{"id":14503,"date":"2021-10-02T20:30:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T00:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14503"},"modified":"2021-10-02T18:47:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T22:47:36","slug":"tom-waits-big-time-cracked-jukebox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14503","title":{"rendered":"Tom Waits: Big Time & Cracked Jukebox"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was in Tom Waits Mode for six weeks, re-listening to all his albums in chronological order – a real revelation. I posted writeups of each album on the slack at work, in a thread that nobody read, and figured I’d collect them all here – but they’re not really fun to re-read all together, just me searching for synonyms to express how cool everything sounds. So, not turning the movie blog into a music blog after all, instead here are the mid-career and late-career docs I watched.<\/p>\n

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\nBig Time<\/em> (1988, Chris Blum)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A live album and concert movie, the set including one sincere song from Heartattack & Vine<\/em>, one reinvented song from Blue Valentine<\/em>, two new originals, and the bulk of the Swordfish\/Rain\/Frank’s<\/em> trilogy. Tom likes to completely rework the songs in concert, resulting in some great versions – the looser version of “Underground” especially destroys the album track. Most importantly though, the movie isn’t just a concert recording, it’s got skits and visuals and stagings that reveal this whole “Tom Waits” musical career as a performance-art piece.<\/p>\n

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\nTales from a Cracked Jukebox<\/em> (2017, James Maycock)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interviews with Lucinda Williams, Bones Howe, a Bad Seed, Terry Gilliam… the movie claims to be searching for the Real Tom Waits, which I’m not especially into, but fortunately it doesn’t get very far in its quest. I did learn that his dad’s name was Frank, which is somewhat illuminating re: the above-mentioned trilogy. Heavy use of Big Time<\/em> in the visuals, of course… so here are some more screenshots from Big Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I was in Tom Waits Mode for six weeks, re-listening to all his albums in chronological order – a real revelation. I posted writeups of each album on the slack at work, in a thread that nobody read, and figured I’d collect them all here – but they’re not really fun to re-read all together, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1599,2073,915],"class_list":["post-14503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-concert","tag-rock-doc","tag-tom-waits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14533,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14503\/revisions\/14533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}