I`ll drink you under the table 2

Julia Olivarez

Look at her. Doesn't she look cool?
I have bangs too.
I have glasses that resembles,
I got them in Berlin.

It is not that I haven't heard about MySpace ( I'm about to use just as
much italics as John Irving now
and he uses them a lot in fact.)


I've only just discovered the joys of YouTube properly. I hope it has
borought joy to a few of you too. At least to me.

I have always been late with a lot, early with quite a few things. The
upside, if I can be that pretentious is that I don't seem to come to a halt all together.

Anyways.

What I really wanted to say

was that I dicovered My Space really just now, by accident.

I felt like checking out Julia Olivarez through The Eyeball Kid page.

He has a fansite about Tom Waits,
and he wrote that Julia Olivarez does a cover of
I wish I was in New Orleans.

It's one of my all time favourite Tom Wait's song

- I`ll drink you under the table...

I've always felt an inner joy (mind you) thinking of that song in a certain given moment. The frase is so beautiful, the rythm and that particular piece of the text is so wonderfully arrogant. Hear it inside your head with that sort of cocky black-mama-babe-voice:

- I`ll drink you under the table...

That`s me

Unfortunately there are few who knows to appreciate such qualities in a
woman these days so I ususally keep it in my head.

Anyways.

I discovered Julia through Eye Ball Kid,
I googled her and landed right on her very own MySpace.

Listen to one of her songs there, why not seventeen.

I listened to her songs and checked out her friends and there was Tom Waits.

And yeah, I knew that from before. That people can have their fan-objects as friends on My Space but I never thought that they cold be some of mine.

So hey Tom,
hey
Laurie,
my heart beats anyway.

And hey Julia!
Anyone who has Tom Waits and Kurt Weill as their hereos is a friend of mine.


I wonder if he drops by himself, when he's bored, sad or sick.
Or if it's just his publicist that log on as him. What do you think?

And unfortunately, the sound on the happy review Eye Ball Kid had put out didn't work, a version of Wish I was in New Orleans with Tom himself on YouTube didn't work either, it was such a straight version, so here you get an other song by Tom to take comfort in.

The megaphone and the movements are more than enough I think.

Bakgrunnen for at denne posten er oversatt til engelsk finner du her og det var Othilie som jeg ikke kjenner som hjalp meg å oversette. Takk til henne! Thanks to Othilie for the translation.