I think I mentioned the RHPS in another thread of j4's a few days/weeks ago. I was very nearly put off it for life by having my first introduction to it be DH playing me an audio tape of the soundtrack in which the audience participation (most of which is, in any case, in response to visual stuff on the screen) almost drowned out the real soundtrack.
Actually, no, come to think of it, my VERY first introduction to it was when I was about 13 and went on a school trip. We had a video player on the coach and someone had brought it along (oh, what a suitable choice for a coachful of impressionable pre-teens and early-teens). I was completely bemused by it and ended up falling asleep shortly after Brad and Janet had arrived at Frankenfurter's castle. I think my recounting of this experience was what caused DH to try playing the audio tape at me in the first place.
Anyway, I did finally see it again much later under more auspicious circumstances and actually ended up enjoying it a lot (have even subsequently attended a stage showing, dressed as Magenta ;-))
OOI the same reasoning applies with me to books - being told I MUST read something because I'll love it is pretty much the best way to prevent me ever reading it. I have never read Black Beauty (fx: collective gasps of shock from the assembled congrgation) for this precise reason.
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Date: 2004-10-07 07:27 am (UTC)I think I mentioned the RHPS in another thread of
Actually, no, come to think of it, my VERY first introduction to it was when I was about 13 and went on a school trip. We had a video player on the coach and someone had brought it along (oh, what a suitable choice for a coachful of impressionable pre-teens and early-teens). I was completely bemused by it and ended up falling asleep shortly after Brad and Janet had arrived at Frankenfurter's castle. I think my recounting of this experience was what caused DH to try playing the audio tape at me in the first place.
Anyway, I did finally see it again much later under more auspicious circumstances and actually ended up enjoying it a lot (have even subsequently attended a stage showing, dressed as Magenta ;-))
OOI the same reasoning applies with me to books - being told I MUST read something because I'll love it is pretty much the best way to prevent me ever reading it. I have never read Black Beauty (fx: collective gasps of shock from the assembled congrgation) for this precise reason.