target practice, or: what good reviews do

[schaufemweg]

"Waits is preoccupied with specifics, never once mewing a vague scenario or untied emotion. His songs may be tremendously bizarre, even ominous-- but they're always exceptionally real; every character has a pair of trousers to wear, a meal to chew, a task to complete. And there is always a place that Tom Waits thinks it would be best for them to

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sixty silver wishes is a small price to pay

[schaufemweg]

or perhaps better: ". . .like a penny tossed into a well, its wish echoes upward from the center of the work - the heart of the song, one might say - itself. . ."

as we all know, the well is full of pennies. make it a silver dollar if the mood strikes you, or the work in question requires it! in any case, i like the notion of a song as a well the listener can draw water from, and into which the reviewer casts her wish.