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13 January 2007 03:59![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
juldeaGood things:
all-you-can-eat sushi
NEARLY winning an Eye of Argon contest
hanging out with cool people for a while
backrubs
seeing ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kobold and, EVEN BETTER, having him be my RHPS devirginizer
londo be particularly fabulous when I wasn't feeling well
Bad things:
sushi being very far away
the Eye of Argon contest being run COMPLETELY WRONG
Con Suite not having comfy couches for random lounging while the party moves by
almost everything about the RHPS showing that wasn't kobold (more detail below if you care)
the horrendous stomach- and headache I had by the end of RHPS
the Filk Guest of Honor not being Jonathan Coulton
skeevy and squicky men (and women, I'm sure, but none approached me - today)
Here's hoping for tomorrow!
Now, about Rocky Horror. Yes, I was a virgin before tonight. I had seen the movie - heck, I had seen it in high school while handcuffed to a friend AND a bed AND while eating pez off of the chest of said friend (this is much less naughty than it sounds, but oh well) - but I had not been to a live cast. This means that I was a virgin.londo and shadowravyn knew this and urged me to go to the show to fix this problem, and with the understanding that I was just being signed up to SEE THE SHOW did so.
We didn't end up sitting with shadowravyn but ratherrigel and some other people that londo knows better than I do. He passed on the word that I was a virgin and it was quickly passed onto others, which I wasn't happy with, and of course during the pre-show --
-- wait, I need to talk about the pre-show. The Filk Guest of Honor, who was NOT, as I previously mentioned, Jonathan Coulton, was Luke Ski. He, um.... he's not very good. In my estimation. I was impressed by his knowledge of MST3K in-jokes, but not so much by his music. And neither was much of the rest of the crowd. Then, after he finally got off of the stage, there were some very good pre-show skits but there were a LOT of them. I'm not the only one who thought so, either, as londo was wondering why it was so long. So, I had come to see this thing, and it took a long and not entirely pleasant time for it to start, and that sucked. --
-- during the pre-show there was a call for virgins and nearly the entire rows around me jumped up and 'ratted me out' such that I had to go up on stage. I was not 100% thrilled with it but not horrendously unhappy; I hadn't been stupid enough to think it wasn't going to happen. So me and 9 others went up on stage to do this ritual involving blowing up balloons which represented our 'cherry' and having a cast member pop it. There was an elaborate demonstration of this involving one of the virgins who was, um, a stupid cunt attention-whore slut I think I'll say. I was unimpressed. Anyway, the good part of all of this is thatkobold was technically counting as part of their cast and decided to help me out by being my cherry-popper, which was funny and nice of him.
Then, before the virgins were let off stage, there was a request for two of them to stay behind for an extra virgin duty, and once again the many rows of people who had it in for me ensured that I was picked for this, and I was told that I was going to be the groom to this cute boy next to me who had also been picked who was to be my bride. Okay, fine. We are taken off stage, given props, and... ignored.
We're looking at each other perplexed when I realize that the SHOW WAS STARTING. Yes, the show I had come to see, to watch from the audience for the first time, was starting while I was stuck backstage for a reason that hadn't been explained to me. After about 5 minutes (the opening song, basically) me and the cute boy were brought on stage and made to stand around completely clueless while members of the cast acted around us, and then we were motioned off stage with a, "Leave the prop here!!" and that was that. So, the first 10 minutes of the show for me, pretty much ruined. kobold, if you are reading this, I would like to know who in the cast I can let know that that is a particularly unfortunate thing to do to your virgins. The whole process beforehand, fine, but they are coming there because they want to SEE the show, not be clueless for the first 10 minutes and then trying to find their way back into whatever is going on.
Anyway, so I was a little peeved when I returned to my seat, but I HAD seen the movie before (albeit a long time ago) so I at least knew what was going on (I wonder about Cute Boy, as he seemed much more clueless than I was, so I hope he had a good time.) Part of knowing what was going on was understanding that, at a live showing, there are callbacks. The audience yells at the screen/actors. I fully understood this.
What I failed to understand is that when there's a room of 200+ people of whom probably at least 175+ had seen the show before, there are 175 different versions of callbacks and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM NEEDS TO BE HEARD BY THE ENTIRE AUDIENCE SO HELP ME GOD. While I knew that the sound of the movie would be covered up by shouting much of the time, I didn't expect to only hear less than 10 lines during the entire movie. I didn't expect that nearly everyone around me was shouting at the top of their lungs - shouting different things at the same time, or sometimes, the same thing at slightly different times.
I think this would've been okay if I had someone as an anchor, a veteran who used callbacks who I could focus on the entire time. Sadly, I didn't have one. londo was only sporadic, andetherial, who shouted quite a bit, was on the other side of him and not completely audible to me the entire time, and no one else there was someone I felt okay nudging and asking, "What did you just say? It was obscured by someone else's shouting." So, instead of having a singular callback thread to follow, I was overwhelmed trying to pick out singular yells in a crowded theater.
Also, there was a war between the movie sound trying to be loud enough to be heard over the audience and the audience trying to be loud enough to be heard over the movie, and well... did you see above where I mentioned the splitting headache? Oh yes. For the last 10 minutes or so of the movie I couldn't handle it anymore and stuck my fingers in my ears. I'm confident telling you that that was the only way that I was able to stay in there until the end. I would have had to leave if I had not minimized the sound intake.
