Tom Waits - Misery is the river of the world

I animated this using FlashMX, Scott Waldren helped me with script ideas and he requested I animate this particular song. We wanted to share Tom Waits's music in our own way. This is an old vid we made back in 2004 I hope you like it. it took 8 months to finish.

I'm glad this is my most popular video next to
Zor and Zam by the monkees, I hope to make
a few great folk songs into animation.

I hope you enjoy it's message and pardon my spelling.

Peace to you all

feel free to over analyze! Be excellent to eachother!

And i believe the fiercest war is fought against the self,
My war is against seeing myself as a victim and doing worse things to others. It's nice to have pride and be proud,
but when proud becomes stubborn it becomes pedantic
and that is one too many transformations for me to digest
before i go into yoda-mode and quote him LOL

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[Zellig]

I love how all the characters tie in.

[Nicole K]

I actually like the recording the way it is here. I don't think it's a "disservice" to the song at all. To me, it gives the music a slightly more vintage feel. Not everything needs to be shiny and new to be good.

[whitesmith bonesdark]

well if humans did not kill...some other species would...and we're just trying to compete with the asteroids that wipe everything out

[whitesmith bonesdark]

well if humans did not kill...some other species would...and we're just trying to compete with the asteroids that wipe everything out

[3877michael]

This Kick A++

[Karlfalcon]

Holy shit. That was awesome.

[Emmanuel Moreno]

Quite fitting!

[moyahn]

have no words to describe how perfect your job got!One of this days,Waits himself is gonna say it got incredible!(if he hasn´t done yet!!!)

Thanks!

[bluntbonehead]

For Tom Waits inspired music

Search for: sailing down the gutter on a bottle of bourbon

[OsoSherpa]

this is so amazing Im a huge fan of Ben Grau! the animation is just awsome so its pretty dissapointing that the recording is so muffled. Youre really doing yourself (& this song) a tremendous disservice by not making sure the uploaded recording sounds as good as it does on the actual album, like in the one with the cartoon of Pinochio. other than that i was blown away by the crazy animation.

[Michael Seymour]

you should be proud of that work ...if you could just repost the music -all would be perfect !

That said...what you did is amazing !!!