This Halloween I went to see a play version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was in New Hope, and quite apparently the best place to find sweet tranvestite trans-sexuals from Transylvania-ha-ha … the part that was difficult about this was that it was Halloween night … A big night for the kids, and the show was at midnight. We had to cut the kids Halloween short and take them to their aunt’s house to babysit for us going to the show. I also had to go to work and get the night started there … The sound guy for the other band got there later than expected, but I go him started and set up fine for what he needed. Alex filled in for lights (the light people were the ones who actually invited us to go in the first place) and at the time, we didn’t realize that I would be doing house sound at The Tango … Anyway, it worked out well …
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was at The Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA … Seeing the show live was neat, and it was a pretty relaxed performance in that the actors would pause for the yelling out of the places that were made famous by the cult following to the movie … The songs were sung to karaoke or midi versions of the songs from the movie … They used about 4 or 5 wireless microphones and handed them around as each actor became the primary in the scenes … Rice, toast were thrown as well as water squirted around the playhouse … The narrator who sat to the right in an easy chair the whole evening had a super soaker and at times decided to soak the actors when they least expected it … At times you couldn’t hear what they were saying and at other times the vocals were distorted … Sometimes the actors even addressed the audience and some of the things that the audience said even broke the actors into laughing … At times the actors on the stage (the transvestite “chorus”) would say the memorized lines that were “added” to the movie … The show didn’t run very long and that wasn’t a bad thing … It was just right I’d say .. Probably just under 2 hours but it went very quick …
Drove back and made it to The Tango by about 10 after 2 … Alex had powered everything off and the band was packing up already … I was on stage wrapping some cables when Janine from Zero Cool came in and said that we had her brand new Beta SM58 microphone … She was holding an SM58 in her hand and wanted to swap me this SM58 that she had got from Whiskey Tango the previous Saturday. Only one problem. The bar only had 6 Beta SM58 microphones … I told her that there was no way that we gave her a SM58 instead of her Beta SM58 that she claimed she brought in that night … I remebered specifically the turn of events from that night … When the band was done, I went up to the stage and walked across the front removing each of the wired mics. I put them in my back pocket as I crossed the stage until I got to the mic box to put them away … I dropped the 3 microphones into their place in the mic box, and as I moved to get the guitar mics, I saw a Beta 58 in front of the drums. I picked it up and went back to the box and noticed I had an extra microphone … Oh no! I thought … How will I know which mic is hers? I looked at the microphones, and to my relief, there was a different microphone, a good ol’ SM58 amongst the other 6 Beta 58s … Obviously this was the microphone she replaced on the stand … The reason this was obviously the mic was because the bar only had Beta 58s … The regular SM58 had to have come in with the band … She wasn’t happy about this, and I went into the office and told the Johns about it … They said sure, take the box out there and show her the microphones … I said that I didn’t think that would help because they were all Beta 58s in there, and I don’t see how she could say one of those was hers when I explained the scenario from the previous Saturday … I told them that I thought she should just talk directly to them … So I went back out and spoke with Janine about it and told her to talk to the Johns … She declined and said that she would just forget about it … Chalk it up as a loss … She seemed to infer that I was handling the situation bad by “going on about it” explaining it to her that it’s impossible that she took an SM58 by mistake rather than her Beta 58 since the bar only had 6 Beta 58s, and that’s what I ended up with at the end of the night … I explained to her that I was trying to help her by explaining that the problem lies elsewhere … I thought if she knew for a fact that this couldn’t happen that she would realize this and know that the microphone must be somewhere else … She didn’t seem pleased and left it at that without talking to the owners (the Johns) …
So on the way home, this Spellcaster truck tries to kill me …I’m cruising towards the 95 on ramp from Woodhaven Road, and I have a Spellcaster truck on my left, and a car coming from Rt. 13 on my right … the Spellcaster truck tries to speed around me on my left while the guy on my right comes into my lane … So now the Spellcaster truck can’t cut in front of me … I immediately applied the brake, and the car that cut in on me from the right proceeds to go further left to get into the I95 North on ramp, and the Spellcaster truck takes that car’s place in front of me to get on the I95 South on ramp .. Whew! Near miss … I then see this Spellcaster truck weaving in and out of cars … He puts on his left signal, and moves into the RIGHT lane?! So I decide to catch up and get the plate number for Kevin (the owner of Spellcaster) and the truck is doing 71 (I know cause there’s a thing on the road that displays our speed because you’re supposed to be going 40 into this construction zone) … If you get caught going faster than 40MPH in a construction zone, it’s an immediate suspension of your license and a $500 fine … I know this cause I got stopped speeding in a construction zone and the cop told me what he COULD do to me, but he simply gave me a speeding ticket to ‘cut me a break’ …
So that was my Halloween … I didn’t see any kids, and I saw a bunch of half-dressed girls … I guess it was okay …