Is there anyone who would be interested in coming to the HOH show to perform as a Transylvanian this weekend? You will get to be on stage with one of the ORIGINAL movie Transylvanians. Perry Bedden will be at our show.
Spreading the word on my LJ because I haven't posted it here - Perry Bedden will be coming to our show this Saturday, November 21st. He requested to play the role of the usherette and who are we not to oblige this! Tickets are only $7. Check out our website: http://njrocky.com for more info. Hopefully we will see a few out of town faces at the show.
I make a post recapping the last month or so of my life and I get five responses. I make a post asking a question that has some drama floating around it and I get nearly 50. Ah livejournal... you are a harsh mistress.
This morning my neighbor "The Rabbi" asked me how our auditions went. I gave him a quick rundown saying that Kate and I did very well. He told me there was a spread about it in the New York Post and I was like "Really?"
Turns out that it was not about the BluRay auditions. Rather is was a photo shoot inspired by Rocky Horror for the style section. Kind of interesting concept. I saw ads looking for models for this and I think I passed the Riff Raff one on to Jai. The concept was "Rocky Horror is still awesome and if you have thousands of dollars you can buy designer clothes and look like the characters". Its entirely foreign to the die hard screen accurate folks but kind of amusing to the fashionistas who still want to see their favorite midnight movie.
The article is here The photo shoot results with price breakdowns is here. and the "making of" video is here.
I was most amused by the hair dresser doing Riff's hair for take over scene.
Also, in other video related news, I LOVE our audience member Rob who made this video for us:
So one of our websites never had error reporting code installed on it. I was having problems with something that needed to launch to production so i installed out standard error reporting in the global.asax.
Not five seconds after launching do I get the greatest and weirdest error in my inbox:
Error Msg: The file '/what-can-i-do-about-basement-odors/default.aspx' does not exist.
So you know that ska Rocky Horror tribute album that I mentioned a few weeks ago? My friend Ryan (who used to play Rocky with me in Teaneck) was the guy who was putting it together. He read my post and contacted me saying he still has the music and everything. He played me a few of the tracks over the phone and it sounds AWESOME. He is now in touch with Shawn from rockymusic who is going to be putting the MP3s on his website as soon as Ryan finishes converting everything. How cool is this? I am stoked and can't wait to hear the whole thing.
I have not seen Fame (2009). They clearly didn't do the "Rocky Horror" scene that they did in 1980. But I heard that they used Columbia's speech to Frank "I can't stand it anymore..." as an audition monologue. Can anyone confirm this?
I had a weird dream last night. I remember two distinct parts:
1) I went to a movie with kate and in the lobby was an old Ms Pac Man machine. But they had updated the game to have a much more modern look and be harder to play. All the mazes were different and you couldn't maneuver the same way. The screen would pan and scan as you were playing.
2) I had printed up 500 newsletters for the show on blue paper. I did this in my office - apparently I worked at a school. After I printed them I was showing it to someone and realized that we had a special guest band performing at the show and that I had accidentally put another band's name on the center page. I debated the prospect of either crossing out the incorrect band on all 500 newsletters and writing in the correct one or reprinting them all.
In the late spring of 2010, Versailles Records will release "Time Warp: A Metal Tribute to the Rocky Horror Picture Show", which will feature metal renditions of the full film soundtrack, featuring current/former members of:
LILLIAN AXE FUEL MOUNTAIN STEELHEART MEGADETH ALICE COOPER BAND BLACK SABBATH MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT PIGFACE MACABRE OZZY OSBOURNE BAND L.A. GUNS WARRANT CRO-MAGS KISS BADLANDS
The tribute will additionally include a bonus CD entitled "Horror Rock Vol. 1/2", featuring original bands whose sound could include any variety of industrial metal, death metal, goth metal, "Rocky Horror"-esque tribute band (with original music), black/progressive metal, rocktronica (i.e. Rob Zombie, etc), punk rock, post punk, or any other genre of hard rock or metal with a darker theme to the song/sound.
Interested groups in the bonus sampler should e-mail a MySpace link to horrorrock09@yahoo.com.
I am amused to see Warrant on that list. I recently found a demo tape of Warrant singing the Time Warp from the early 80s. I sent it to Kevin who said he would use it on Rocky Radio. I wonder if they are going to be the ones doing Time Warp on this album.
I give this album a 50/50 chance of actually happening. That seems to be the going ratio of Tribute CDs I heard getting together to actually coming to fruition. The one that got away was the ska tribute. Would have been awesome.