It's a story about a deal with the devil, immortality and to imagine what you can't imagine; imagine!
I saw the trailer and was just stunned by the power and speed of the pictures. This could be a nice trip. Also the cast makes it a must see in my opinion. Heath Ledgers very last movie, directed by Terry Gilliam and featuring outstanding actors as Colin Farell, Johnny Depp and his majesty Tom Waits ;-)
I am sure the trailer gives you a good taste and gets your ass to the cinema, quick! That's where I'm going...
Finally some time to relax again and finally a minute to surf the web. A lot of bullshit as expected, but finally I got myself a treat:
The TOM WAITS live record "Glitter & Doom is coming up and its going to be rough. The sound comes very intimate with a lot of the audience in it. It has a lotta groove and feeling in it, and always tight on the beat.
And here's the treat ANTI- promotes the release with giving away the first six tracks for free. I say: Go get 'em...
To begin with, Tom Waits is one of my favorite artists for a long time. He never chumed up with anybody, staying true to his hoarse and sonorous voice but still managing to write and perform beautiful and fragile songs such as "Downtown Train", "Jersey Girl" or "Ol'55". For an interesting and well written watch here.
However, I was pretty surprised when I heard that the actress Scarlett Johansson did record an album with cover versions of Tom Waits songs. I straight got the record and listened to it first time at night when I was going home from a show by car. It is definitely a record for the night, that's for a fact. It took me some time to get used to her voice (as you'll here below). She is not going to high neither is it to melodic. I thought about it and came to the conclusion that it wouldn't be a good Tom Waits cover when it's perfectly sung and she's interpreting it in a great manner.
Produced by multi-instrumentalist David Sitek and with a band composed of Yeah Yeah Yeah's Nick Zinner and members from TV on the Radio, Tall Firs and Celebration the album was recorded in just a couple of weeks and you can really feel the session character. Another interesting feature is the one of David Bowie on two of the songs ("Fallin' Down" and "Fannin Street"), but listen yourself.
You can also find a very well written and extensive review at: Pitchfork.com.
The videos from the AOL sessions below should give you a good first impression (but still this is nothing compared to the record enjoyed at night):
Another Waits classic:
Aaaaand last, but not least, the great scene from Jim Jarmusch's "Coffee and Cigarettes" with Iggy Pop, enjoy:
I'm 24 years old, living in Berlin and enjoying it to the fullest. At the moment I'm also touring a lot.It's tough times, exciting times, we live and we learn, never get to comfortable, up and running, brainworks, brainworks. Music is my life and this also what I spent most of my time with. I'm playing the bass for thirteen years now and still enjoying it to the fullest. If you're interested to set up a new project, let me know, I'm down for whatever from Jazz to Hardcore to Electronica, no restrictions, just music.
