It's no secret I'm a huge fan of Repo! The Genetic Opera. It was one of the few movies that I hyped myself up for to a ridiculous degree that not only met my expectations, but shoved my expectations into a mud puddle as it stormed past.
What I'm saying is, Repo! is fucking brilliant. If you get the chance, you should watch it. (Just don't go see it in a theater with a shadowcast; it's demeaning to the movie and yourself.)
Recently it was announced that Repo! creator and lyricist Terrance Zdunich was reteaming with Repo! director Darren Lynn Bousman to make another musical, a (so I've heard) fifty five minute carnival from Hell picture called The Devil's Carnival.
I really, really want to be excited for this movie. I'm trying very hard. One of my favorite directors, one of the Repo! creators, a fucked up carnival theme, a color scheme similar to those of Repo! and House Of 1000 Corpses, several of the same cast members as Repo! ... I should be stoked!
But so far all I've seen of the movie are this:
which is a decent teaser, but nothing to get too worked up about (I also notice the absence of the name Darren Smith. For those who don't know, Darren Smith was the other co-creator of Repo! The Genetic Opera. Based on what I've heard, he wrote the music and Terrance wrote the lyrics. Maybe it's the lack of Darren's music that's keeping Devil's Carnival uninteresting to me); and this:
which is completely boring and tells me nothing other than "some broad has a nice ass." Who fucking cares? Is that really supposed to sell this movie? Repo! was full of chicks with nice asses, but they didn't use that to attract an audience. This does not bode well.
I don't know. I'm actually really sad that nothing I've seen related to The Devil's Carnival (other than the names of the people involved who also worked on Repo!) has made me at all interested.
It's really tough to want to want to see a movie, but to not actually want to see the movie. Especially when you're a fan of the director and the writer. (And the writer is an acquaintance of yours who you happen to like very much as a human being and whose work you want to support.)
It'll probably be fine in the end. It'll hopefully be an awesome movie and maybe it's a good thing they're keeping my expectations so low.
Or maybe that upcoming official trailer promised at the end of the short teaser will make up for all the lack of enthusiasm I have right now.
Maybe that trailer will live up to this one:
Fuck yes! I already know I love that movie (I've seen it an uncountable number of times) and that preview still makes me completely excited to watch it, like it's something brand new.
Be seeing you.
-Sally
Monday, February 20, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
A Perpetually Incomplete List
I have this ... it's not an obsession, exactly, but I can't think of a better word for it (fixation, maybe?) ... Anyway, for several years now I have been putting together a list of songs that have the same name but are in no way the same song. Not entirely sure why, I just have to do it. Compulsion! That's the word. As it stands, the list I have put together is pretty long (as you shall see) but it could always be longer. If you can think of any I missed, please let me know so I can add them to the list. It'll never be finished, but it's fun to keep adding.
(I guess I should point out that I occasionally cheat a little, leaving out the occasional "The" or parenthetical. And in a couple of cases (namely Faggot and Tick Tock), I know the different versions are spelled differently, but I let it slide because I just wanted to add them to the list.)
About A Girl – Nirvana; Voltaire
Agony – Eels; Into The Woods
Alcohol – Barenaked Ladies; Beck; Brad Paisley; Butthole Surfers; Gogol Bordello; Suggs; The Kinks
Amazing – Aerosmith; Kanye West
Angel – Jimi Hendrix; Sarah McLachlan
Ashes To Ashes – David Bowie; Faith No More
