I Cn Haz Lame Meme?

[collisionwork]

I have been meme-tagged by Matt Freeman.

This meme demands that I . . .

List 5 things that certain people (who are not deserving of being your friend anyway) may consider to be "totally lame," but you are, despite the possible stigma, totally proud of. Own it. Tag 5 others.

What, only 5? No, actually, it was hard (due to the "totally proud of" part). So here's what I could think of:


1. I was in the 8th Street Playhouse floor show for The Rocky Horror Picture Show for several years (hard to tell when I ended, as it kinda tapered off - 1986 to . . . 1988 or 89), under the direction of the great Sal Piro. I mostly played Dr. Scott, sometimes Brad, and Eddie and Riff Raff once each. I had a great time with great people and regret nothing. Except having no pictures or video.

2. I own DVD copies of Glen or Glenda? and Road House, love them, watch them frequently, and actually believe that they are, honestly and truly, with no irony, great motion pictures. As is Tough Guys Don't Dance, but some other people will go along with me on that, so it's less "lame."

3. My favorite musical, and probably one of my favorite theatre texts of any kind, is 1776.

4. I love what my dear fiancee calls "discredited media." I have a trunk full of 300 Betamax tapes (and no player to play them on at this point) and still believe it was a better video format than VHS (and will argue the point). I also still own many laser disks, LPs, 45s, and 78s and will not get rid of them, though I also have no working turntable or laser player - though I have a self-contained 1960s console hi-fi stereo system that doesn't work. I own 15 Super-8 and Standard-8 movie projectors, most of which have blown bulbs (which are near-impossible to find) or motors. I still have my ColecoVision videogame system and many cartridges (as well as the adapter for Atari 2600 cartridges and many of those), but without the very specific and unfindable cable you need to connect it to a TV. I have a broken 1/4" reel-to-reel player and many tapes for it.

Berit swears that the day is coming when we'll wind up with piles of 8-track tapes and edison cylinders that we can't play. She may not be wrong . . .

5. I was a Cub Scout (made it to Webelos).

Okay, as for tagging someone else . . . I'm worried that I don't really know how many other bloggers really read this, at least ones who haven't already been tagged on this meme in the "theatrical blogosphere community." So, I'll hit a few of the LiveJournal mutual friends and pray they don't actually just skip my posts -- I tag justjohn, mcbrennan, queencallipygos, rezendi, and shaenon. Got it, folks?

Comments

[justjohn.livejournal.com]

I don't do "meme" things.

However, I loved 1776 and saw it at some point when it was playing Manhattan when I was a kid.

[justjohn.livejournal.com]

Hey, speaking of Rocky Horror, have I mentioned the bit on a Jasper Fforde novel where a small town of Shakespeare fans does Richard III every week in a RHS way, with responses from the audience and all? ("WHEN is the winter of our discontent??")

[collisionwork]

Nope, and dammit I finally have to start reading those Fforde books (I own the first two).

[justjohn.livejournal.com]

Ah, to have a backlog of good books sitting around waiting for you to read! It's a feeling I love.

And I have two Hamlet DVD sets I haven't touched yet -- Branagh's and Mel Gibson's. (I've seen them each on cable.) I imagine Mel's version is probably the inverse of yours. (And when will THAT be on DVD, huh?)

Anyway, the Richard III bit is in The Eyre Affair, and for me, it was the high point of the book. The rest of it was good, but not as good as it had been pitched to me (as the next logical thing to read after Pratchett's stuff.) I got halfway through The Big Over Easy and finally decided to move that back to the end of my books-I'll-finish-eventually queue.

[rezendi.livejournal.com]

I'm not even reading LJ this month.

I will, however, admit to being a big fan of Duran Duran.

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

I most definitely do not skip your posts. In fact, as this post demonstrates, you're lucky I live on the other side of the country, because I would probably be over all the time driving you and Berit nuts with my 8-tracks and Edison cylinders and Selectavision discs. I do have working turntables, Betamaxes, 8-track decks, etc...of course, all that stuff is in a far-distant storage unit I may never see again, so one never knows.

I have a Colecovision too (as well as Atari 2600/5200/7800, Intellivision, Odyssey2, etc, etc)...is it the connector cable you're missing, or the little switcher-box to attach to the back of the TV? Let me know, and I'll keep an eye out in my travels.

Needless to say, you and I are in complete agreement (http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1903440/comments?order=useful) about "Glen Or Glenda" as well.

I've also been in the RHPS stage show (Janet Weiss). And, as my extremely indiscreet friend capsuper recently pointed out, I, um, also used to be a Cub Scout (http://capsuper.livejournal.com/222402.html). Throw in my theatre background and we're practically twins, I tell you. I'll try to work on this meme thing in the near future and see what scary things I can come up with. :)

[collisionwork]

Lovely write-up on GOG? at IMDb, Cait. Exactly my feelings about the film. I got to create a stage adaptation of it for a festival of Ed's work adapted for theatre,and, just by trying to copy it shot-for-shot live, it became once of the most experimental and at the same time touching of all of my pieces (pity we had to keep it quiet because of certain copyright claims made on the film that probably have no basis in reality).

capsuper's post was really touching, and I dug the cub scout shot - we're close to the same age and I looked much the same at the same time (with the addition of a big thick pair of glasses). Sometime I'll pull out and put up my own cub scout pix.

The piece I'm missing from the ColecoVision is indeed the switcher box, but don't worry about finding it - while most of my unusable media is within two steps of where I sit, the ColecoVision is buried in one of my storage areas, either in the basement here or up in Maine. Someday, I'll play Zaxxon again.

I'm sure you'll get all your stuff back out and in sight again - I had all of my things stuffed in a storage space for 8 years, and it felt like I'd never have a real home with my possessions in it more and more as the years went on. But I finally got the home and, as George Carlin calls it, "a place for my stuff." Granted B & I have enough to still have things in the basement, but they're here at least (and most of them are old show props/sets). Believe me, it'll feel great when you get the place - and I know you will.

[flyswatter.livejournal.com]

Hiya. This is the post that I came across randomly that made me friend you, if you were wondering!

[queencallipygos.livejournal.com]

This was tough...I'm finally getting around to doing this.