't come to my town) but I think this is great, VolcanoJen. :-)
Very clever.

[Babel_17]

24. "When Rumsfeld comes on screen"

I was thinking more in terms of "You've got no #@%*ing neck!"

Lol, wicked idea you have, great post.