28 March 2014

There's always free cheddar in a mousetrap

Tom Waits' song God's Away On Business (co-written with his wife Kathleen Brennan), from his 2002 album Blood Money, also features on the closing credits of director Alex Gibney's 2005 documentary, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. The track is a rude burst of nightmarish energy that captures the film viewer's bubbling outrage at the shameless and amoral criminality of Enron's deceivers-in-chief. And the video features emus and stilts, so you can't go wrong, really.



See also:
Music: Tom Waits - Waltzing Matilda (live, Old Grey Whistle Test, 1977)
Music: Grinderman - Heathen Child (live, Later With Jools Holland, 2010)
MusicCookie Monster - God's Away On Business (mashup)

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