Johnny Lunchpail Friday October 6 ONE NIGHT ONLY

Friday October 6th at 10PM

ONE NIGHT ONLY

Johnny Lunchpail in Johnny Rides Again!

Longform, free form, organic form – jump into our pool.

Featuring: Patrick Dall'Occhio, Will Koehl, Matt Ostrom & Rob Webber.
Music by Ernie Privetera

Gotham City Improv
48 W 21st St, 8th Floor, Buzzer #13
Between 6th and 5th Aves

Subways: F/V, N/R/W to 23rd St

Tickets are $7

Reservations: 917-558-3549

or
info@gothamcityimprov.com

FC Barcelona and UNICEF

For over 100 years FC Barcelona has had no advertising on their shirts, despite the complete acceptance of the practice by the rest of the world.

Now, instead of taking $100 MM + from some monolithic corporation (AIG, Samsung, Siemens, etc.), Barça has decided to PAY UNICEF $2 MM a year for the right to have the charity's logo all over their shirts and stadium.

Are you listening Yankees?

Lucky Pierre - The New Show

Fridays at 10 Starting August 11.

LUCKY PIERRE

The three fleas of Lucky Pierre are physical and fearless. One suggestion. No boundaries. Second City alum Abby Sher and Johnny Lunchpail'ers Rob Webber and Matt Ostrom present four Friday nights of damn fine improv.

The Magnet Theater
234 West 29th Street
NYC
212-244-8824

$7

Meat Loaf Drops Lawsuit

Bat III Lives!

From REUTERS:

Meat Loaf resolves "Bat out of Hell" suit

By Claudia ParsonsMon Jul 31, 9:47 PM ET

Veteran rocker Meat Loaf has resolved a dispute with songwriter Jim Steinman over trademark rights to "Bat Out of Hell," dropping a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over the title of the best-selling 1977 album.

"It resolved itself very quickly because neither one of us wanted to argue," Meat Loaf told Reuters in an interview on Monday at an event to promote "Bat out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose," set for release on October 31.

"There's a mutual love and respect there," he said.

"We're not going to have a knock-down brawl. We just have too much history," Meat Loaf said, speaking fondly of the man who produced the original album that shot the portly Texan to stardom after his breakout appearance in the cult film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

Meat Loaf, who was born Marvin Lee Aday, had filed a suit earlier this year claiming that Steinman wrongfully registered the phrase as his trademark in 1995.

Steinman wrote the title track and several others on the original album and the 1993 follow-up "Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell." The two albums have sold a combined total of more than 45 million copies and spawned such rock classics as "You took the words right out of my mouth" and "I'd do anything for love (but I won't do that)."

Meat Loaf said there had never been serious antagonism between the two. "Sometimes there's just disagreements that in business two people can't settle, so you just need to involve other people ... You always hate to see it get to that."

Unveiling the third album in the trilogy to the media, Meat Loaf said Steinman had written seven songs on the new record.

"If it was not for Jim Steinman and his brilliance and his ability to turn a phrase and his concepts, we wouldn't be here tonight," Meat Loaf said of his collaborator who did not attend the event in a nightclub in a converted church lit by candles.

"He really liked the record, that's really important to me," he said. "We tried to show him as much respect and loyalty as we could because we're doing 'Bat out of Hell III.' It's his concept to do 'Bat out of Hell III."'

Among the Steinman tracks on the album, which was produced by Desmond Child, known for his work with the likes of Bon Jovi and Aerosmith, is the ballad "It's all coming back to me now," which was a big hit for Celine Dion although it was originally written for the first "Bat out of Hell."

Meat Loaf said he felt a deeper personal connection to many of the songs on this album than in past songs. He was also challenged by Child to adapt his style to work with writers such as Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue and Marilyn Manson's John 5.

"(For example) 'Blind like a Bat,' I've never sung rock songs like that," he said. "I think you'll recognize it as classic Meat Loaf. But you're going to be surprised too."