Asshole – Beck; Denis Leary; Guttermouth
Bad Habit – The Dresden Dolls; The Offspring
Beautiful Disaster – Kelly Clarkson; Roger Clyne And The Peacemakers; 311
Believe – Cher; Voltaire
Be Prepared – The Lion King; Tom Lehrer
Blind – Korn; Placebo
Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson; Tracey Ullman
Bloody Mary – Lady Gaga; Mr. Bungle
Breakdown – Guns ‘N Roses; Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Breakfast – Sesame Street; The Newsboys
Breed – Lauren Christy; Nirvana
Brooklyn – They Might Be Giants; They Might Be Giants
California – Phantom Planet; Wax
California Girls – The Beach Boys; The Magnetic Fields
Celebration – Kool And The Gang; Madonna; They Might Be Giants
Change The World – Eric Clapton; Nellie McKay
Crazy – Aerosmith; Barenaked Ladies; Gnarls Barkley; Patsy Cline; Seal
Creep – Radiohead; Stone Temple Pilots; TLC
Daddy – Custom; Korn
Dead – My Chemical Romance; They Might Be Giants; Voltaire
Delilah – The Dresden Dolls; Tom Jones
Deliver Me – Sarah Brightman; Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Disenchanted – For Squirrels; My Chemical Romance
Dog Eat Dog – Joni Mitchell; Weird Al Yankovic
Down – Harry Nilsson; Pearl Jam; 311
Dust ‘N Bones – Cornbugs; Guns ‘N Roses
Early In The Morning – Bobby Darren; Harry Nilsson
Everything You Know Is Wrong – Chumbawumba; Weird Al Yankovic
Evidence – Enon; Faith No More
Faggot – Korn; Mindless Self Indulgence
Flower – Eels; Liz Phair; Toadies
Forever Young – Bob Dylan; Madness
For What It's Worth – Buffalo Springfield; Placebo
Get In Line – Barenaked Ladies; Juliana Hatfield; NoFX
Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne; Harry Nilsson; Matthew Sweet
Glory Days – Bruce Springsteen; Pulp
Good Day – Tally Hall; The Dresden Dolls
Happiness – You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown; Super Junior; The Fray; Tones On Tail
Happy Birthday – Voltaire; Weird Al Yankovic
Happy Birthday To Me – Syreeta; The Vandals
Harry Truman – Mindless Self Indulgence; Stan Ridgway
Head Over Heels – Tears For Fears; The Go-Gos
Hello Cruel World – E; Voltaire
Holiday – Green Day; Madonna; Weezer
Hot Dog – Matt Berry; They Might Be Giants
Hurricane – Bob Dylan; The Hush Sound
If – Bread; Coyote Shivers; Janet Jackson
I Feel For You – Jerry Reed; Shaka Kahn
If I Only Had A Brain – The Wizard Of Oz; MC 900 Ft. Jesus
I Kissed A Girl – Jill Sobule; Katy Perry
I Miss You – Bjork; Blink 182
I'm Sorry – King Missile; Voltaire
In This City – Enon; Iglu And Hartly
I Palindrome I – They Might Be Giants; They Might Be Giants
I Remember You – Skid Row; Slim Whitman
It's My Life – Bon Jovi; Talk Talk
I Want You – Savage Garden; The Beatles
Jack In The Box – Clodagh Rogers; Elysian Fields
Johanna – Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street; Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (One is a slow, boring love song sung by a male boring character about a female boring character; the other is an old dude whipping himself for having impure thoughts about the female boring character)
Jump – Green Jello; Kriss Kross; The Pointer Sisters; Van Halen
Kickin' – Mike Patton; Whale
Kill You – Korn; Dethklok
Kiss Me – Sixpence None The Richer; Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
La La Land – Demi Lovato; Ookla The Mok
Last To Know – Faith No More; Imperial Teen
Little Girls – Annie; Oingo Boingo
Look Of Love – Dusty Springfield; Lesley Gore
Lucky – Britney Spears; Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat; Local H
Magdalena – A Perfect Circle; Underscore Orchestra
Maria – Blondie; West Side Story; Men At Work
Minneapolis – that dog.; They Might Be Giants
Money – Mindless Self Indulgence; The Beatles
Mother – Blonde Redhead; Danzig; Henry Rollins; John Lennon; Pink Floyd; Tori Amos
My Girl – Madness; The Temptations
Never Say Never – An American Tale; Romeo Void; that dog.; The Fray
No More Tears – Barbara Streisand and Donna Summer; Ozzy Osbourne; The KLF
