<![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @lionel-mandrake: Or her actual appeal? She's a blonde that isn't a complete idiot and isn't another bobble-head attached to a stick.

She looks like a real woman and she isn't terribly upsetting, so that makes her threatening which therefore makes her prime for bashing. Hence, she's appealing because folks like to talk shit about her.

The same is done to Natalie Portman.

andheartss

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> I miss Johansson's old boobs.

crumb

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @semiserious: Keira Knightley Sings Youssou N'Dour

Twerpsichore

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> I don't mean to sound like a total fag, but I can't wait to hear this.

Gregoire

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @lionel-mandrake: Her boobs are OK, but not that great and there's 1,000 actresses with = or > than sweater meats.

@dandles: Further evidence that beauty (or hotness) is in the eye of the beholder.

McCheeburger

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> is that a real forearm tat?

HyphyForLifey

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @hesperid: Herbie with a boob job.

Ummwhat

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> I've said it before and I'll say it again: She totally looks exactly like the elf that wants to be a dentist. You know, in that stop-animation Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Christmas show that airs every year?

And I'll hate anyone who dares to cover Tom Waits... especially a dumb, young, perky-yet-matronly-looking blond actress "it" girl.

hesperid

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @McCheeburger: Her appeal?

Uhhh...boobs. It's not a mystery.

lionel-mandrake

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @rantmagazine:boo hoo:
Also it's never a good thing when a reviewer says you 'sound like x,y or z'; instead of having your own voice. I guess Scarlett is good @ coping people.

rantersparadise

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> Joy Division? Uh Huh.

rantersparadise

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @Bell County: ack! If only Patti Smith would invite Patty Smyth over for a little meeting in the Thunderdome.

BadUncle

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @BadUncle: Well, they can't all be Patty Smyth's Downtown Train.

Bell County

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @McCheeburger:

Actually, she is pretty hot. That's the one thing you can say for her.

dandles

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @Sarcastro:

Thank you!

Maybe she actually sings well? I doubt it, but maybe.

dandles

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> The question about this album remains: why must it exist?

Why should anyone - from Tori Amos to Lucinda Williams - cover Tom Waits? I mean, did John Hammond - who plays on all of Waits' recordings - really need to cover the work on which he plays backup? Ultimately, it's about adding an interpretation to a body of art.

Now, whether Scarjo's interpretation is worth a listen is another question entirely. But she can't be worse than Meatloaf singing "Martha."

BadUncle

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @steven_scareplanes: That Bruce Willis record was called "Bruno's Back" or something... I remember, because it was my faves when I was 12.

winniemc

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> She is sooooo not hot.

*shrug* Another 21st century sex symbol whose appeal completely escapes me.

McCheeburger

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @Bell County: Hellboy is one of the all-time great movies.

Mike_Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> Maybe it will be as good as the Bruce Willis record "If It Don't Kill You, It Just Makes You Stronger"

steven_scareplanes

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @JesusKong: too bad she's "clean" and "sober" now. no point in trying to cover shane like that.

sayswho

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @ADismalScience: Yeah really. Kinda sucks that she has to defend her intelligence because she happens to be hot.

As a hetero brunette lover, I'd let ScarJo "cover my songs" any day.

andheartss

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> Wait this is a real album? I thought this was some sort of sick joke. Oh no. Oh no no no.

businesspearl

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @Bell County: Thank you! Jessica Alba has a hot bod but her face is just meh. Totally ordinary looking. Scarlett Johanson has huge boobs and a huge head. Big fucking deal, all women have tits. Damn boys, y'all are like a deer in headlights.

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @ADismalScience: Aw, thanks. Half the credit to you for setting up the shot.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @moff: Perhaps, a firsthand source is more reliable than my sources (unless it was a drooling 20 something guy). In the girl mag interviews I've read about her, the things she's saying are obnoxious and vapid, but she could still be friendly while saying them I suppose.

roodles

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @moff:

I don't know if "really made me laugh out loud" meets the criteria, but that made me legitimately crack up and therefore shall be emailed to the commie committee.

ADismalScience

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @ADismalScience: Actually, it would be more poetic if it didn't take us more than 30 minutes to prepare.

moff

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @ADismalScience: Let's do it soon, before he butt gets bigger than her smile.

Mike_Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> If anyone wants a two-second summary of what writers in general and Gawker commenters in particular are, it's Tom's phrase nightwatchmen flamekeepers.

Mike_Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> Two sex symbols I honestly just don't get: Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Alba. Tom Waits, I get... and he was great in Hellboy.

Bell County

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> The album is on my iPod right now, and while I hate to disrupt a good old-fashioned celebrity-mocking session as much as anyone (and I'm sure I won't), I will admit that she pulls it off, mostly by not letting her reach exceed her grasp too much. I've heard worse, from professional musicians.

