Wednesday, February 16, 2011

I Don't Wanna Grow Up



What a great video.

That's the legendary Ramones and their cover of Tom Waits' I Don't Want to Grow Up. The video's animated segments were conceived by comics artist Daniel Clowes, whose beautifully bizarre style works great with the song's content. Subtext Junkies take note, Clowes included a Tom Waits cameo - a black and white portrait of him appears on the wall at 0:34 seconds in.

Clowes is about as famous as comics artists get (not very), so you probably know him best as the creator of Ghost World, the graphic novel that became a 2001 film starring Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson, who incidentally went on to record an album of Tom Waits covers in 2008.

Did I just blow your mind?

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