Personality deficient Scarlett Johansson has attempted to make a cover album which is released today. Taking it’s title from a song off the truly marvellous album Rain Dogs, “Anywhere I lay my Head” consists entirely of Tom Waits covers.
The fact that she can’t sing will only be the beginning of your frustration in listening to this album. Not content in sucking all soul and meaning form these great songs, Scarlett, whose vocals are so low in the mix it’s as if they’ve been recorded on a walkman, somehow manages to twist the melancholy, broken down and wandering-lost central theme of Waits’ career into a vacuous vanity project.
Here’s the video for Falling down, which contains some inspired imagery to go with the reworked classic such as Scarlett having her hair done, Scarlett having her make up done and Scarlett blowing some bubble gum on a bus…
It’ll be the best gig you’ll go to in your life. Here are some highlights from the Tom Waits press conference which details his route through the US and alludes to him touring Europe, from Spain to Dublin.
I find it fairly offensive whenever TV tries to muscle in on the great community that is the population of the internet. It fundamentally changes the power structure. The internet is a great leveller, where each of us has a voice. Whether or not we get listened to is another matter.
However, more offensive than television getting in on the 2.0 action, is the scrotum sweat advertisers ripping a testicle off the genuinely inventive internet populous. Have a look at the new TV advert for the “ fun, healthy way to get more vitamins” Berocca…
Clearly a total rip of the OKGO video, Here is Goes Again. Did they pay for it? And does that make it okay even if they did. Lets let the Demigod Bill Hicks have the final word…
While you were dreaming about who to vote for in the London mayoral elections I got up extra early, travelled in the extravagant atmos of the underground tube and pissed in your London water.
Is that a banana in your pocket or proof of a benevolent, omnipotent God?
Behold the Atheists nightmare indeed! The Teleological argument has never been stated so well or so concisely before. Notice how confused the second guy looks when he’s handed the can of 7up at the start.
Does that mean that the pineapple is the fruit of Satan?
Get your votes in, who is the best? our lines are red hot.
They’ve all got things going for them, the first has the best midi backing track the second girl is just so pretty, she could be a model and the third has the best floral arrangement backdrop. Such a tough decision but ya must decide.
Imagine my surprise when today I secured myself tickets to see my childhood musical visionary, the Frenchman, Jean-Michel Jarre. This magnificent video shows him swooped over his synths, belting out the classic ‘Equinoxe 4′ with no regard for how cool he looks.
The show next week promises that he will perform his seminal work, Oxygène, in its entirety on the original analogue synthesizers he used to create it!
Jealous? you should be, the concert sold out weeks ago and unless his lasers burn through the roof of the Albert Hall there’s no chance you’ll be involved. For those of you with the foresight to buy tickets for this monumental event, I”ll see you there. I’ll be the one in this hat..
Critical Acclaim for Barry and Stuart at Edinburgh 2008
"Barry and Stuart are pure Magic." The List "Hugely enjoyable, funny and engaging... This show deserves an award! The Stage "Ingenious and genuinely impressive... highly entertaining routine of quickfire magic and oddball comedy" Three Weeks Dark Vaudeville fr the 21st century" Metro "Brilliant. Just brilliant, and so much more as well... witty, tight, slick, clever, fun, incredible, mind-boggling, skilful welcoming and did I say brilliant?" ABC Edinburgh
