Music is awesome; - all kinds of music, all kinds of awesome. My taste in it ranges from classical to heavy metal, from folk to Spanish guitar, from '60s classics to variations of electronic. Whatever hits a nerve seems to qualify for a place in my collection. I've no idea what I would do without music - I can't seem to function without it.

The problem comes, however, when I realise that I've listened to everything in my collection at least a million times over; so, I am constantly on the look out for new artists and new songs but this is usually like searching for a needle in a noisy, irritating haystack. Every so often, the urge to listen to something new overpowers me and I have to go hunting.

This task is kinda difficult - it's like looking for something but having no idea what. Once in a while, I'm lucky enough to stumble across something that is just right. This very thing happened last night; I was moseying around YouTube when, somehow, I came across a video of somebody's college art project. It was a very striking piece of animation; -

Suddenly my new-music-radar kicked in and alerted me to fact that it had found a song worthy of adding to my collection. The singer had a deep grainy voice and I imagined a large, old black dude that had sang the blues in a smoky, noire bar at some point in his life. I quickly used trusty ol' Google to find out the identity of this mysterious songbird and I came up with the name of Tom Waits.

That's one classy dude.

So, not entirely what I had imagined but boy, does this guy sing. With my curiosity well invoked, I searched further in the hopes that his other sings were just as good and I wasn’t disappointed; -

I soon discovered that this dude is an actor too, having played along side Meryl Streep and Jack Nicolson in Iron weed as well Iggy Pop in Coffee & Cigarettes. Now, I love movies too and this is a great scene; -

I love finding new music and thought I'd just share what I'd found in case anyone else out there is in the same boat when it comes to finding new tunes but have no idea what they're lookin' for. ^_^