"Hell Broke Luce"
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 at 2:00PM Tom Waits still amazing after all these year.
We don't see Tom Waits in the movies as much as we did in the 90s but I did like his turn as the devil in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. His next onscreen appearance is in Seven Psychopaths from the writer/director of In Bruges and co-stars Colin Farrel, Woody Harrelson, and Christopher Walken. (Pssst. I'm hearing good things about it, particularly Walken)
This gorgeous video is by the enduring illustrator/director/photographer Matt Mahurin. He's directed two full length features from what I can see (Feel in 2006 and Mugshot from 1996) neither of which I've ever heard of or received a release so perhaps his talents don't transfer to full length features? Still, I sometimes wish that other visual "visionaries" (like, oh say Tarsem Singh or Julie Taymor) were this focused. It's one amazing image after another in this video but the images are piggybacking and/or in communication with one another as they should be. It's all one cohesive ball of amazement instead of a series of "look what I can do!". If you're a young visionary watching, take notes!
Seven Psychopaths, Tom Waits, music videos, short films
Reader Comments (4)
Excellent album. Chicago is dangerous.
Such a fascinating individual.
I'm glad you posted this. I didn't know you were a Waits enthusiast! This is one of the more imaginative things I've seen him and his collaborators do in a while. Like you said, tightly focused and quite an eyeful!
Tim -- yeah, i love love love Waits. "Hoist that Rag" is my favorite song by him in the past several years (and one of my favorite songs period of the past several years) so this one is not quite THAT good. but still..
love his old stuff too.
"Hoist That Rag" is great, definitely. For me, it's "Who Are You?" FTW. I think it's one of the prime examples of how to mix tender sounds and sentiments with gruff, realistic lyrics. He manages to create this vivid, lonely, and lovely traveling circus setting without even bothering to describe it, which has got to be the most difficult thing to do as a writer.
As far as albums go, I can't pick; three-way tie between Rain Dogs, Frank's Wild Years, and Bone Machine.