Comments on: Tom Waits on the Simpsons, January 6th

By: RoyL

RoyL — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:14:00 +0000

I’m with ya Ryan, Waits voice is very abrasive and crass.

By: Stephen Mojoboy

Stephen Mojoboy — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:41:00 +0000

The Preppers are bunch of dumb dodo dorks who don’t deserve to survive ! No civilization need such grotesque people ! You don’t know who is worst , those quantum criminals who got tickets to Ozarks or these fat field freaks known as The Preppers .So the fact that a great bohemian boy like Tom will play the leader of these dorks sounds very wrong to me.

By: Drac Noise Person

Drac Noise Person — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 09:09:00 +0000

Good, I’ll have your share. #brilliantArtists

By: birdmanicx

birdmanicx — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:35:00 +0000

The people who leave comments here are so effing NASTY to each other, like it’s the Shit’s Club or something.

By: Rob Grondahl

Rob Grondahl — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:47:00 +0000

Actually you would.

By: RJ

RJ — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:26:00 +0000

You don’t have to step in shit to know you don’t want to step in shit.

By: Nash Rambler

Nash Rambler — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:22:00 +0000

“good singer must also have a quality voice. . ” Holy cow, can’t believe those words dropped onto a page. There’s no “good” or “bad” singers, there’s just people who can sing, and people who cannot. If you can’t fly a plane, you’re not a pilot. If you can’t dance, you’re not a dancer. If you can’t sing, you’re not a singer. I don’t think I fall into the media hype because Britney Spears can sing but doesn’t do a thing for me.

So I like Tom Waits. I like Bob Dylan. I like Neil Young. I like Patti Smith. But don’t try and tell me they’re just singers who don’t sing well. They are great songwriters and artists who, quite frankly, sound terrible but overcome through the quality of their songwriting and passion. They are not good singers.

By: Todd Fagan

Todd Fagan — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:39:00 +0000

Why would ignorance of something be something to be proud of? If you had watched it and decided you didn’t like it, fine, I would understand…

But I suppose this way you have something to cling on to as the precious individual you are.

By: showme

showme — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:35:00 +0000

Man, you just ooze coolness. I wish I was as cool as you. I bet you don’t even own a TV set and tell everyone at parties that. Oh, wait, you’re probably too cool to go to parties too. Do you wear turtleneck sweaters?

By: Monty Jones

Monty Jones — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:25:00 +0000

I’m proud to say I have never watched one episode of the Simpsons. Since Tom isn’t playing himself, I don’t have to start now.

By: Ǥɍǡḩḁᶆ Ӻᴙᴇᴇᴍᴀᴎ

Ǥɍǡḩḁᶆ Ӻᴙᴇᴇᴍᴀᴎ — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:37:00 +0000

Or fighting a bear.

By: Dean Rohs

Dean Rohs — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:34:00 +0000

Your taste in music is obviously fueled by the media hype that a good singer must also have a quality voice. Sad. Too bad you can’t appreciate the amazing songwriter and storyteller that Tom Waits is. Try listening to the words instead of just hearing the voice.

By: Dean Rohs

Dean Rohs — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:31:00 +0000

Tom would never die like that. More likely of liver sclerosis in the arms of a cheap hooker in a seedy motel.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:44:00 +0000

Obviously not–the hat’s not there.

By: echolocate chocolate

echolocate chocolate — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:12:00 +0000

Woah, they’re still making The Simpsons?

By: mindysan33

mindysan33 — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:04:00 +0000

This is sort of like the role Waits played in that movie Wristcutters: A Love Story (not a survivalist group, but kind of in an afterlife kind of way) which is a great, weird little movie. Probably the only movie I’ve ever seen that included a Christian Death song in the soundtrack.

By: mindysan33

mindysan33 — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:01:00 +0000

Squee! Someone remember my birthday this year!

By: crummett

crummett — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:38:00 +0000

“Alarmist Shenanigans” would be a good band name.

By: Chentzilla

Chentzilla — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:11:00 +0000

Note how the author doesn’t call The Simpsons “one of his favorite shows of all time”.

By: chris jimson

chris jimson — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:31:00 +0000

I’ll see you after school by the bike racks, punk, ’cause them is fightin words.

By: Karma and Denise

Karma and Denise — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:05:00 +0000

No, he is not playing himself.

By: bluest_one

bluest_one — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:44:00 +0000

If that’s supposed to be Tom in the picture, I have only one thing to say…

Worst. Caricature. Ever.

By: GawainLavers

GawainLavers — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:32:00 +0000

I presume, from the picture, that he’s not playing himself?

Homer joins the “Springfield Preppers,” an off-the-grid survivalist group whose leader (guest voice Waits) has set up a top-secret retreat outside of town to prepare for the end of the world. But Marge grows skeptical of the group’s alarmist shenanigans.

Whoa. Timely.

By: GawainLavers

GawainLavers — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:31:00 +0000

I think Tom Waits has a great voice, but the whole “dirge for the funeral of an unemployed Parisian clown played by drunks with alzheimers” schtick of all of his songs is a shame.

By: Ryan Hannay

Ryan Hannay — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:18:00 +0000

Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart are two artists I can live without. #shittyvoices

By: Jason Weisberger

Jason Weisberger — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:16:00 +0000

By: Nash Rambler

Nash Rambler — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:13:00 +0000

“The Simpson’s” longevity surprises me as much as Waits’. I figured he would’ve died in a small plane crash by now. . .