I Remember

"Memory Chain..." by Jason Caminiti

This wasn't the first time I had been to a theater. But, it certainly was the first time I went at Midnight. That was May of 1991, The first time I went to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show. From the time it hit the screen to the end I was mesmerized. I met a person there that night that would change my life forever. His name was Richard O'Brien and he was an actor. I later found out he was also the writer of the movie I was watching. The strange thing about this was that I didn't actually meet him. He was on the screen. However, if he did not write this movie, I would be even more introverted than I am today, only associating with a few Computer users.

Richard has one very distinguishing physical characteristic, he is mostly bald. However, strangely his baldness seems to go great with his facial and body shape. He is very thin, and lanky, and when not in RHPS he looks like a mad scientist. When I think of him I think of a movie theater, and a castle. This is because I am in a theater, and he is in a castle in the movie. I also picture him either in a tattered butler uniform, or a labcoat from another movie he is in. Also, when I think of him I see red and black for the predominant color of the film. The sounds I "hear" is music, because this and all his films are musicals. The smell I think of with him is movie theater popcorn, and movie theater smells in general.

The first time I saw him I was with several friends. There were also probably more than a hundred other people there. The other people there were either watching the movie with us or emulating the actors on the screen.

When I saw this movie, and him on the screen, I remember feeling like I was watching my favorite movie, even though I had never seen it before, and coincidentally, I now consider it just that. Right now, along with being my favorite movie, it is also a rather large part of my life. I belong to the international fan club, and I belong to a cast which performs this show. I am not sure if it weren't for that point whether I ever would have seen the show, because for a while I was the only person who went regularly, and may have been keeping it there. This is because without a certain amount of Audience Participation the show is completely worthless in nature, and I was the only one who was doing any of that. However, I have no regrets about going to the show for four years now, because I have met several good friends through it. I now occasionally do other things with them, that normally I would just be stuck in front of my computer screen.


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