Once Upon A Dream – Jekyll And Hyde; Sleeping Beauty
One – A Chorus Line; Harry Nilsson
One Step Beyond – Fantomas; Madness
1,2,3,4 – Feist; Plain White T's
Only The Lonely – Roy Orbison; The Motels
Ophelia – The Borrowers; Tori Amos
Our House – Crosby, Stills And Nash; Madness
Out There – Barnum; The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Party Hard – Andrew W.K.; Pulp
Pennsylvania – Bloodhound Gang; John Linnell
Perfect Crime – Faith No More; Guns ‘N Roses
Pi – Hard ‘N Phirm; Kate Bush
Pig Latin – Dillinger Escape Plan; Imperial Teen
Planet Of The Apes – Mindless Self Indulgence; They Might Be Giants
Poker Face – Cornbugs; Lady Gaga
Popcorn – Barenaked Ladies; Gershon Kingsley
Pop Goes The Weasel - nursery rhyme; 3rd Bass
Popular – Wicked; Nada Surf
Pressure – Billy Joel; Fishbone
Promises Promises – Madness; Naked Eyes
Push It – Garbage; Salt ‘N Pepa; Tool
Read A Book – D-Mite; They Might Be Giants
Reunited – Greg Kihn; Peaches And Herb
Ride – Birdsaw; Rob Zombie
Right Now – Babes In Toyland; Korn; Van Halen
Round And Round - Madness; Ratt
Runaway – Del Shannon; Imperial Teen
Sally – Gogol Bordello; The Police
Salvation - Rancid; The Cranberries
Santa’s Beard – The Beach Boys; They Might Be Giants
Scream – Fluffy; Michael Jackson
Seven – Imperial Teen; They Might Be Giants
Seventeen – Repo! The Genetic Opera; The Fags; Winger
Shame – Depeche Mode; Matchbox 20; Randy Newman; Rollins Band; Stabbing Westward
She's A Woman – Bill Hicks; The Beatles
She Was A Hotel Detective – They Might Be Giants; They Might Be Giants (These were the two songs that I think started this whole list. I loved the fact that two songs that were so very different could have the same name (and be written by the same band, no less).)
Shine – Collective Soul; Stepa; Tracy Bonham
Shut Up – Black Eyed Peas; Bloodhound Gang; Butt Trumpet; Kelly Osbourne; Madness
Sing – The Carpenters; The Dresden Dolls
Siren – Birdsaw; Tori Amos
Skywriting – Artificial Joy Club; Eels
Smile – Lily Allen; Michael Jackson; Olive
Snoopy – It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown; You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Sober – Pink; Tool
So Low - Matt Berry; Seapony; Self
Stay – Lisa Loeb; Oingo Boingo
Stay Awake – Mary Poppins; The Capricorns
Stronger – Britney Spears; Kanye West
Superstar – For Squirrels; Self; The Carpenters
Suppertime – Little Shop Of Horrors; You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Sweet Emotion – Aerosmith; Faith No More
Take The Long Way Home – Bloodhound Gang; Supertramp
Temptation – Birdsaw; New Order
Thank You – Alanis Morissette; Descendents; Dido; Led Zeppelin
That's All – Don Juan Y Los Blancos; Genesis
The End – My Chemical Romance; The Beatles; The Doors
The Fear – Lily Allen; Pulp
Tick Tock – Don Juan Y Los Blancos; Kesha
Time – Pink Floyd; Hootie And The Blowfish; The Alan Parsons Project; Tom Waits
Too Little Too Late – Barenaked Ladies; Metric
Tsunami – Prozzak; Res; Stereogram
Vacation - Connie Francis; The Go-Gos; Vitamin C
Violin – Kate Bush; They Might Be Giants
Wait – Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street; The Beatles; White Lion
Welcome To The Jungle – Guns ‘N Roses; They Might Be Giants
What Is Love – Haddaway; Howard Jones
Wild Wild West – Escape Club; Will Smith
Woodstock – It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown; Joni Mitchell
You And I – Chess; Lady Gaga
Zero – Smashing Pumpkins; Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Again, if you know of any I missed, let me know. I can't tell you how satisfying it is to add songs to this list.
Be seeing you.
-Sally
(I guess I should point out that I occasionally cheat a little, leaving out the occasional "The" or parenthetical. And in a couple of cases (namely Faggot and Tick Tock), I know the different versions are spelled differently, but I let it slide because I just wanted to add them to the list.)
