This reminds me of the time Jessica Alba did Pet Sounds.

In my lap!

@CodePink: That Jessica Alba sure has some talent.

@TheHonJudgeSmails2: She is just terribly good looking. Her and that Kardashian person. I agree with the young men in this country about those two.

@TheHonJudgeSmails2: Yay!

Turns out she's equally good at having big tits in the fields of acting, directing, and singing.

@collegecallgirl: HAHA. You make me laugh!

@CodePink: She's just so... womanly.

@lolcait: At your service.

Covering Tom Waits is as easy as smoking three packs of Luckies, downing a quart of Rebel Yell and screaming at the neighbors' dog till three in the morning: bingo, presto, you're ready to record.

@collegecallgirl: Exactly. Isn't being pretty enough?

so if she really does play courtney love in heavier than heaven, she'll get an oscar ala charlize?

This release is sure to restore all the hipster credibility she lost by fucking Ryan "Van Wilder" Reynolds.

@Bigggnasty: Pretty sure Chris Crocker's got that on lock.

@unamusedtodeath: LIAR! LIAR!

I can't wait till she releases her harpsichord album of all Bach and Haydn covers!

@Colonel Mustard: It IS a full-time job.

shit god damn.

@collegecallgirl: perfection

I guess she can't really cover Martha. Unless she changes the lyrics and title to Josh. Or Benicio. Neither of those work real well though.

Is that supposed to be an age-progressed picture of ScarJo? Because she's just 20 pounds away from looking like a cast member of designing women.

The 80's-like clothes/hair and heavy makeup will do that, I guess.

Oh great. More dudes walking around in fedoras. Whereas once they could only be found showing up alone to Tom Waits shows, now they'll be everywhere, hoping for a chance at "Mizrahing" ScarJo's ample girl-globes.

Obvs., it has to include "Big in Japan." I'd give her props, though, if she did "The Piano Has Been Drinking" or "Filipino Box Spring Hog."

@Mediahohoho: that just sounds like saturday night at my place.

the day this drops will be the dumbest day of tom's life. goddamn i wish he'd play new york again.

@VoxPopuli: Yeah, I thought she was doing 10 covers of Berlin songs by the looks of that photo.

If she's doing a Tom Waits covers album, why is she dressed like "Groupie No. 2" in Five Hearts, Nine Arms: The Def Leppard Story?

classic 1960s Motown b-side Marvin Gaye 'wherever I lay my hat [thats my home]"

paul young covered it as a ballad in early 80s & got a UK #1 for our trouble

@Mediahohoho: you gotta be wasted and wounded ...

The Olsen twins' record of Heart covers is due in June.

@unamusedtodeath: The woman has done three Woody Allen movies and is covering Tom Waits. This ain't exactly your basic bimbo career path.

@TheHonJudgeSmails2: doll farts

@Clare: Y Kant Tori Read

@Clare: Incredible.

@Michael Jahn:
It is if you went to New School.

@TheHonJudgeSmails2: You know what's incredible? How much cock you suck!

@Bigggnasty: You said it. All she needs is that sword and she's got the "Y Kant Tori Read" album cover right there. Even Tori Amos has disowned that look.

As far as ingenues go, one could do a lot worse than Scarlett. Ghost World alone redeems her.
That being said, however, this is possibly the least necessary release since that Gwyneth Paltrow/Huey Lewis duet.

She reminds me of Kim Wilde.

Bless.

This would only be interesting to me if she were playing Zack in a remake of Down by Law, and Jarmusch rewrote the script to include a jailhouse sex scene between ScarJo and John Lurie. Now that I'd pay to for.

highly recommended: Waits fans' e-mail list: "Raindogs"....

@Michael Jahn: ...it ain't what the moon did.

@Michael Jahn
Woody Allen lost all of his hipster credibility after Crimes and Misdemeanors despite what they tell you about Match Point. I conceed her turn in Ghost World still rules but remain extraordinarily skeptical about all this Tom Waits business. I hear she plans to cover Elliot Smith songs for the follow up.

@collegecallgirl: Very Funny! But, don't you also profit from that particular field of endeavour?

@Clare: Oh, very well played indeed.

@the schef: Or Tuesday morning at mine. Oh shit.

how very millaj/gentlemanwhofell of scarlettj - who, ps and by the way, i'd totally go breeder for, when she asks

As long as there are videos to accompany the songs, I'll buy it.

Lily Taylor, Lily Tomlin, I mean, I guess it's all the same, right? wtf.

@olivia2.0: It was Lily Tomlin. In Short Cuts.

@olivia2.0: They're both in it. But his character his married to Lily Tomlin.

Arghhh.....how wonderfully and predictably pretentious! Ah, well....

@lolcait: And molested Lily Taylor's character.

@Mediahohoho: I'm obsessed with the line "goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flamekeepers." I used to feel that "night watchmen flamekeepers" referred to novelists. Now I know it refers to Gawker commenters.

@Clare: *slow clap*

Whyyyyyy do these actresses think that because they are talented at one art, that immediately makes them talented at another? The world needs this like it needs another Lohan record.

@Pope John Peeps II: Duh. Takes one to know one.

Personally, I'm hoping for a version of "Pasties and a G-String". Just, you know, because I really like that song. I'm also hoping that she'll re-stage the cover of Small Change. Because it's, you know, a really cool cover and stuff.

But really, boobs aside, she talks like a lobotomy patient.

@collegecallgirl: Don't you mean takes two to know two?

@lionel-mandrake: I don't think it's possible to put those boobs aside. Not for a moment.