One of the secrets from my past is that I recorded two CDs of live comedy. Mostly it’s me playing the piano and singing, though there is also some talking. (I am better at talking than singing.) “Will Make Jokes for Food” came out in 2003, with the follow-up, “Monkeys and Pirates Are Funny,” in 2006. Some of the songs were written during that time, but a lot of them were much older, having been written for the Garrens Comedy Troupe at BYU between 1993 and 2001.

The CDs were basically self-released, and I sold them through my website and when I would do live shows, which wasn’t very often. Now they’re out of print, so I have uploaded many of the songs to iLike.com, where you can listen to them or download them. For free, even!

Here’s my iLike page. I’ve divided the songs not by album but by category, “General Merriment” and “Merriment Specific to Utah and/or Mormon Culture.” (The Mormons may be interested to know that included in that batch is a brand-new updated version of “The General Authorities Song.”) If you’re not familiar with Utah and/or Mormon culture, you won’t get the jokes in those songs, but trust me, they are hilarious. The other songs should be equally amusing to all persons regardless of geography or creed.

Not everything from the CDs is on here. I might add some more over time. There are a few songs that I just don’t think are funny anymore. There are others that I like but where my performance on the recordings is subpar. I had a tendency to play things increasingly faster. I also had a tendency to play some wrong notes on the piano. That’s the trouble with someone who doesn’t do a lot of live shows recording live albums: I wasn’t practiced at getting things exactly right. I’ve toyed with the idea of re-recording some of these songs in the studio (i.e., my apartment, with my computer), but then of course we’d lose the audience reaction, which I think adds to the effect. So I don’t know.

Also, there are two songs, “Not Fooling Anyone” and “Mel Gibson,” that came after the CDs. The latter was after Mel’s drunk-driving anti-Jew tirade, but before the racist misogyny tirades.

(If you want liner notes on the songs, including the ones not online, here’s “Will Make Jokes for Food,” and here’s “Monkeys and Pirates Are Funny.”)

I hope that your Thanksgiving was suitably happy and gluttonous. Goodness knows mine was. The cold that I’ve been working on for a few days subsided long enough to enjoy the holiday, but now it is back and I am loopy. Loooooooopy. This is all stuff that I wrote before I got loopy, though.

“Tangled” is pretty OK. “Faster” (review at Film.com) is not. Didn’t see “Love and Other Drugs” or “Burlesque” due to scheduling conflicts.

“What’s the Big Deal?” is about “Battleship Potemkin.” “Eric’s Bad Movies” took the week off, on account of Thanksgiving.

And here’s another reminder to use my Amazon link if you buy stuff at Amazon this holiday season. Doing so will benefit all the children of the world, as far as you know.

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In brief: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1″ (review at Cinematical) is very good; “The Next Three Days” is pretty good; “Skyline” (from last week) is dumb.

Over at Film.com, I wrote a report from the year 2020, and also offered relationship advice from Severus Snape. “Eric’s Bad Movies” deals with “Flowers in the Attic,” while “What’s the Big Deal?” addresses “Seven Samurai.”

Some “In the Dark” subscribers may have noticed that it’s been showing up late, or not at all, in recent weeks. This is due to something technical that I only sort of understand. The computer monkeys are working on it.

Finally, let me remind you that if you do any shopping at Amazon.com during the Unspecified Winter Holiday season, it would benefit me tremendously if you’d shop via my Amazon links. That’s how we buy monkey chow for those computer monkeys.

Subscribe to “In the Dark,” a weekly e-mail with the latest movie reviews, DVD releases, and other pertinent info.

Listen to “Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider,” a weekly Internet radio show featuring Jeff Bayer and Eric D. Snider, at PDX.fm. It’s live at 11 a.m. (Pacific) every Friday, then downloadable as a podcast. Ignore the iTunes “explicit” tag; we always keep it PG.

“You’re looking more distinguished these days!” is the polite way my friend told me that my hair has more grey in it.

Play #QRANK with me! I implore you! http://bit.ly/adJKqh

Jon Dore’s stand-up on Conan the other night: deeply funny http://www.tbs.com/video/conan.jsp?oid=234252&eref=sharethisUrl

It’s amazing that @scotteweinberg and @jamesrocchi both even exist, let alone that they exist in the same universe.

This will appeal to about 8 different kinds of nerds: Daniel Radcliffe sings Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements.” http://bit.ly/dgkKBr

In honor of @woodelijah being on Twitter now, here’s what I wrote about THE GOOD SON: http://bit.ly/9iODBP

Man, #turkeynight with @rejects, @chasewhale and the gang sounds delightful! I’ll flatter myself and assume I’d be invited if I lived there.