{"id":1513,"date":"2009-04-07T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/04\/tom-waits-life-on-mars-sucks\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T19:02:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T02:02:11","slug":"tom-waits-life-on-mars-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/07\/tom-waits-life-on-mars-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Waits: Life On Mars sucks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/post\/92301961\/tom-waits-denies-life-on-mars-song-says-show-sucks\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from TwentyFourBit<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 18px; color: #444444; font-size: 13px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; text-decoration: none; font-size: 17px; line-height: 18px; color: #ffffff; margin: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/post\/92301961\/tom-waits-denies-life-on-mars-song-says-show-sucks\" style=\"list-style-type: none; text-decoration: none; color: #000000; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Tom Waits Denies &#8216;Life on Mars&#8217; Song, Says Show Sucks<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3565\/3406780881_88e591600c_m.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"5\" height=\"136\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"155\" style=\"list-style-type: none; text-decoration: none; border-color: white; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/>ABC\u2019s time-travel cop drama\u00a0<em style=\"list-style-type: none; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Life on Mars<\/em>\u00a0was canned after only one season, so now the show\u2019s producers, Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg, are free to share all the behind the scenes dirt. When\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/tvguide\/404464_tvgif31.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"list-style-type: none; text-decoration: none; color: #ff0049; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">asked by<\/a>\u00a0TVGuide.com if there were any songs that they couldn\u2019t get on their show despite all efforts, the<em style=\"list-style-type: none; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Life on Mars<\/em>\u00a0producers had this interesting exchange about Tom Waits:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Appelbaum: We write every song into the script, not after the fact, because the music is so important. And only one person denied us.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenberg: Because he thought the show sucked. [Laughs]<\/p>\n<p>Appelbaum: It was Episode 6, and Sam describes when he met Maya (played by Lisa Bonet) for the first time. He flashes back to the scene and \u201cTom Traubert\u2019s Blues\u201d is playing. It was so good. Tom Waits approves all of his licensing, and he sent an email saying he thought the show was [bad]. It was pretty funny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tom Waits once\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/archives\/2008\/12\/this_week_in_mu_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"list-style-type: none; text-decoration: none; color: #ff0049; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">said<\/a>, \u201cI\u2019d rather have a hot lead enema\u201d than license a song for a commercial.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/post\/92301961\/tom-waits-denies-life-on-mars-song-says-show-sucks\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at TwentyFourBit.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TwentyFourBit Tom Waits Denies &#8216;Life on Mars&#8217; Song, Says Show Sucks ABC\u2019s time-travel cop drama\u00a0Life on Mars\u00a0was canned after only one season, so now the show\u2019s producers, Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg, are free to share all the behind the scenes dirt. When\u00a0asked by\u00a0TVGuide.com if there were any songs that they couldn\u2019t get on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}