Monday, August 31, 2009

Young Widows...again


I love this freaking band.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Henry Rollins on music.


Henry Rollins rules!

49% Mofo, 51% S.O.B


Who ever thought C.C. Deville of all people would have anything relevant to say? Actually, he may be the coolest part of Poison, which isn't saying much but it IS better then being Brett Michaels. Lemmy deserves a movie, Lemmy deserves to have a statue erected in the middle of Times Square. OK, so he hasn't saved humanity with the cure for Cancer and he isn't some philanthropic super hero. He has, however, given like 3 generations of kids a soundtrack for their adolescent anger. Plus, he is one of the coolest rock stars around...I mean even Slash says so...SLASH! He's a real pirate, a real rock star and apparently really down to earth. So, watch this movie, buy Motorhead records and say hello if your at the Rainbow and you see Lemmy in his corner booth; Send over a Jack and Coke on me.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die. Edward Kennedy


Ted Kennedy succumbed to brain cancer last night. This from his wikipedia page:
Senator Ted Kennedy has worked to pursue justice and equal rights for all Americans, regardless of race, color, or creed. As an advocate for many who would not otherwise be heard, such as minority groups, his political positions on racial justice; women’s reproductive rights; gender equality; age discrimination; prejudice against immigrants; bigotry against gays and lesbians; and civil rights, has had an essential role in America. [228]
He was also a big advocate for Universal Health Care, which of course he didn't live to see come to fruition. He also drunk drove into a lake killing Mary Jo Kopechne. That happened in 1969, that's probably all you'll hear about from the #1 news source for most Americans. People are stupid.

District 9

Soooo, District 9 is about aliens in Johannesburg, South Africa living in slums for the last 30 years. Bio-technology, social commentary and explosions keep this movie moving. It's got a few flaws and could have used...something. I pegged the ultimate outcome for our protagonist as soon as the opportunity presented itself, 15 minutes into the movie. Interestingly, our protaganist isn't really all that likeable; actually, I didn't like him at all until the very end of the film. I questioned his motives, all of his actions and his apprehension to make any moves in the right direction. Maybe this was intentional, seems unrealistic to me though. If you find yourself morphing into an alien, on the run from bloodthirsty government killers and your wife has basically kicked you to the curb, wouldn't you be pissed off and ready for action? I would and it wouldn't take me an hour to do it. Bottom line, this is produced by Peter Jackson. He can do no wrong...he made Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles and Dead/Alive....er, granted he didn't direct this. He's directing The Lovely Bones a movie about a murdered girl who watches over her family from heaven, weighing whether or not she should get some revenge. That movie will probably be awesome and perfect because in my world Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro, Terry Gilliam and Rob Zombie are the new rock stars...actually Rob Zombie was a rock star...whatever, Halloween 2 is coming out. I thought he promised us that Mike Myers was dead? What happened? This movie better blow the socks off of my feet straight into the hamper...seriously w.t.f?

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Dumpster Pool


This is a pool in Brooklyn constructed primarily of three industrial sized dumpsters lined with plastic! Wow! What a way to make good use of old junk. It's probably way cleaner then any public pool I've ever been to, certainly looks cleaner. I love seeing stuff like this, it makes me look at things in my apartment and ponder what ELSE they could masquerade as. Could the heating coil in my coffee maker be used to warm up my water bed? Could I actually construct said imaginary water bed out of old plastic bags and a shower curtain? What of this bag of shit? Could it be used as a make shift bomb in a pinch? It is a bag of shit, filling with toxic gas and congealing as we speak. I'm just saying, think out of the box people!

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

XXX


The problem isn’t Taxes, Obama, Health Care Reform, Republicans OR Democrats. The problem is us America, we have some entitlement issues. We have all grown up to trust that: America is the greatest country on earth ™, standing up for what you believe in is your duty, freedom isn’t free and democracy comes with blood. If you fed these ingredients to a baby it would grow up to be an aggressive, blood thirsty ego maniac, much like the talking heads on T.V. In reality, where most of the world lives, conversation and healthy disagreements are what spark conversation and ultimately solutions to problems. The difference is OUR differences; we all want, what we want, but no one is willing to budge. Democrats seem to believe in taking the high road and that fighting back would somehow be counter active, whereas the Republicans realize that no matter how much misinformation they spread or whatever divisive tactics they have to resort to, they will win. The Republicans are right, it’s like the little kid who repeats “I’m not touching you” as loud as he can with an outstretched finger centimeters from his sisters’ face. We get it, you want attention and you’re not going away, this dogged path of weary acceptance works every time. It works every time, unless, there is a stronger figure who turns around and informs in an authoritative manner “Cut it out, or I’m turning this car around and were going home!” When the asylum is run by the patients, nothing gets done except insane things. We have currently become the laughing stock of the world, again, because we REFUSE to hear each other out. White noise will never take the place of conversation and being misinformed will never take the place of true knowledge. You know what, no one wants to pay more taxes, no one is going to kill grandma, but unless we discuss these things with all the chips on the table there can be no positive action. All we are doing by being ego maniacs is driving a wedge between ourselves, our neighbors, our family and friends. We are so self-absorbed and filled with fear that we don’t realize how huge the wedge is becoming. Some people are jokingly hoping for Separatism, yeah, I’m sure that’s how the Birthers movement got started too. We have to realize that these feelings are ok as long as we talk it out, bitch. It doesn’t have to be a love in, but it should be fair, it should be civil and really there doesn’t have to be an outcome other than to agree to disagree. It’s not much, but it’s a start. How can we make any decisions if we can’t do that? Maybe, that’s not the point, maybe no matter what happens we are too far gone for this sort of domestic diplomacy. If that’s the case, we are not the country we think we are, we're diluting ourselves and we might as well give up now. We're not a dysfunctional family, we're a virus that infects the world and is now infecting ourselves, and we're doomed.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Passion is a fashion


It's been a couple months since Green Day released their follow up to the punk opera, American Idiot. It's an album similarly styled about the downfall of America or whatever. Let's get to brass tacks, any band preaching revolution and playing yesterdays tunes isn't getting anything done. Green Day are notoriously styled after the Ramones and first wave English Punk bands i.e. 1977 style punk. There is nothing wrong with those bands, I like those bands, but those bands almost all notoriously walked away from that style when it stopped being edgy. For better or worse, most got heavier or slower or creepier or more metal or went in a completely different direction. The point is, they progressed and grew (even if no one but them liked their new direction), the exception is the Ramones. The Ramones never had to change, they owned the speed and they were never overtly pissed off. They were angry dudes from queens, who set out to make bubblegum rock and roll and failed. Their failure just so happened to coincide with the disaffected youth of the time. The Ramones were the template from which all great bands from there on out were based. So here's the question, if you want to make a difference in the world, make different. As Soon as Black Flag wrote My War they changed punk rock. This is an almost unlistenable record, if you've never been knee deep in the depths of anger and depression, you wont get it. It didn't make the top 100, but it made an impact. The moment Refused wrote The Shape of Punk to Come they destroyed the acetate. This is revolutionary music to make you ponder WHY your revolting. Making sense of the mess the world was in, the ramifications of this album are still being heard 10 years on. The Locust are another band, actually most 31G bands, that break the rules every time. The 90's had a ton of bands that refused to follow preconceived notions of what punk rock could be. The Jesus Lizard, Sonic Youth, Helmet even, yes, Nirvana. They strayed enough from the formula to make it interesting. So, Green Day why the hell are you pandering and sticking to the set rules? To sell records? No one would fault you for that, if you were trying it by doing something different, by doing nothing different your further limiting the scope through which people see punk rock. It's more then 4 on the floor and 3 chords with spiky hair and sneers. I get the point that could be made that, the more assessable the music the farther the message reaches. Well, that's great join Bruce Springsteen (who actually DID step out of HIS box) in making pseudo-political records. If your a punk band, be a fucking punk band, do something different, buck the trends and what's expected. Both, Rancid AND Green Day made great records earlier in their careers where they tried experimenting and quickly retreated back to the fray. If Fugazi can maintain a career for like 20 years and stick to their guns on ticket prices, while touring constantly and releasing innovative albums; can't you even try?

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Legion


Hmmm...this kinda looks like the Prophecy but with Doug Jones (Pan's Labrynth and the Hellboy films)and Dennis Quaid. How come creepy demons who can shape shift and crawl on walls; who are directly from the bowels of hell can't take a shotgun blast to the face? Wouldn't that be demon training 101, take a bullet and keep going. It's never good when there are plot holes in the trailer, however, I may be jumping the gun. At times, during the trailer I can't wait to see this and then I'm like "What? What the hell?" There could be an explanation for all of this stupidity in the movie. I'm hoping it does because this movie looks good and bad all at once. Kinda like a bacon double cheeseburger with a fried egg on top at 4 in the morning; after a night of drinking cheap beer and cheaper whiskey. You think that burgers going to help, but really your stoking the flames of discontent that are forming in the pit of your belly. Pretty soon there will be rioting and then full mutiny; you will be under siege from inside. Like if you were birthing an angry, rabies infested kangaroo with sharp claws. Yuck....wait...THATS A MOVIE!

Update: I of course have no clue how to use semi-colons but; I like to pretend I do!

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

RUN AWAY!



Next month, IFC is running a six-part documentary on Monty Python. Terry Gilliam is my favorite Python, more for his post Python career as a director. However, picking a favorite Python is like trying to decide which double-mint twin would be better to hook up with. I seriously hope that this will help push Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassius into getting a U.S. release date.


I mean, this is Heath Ledger's final role...blah, blah, blah. If that helps procure it a release date, right on!
The Python's Almost The Truth: The Lawyer's
Cut
premieres next month on IFC.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Everything old is new again



Here is a video of legendary noise rock band the Cows. Brought to you by: spots, liquor and Amphetamine Reptile records. The nineties are BACK! You can see this everywhere, but nowhere more prevalent then in music. The Jesus Lizard are on tour (got my tix) Blink 182, Limp Bizqwick and even Jane's Addiction have hit the road. Hell, I even saw a guy with a hyper color Urkel shirt on the other day. OK, generally this is good for music (minus the middle part of that list), bad for fashion. A couple days ago, N.P.R had a story about back to school shopping and the economy. Apparently, plaid is very in these days and the commentator didn't miss a beat when suggesting going into the garage and pouring through boxes of Nirvana posters to find those flannel shirts. However, with global warming in full flux, we may want to reconsider flannel in general. Maybe a cotton plaid shirt or maybe even paint. Whatever, the 90's are back, buy the new Melvins album and the new Mudhoney record. These guys deserve your attention...as well as the back catalog of Am Rep!
Buy, Consume get those Sub Pop loser shirts out of your closet! The time has come!

Under Destruction

This from the Guardian.uk regarding health care "riots" at town hall meetings...
The tactics of Republicans, conservative protest groups and healthcare lobbyist-linked organisations have been decried by many commentators. Though Republican leaders and other conservatives have claimed the protests are a genuine outburst of anti-healthcare reform feeling, there have been instances of activists being caught red-handed.
One woman who protested at a public meeting held by Wisconsin congressman Steve Kagen, a Democrat, had said she was "just a mom" but turned out to be a former senior Republican party official. "They've become political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems," said Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein.

wow...this sounds suspiciously like what happened in Florida in the 2000 Presidential campaign. During the "swinging chad" debacle, republicans planted protesters overflowing with a fervor to see their man selected. We as a country should be ashamed of ourselves. We should be ashamed that we allow people to act like this in public, we should be ashamed of Sarah Palin, we should be ashamed that people die for lack of health care and 48% of the population doesn't care...what? Yeah, that's right 62% of the American people ARE interested in "Public Option" health care.
But perhaps the most surprising thing about the whole debate is that the appetite for health reform remains extremely popular with most Americans, even as Obama's poll numbers sink and the fight with Republicans and the healthcare industry grows uglier and uglier. One recent poll showed that 62% of Americans favoured a public option and 61% supported higher taxes on the wealthy in order to pay for it.

This from the U.K. How come they can see through the bullshit and we can't? Maybe because this is a ridiculous debate to most other industrial countries. See, they have universal health care. UUGGHHH, I hate the fact that this is even the topic of conversation. It's such a stupid thing to argue over, like taxing people for air in a room, inside a house you own. Maybe Sarah Palin should get someone to explain the fundamentals to her before she makes stupid Facebook comments about the subject. Which she retracted today F.Y.I.
Sarah Palin is calling for civilised discussion about Barack Obama's proposal for healthcare reform after saying the president's plan "downright evil".

On Friday the former governor of Alaska stoked the flames of the healthcare debate by posting a note on her Facebook page. She wrote: "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down's syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of healthcare."

However today she urged opponents of Obama's healthcare reform plan to "stick to a discussion of the issues" at town hall meetings held by elected officials and to "not get sidetracked by tactics that can be accused of leading to intimidation or harassment".

"Such tactics diminish our nation's civil discourse which we need now more than ever because the fine print in this outrageous healthcare proposal must be understood clearly and not get lost in conscientious voters' passion to want to make elected officials hear what we are saying. Let's not give the proponents of nationalised healthcare any reason to criticise us," she wrote.

God, I dislike her with a passion that burns with the fire of 1000 suns.

Friday, August 7, 2009

Campaign for Emo Destruction

Ok, no more politics for today. Have some Spazz!


Ahhhh...1995. I remember you well. Saw Spazz with Cavity and Ass-suck at Cheers in Miami. One of the finest pit steamrollers care of Ryan Felon, those were the days. Anybody now what happened to a band from Miami called Disney Violence? They were pretty good.

Those Fascist Liberals!

Wait...what? You can't call someone a communist AND call them a fascist or equate them with Hitler in the same sentence. These are opposing view points and when people do this, like at the town hall meetings, they show their ignorance. Here's the deal folks, historically Republicans want small government and family values focusing on the Christian religion while basing most decision making on conservative actions and economic liberty.

Fascism, pronounced /ˈfæʃɪzəm/, comprises a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology and a corporatist economic ideology.
Fascists believe that nations and/or races are in perpetual conflict whereby only the strong can survive by being healthy, vital, and by asserting themselves in conflict against the weak. Fascists advocate the creation of a single-party state. Fascist governments forbid and suppress criticism and opposition to the government and the fascist movement. Fascism opposes class conflict, blames capitalist liberal democracies for its creation and communists for exploiting the concept. Fascism is much defined by what it opposes, what scholars call the fascist negations - its opposition to individualism, rationalism, liberalism, conservatism and communism. In the economic sphere, many fascist leaders have claimed to support a "Third Way" in economic policy, which they believed superior to both the rampant individualism of unrestrained capitalism and the severe control of state communism. This was to be achieved by establishing significant government control over business and labour (Mussolini called his nation's system "the corporate state").

Democrats want big government to take charge of the needs of the people, especially those who can't help themselves.
Communism (from Latin: communis = "common") is an egalitarian, classless, stateless society based on common ownership and control of the means of production and property in general, and a political ideology and social movement that seeks to establish such a society. The term "Communism", usually spelled with the capital letter C, is also often used to refer to a Communist state, a form of government in which the state operates under a one-party system and declares allegiance to Marxism-Leninism or a derivative thereof, even if the party does not actually claim that the society has already reached communism.
How, can ANYBODY, be both? Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh know the difference and are feeding on people's fears like blood sucking leeches. It doesn't matter that the people who generally oppose universal health care are the ones who probably need it most. It doesn't matter to them that health care is a RIGHT that we don't get. Everybody pays taxes, that's because your an American, you were born here. You have NO choice, these are the rules. So, you pay for the police, firemen, teachers, schools, roads, parks, the D.M.V, and everything else the place you live in needs. YOU pay for that, with your taxes. You also pay for the health care of your government officials, the same people who are either A. trying to help you get the same treatment or B.denying you the same treatment. Right now, you don't have the right to walk into any hospital and get the care you need. If you don't have insurance or even the right kind of insurance, they can either make you wait until you bleed out or throw your ass back out onto the street. Basically, if your born here or come here you HAVE to pay taxes to fund things you may never use, but your not owed the basic rights of any human to prevent disease or treat illness. Wake up, Rush and Beck HAVE health care. They don't need it...you probably do. If people would stop stirring the shit pot and try to understand the issue at hand, we might be able to come to an agreement everyone will at least tolerate.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles and and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . .


This is from the Declaration of Independence. Written by Thomas Jefferson. If Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh or anyone else can refute that these days universal health care doesn't fall under the category of unalienable rights per: LIFE, Be my guest.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009


To further prove Bill Clinton's awesomeness, he single handedly went to North Korea and freed American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling. They were working for Current TV when they were arrested for illegally entering the country and were sentenced to 12 years in a hard labor camp. Bill Clinton, I imagine, showed up to Kim Jong Il's told the despot what was what, brought in the dancing girls and said something to the effect of, "Sack it up old lady, I'll give you the strippers and a case of Coors light for the journalists." After which a massive party ensued and everybody got laid! Look, I know even if you like a politician, they're still politicians and will invariably piss you off at some point. That's politics, no one is ever going to make everyone happy all the time. However, some are better then others at keeping the greater good for the public at large in mind. Something like 60% of the undecided voters wanted to have a beer with Bush in 2004, and he allegedly doesn't drink. That's too bad, if he was loaded for 8 years it would have explained alot of his ambivalence towards good decision making. Bill Clinton on the other hand isn't taking shit from anyone, including his own heart, and especially not from Kim Jong Il. Seriously, this dude rules, even more now then when he was president.
BOOYAH!

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

WTF?



This is a P.S.A of sorts, care of Nas and apparently Nick Cannon. Hip hop used to be really cool, when it was about making music. All the Gangsters in the world should take note, telling people how hard you are doesn't actually make you hard. If you have a gun and the other fella doesn't, that doesn't make you tougher then them, it means that their skin isn't bullet proof. If you talk about money enough, you can't will it into existence, that's alchemy and if you could do that, you wouldn't need to rap about stupid shit. Plus, if your from the ghetto and you make it out, why keep talking about it...your out, good for you. If you love talking about it so much, why'd you leave? If you wanna rob people, don't tell me about it, that's admissible in court, your gonna put yourself in jail. That's kinda stupid, don't you think? I'm no tea totaling censor shipper, but I have heard some stuff that had no artistic content and totally sucked. Nas, here's to you man, nice work. Although, this video will catch on for all the wrong reasons, I assure you.

Serious Delerium

Can you EVER get enough Bill Murray? He's in Zombieland, out later this year with Woody Harrelson, playing a zombie?! He's also officially signed on to do Ghostbusters 3 which doesn't come out until 2012. This news is like the day after Christmas to a toddler. You know there will be more presents on another Christmas day, but it couldn't seem farther away. Incidentally, back in the day Chevy Chase and Bill Murray had an "incident" when Chevy Chase returned to Saturday Night Live to host. Bill Murray, had been Chevy's replacement after Chase left the cast, and took a lot of heat for not being like him. Pratfalls, the "I'm Chevy Chase and your not." and what not. Who could handle all that from critics and cast members, he's a comedian not a saint. So, Bill and Chevy came to blows moments before the show and Bill called Chevy a "Medium Talent". They reconciled and did Caddyshack a few years later, thank the little baby jesus for that. However, Chevy is on some show about Community College with the guy from the Soup and Bill Murray hasn't made a bad film in like 15 years.
I guess Bill really knew what he was talking about.
BONG, BONG, Bill Murray!
Here you go, watch this...

Monday, August 3, 2009

New Rules



Bill Maher is a loud, brash, opinionated celebrity who leans to the left and screams to the right. Generally, I think he's pretty dead on, sometimes he's living in left field somewhere near wacky-ville. I get what he was getting at with his rant on the 9/11 terrorists, that doesn't mean it was A. appropriate or B. that anyone else got the point. Newspapers are written at a 5th grade level because most people aren't very smart here in the good ol' U.S.A. It's sad, but true, look it up. So, smart people always need to take it down a notch if they want to be understood. i.e. John McCain picked Sarah Palin as a running mate, which ruined his political clout and miraculously gave her a career. The point I guess I'm getting at is this, Bill Maher is the Bill O'Reilly of the left, which would explain why they're friends, seriously, not making that up. Thank god we have some sort of foil otherwise all that screaming O'Reilly does and hate mongering by the likes of Ann Coulter would be white noise people would chug down like Budweiser. The birthers thing is stupid, and Obama shouldn't have to deal with this. Does anybody really think that this Manchurian Candidate scenario is plausible? That some fact checker in Washington was on a coffee break when Obama declared his run for the presidency? When the most mud was being slung, during the campaign, isn't that when the leeches would have picked up on this, if it had any shred of relevance? Jeez, they've already alluded to him being the Anti-Christ in some circles, what the hell is that all about? The guys got enough going on to not have to deal with this bullshit. P.s. all the stuff he's trying to fix with the world, Iraq, Afghanistan, Global warming, the Economy etc. are issues that were either ignored for 8 years or exacerbated.
Here ya go...

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Zombie jujitsu


Any fans of Wild Zero, Riki oh: the Story of Riki or the Evil Dead movies, will L-O-V-E this one!
Ok, we have 2 guys who work in a fire extinguisher factory in Tokyo, but spend all their time practicing jujitsu instead of working. One day they "accidentally" kill their meddling boss and decide to dispose of the body in "Black Mount Fuji" a dump that has spiraled out of control with toxins and dead bodies. Hmmm, doesn't that sound like a prime place for gestating zombie-like activity? Ding, Ding! The rest of this movie is pretty fun and out there, but it's basically like that from the start, so if you can't suspend your disbelief, yer kind of a jerk. The movie veers like a drunk on a skateboard and the ending is actually a pretty fun twist. Seriously, this movie is like crystal meth made out of PEZ: colorful and out of control, with half attached heads. Get this one if you have a chance, you wont be disapointed.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Polished Antiques


Ok,this is something I wrote for Tom Waits Glitter & Doom tour, a year ago. Submitted it to a few places, no one picked it up and so here we are. It seemed too good to languish without being read, so here is my self indulgent attempt to take advantage of a somewhat captive audience...of 3 people.

In a perfect world: ice cream would never melt, patience would be available in pill form and algebra would be outlawed. This fantasyland would need a ringleader, someone who can make sense of this madness; I nominate Tom Waits. We should, however, feel fortunate this isn’t the case. Tom Waits is like a secret handshake between music-philes, drinkers and beatniks the world over. His mere presence in a record collection is a silent admission to heartache, disillusion and a bizarre joy de vivre that most find unsettling. Truth is pop radio is the twisted caricature of normalcy, Tom Waits is the face of a waning Americana. His is the bourbon soaked soundtrack of those who throw caution to the wind, hit the road in search of fortune and glory and make sure that highway is steep and hard to tread. An amalgamation of: Blues, Jazz and carnival barker that is unrivaled and for some subject to much pretext. The Glitter and Doom Tour, Waits new road excursion has been summed up by the man in one word: PEHDTSCHJMBA. This saucy phrase is apparently an acronym for the cities that Glitter and Doom are rampaging through. Of course for Mr. Waits it’s an excuse to play with a word and shoot you a story that sounds like it could almost be true. Save for the glaring discrepancies that god, gravity and any other natural law would have to bend to be believed. Why not give in to a little magic about a singing head with no body (Tabletop-Joe) or go for a swim with a love smitten fish and bird (fish and bird), maybe even believe that shore leave in Singapore is some noir-ish nightmare with German dwarfs shooting dice and smoke masking danger at the edge of every street. (Singapore) Everybody needs to believe in something, Tom Waits just believes he can change the world spinning one yarn at a time, is that so wrong? Some suspect this tour to be for his 3-cd set Orphans, Brawlers and Bawlers, which was released a while back, others think it to be an excuse to make a few bucks and a beer run in a stolen Chevrolet while screaming through the bible belt on his way to Atlantic City, I prefer to think the man has lost his mind and found enlightenment; he may just be cruel enough to share it with us. A few months back the Earl hosted a tribute to the man’s music as well as like-minded luminaries Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen. It was an evening of interpretation that left all in attendance hungry for the real thing. In Wait’s case we won’t want for long, his cavalcade of wonder rolls into the Fox Theater July 5th with the Glitter and Doom Tour.