Essays and Bad Ideas

Meat Loaf (1947-2022)

To most people, he was Paradise By The Dashboard Light, or Eddie from Rocky Horror. But to me, he was Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad.

As a little kid, it was telling the saddest story I could imagine… “so close, and yet so far”. I sang along every time it came on the car radio, and even in the midst of summer, I could feel the snow “really piling up outside”. Those two scenes of separation were etched into my brain forever.