Carrollian scholar Justine Houyaux rejoins Sam & Martin to look at the eponymous opening track for our 19th season, Alice. We chat about the sorrow and violence in the song, the lyrical density and the overlap between the writing of Waits and Carroll, as well as other adaptations of the Alice stories.
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
Alice, Alice, Tom Waits (2002)
Alice falls down the rabbit hole from Alice (Neco z Alenky), timecode 13m0s - 16m0s (dir. Svankmajer, 1988)
Alice (Neco z Alenky), dir. Svankmajer (1988)
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There's Only Alice, The Alice Demos, Tom Waits (1992 - unreleased)
Is That All There Is?, Is That All There Is?, Peggy Lee (1969)
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