Make your own Venture Bros Bonus Audio CD

The Venture Bros has to be one of the best shows on TV and sadly, the new season won't be on Adult Swim until "winter" which could mean late 2007 or early 2008. I have season 1 and I still need to get the actual DVDs of season 2, even though it's been out for 3 months and a couple of days. There are quite a few extra songs and such out on the net and if you put them all together, it makes a nifty bonus CD. I was going to post this over a year ago and everytime I'd get close, I'd find something else to add. As it is I even found another person's blog entry in the same vain, but my list has a few more things. They are grouped in show order, then in order of release and the extra commentary is at the end. Feel free to choose your own order:

1. Venture Bros Open - 0:53 (ZIP file) [Adult Swim]
2. Revv Me Up - 4:09 ("Mid-Life Chrysalis", episode 8 - Brocks workout song) [Offical Site]
3. Look Away - 2:02 ("Return to Spider-Skull Island", episode 13 - end of season 1) [Offical Site] or (ZIP file) from [Adult Swim]
4. Everybody's Free - 3:32 ("Powerless in the Face of Death", episode 14 - start of season 2) [YTMND]
5. Mitre Storm - 3:04 ("I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills" - episode 23) [Offical Site]
6. Wedding Song - 3:20 ("Showdown at Cremation Creek (Part I)" - episode 25) [QuickStop]
7. Venture Bros Close - 0:33 (ZIP file) [Adult Swim]
8. Monarch Prison Phone Call to Henchmen - 3:21 [IGN]
9. Monarch Prison Phone Call to Dr. Girlfriend - 3:11 [IGN]
10. Little Drummer Boy - 4:48 (Christmas 2004) [IGN] or [QuickStop]
11. Hard Candy Christmas - 5:08 (Christmas 2005) [IGN] or [QuickStop]
12. Venture Aid - 3:07 (Christmas 2006) [QuickStop]
13. Lost Commentary (1x07) - 23:13 ("Home Insecurity" - episode 3) [QuickStop]

Yes, "Everybody's Free" by Aquagen featuring Rozalla is not actually a freebie. But I'm not telling you to save it.

There are plenty of graphics out there to make a nice cover for it. Of course, you can still go and and get your own Brock Sampson OSI ID at the official Venture Brothers website.

Sydney Forest, where are you?

I'm surprised I've not watched Kiki's Delivery Service (Majo no takkyûbin @ IMDB) since the wife and daughter have been in China. I do need to watch A Mighty Wind and return it tomorrow, so I shouldn't be posting now, but I am. Thinking about Kiki made me think of the new beginning and ending music for the Disney VHS release back on 1 September 1998. (That version was Pan and Scan. On 29 September they released the widescreen and I should have waited. Of course there was also the subtitled widescreen VHS that I didn't get either.)

The songs Soaring, used for the opening, and I'm Gonna Fly, used for the ending, were sung by Sydney Forest. I like the songs in the original Japanese but these are good too. One of the things Disney/Buena Vista did right. (Some of the other musical changes are good too.) Back in 2000, you could order a CD from her site called "Collected Film and Television Works" for $5 that had those two songs and three others by her. The CD is listed at here at nausicaa.net at the bottom.

I went out and using the mp3 search on AltaVista, you can find very good quality (192 k) versions of these two songs:

• Soaring - you need to search the page
• I'm Gonna Fly

I'd still like the original CD. Looking over the Internet Archive, her original site http://www.sydneyforest.com/ was up from at least 9 August 1999 to 2 August 2002 - looks like it was registed for 4 years. There is an email sydmail@aol.com, but it just bounced.

Her IMDB page shows nothing since 2004. I wish I could find her site.

Local Music at Carabar

Earlier in the week, Ryan Smith did a friend invite on my MySpace site. I checked his page and official site and was quite taken with his music. I listened to California all week and went to the show on Friday. The flyer said 10 PM and I was driving like a loon so as not to arrive late. As it turned out, Ryan played last (the order on the flyer was reversed.) and I was in plenty of time.

Here was the line up:

• Jonathan Hape [Offical Site, MySpace]
• Hope Vitellas [Offical Site, MySpace]
• Ryan Smith [Offical Site, MySpace]

I picked up Ryan's and Jonathan's CDs there. I wish Hope had CDs there. She was amazing! Jonathan is going to Chicago in August. I'll drop another letter to Darren to see if he wants to check it out.

(written 6/30/2006; back-dated to 6/9/2006; updated 7/18/2007)