I am as excited as anyone about this, but…how strange. How totally, appropriately strange that this is getting another go…

The first thing that popped into my head was when I saw "Enchanted" in the theater. First of all, I LOVE "Enchanted" and I think Amy Adams should have at least been nominated for her acting in that movie. But it's not a "weeper" of a flick. But here's the scene: Christmas Day, 2007. My father had died on Dec 2nd. It…

I live in Tanzania, a country with only two cities that have movie theaters! And none where I live! Though rumor has it that the new mall that is being built- the only mall in the entire region- will have a movie theater. FINGERS CROSSED.

"…everyone back at Subway will just have to deal with it"
-Sean O'Neal drops mic, walks off stage…

I'll join the chorus. I really liked this one. I thought it had much more substance to it than it could have. And the review is right, when Rudd finally loses it, it seems real. it seems exactly like the stuff someone who's pushed beyond their limits would say. It's not pithy, it's not scathing. He just loses his shit…

He DID actually, though "enjoy" is a strong word. He seemed to think it was funny that he actually sat through its. And that's a much better reaction than some of the other times I've shown friends the film.

Many moons ago, when I was in high school, I was helping my grandmother by watching my grandfather, who had Alzheimer's. That day it was just my grandad and I at their home. My grandad was mostly nonverbal by this point, but he suddenly started saying the word "star" repeatedly (I was wearing a shirt with the Converse…

I showed Eraserhead to three of my friends just a few weeks ago, and I'm proud to say I am responsible for what is likely the only screening of Eraserhead that will ever occur in Tanzania.

I just showed it to a friend whose wife was pregnant and I said "Out of respect for you, I'm not inviting your wife."

Any friend of Tom Waits is a friend of mine.

Awww, we're friendos! :)

Oh, I still love his new stuff. "Bad as Me" is a great album, and "Real Gone" has some stupendous tracks on it. I've just found that I don't have the urge to listen to it 24/7 like I once did. And I agree, his stuff is "railing against the night" as opposed to most others in his age bracket that have mellowed and gone…

I was gonna say the same thing. It's a soundtrack/score. Between "Blood Money" and "Alice" (released on the same day) "Blood Money" is more outlandishly strange, but "Alice" is easily the more deeply disturbed, in subject matter and in sound.

VIOLA!
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When my niece was accepted into art school, I mailed her a three disk set that had 3-4 songs off every TW album in order of release. I told my niece knowing TW in art school was more important to her development than reading her text books. I think it does a good job of conveying his style over the decades.

Man, you nailed it. And you are also dead on about the last
verse of "A Little Rain." It's a killer. Bone Machine is a masterpiece.

Yeah, I've ceased trying to make the case for Waits as a singer with a voice as much as saying Waits is a songwriter who uses a vocal instrument. Semantics, I know, but really, he doesn't sing as much as he paints pictures with his vocal cords. And its one of the things I love about him; his lyrics sound more real…

Also, while walking around the Catacombs, my wife and I made several jokes about going to try to recruit help to defend Gondor.

I've been. Creepy at first, but for me the effect kinda wore off. By the end of the walk it was just "Oh, more bones." Very cool to visit, though. Glad I did it.

You are correct. It was a solution to lack of burial real estate. I've actually been down in the Catacombs. It's exciting, then kinda claustrophobic, then the temperature drops and it gets really cold and wet, then you walk into a chamber marked "The Empire of the Dead" and its really freaky and creepy, and then you…