Time Adjustment

[Jeanne Hedge]

Note: I tried to search this, but search seems to be down, so I'm sorry if it's already been suggested
Tonight's movie on Bravo got this song suggestion known to the world. It might be useful should Doug have to adjust time for some reason. The lyrics might lead to other powers too, such as invisibility or driving someone insane.

It's astounding
Time is fleeting
Madness takes its toll
But listen closely
(Not for very much longer)
I've got to keep control
I remember
Doing the Time Warp
Drinking those moments when
The blackness would hit me
And the void would be calling
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
It's so dreamy
Oh, fantasy free me
So you can't see me
No, not at all
In another dimension
With voyeuristic intention
Well secluded, I see all
With a bit of a mind flip
You're into the time slip
And nothing can ever be the same
You're spaced out on sensation
Like you're under sedation
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
Well I was walking down the street
Just a having a think
When a snake of a guy gave me an evil wink
He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise
He had a pick up truck and the devil's eyes
He stared at me and I felt a change
Time meant nothing, never would again
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane
Let's do the Time Warp again
Let's do the Time Warp again
-- The Time Warp, The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack
It still amazes me that both Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick readily acknowledge they were in this movie, and have even appeared at anniversary events associated with it. Co-star Tim Curry runs away from it. Then again, while they spent great portions of the movie running around in their underwear, neither of them spent the movie in fishnets and high heels like Curry did. Jeanne

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Jeanne Hedge
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Jeanne Hedge
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"Believe me, if I have to go the rest of my life without companionship, knowing myself won't be a problem."
-- Gabrielle of Potadeia

[Bob Schroeck]

Tim Curry doesn't always run away -- I've seen film of him at one of the anniversaries where he's obviously having the time of his life. (I was at the Tenth at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan in 1985, but he wasn't at that one, dammit. Although everyone else was... Barry Bostwick walked up to down center stage, turned around, bent over and flipped up the tails of his suit jacket, as the audience all yelled the usual... )


-- Bob
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There is no spork.

[Bob Schroeck]

Oh, and I didn't even comment on the song suggestion. Stupid me...

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but search seems to be down,

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Search is always down, in my experience. It never seems to work.

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so I'm sorry if it's already been suggested

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Suggested? No. Thought about? Yes. I've played around with different ideas for this song for many years... one of my favorites, and the one I'd more or less settled on, was that it let Doug call in instances of himself from up and down his personal timeline...
Actual time manipulation is a real crock in V&V, though, I've discovered -- it can really unbalance things. (That's why J Giels' "Freeze Frame" works differently from what I originally talked the GM into...) In a story, it can be almost as bad. But as long as it's carefully limited...
Anyway, don't worry about having duplicated a song. Sometimes folks here have had better ideas than I did for a song in my "queue", and I just might quietly steal them.


-- Bob
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There is no spork.

[Jeanne Hedge]

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I was at the Tenth at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan in 1985

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Cool
I almost typed that I didn't realize you were a fan, then I remembered a certain BGC fic you once wrote
Jeanne

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Jeanne Hedge
www.jhedge.com
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Jeanne Hedge
www.jhedge.com

"Believe me, if I have to go the rest of my life without companionship, knowing myself won't be a problem."
-- Gabrielle of Potadeia

[Jeanne Hedge]

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I've played around with different ideas for this song for many years... one of my favorites

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The Time Warp immediately followed by Sweet Transvestite sure provide one of the best 1-2 punches in movie (and theatrical) musicals

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it let Doug call in instances of himself from up and down his personal timeline

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Neat idea. Obviously my original thought was time manipulation until I heard the lyric
So you can't see me
No, not at all
In another dimension
With voyeuristic intention
Well secluded, I see all
That might be handy for spy work.
OK author, here's one for the FAQ - can Doug use one song for several different purposes, not all at once but selectively? If he can, how is he able to pick which effect he wants from the song that particular time?Jeanne

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Jeanne Hedge
www.jhedge.com
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Jeanne Hedge
www.jhedge.com

"Believe me, if I have to go the rest of my life without companionship, knowing myself won't be a problem."
-- Gabrielle of Potadeia

[Bob Schroeck]

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I almost typed that I didn't realize you were a fan, then I remembered a certain BGC fic you once wrote

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-- Bob
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There is no spork.

[Bob Schroeck]

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Neat idea. Obviously my original thought was time manipulation until I heard the lyric

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Hm. Out of temporal sync, sorta like Stephen King's "The Langoliers"?

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OK author, here's one for the FAQ

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I've dropped that into the file for answering, but to give a quick reply now -- the only songs that do not give him a consistent single power or cluster of powers are totally random; he has no control over what they do from second to second. But there are (currently) no songs that do something like "Pick one only from A, B. or C for this usage only", which is what I think you're asking about.
When he has a cluster of related powers, like "Lightning's Hand", he picks what he wants on the fly during the song, not at its start; think of it as "modulating the signal" as needed.


-- Bob
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There is no spork.

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

...all this leads me to another silly Step idea...
"Are you - giving a party?" Janet asked nervously.
"No," the strangely pale man replied. "You've arrived on a rather ... special night. It's one of the master's affairs."
"Just one?" the guy in the helmet muttered.
"Oh, lucky him," Janet said, for lack of anything better.
"He's lucky." The sharp voice came from the top of the staircase, surprising Brad and Janet. "You're lucky, I'm lucky, we're all lucky," a rather astonishing woman proclaimed as she slid down the railing.
"The banister's lucky!" the biker chimed in. Riff Raff and Magenta gave him odd looks.
(later)
"Great Heavens!" Dr. Scott exclaimed. "That's a laser!"
"Yes, Dr. Scott," Riff Raff replied, waving the device in emphasis. "A laser, capable of emitting a beam of pure anti-matter."
"--I guess it isn't really a laser, then, is it?" the guy in the helmet remarked as he walked up behind Riff Raff and deftly disarmed him.
(You get the idea...)
--Sam
"In just seven days--"
"AND SIX LONG NIGHTS!"
"...will you please STOP that?!"

[Bob Schroeck]

ROTFLMAO!
Okay, that one goes up on the fics-squared page.


-- Bob
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There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.