[Neko Case’s “Middle Cyclone” playing on car stereo.]
Eldest Daughter: You know, I think Neko Case is the Catwoman of music.
Me: So then who’s Batman?
Eldest Daughter: Duh! Tom Waits of course!
[Neko Case’s “Middle Cyclone” playing on car stereo.]
Eldest Daughter: You know, I think Neko Case is the Catwoman of music.
Me: So then who’s Batman?
Eldest Daughter: Duh! Tom Waits of course!
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So whats the definitive way to be introduced to Waits? I saw him in Seven Psychopaths and I want to know more…
Ease yourself in with a few sips of federally bonded Tom Waits in Closing Time. Then take your first drink of Everclear Tom Waits with Heart of Saturday Night. Have yourself a chronic rum and rye hangover with Small Change. Drifting a bit more, have that first drink of the day, a bourbon and soda and a red beer chaser, with Heart Attack and Vine. There really is nothing else like that one. And when you’re feeling good and brave, take a champagne and stump-water bath with Swordfish Trombones. That’s his hinge album. Everything after that is well… you’ll see.
JOB
JOB is wise in his way. But you could also just dive right into Glitter and Doom.
Looks like Paul is the same kind of bad as we!
But when is the Friend of Korrektiv this post was directed at going to show up? Paul isn’t that common a name where I come from but I feel silly thinking… ah nevermind.
Um, I don’t see any other Pauls around here, do you?
JOB
If you say so…
Not sure how you connected my heretofore unmentioned abiding love for the batman mythos and my also unmentioned desire to know what Tom Waits is all about.
In any case, bravo!
And I don’t know anything really about Neko Case so I’ll take your daughter’s word for it that she’s the Catwoman of music.
Given previous comments and links and sich, I guess I just assumed you were Korrektiv’s go-to advisor on all things Bat.
Otherwise, would you take “lucky guess” for an answer?
JOB
Hurm… I can live with that.
Nancy Sinatra as Laurie Jupiter? Must remember to investigate….
I guess now we have our proof that Bobby Simpson isn’t reading Korrektiv these days. Elsewise, he surely would have protested over that title of “Korrektiv’s Bat-Advisor.”
He can reclaim that honor any time he likes, for he seems eminently more qualified than I.
But then, one might say GKC’s quip about things worth doing could apply here.
A-to-the-men.
I guess
Bob’s away
Bob’s away
Bob’s-a-way-on-business.
I’ve got Waits’ 1978 Austin City Limits performance on VHS. Most of it is up on YouTube. I’m really hoping he goes there again before he’s done, and that something can be done in the way of getting tickets.
I’ll buy the Shiner!
JOB
Gotta hand it to you guys. Turned me on to Bob, VW, and now Waits. Suppose I’ll look into Case eventually as well. It’s inevitable if I keep hanging around here I guess.
So who’s Robin? Chuck E. Weiss?
See tag.
Also, of course, BD=SM.
JOB
Waits is Alfred.
I was thinking Leonard Cohen there. Unless its that episode where Alfred dresses up as Batman because BW is incapacitated or has to be present somewhere at the same time as Batman…
JOB
Cohen for sure. This is shaping up to be epic.
There’s no way to avoid Michael Stipe as The Riddler, is there?
Score!
And Mick Jagger as The Joker?
Or is that too easy?
JOB
He’s got the mouth for Joker’s grin.
Oh my! One little hesitant insight has gone much farther than I could have foreseen…..
So who’s The Penguin?
Paul Simon?
JOB
This is when the Korretiv comments really shine, taking hesitant insights to places never dreamed of.
Like Meatloaf as Clayface?
That’ll do.
I need Zevon to be part of this. Scarecrow, with straw hair circa Animated Series. (where it all began for me)
Bing Crosby as the Gray Ghost.
Who’s afraid of the werewolves of London?
I may reconsider. While these lyrics are perfect for a zombie apocalypse, they’re not exactly Scarecrow’s M.O.
“I’m putting tinfoil up on the windows
Lying down in the dark to dream
I don’t want to see their faces
I don’t want to hear them scream”
Forrest Whitaker as Théoden.
And Ronald Reagan as Han Solo and Van Johnson as Luke!
And Peter Cushing playing himself playing Grand Moff Tarkin!
jOB
Would you believe that, earlier today, I was imagining a 1930s or early ’40s Star Wars serial, built around Duke Ellington as Lando Calrissian? It’s true!
Cushing as Tarkin? That could work, but I’m picturing Erich von Stroheim. Oh well, maybe he could be the Emperor instead.
Boris Karloff as Darth Vader?
Maureen O’Sullivan as Princess Leia?
Sidney Greenstreet as Jabba the Hutt, natch.
’30s/’40s? Doesn’t Bogart have to be Solo in that case? And Errol Flynn as Skywalker?