Rocky Horror Picture Show

It was a mild, spring Sunday. The sun was shining, the flowers budding, and there was a cool breeze blowing past the navy blue van pulling into the parking lot of a Wal-Mart.

So there I was. In the electronics section, one hand holding my little brother's, one hand poised over a rack of DVDs. My eyes scanned titles, searching, searching, for the fabled RHPS. I told my brother to go wait beside a display of random DVDs while I called my mother. My brother, being the clumsy little kid he was, backed into the display, knocking down a single DVD.

There it lay, facedown on the floor. With a small sigh of exasperation and a fake smile, I knelt to grab the DVD and put it back in its home.

I looked down at the cover with mild interest, and to my intense surprise, a large pair of bright red lips looked back at me. Was that a man dressed like a woman poised at the entrance of the mouth?

Puzzled, I looked up at the title words. "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

That was the story of how I found one of the greatest movies on the face of this planet. Made in 1975, its wacky characters and twisted plot have gathered a steady cult fanbase. I am a member of this fanbase.

I fell in love with Dr. Frank-N-Furter's opening line "How do you do, I see you've met my faithful handyman."

People say that the movie is stupid, and a dear friend of mine says the plot is hard to explain, but it isn't.

Basics: A couple engaged to be married starts on a journey to see an old teacher. They take a wrong turn and end up at a castle, where they enter and are greeted by the owner, a "sweet transvestite from transsexual, Transylvania," none other than Dr. Frank-N-Furter. He is currently working on a sex partner named Rocky Horror. [Did I mention he's bisexual?] What follows is a wacky journey involving cheating, gay sex, straight sex, biceps, triceps, garters, fishnets, and a whole lot of everything.

But that's just one small fraction of the main attraction.

Watch and enjoy. You'll want to do the Time Warp again and again. =]