About A Girl – Nirvana; Voltaire
Agony – Eels; Into The Woods
Alcohol – Barenaked Ladies; Beck; Brad Paisley; Butthole Surfers; Gogol Bordello; Suggs; The Kinks
Amazing – Aerosmith; Kanye West
Angel – Jimi Hendrix; Sarah McLachlan
Ashes To Ashes – David Bowie; Faith No More
Asshole – Beck; Denis Leary; Guttermouth
Bad Habit – The Dresden Dolls; The Offspring
Beautiful Disaster – Kelly Clarkson; Roger Clyne And The Peacemakers; 311
Believe – Cher; Voltaire
Be Prepared – The Lion King; Tom Lehrer
Blind – Korn; Placebo
Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson; Tracey Ullman
Bloody Mary – Lady Gaga; Mr. Bungle
Breakdown – Guns ‘N Roses; Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Breakfast – Sesame Street; The Newsboys
Breed – Lauren Christy; Nirvana
Brooklyn – They Might Be Giants; They Might Be Giants
California – Phantom Planet; Wax
California Girls – The Beach Boys; The Magnetic Fields
Celebration – Kool And The Gang; Madonna; They Might Be Giants
Change The World – Eric Clapton; Nellie McKay
Crazy – Aerosmith; Barenaked Ladies; Gnarls Barkley; Patsy Cline; Seal
Creep – Radiohead; Stone Temple Pilots; TLC
Daddy – Custom; Korn
Dead – My Chemical Romance; They Might Be Giants; Voltaire
Delilah – The Dresden Dolls; Tom Jones
Deliver Me – Sarah Brightman; Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Disenchanted – For Squirrels; My Chemical Romance
Dog Eat Dog – Joni Mitchell; Weird Al Yankovic
Down – Harry Nilsson; Pearl Jam; 311
Dust ‘N Bones – Cornbugs; Guns ‘N Roses
Early In The Morning – Bobby Darren; Harry Nilsson
Everything You Know Is Wrong – Chumbawumba; Weird Al Yankovic
Evidence – Enon; Faith No More
Faggot – Korn; Mindless Self Indulgence
Flower – Eels; Liz Phair; Toadies
Forever Young – Bob Dylan; Madness
For What It's Worth – Buffalo Springfield; Placebo
Get In Line – Barenaked Ladies; Juliana Hatfield; NoFX
Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne; Harry Nilsson; Matthew Sweet
Glory Days – Bruce Springsteen; Pulp
Good Day – Tally Hall; The Dresden Dolls
Happiness – You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown; Super Junior; The Fray; Tones On Tail
Happy Birthday – Voltaire; Weird Al Yankovic
Happy Birthday To Me – Syreeta; The Vandals
Harry Truman – Mindless Self Indulgence; Stan Ridgway
Head Over Heels – Tears For Fears; The Go-Gos
Hello Cruel World – E; Voltaire
Holiday – Green Day; Madonna; Weezer
Hot Dog – Matt Berry; They Might Be Giants
Hurricane – Bob Dylan; The Hush Sound
If – Bread; Coyote Shivers; Janet Jackson
I Feel For You – Jerry Reed; Shaka Kahn
If I Only Had A Brain – The Wizard Of Oz; MC 900 Ft. Jesus
I Kissed A Girl – Jill Sobule; Katy Perry
I Miss You – Bjork; Blink 182
I'm Sorry – King Missile; Voltaire
In This City – Enon; Iglu And Hartly
I Palindrome I – They Might Be Giants; They Might Be Giants
I Remember You – Skid Row; Slim Whitman
It's My Life – Bon Jovi; Talk Talk
I Want You – Savage Garden; The Beatles
Jack In The Box – Clodagh Rogers; Elysian Fields
Johanna – Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street; Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (One is a slow, boring love song sung by a male boring character about a female boring character; the other is an old dude whipping himself for having impure thoughts about the female boring character)
Jump – Green Jello; Kriss Kross; The Pointer Sisters; Van Halen
Kickin' – Mike Patton; Whale
Kill You – Korn; Dethklok
Kiss Me – Sixpence None The Richer; Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
La La Land – Demi Lovato; Ookla The Mok
Last To Know – Faith No More; Imperial Teen
Little Girls – Annie; Oingo Boingo
Look Of Love – Dusty Springfield; Lesley Gore
Lucky – Britney Spears; Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat; Local H
Magdalena – A Perfect Circle; Underscore Orchestra
Maria – Blondie; West Side Story; Men At Work
Minneapolis – that dog.; They Might Be Giants
Money – Mindless Self Indulgence; The Beatles
Mother – Blonde Redhead; Danzig; Henry Rollins; John Lennon; Pink Floyd; Tori Amos
My Girl – Madness; The Temptations
Never Say Never – An American Tale; Romeo Void; that dog.; The Fray
No More Tears – Barbara Streisand and Donna Summer; Ozzy Osbourne; The KLF