Meat Loaf, who is deliberately vague about his age with reports of his year of birth ranging from 1947 to 1951, said he had no plans for a fourth in the series. "I don't know how anybody could live through it," he said. "I don't think I have the time, I don't think the years will allow it."

But he is planning some major gigs to promote the latest album, including an October 16 London show at the Royal Albert Hall in three acts, drawing on the three "Bat Out of Hell" albums. He will also bring the Bat to New York in November after the Halloween release of the new album.

Rio

If you know me, you probably also know that I won a trip to Rio de Janiero at Blackstone's Christmas Party last December. After 6 months of not thinking about it, I have become OBSESSED WITH BRAZILIANA. I am ALL ABOUT this trip, which I'm probably taking at the end of October.

I have purchased, via Craig's List, a set of Pimsleur's Portuguese (Brazilian) language MP3s. Something like 48 CD's worth. Allegedly, the Pimsleur system is a great "audio only" way to learn (I want to listen on the train--not watch a series of jpegs at home on a computer screen like I'd have to do with Rosetta Stone, a popular competitor). The only language other than English that I have studied is Latin. Latin for 5 years in middle and high school. Not very practical unless you won a trip to Vatican City at your office Christmas party.

Since the USA has been booted from the World Cup, I am focused on Brazil and England. Ronaldo is still amazing despite his beer boobs. I have mixed emotions about his alleged, pending deal to come play for Red Bull New York. I walked across 46th Street after work yesterday (a neighborhood known as "Little Brazil" here in NYC) and the bars and restaurants were still packed from the Brazil vs. Japan match from earlier in the day.

I can't wait to drink caipirinhas and climb Corcovado.

More Russian Girls Want Me

I'm glad she's not interested in "the money-bags". I also always wondered who managed "the insurance company". She must be loaded.

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About Irina

Profession/Occupation: The manager in the insurance company.
Height: 5'6"
Eyes: Blue
Build: Slender
Hair Color: Blonde

I think that I am the intelligent and decent girl. I am not have harmful habits and bad manners. I am the sociable and cheerful girl. Iam the purposeful person and I have always got used to achieve mine purpose. But at the same time I am womanly also I want will find persons which will a support for me and which will love me as I am will love him. I with confidence can tell that I have such character traits as the tenderness, the caress and the goodwill. And I hope that I
shall find my second half.

I want to find in the Internet my second half, but not for usual correspondence or for friendship. I want to find my love, mine soulmate! I don't search for benefit in that to find " the money-bags or rich man", I am really want will find the persons which to concern to me with tenderness and
caress (it really does not suffice for me). I want to feel like present woman, I want that I will be loved and respected.

More on Meat Loaf: Keep it Civil, People!

Comments on the new Album Bat Out of Hell II: The Monster Is Loose.

Meat Loaf, Jim Steinman Please Get Over It.

Please stop suing each other.

Do you need a reason to bury the hatchet? How about 45 million reasons? That's how many copies Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell have sold.

Yes Jim, sneakliy trademarking "Bat Out of Hell, Inc." in 1996 was underhanded.

Yes Meat Loaf, recording Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose without Steinman's songs or production would be a mistake.

There's enough money for everyone! Get back together!

Do more stuff like this:

BOY: On a hot summer night would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?

GIRL: Will he offer me his mouth?

BOY: Yes

GIRL: Will he offer me his teeth?

BOY: Yes

GIRL: Will he offer me his jaws?

BOY: Yes

GIRL: Will he offer me his hunger?

BOY: Yes

GIRL: Again, will he offer me his hunger?

BOY: Yes!

GIRL: And will he starve without me?

BOY: Yes!

GIRL: And does he love me?

BOY: Yes

GIRL: Yes

BOY: On a hot summer night would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?

GIRL: Yes

BOY: I bet you to say that to all the boys.

And how about Dead Ringer for Love? What an awesome video.



Make it happen boys!

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