Tom is talking about Luc Tuymans in De Standaard today. He also says art references are in some of his songs.
- Great American nude was referring to a piece by Tom Wesselman.
- Opening Night is inspired by the movie Opening Night by John Cassavetes
- The architect (a new song?) is about architect Buckminster Fuller
And WWTAWWTAL is named after the short story by Raymond Carver.
The movie Badlands (Terence Malick) is "the one where Martin Sheen waves his hand to the girl in the street"...
There's tons more of them.
Maybe an idea to draw up "The definitive reference list for Tom Barman's lyrics"?! ;-)
Bad timing was also the title of a film (featuring Art Garfunkel??)
maybe it's not relevant but hotellounge references ricky lee jones and the original plan was for her to sing along on serpentine
think I read it in deng or de morgen