When Marvin Met Jim

I'm trying to put together a definitive list of what songs Meat Loaf has sung that were penned by Jim Steinman because, forgive me, but I seem to enjoy that combination best.

Those items in yellow are tunes off of Steinman's own album Bad For Good. I'm getting my information from the AllMusic Guide; I hope that they're more accurate than IMDB.com.

Nowhere Fast	Bad Attitude
All Revved Up With No Place to Go	Bat out of Hell
Bat out of Hell	Bat out of Hell
For Crying out Loud	Bat out of Hell
Heaven Can Wait	Bat out of Hell
Paradise by the Dashboard Light	Bat out of Hell
Two Out of Three Ain't Bad	Bat out of Hell
You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)	Bat out of Hell
Closing Credits	Bat out of Hell [Special Edition]
Program Start	Bat out of Hell [Special Edition]
Great Boleros of Fire	Bat out of Hell [Super Audio]
Back into Hell	Bat out of Hell II
Everything Louder Than Everything Eles	Bat out of Hell II
Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)	Bat out of Hell II
I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)	Bat out of Hell II
It Just Won't Quit	Bat out of Hell II
Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back	Bat out of Hell II
Lost Boys and Golden Girls	Bat out of Hell II
Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are	Bat out of Hell II
Out of the Frying Pan (And into the Fire)	Bat out of Hell II
Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through	Bat out of Hell II
Wasted Youth	Bat out of Hell II
Everything Louder Than Everything Else	Bat out of Hell II [Deluxe Edition]
Bad for Good	Bat Out Of Hell III
Cry to Heaven (Epilogue)	Bat out of Hell III
If It Aint' Broke Break It	Bat out of Hell III
In the Land of the Pig, The Butcher Is King	Bat out of Hell III
Seize the Night	Bat out of Hell III
The Future Ain't What It Used to Be	Bat out of Hell III
It's All Coming Back to Me Now	Bat out of Hell III
Dead Ringer for Love	Dead Ringer
Everything Is Permitted	Dead Ringer
I'll Kill You If You Don't Come Back	Dead Ringer
I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us	Dead Ringer
More Than You Deserve	Dead Ringer
Nocturnal Pleasure	Dead Ringer
Peel Out	Dead Ringer
Read 'Em and Weep	Dead Ringer
Surf's Up	Primecuts
Left in the Dark	Welcome to the Neighborhood
Original Sin	Welcome to the Neighborhood

Charlie the Unicorn

I was feeling blue -- until I saw this.

X-mas Intrusion

My first fight of the Xmas season. Nothing major. Nothing thrown. Not even any profanity. Just a misunderstanding. But it signals to me what I dislike about Xmas; it's the intrusion. I love giving gifts and spreading joy but I like doing it on my own schedule. The rush to get everything bought and wrapped for a seemingly never-ending string of get-togethers just burns my buns.

It's not that I don't like my family. I do. I just like them more in small doses. In the month of December I've got five get-togethers with various factions; sometimes the same ones just in different settings. We give gifts at some, and not others. Each one gives a great opportunity for stress and bites into my time. Yeah, I know, I'm a whiny brat, I just get a little "family'd out" with so many occasions and I am a bit overprotective of my weekends.

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I need to get cracking on subtitling RUE BARABARE (which I'm calling SAVAGE STREET as "Barbaric Street" doesn't sound as nice). I want to get this done before the Goodiscon. At the moment I've got a beautiful DVD version that recently came out in France along with a really shitty English dubbed (and Spanish subtitled) version called "CRUEL AVENUE" from Video Search of Miami. Unfortunately, the audio on CRUEL AVENUE is for sucks and I've actually been doing better translating the Spanish subtitles into English -- but that removes me twiceover (at least) from the original French dialogue.

I'm cold kickin' it with the Mrs. today, sitting behind a big pile of gifts that we're sorting and bagging for future wrapping while DUNE: THE RECONSTRUCTED WORKPRINT plays on the TV. This is a mix of the big DUNE release of earlier in the year along with the original version and deleted scenes. I'm hoping that this gets another pass in the fan edit community by "Fan Filtration", the editor who fixed the lack of "blue withing blue" eyes in the extended TV version. I had hoped that this would have been taken care of by Universal before releasing their "deluxe" edition.

Oh, and, speaking of Xmas, the perfect gift this year can be found right here: http://www.cafepress.com/cashiers.

Album Mash-ups

I'm a big fan of good mash-up songs and, to that end, I also enjoy good photo collage as well. This site provides a bevy of great album art crossovers. There's lots of KISS face-painting, to be sure, but most of the entries are entirely too clever. Be warned, though, the site is fairly ugly and I got hit with at least one pop-up that my blocker couldn't handle.

Photoshop C.S.I.

While I love C.S.I., I do sometimes have a problem with the show's use of tech. So... I kow it's geeky but I absolutely love this.

Ball of Confusion

So, I'm an idiot. Every time -- without fail -- I got into Target and walk past the TV DVD section I think, "What is this show with Meat Loaf in it?" And, invariably, I realize that I'm looking at the third season of "24". Call me crazy -- I KNOW YOU ALREADY DO! (and paranoid) but I think that Keifer Sutherland looks a lot like Meat Loaf -- at least in that picture.

You want proof? Sorry, I can't offer much except this comparison... I give you Keif Loaf!

Candy Tangerine Man: Help Wanted

Looks like Subversive Cinema has secured the rights to CANDY TANGERINE MAN but can't find good prints to strike a master from:

Subsversive Cinema's Blog

Anyone have Matt Cimber's contact info? I know VCI had good luck getting a nice print of BLACK SHAMPOO from Greydon Clark, maybe Cimber's got a good 35mm copy of CTM laying around his basement.

The Woods Are Lovely, Dark and Deep

Thinking more lately about what other films need to be on DVD that aren't. I hate to be one of those pedantic assholes who makes lists and acts completely self-important but I'm going to put on my Rob Gordon hat and make a (working) list of the top ten films I think should be on DVD. Some may be out on video already -- some may not. And some may even be on DVD in other countries. I'm talking about Region 1 (or 0), NTSC domestic US releases.

1. Telefon (Don Siegel, 1977)
2. If... (Lindsay Anderson, 1968)
3. The Big Gundown (Sergio Sollima, 1966)
4. The Trap (Peter Watkins, 1975)
5. Killer Party (William Fruet, 1986)
6. (The Big) Crimewave (John Paizs, 1985)
7. Freebie & The Bean (Richard Rush, 1974)
8. The Crimson Kimono (Sam Fuller, 1959)
9. Candy Tangerine Man (Matt Cimber, 1975)
10. Rolling Thunder (John Flynn, 1977)

James Kolchalka Superstar - Hockey Monkey

Nice mix of various types of animation and live action and, yeah, it’s a totally kick-ass song.