Soundtrack FAIL

It often seems that my life as of late has been consumed with Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

Sure, I've already written a post about the film, and, as promised in my last line, I was there on opening night, along with three good friends and only two other people in the entire theatre -- it was Halloween night, after all -- watching the vulgar magic unfold on screen.

I went into the film expecting to like it, and sure enough, Kevin Smith continues to not fail me. But as soon as the movie ended, I knew immediately that I wanted to see it again. And while I will confess that, unlike some of his other films, Zack and Miri does have a shockingly high compulsive-watchability factor, there was one very specific reason why I wanted to go back.

There is one scene, which I will not spoil, in which the background music plays such an integral role that I was completely and utterly drawn into the emotion in a way that very few other films I've seen before have done.

The song in question is called "Lift Me Up," by Live -- which I've learned through Wikipedia is an unreleased B-side to their 1994 breakthrough album Throwing Copper. The song was never released on any album to date, and so I presumed that, when the Zack and Miri soundtrack hits stores on November 11, the song would be on the soundtrack.

I was wrong.

And I'm rather dismayed because the song conjures up such incredible emotion that I know I would never be able to shake them if I were to hear the song again. Even more disheartening is that, for some strange reason, the song is pretty much impossible to find anywhere on teh Intarwebs.

So here I am, jonesing to hear this amazing song that was implemented perfectly in a film I adore, and all I can do is bow down to the directorial wunderkind that is Kevin Smith, wait impatiently for the distant DVD release, and hope that perhaps I'll get lucky enough to find the song during my cyber travails.

Sad. Face.