So, the movie ended, I took my fingers out of my ears and it was still loud enough in the room to aggravate my headache, so I got to be "the virgin in the yellow shirt" pretty much running to get out of the room with a look of nothing close to happiness on my face. I'm sure that looked fanfuckingtastic. Luckily I very quickly found a quiet uninhabited spot, massaged my temples for a while, was brought headache medicine and water from my sweetie, and slowly returned to normal.
londo has said, when confronted with previous plans for RHPS shows, that the perfect viewing size is about 25. I think he might be right. 200+ was wayyyyyy too much. Also, I MISSED THE FIRST 10 MINUTES. That's what I'm most pissed about.
kobold and, EVEN BETTER, having him be my RHPS devirginizerlondo be particularly fabulous when I wasn't feeling wellBad things:
kobold (more detail below if you care)Here's hoping for tomorrow!
Now, about Rocky Horror. Yes, I was a virgin before tonight. I had seen the movie - heck, I had seen it in high school while handcuffed to a friend AND a bed AND while eating pez off of the chest of said friend (this is much less naughty than it sounds, but oh well) - but I had not been to a live cast. This means that I was a virgin.
londo and shadowravyn knew this and urged me to go to the show to fix this problem, and with the understanding that I was just being signed up to SEE THE SHOW did so.We didn't end up sitting with shadowravyn but rather
rigel and some other people that londo knows better than I do. He passed on the word that I was a virgin and it was quickly passed onto others, which I wasn't happy with, and of course during the pre-show ---- wait, I need to talk about the pre-show. The Filk Guest of Honor, who was NOT, as I previously mentioned, Jonathan Coulton, was Luke Ski. He, um.... he's not very good. In my estimation. I was impressed by his knowledge of MST3K in-jokes, but not so much by his music. And neither was much of the rest of the crowd. Then, after he finally got off of the stage, there were some very good pre-show skits but there were a LOT of them. I'm not the only one who thought so, either, as londo was wondering why it was so long. So, I had come to see this thing, and it took a long and not entirely pleasant time for it to start, and that sucked. --
-- during the pre-show there was a call for virgins and nearly the entire rows around me jumped up and 'ratted me out' such that I had to go up on stage. I was not 100% thrilled with it but not horrendously unhappy; I hadn't been stupid enough to think it wasn't going to happen. So me and 9 others went up on stage to do this ritual involving blowing up balloons which represented our 'cherry' and having a cast member pop it. There was an elaborate demonstration of this involving one of the virgins who was, um, a stupid cunt attention-whore slut I think I'll say. I was unimpressed. Anyway, the good part of all of this is that
kobold was technically counting as part of their cast and decided to help me out by being my cherry-popper, which was funny and nice of him.Then, before the virgins were let off stage, there was a request for two of them to stay behind for an extra virgin duty, and once again the many rows of people who had it in for me ensured that I was picked for this, and I was told that I was going to be the groom to this cute boy next to me who had also been picked who was to be my bride. Okay, fine. We are taken off stage, given props, and... ignored.
We're looking at each other perplexed when I realize that the SHOW WAS STARTING. Yes, the show I had come to see, to watch from the audience for the first time, was starting while I was stuck backstage for a reason that hadn't been explained to me. After about 5 minutes (the opening song, basically) me and the cute boy were brought on stage and made to stand around completely clueless while members of the cast acted around us, and then we were motioned off stage with a, "Leave the prop here!!" and that was that. So, the first 10 minutes of the show for me, pretty much ruined. kobold, if you are reading this, I would like to know who in the cast I can let know that that is a particularly unfortunate thing to do to your virgins. The whole process beforehand, fine, but they are coming there because they want to SEE the show, not be clueless for the first 10 minutes and then trying to find their way back into whatever is going on.
Anyway, so I was a little peeved when I returned to my seat, but I HAD seen the movie before (albeit a long time ago) so I at least knew what was going on (I wonder about Cute Boy, as he seemed much more clueless than I was, so I hope he had a good time.) Part of knowing what was going on was understanding that, at a live showing, there are callbacks. The audience yells at the screen/actors. I fully understood this.
What I failed to understand is that when there's a room of 200+ people of whom probably at least 175+ had seen the show before, there are 175 different versions of callbacks and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM NEEDS TO BE HEARD BY THE ENTIRE AUDIENCE SO HELP ME GOD. While I knew that the sound of the movie would be covered up by shouting much of the time, I didn't expect to only hear less than 10 lines during the entire movie. I didn't expect that nearly everyone around me was shouting at the top of their lungs - shouting different things at the same time, or sometimes, the same thing at slightly different times.
I think this would've been okay if I had someone as an anchor, a veteran who used callbacks who I could focus on the entire time. Sadly, I didn't have one. londo was only sporadic, and
etherial, who shouted quite a bit, was on the other side of him and not completely audible to me the entire time, and no one else there was someone I felt okay nudging and asking, "What did you just say? It was obscured by someone else's shouting." So, instead of having a singular callback thread to follow, I was overwhelmed trying to pick out singular yells in a crowded theater.Also, there was a war between the movie sound trying to be loud enough to be heard over the audience and the audience trying to be loud enough to be heard over the movie, and well... did you see above where I mentioned the splitting headache? Oh yes. For the last 10 minutes or so of the movie I couldn't handle it anymore and stuck my fingers in my ears. I'm confident telling you that that was the only way that I was able to stay in there until the end. I would have had to leave if I had not minimized the sound intake.
So, the movie ended, I took my fingers out of my ears and it was still loud enough in the room to aggravate my headache, so I got to be "the virgin in the yellow shirt" pretty much running to get out of the room with a look of nothing close to happiness on my face. I'm sure that looked fanfuckingtastic. Luckily I very quickly found a quiet uninhabited spot, massaged my temples for a while, was brought headache medicine and water from my sweetie, and slowly returned to normal.
londo has said, when confronted with previous plans for RHPS shows, that the perfect viewing size is about 25. I think he might be right. 200+ was wayyyyyy too much. Also, I MISSED THE FIRST 10 MINUTES. That's what I'm most pissed about.