It's Curtains

Ohio Theater
Columbus, Ohio

While I was up there on the second floor shooting away during a recent Flickrmeet, I kept attempting to get this right. The rest of the grand old theater looked beautifully and primly Victorian, but this curtained second floor area with nothing but darkness behind, looked like Dracula was going to glide forth any moment. (I know Dracula's of the Victorian era too, but ... oh, you know what I mean. There's prim, shiny Victorian, and there's dark, creepy Victorian.)

Oh and sorry about the punny title.

The following are tracks from the soundtrack to a computer game; American McGee's Alice, a creepy, dark take on Alice In Wonderland. The score is done by Chris Vrenna, and can also be bought through Amazon.

Village of the Doomed
The Funhouse
Time to Die

Miss Carol's

Dayton, Ohio

Madonna - Beautiful Stranger

My partner in crime that day cross-processed hers, and you can see it here.

Music - Monsters!

Rocky Horror Picture Show Cast - There's A Light (Over at the Frankenstein Place)
All right, it's only tangentially related, but it's so much fun to sing along to.

The Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein

KC & The Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man
... maybe I'm the only one who finds including this amusing. Probably. But damnit, I just can't resist a pun.

Sheb Wooley - Purple People Eater
Another classic.

Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon

Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London

Bobby Pickett & The Cryptkickers - Monster Mash
I think I'm contractually required to include this.

Music - Here's To Love, Ewan McGregor & Renee Zellweger

For those unfamiliar with it, the movie Down With Love is an homage to sixties sex comedies, two in particular. Pillow Talk's the one everyone seems to mention, but the plot's been lifted pretty much entirely from Sex And The Single Girl.

The soundtrack is entirely worth buying, but the two standout tracks are the opening theme, "Down With Love" by Michael Buble' & Holly Palmer, and the closing theme, "Here's To Love," by the stars of the movie.

"Here's To Love" is full of alcoholic double-entendre. The lyrics are certainly cute, and everything about the song comes off like the producers intended; it seems exactly as though it's the real theme to a real sixties sex comedy. McGregor & Zellweger are adorable in it, and the music's dead-on perfect. My only complaint is that the lyrics could be just a little crisper, a little less nonsensical.

But I love it anyway -- it's light and bubbly and sweet, and if it's not perfect, it's still fun.

Cheers!

Ewan McGregor & Renee Zellweger - Here's To Love