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Avril "Storm" Bourbon
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1983
1986
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Ken Cinema &
Fiesta Twin
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2002
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Location: San Diego, CA
Nicknames: I got the nickname Storm a few months before I started at the Ken. I had a t-shirt I had painted of the character Storm from the X-Men, and I wore it a lot. This guy I knew couldn't remember my name, much less say it right, so he started calling me "the Storm girl". I told him to just call me Storm, and it stuck. Easier to explain than Avril: I usually have to repeat it only once, if at all.
Marital Status: never married, but I have been with my boyfriend Mike for almost four years, and we are working on our future plans.
Children: no
Have you or would you let your kids see Rocky: I have no kids, and don't plan on having any (I am a confirmed Career Auntie), but if I did, I would definitely let them go to Rocky. But, I would do what my mom did when her 15 year old daughter wanted to be out all hours in her underwear: I'd go and check the place and the people out myself. If I thought they were cool, and trusted my kid's judgement, what's the problem?
What I'm doing these days: I turned my love of costuming into my career: I'm a professional costumer, and have been for several years now (decades, if you include stuff I made for the cast way back when). My passion, both as a career and as a hobby, is re-creation costuming (which I owe to RHPS, of course), re-creating costumes from movies and television, as well as different periods and eras (especially Victorian and Edwardian). I appear at various sci-fi and costuming conventions as my Klingon alter-ego, and collect Klingon stuff. (Nerdgrrrl!) I garden, and am a student of magickal and medicinal herbology.
People from Rocky I've kept in touch with: I still keep in contact with Ray Holub and Bob Evans, and see Miah (Aviva) fairly often. I run into old RH folk at the usual fanboy gatherings, like ComiCon and sci-fi movie openings. But the person I've stayed closest with is Ian Duckett: we've even lived together, off and on, for years at a time.
Why I first went to Rocky: I had gone to Rocky with my weird friends up in SF once or twice before I moved down to SD, where I didn't know a soul. SD was an even more uptight place then, very military, and I knew that the best place to find fellow freaks was to ask around and find out where Rocky Horror was playing. I got a guy I was seeing to take me, met some cool people, and came back.
How I started performing: I'll tell you the truth; I was broke as a damn joke and I wanted to get in free! Plus, it was a reason to dress up, which I'd always loved.
Food I ordered after the show: Coke and french fries! Not even Rudford's can screw up Coke and fries!
Before the reunion, I last performed: 1987
Before the reunion, I last saw Rocky: You mean before I started my "refresher course" for the reunion? October of '98, at The La Paloma in Encinitas *sigh*
Did I buy the Rocky DVD? Not yet, as I don't have a player yet, but I plan on getting it!
My favorite Rocky memories: Oh man...is this thing PG-13? Gotta be the Halloween '84 show. Doc, Debbie Golding (Columbia), and myself (Magenta) are standing there for the "Tonight, my unconventional conventionists..." schpiel, doing our thing, and the film reel changes as we walk over to the tank, as it should. But, instead, it changed to some weird mid-70's looking woman talking. You couldn't hear what she was saying, as the packed house was SCREAMING. Then, just as suddenly, it turned to old timey 70's porn, a weird orgy scene, complete with "ch-wacka cha-wacka wah wah" music! So, we're all laughing, but then we look up and... well, kids, it looked for all the world like a woman had her foot inside another woman's holiest of holies, and she was goin' to town! Ian Duckett, at the top of his Shakespearean-trained voice, screams "Oh...my...GOD!! SHE'S GOT HER *FOOT* IN THAT WOMAN!!!" Doc, Deb, and I are just holding onto each other to keep from falling over, the audience is howling! We thought it couldn't get worse/better, when the woman removes her foot, to reveal, as Ian so eloquently screamed "OH GOD!! IT'S A STUMP!! SHE'S A STUMP WOMAN!!!" The joint went APE. Yes, it turned out to be a trailer for an old porno called "Long Jean Silver". I laughed so hard, my friggin' scalp cramped up, dontcha hate that?
I couldn't be happier about the reunion! Even if it was just an online reunion, where we could all contact each other again, even that would rock, but this!! Seeing old friends, and even old "enemies", and what's become of us all (I shudder to think how many of us have spawned)... This is gonna be cool. Thanks Michael Reed!
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