Cocktail hour

MxMo is a bunch of cocktail writers, bartenders and the likes blogging about making up or bringing out a drink about a particular theme. On a Monday. Hence the name Mixology Monday or MxMo. It's hosted on different blogs, which all link to each other.

In May, Andrew Bohrer hosted a MxMo with Tom Waits as the subject.
His own Down there by the train cocktail is made of porter, bourbon and Tuaca. Check out the recipes and links to other note-wearthy drinks such as A.J. Rathburn's The Hounds They Start to Roar (bourbon, St. Elizabeth’s Allspice Dram, brandy and Peychaud’s Bitters over at Cask Strength.

B1G T1ME to perform Frank's Wild Years

Chicago-based B1G T1ME will perform Tom Waits' Frank's Wild Years in its entirety at
Martyrs, Chicago, IL on June 9th.

UPDATE (May 31st): Here's the Facebook page for the event and the ensemble's Youtube page.

Waits edits Mojo magazine

Tom Waits is the guest editor for the July issue of Mojo, which celebrates it's 200th birthday.

The special anniversary issue comes with a free cd with 15 tracks compiled and sequenced Tom Waits. It stars Bob Dylan, Howlin’ Wolf, Ray Charles, Harry Belafonte, Cliff Edwards, Big Mama Thornton, Prisonaires, Hank Williams and many more.

The magazine itself includes an interview with Harry Belafonte, an encounter between Hank Williams and Tom Waits and Waits' own 'ultimate picks': 'a huge, carefully compiled selection of the man’s essential songs, films and books. Featuring James Brown, Alex Chilton, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, James Dean, David Lynch and many more.'

This issue should go on general sale in the UK next week.

(Thanks to Dan, Samuli, David, Liam and Fergal and everyone else (you know who you are Jarlath), who mailed me about this)

Oil stain photographs auction

From the Anti blog:

Tom Waits and Kathleen Waits have donated two of Tom’s oil stain photographs to their school’s online auction fundraiser. These are extremely rare, limited, Tom Waits photographs, 6 3/4 inches by 4 1/2 inches, matted and autographed by Tom Wait. They are collectible and extremely rare works. The estimated value is $1,500.00 – the starting bid is $350. To check out the auction go here.

Waits III

Dutch actor Gijs Scholten van Aschat will be playing the leading role in an Orkater/Amsterdamse Stadsschouwburg production of William Shakespeare's Richard III. Director Matthijs Rümke and Orkater profoundly reworked the play and used Waits/Brennan music - apparently with Mr. Waits' permission. According to TomWaits.com, songs performed in the play included Misery Is The River Of The World, God’s Away On Business, I Don’t Wanna Grow Up,  I’ll Shoot The Moon, Underground and The Part You Throw Away.

The play will premiere on September 25th 2010 in the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and is scheduled from September 22nd through Ocotber 12th (except Sept. 27th and Oct. 4 and 10). Tickets via www.ssba.nl.

A special site - www.richard3.nl/ - announces a whole range of activities to celebrate this performance: debates, meet&greets with people involved, music, parties,...

Some more background info on the play by Laura Karreman (pdf, Dutch)

Thanks to Raindog Harry for pointing this one out.

Another Corbijn book update

Went it comes to an actual date when we will finally see the Anton Corbijn picture book, your guess is as good as mine. I've mentioned it a couple of times but the dates keep changing.

Publishe Schimer/Mosel is now showing a date of Monday 18th October 2010.

Wait and see...