Val Kilmer is "quietly" shopping an album, Val Kilmer: Sessions With Mick, around to labels. Sample lyrics: "I'm alone with my rhyming in an unknown town. Alone with poetry, and foreign football on hotel television. A text message from a troubled kept woman, and I bend and I bend and I bend and I'm a-bendin'." Well, if this can't save the record industry... [NYO]









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I think the Val Kilmer post-Real Genius and Top Secret must be some sort of borg or clone version of the original.
I've always had a theory that he has a secret twin named Cal Kilmer who killed the real Val after "Top Gun" and has been running rampant in Hollywood ever since, impersonating Val.
The only way I would find this interesting is if he pulled a Jay-Z and did a whole album inspired by The Island of Dr. Moreau.
@Nicolars: Ain't that the goddamn truth. What *happened* to him?
I read those lyrics and I think, "Man, Tom Waits has nothing on this guy."
Val Kilmer, where have you been all my musical life?
I don't know if Val could ever top the blues explosion of Bruce "Bruno" Willis or the delightful soul gospel sounds of Crispin Glover.
I admit I am disappointed that the Mick is neither Jagger nor Fleetwood.
@Ned Raggett: Or Jones
Obviously he subscribes to the Randy Newman singin'-what-I'm-seein' school of song composition.
I'm "a bendin'" too, over the toilet...
@Ned Raggett: I'm just wondering why a downtown jazz guy who spent most of 2007 playing with Philip Glass agreed to be Val Kilmer's accompaniment.
@Recury: Yeah, except he doesn't even have it in him to finish a verse. The lyrics just sort of trail off: "I've been growing sideways, I've been growing thin, I've been a zombie all day, I've been preventing sin. Noobadaba dootoo, Noobadaba dootoo."
Now while his songwriting may leave a lot to be desired, don't forget that it was him singing in Oliver Stone's "The Doors". A lot of people think that it was just Jim's recordings...
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