Science Fiction/Double Feature

Science fiction double feature
Doctor X will build a creature
See androids fighting, ugh, Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet!
Woah oh, oh oh oh
At the late night double feature picture show

I wanna go-
Woah oh, oh oh oh
To the late night double feature picture show…
(Opening song-Rocky Horror Picture Show)

Happy Tuesday, Happy Halloween Week, and Happy National Black Cat Day!! It’s all happening, on my favorite week of the year…Halloween Week!

And, I thought, what better way to usher it all in than with my favorite movie to celebrate, along with it’s opening song.

Taking you back in a time warp, 1978, the midnight movie in my downtown where I grew up, arriving to our first time to view The Rocky Horror Picture Show. No idea what to expect, but tons of excitement as older siblings to my West End friends, had seen this in the few years before us. We were armed with our bags of toast, umbrellas, squirt guns, etc.

We entered into the very historic, very majestic theatre, and let me tell you…it was the 70s, there were no rules on over packing the place, there were many forms of alcohol and general mayhem allowed, or at least over looked, and we all filed into the seating areas.

The opening song, the song I picked for today, came on with the big red lips, and the night, and life would never be the same. The characters on the screen, also the characters in real life, on the stage, acting out the moving, and the complete wildness of the evening unfolded. And, each time the movie played, in any town I was living in, I would attend a midnight showing. College, my first cities I lived in after college, all through high school….it became Halloween tradition.

Even now, I still have my vinyl of the soundtrack, and also the movie on DVD. For those of you who remember my little shop, in downtown Urbana, you will remember my Halloween windows, my vintage Halloween costumes, and my cocktail display bar, set up, with a tv, that always had this movie playing during the Halloween week.

Such amazing memories of this little known movie, that flopped in it’s early years, only to become the best underground movie, and a tradition for so many of us.

Anyway…it’s Tuesday, it’s Halloween week, and the market is full of bakers with fun Halloween baked goods! Why not order cute cookies and treats to wow any guests who may be stopping by. My sadness is that I always decorate my house to the hilt, and host a big party which cannot happen, this year, but in spirit, it’s happening in my head. And, I have Alexa blaring this movie’s soundtrack, right now, until I put the vinyl on, Halloween night…

Get those orders in, today…and, you will see many new items being added, and a new vendor or two, as we go.

Happy Halloween Week!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam