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| From | Road Angel <samsmith@colorado.edu> |
| Subject | Re: Tom Waits creepout.? Amber alert??? |
| Date | Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:22:15 -0600 |
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Good reading, Gary. At least, it certainly makes sense. One of the most
powerful things art can do, and historically HAS done, is shove in our
face things that we'd like not to look at, but need to see. If you've
ever seen the video package that NIN released with BROKEN, you have an
idea of what the most graphic example of this might look like.
This isn't the sort of thing we normally associate with pop, granted,
although I've always really admired the creepiness in Adam Schmitt's
"River Black," which is just chilling once you figure out what's going
on....
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...it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the
lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in
strange places with a dog nosing before you and a dog nosing
behind, or drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice
kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch,
and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing
from your heart.
- John Millington Synge
Paul Myers wrote:
>>> And speaking of creepout songs:
>>>
>>> "She was 15 years old
>>> And never seen the ocean
>>> She climbed into a van
>>> With a vagabond
>>> And the last thing she said
>>> Was "I love you mom"
>>> And a little rain
>>> Never hurt no one"
>>>
>>> Tom Waits - A Little Rain. Now why did THAT have to be written?
>>>
>>> g
>>
>
> Hi Gary
>
> I have a theory about why that song "had" to be written. First, Tom
> Waits is a literary songwriter, chronicling (sometimes quite
> grapichally) the sad and evil fringes of the modern human condition,
> often in a dramatic and unflinching way.
> And perhaps because he lives up near Petaluma, CA this song was
> inspired by the Polly Klaas murder case that shook Northern California
> and touched the lives of all it's residents including native Winona
> Ryder who knew the family quite well and had helped search for Polly
> before they ulitmately found her body. That sound reasonable?
>
> PM
> np Tom Waits "What's He Building In There?"
>
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