Once Upon A Dream – Jekyll And Hyde; Sleeping Beauty
One – A Chorus Line; Harry Nilsson
One Step Beyond – Fantomas; Madness
1,2,3,4 – Feist; Plain White T's
Only The Lonely – Roy Orbison; The Motels
Ophelia – The Borrowers; Tori Amos
Our House – Crosby, Stills And Nash; Madness
Out There – Barnum; The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Party Hard – Andrew W.K.; Pulp
Pennsylvania – Bloodhound Gang; John Linnell
Perfect Crime – Faith No More; Guns ‘N Roses
Pi – Hard ‘N Phirm; Kate Bush
Pig Latin – Dillinger Escape Plan; Imperial Teen
Planet Of The Apes – Mindless Self Indulgence; They Might Be Giants
Poker Face – Cornbugs; Lady Gaga
Popcorn – Barenaked Ladies; Gershon Kingsley
Pop Goes The Weasel - nursery rhyme; 3rd Bass
Popular – Wicked; Nada Surf
Pressure – Billy Joel; Fishbone
Promises Promises – Madness; Naked Eyes
Push It – Garbage; Salt ‘N Pepa; Tool
Read A Book – D-Mite; They Might Be Giants
Reunited – Greg Kihn; Peaches And Herb
Ride – Birdsaw; Rob Zombie
Right Now – Babes In Toyland; Korn; Van Halen
Round And Round - Madness; Ratt
Runaway – Del Shannon; Imperial Teen
Sally – Gogol Bordello; The Police
Salvation - Rancid; The Cranberries
Santa’s Beard – The Beach Boys; They Might Be Giants
Scream – Fluffy; Michael Jackson
Seven – Imperial Teen; They Might Be Giants
Seventeen – Repo! The Genetic Opera; The Fags; Winger
Shame – Depeche Mode; Matchbox 20; Randy Newman; Rollins Band; Stabbing Westward
She's A Woman – Bill Hicks; The Beatles
She Was A Hotel Detective – They Might Be Giants; They Might Be Giants (These were the two songs that I think started this whole list. I loved the fact that two songs that were so very different could have the same name (and be written by the same band, no less).)
Shine – Collective Soul; Stepa; Tracy Bonham
Shut Up – Black Eyed Peas; Bloodhound Gang; Butt Trumpet; Kelly Osbourne; Madness
Sing – The Carpenters; The Dresden Dolls
Siren – Birdsaw; Tori Amos
Skywriting – Artificial Joy Club; Eels
Smile – Lily Allen; Michael Jackson; Olive
Snoopy – It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown; You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Sober – Pink; Tool
So Low - Matt Berry; Seapony; Self
Stay – Lisa Loeb; Oingo Boingo
Stay Awake – Mary Poppins; The Capricorns
Stronger – Britney Spears; Kanye West
Superstar – For Squirrels; Self; The Carpenters
Suppertime – Little Shop Of Horrors; You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Sweet Emotion – Aerosmith; Faith No More
Take The Long Way Home – Bloodhound Gang; Supertramp
Temptation – Birdsaw; New Order
Thank You – Alanis Morissette; Descendents; Dido; Led Zeppelin
That's All – Don Juan Y Los Blancos; Genesis
The End – My Chemical Romance; The Beatles; The Doors
The Fear – Lily Allen; Pulp
Tick Tock – Don Juan Y Los Blancos; Kesha
Time – Pink Floyd; Hootie And The Blowfish; The Alan Parsons Project; Tom Waits
Too Little Too Late – Barenaked Ladies; Metric
Tsunami – Prozzak; Res; Stereogram
Vacation - Connie Francis; The Go-Gos; Vitamin C
Violin – Kate Bush; They Might Be Giants
Wait – Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street; The Beatles; White Lion
Welcome To The Jungle – Guns ‘N Roses; They Might Be Giants
What Is Love – Haddaway; Howard Jones
Wild Wild West – Escape Club; Will Smith
Woodstock – It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown; Joni Mitchell
You And I – Chess; Lady Gaga
Zero – Smashing Pumpkins; Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Again, if you know of any I missed, let me know. I can't tell you how satisfying it is to add songs to this list.
Be seeing you.
-Sally
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Rock And Roll Shoes
I've been getting this song stuck in my head off and on for months. And, now that their album is coming out (has come out?), they've made a video for it. Ladies and gentlemen, DON JUAN Y LOS BLANCOS!!!
The tall, mustachioed fellow on the left is my friend Dan. Please buy their album so he will be successful.
Be seeing you.
-Sally
The tall, mustachioed fellow on the left is my friend Dan. Please buy their album so he will be successful.
Be seeing you.
-Sally
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