The RHIS FAQ, now in stereo! (1) How do you do this? (1) How do you do this? ...The persons responsible for translating this FAQ into stereo have been sacked. We now return you to the original mono version. (1) How do you do this? Well, it's a combination of two things. On the technical end, we have the "movie" courtesy of the Audience Par-tic-i-pation double CD set streamed via ShoutCast. We do AP lines via IRC in a channel named #RHIS on squidge.org. That's the simple explanation. Then there's the *other* stuff. For the ShoutCast portion, you can use just about any decent audio player out there, these days. Check and make sure it's capable of receiving streaming audio, though. For Windows folken, Winamp and RealAudio 7.0 and up are the most widely known proggies. For the IRC portion, you can use just about any irc client. Just point it to Undernet on Friday and Saturday nights (unless otherwise noted) and then join #rf-callahans. (2) Other stuff? When we first started doing this, nearly five years ago, all we *did* was A.P. lines. Then we decided to take, as nicknames, the names of our favorite characters. That evolved into doing bits from the movie, in character, via the /me command. For example, the command /me bops up the aisle to the throne translates to everyone else in the channel as: FrnkNFrtr bops up the aisle to the throne. Assuming of course, your nick happens to be FrnkNFrtr at the time, but I think you probably knew that. (3) Okay, great! Weird, but great. Oh, it gets better. Once we decided on doing the whole show in character, we started pitching in little "role plays". (4) Is that anything like when you have me put on the rubber lizard suit and you pretend to be the insurance salesman from Altoona named Morty? *SHHHH*. No, we started RP'ing stage business, and cast interaction. For instance, you might get: FrnkNFrtr: (Dammit! I left the lid off my whiteface last week. Kiri, do you have any spare?) Magenta slides Frnk some whiteface. Actually, Kiri has plenty to spare. Kids, there's a *reason* she's known as our Community Chest. ;) (ducks quickly) Anyway, we do stuff like that. Gives more of a full feel to the experience. (5) Isn't that a little, you know, nuts? Well, let me explain something. By and large, the folks involved with putting on this splendid madness on a weekly basis don't have an active Rocky cast near them. Some do, but do this simply to have fun. So, we decided to make our own fnarkling Rocky Horror experience, and it's really taken off. We've actually performed live, once, with the REAL Denver RHPS cast - Denver's Dynamic Tension - a few summers back. (6) Interesting. Do you do anything else with this? Glad you asked. We have a preshow montage that I run over the ShoutCast feed, sometimes including radio shows (we've done the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy episodes, among others) that air just before the movie starts. Before *that* happens, I generally get the party mood going by playing bits of music, bizarre comedy, and general mayhem. (7) Hey. What? (8) You've got weasels on your face. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! GET 'EM OFF ME! GET 'EM OFF ME! (9) Hee hee. Sadist. (10) Anything else? Well, we also have our webpage. (11) Which is? http://rhis.cjb.net (12) Splendid. Anything else I should know about? On that page somewheres is a link to our cast email list. I'd advise signing up for it as we have weekly show announcements. But fear not, you *might* get 10 emails a week, and that usually only when we do a big show. Now, any other questions? (13) Yes. What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? I'm sorry, but you're a very silly person and I'm not going to interview you. (14) Bet you're gay. ... no I'm not. Annnnyyyyway, if you have *any* questions, please do not hesitate to go stick your head in a pig. SORRY! I mean, please don't hesitate to email me at docwebstr@yahoo.com and ask. But do visit the web page, and do sign up for the email list. (15) BUM! Ooo, what a giveaway.