@roodles: And I've heard from a firsthand source that she's quite friendly in interviews.

(Email me, Scarlett.)

moff

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @Mike_Jahn:

Look, we need to sit down and really plan Rachel Ray backlash day. We can't just go into that one all willy-nilly on a commenter's whim. That, truly, should be an event.

ADismalScience

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> you coulda found some hotter photos of tom! i particularly like this interview, lets see if this works (interview starts after song):


+ Watch video

"i'm a living breathing example of success without college" - something for potential harvard transfers to cling to.



debord at work

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @heartbreakturnip: Howdy Doody has escaped!

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @ADismalScience: because she's an annoying twat in interviews. That being said she's clearly one of the most stunning people to walk the planet and very occasionally turns in a good performance.

also, The Nanny Diaries.

roodles

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> Asia Argento Presents: Me Warbling Nick Cave.

2-disc special edition including no music, just pictures of her.

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @ineffable.me: Like, right?

Mediahohoho

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> Holy crap, Tom Waits's chin! Yearbook photo!

There's a bird in the chimmney
and a stone in my bed
And a big fucking chin right there on my head.

heartbreakturnip

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @ADismalScience: Yeah! Julia Roberts! The first mouth since Martha Raye to define an entire career.

Thence comes Rachael Ray.

Mike_Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @ineffable.me: When you look like she does, a brain is an optional accessory.

Mike_Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> I am not sure how a backlash can begin against such an attractive woman. It just seems like a waste of effort. Can we backlash against ugly or old things first? Like Julia Roberts or something.

ADismalScience

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @Mediahohoho: Oh come on, being an actress and auctioning yourself off for dates is hard and like, it really takes a toll on your brain and stuff.

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> They do point out the asinine spectacle of 24-year-old ScarJo crooning "I Don't Want To Grow Up." You're not, yet, so stop singing about it!

Isn't this the perfect time to sing about not wanting to grow up, before you are? I think Peter Pan would agree with me.

Sarcastro

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @JesusKong: If I can get my old accompanist out of rehab, I'm going to do The John Lydon Songbook.

Mike_Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: yes, the above was meant for you... not myself.

hypocriteoath

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @roodles: In Boogie Nights, wasn't there a shot of Marky Mark gazing thoughtfully across a sump?

Mike_Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @lionel-mandrake: she actually somehow looks too stupid in these photos to even imagine hearing the ocean in there.

allyzay

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> If you can't be a tortured artist, try to cop one's songs, and by extension, attitude.

Mediahohoho

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @semiserious: I'm waiting on my Lindsay Lohan covers of Shane MacGowan.

JesusKong

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @hypocriteoath: haha. do we know if she is actually blessed or is it the work of a great bra? or is it just the fact that she's only 20-something?

hypocriteoath

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> If you look really close at her head, you can almost hear the ocean.

lionel-mandrake

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> Is this an episode of that new Ashton Kutcher show?

videogoddess

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> "If I don't look into the camera I can pretend that I'm pondering something really deep! Or anything at all besides how awesome my boobs are and how badly I want to regain my indie cred."

roodles

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> I'm waiting for her sophomore effort: Johansson on Johansen. I hear her version of "Hot Hot Hot" is just dynamite.

Clarence Rosario

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @CodePink: I'm not sure that she could hold a candle to Posh in the perfect-circle department.

Mike_Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> She's welcome to recline on my branch any time.

Mike_Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> Ever since the end credits rolled on the first screening of the opening night of Lost In Translation, Scarjo's cool has been on the decline. Right now she's a few notches above Brad Garrett and the Micro Machine's guy.

JudgeFudge

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> She always struck me as more a Blind Lemon Jefferson kind of gal.

Sarcastro

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @hypocriteoath: Yes, albeit not in the way I think you mean...

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> The face of Scarlett Johansson and the voice of Liz Frazer?

They've just created the perfect woman.

Clarence Rosario

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> Can't wait for Hayden Panettiere's covers of Daniel Johnston.

semiserious

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: ah, but what if they were singing while the deed was going down? would that change things?

hypocriteoath

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> 1. "A Bjork album? Does she sing in English?"
2. "A Bryan Ferry album? Do I have enough clothes?"
3. "A Willie Nelson album? Will I have to pay tax on that?"
4. "A Courtney Love album? Does she sing in English?"




KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> Scarlett's breasts come in handy when one needs to draw perfect circles. Also, when you feel like touching awesome boobs.

CodePink

]]> <![CDATA[Scarlett Johansson Vs. Tom Waits]]> This is helpful, Hamilton. I am now almost positive I'd rather sleep with Scarlett Johansson than Tom Waits. Thanks!

TheHonJudgeSmails

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