INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY ARCTIC MONKEYS STAND IN STUDIO WHEN TOM WAITS AND HIS ENGINEER DAVE WALK IN
TOM WAITS
Hey man Arctic Monkeys how ya doin, how ya doin
ALEX TURNER
Y’all right Tom good to meet ya man raindogs man f**kin’ love it
TOM WAITS
Thanks man thanks yeah I like your sound too man. That shit is real ya know?
ALEX TURNER
We talk about life as we’ve lived it
TOM WAITS
I dig, I dig likes how your songs be about be about a hooker on the street and it’s real cold and shit
JAMIE COOK
When the sun goes down
TOM WAITS
Yeah that it. But here’s the thing Tom Waits wants your song to sound like a hooker out on the streets f**kin’ freezin’ but walking backwards through a carnival ghost ride with a blind fold on as dwarfs stab her with needles ya know?
ALEX TURNER
Don’t get it like
TOM WAITS
Hey I show ya man. Hey Dave, Dave be my engineer, butler n stuff
DAVE
Yeah Tom
TOM WAITS
You got that Wurlitzer man
DAVE
Yeah
TOM WAITS
Play that shit
WURLITZER HEARD
ALEX TURNER
What the f**k we gonna do with that?
TOM WAITS
I figure that be good for the backing track know
DAVE
Yeah
TOM
You take dis cowbell
JAMIE COOK
Eh?
TOM WAITS
Hit that every four beats, naw man every three beats, and every one and a half beats after that and other times when it feel right
WURLITZER, COWBELL HEARD
Now ah just plays this
PNEUMATIC DRILL HEARD
ALEX TURNER
Where the f**k did ye get that?
TOM WAITS
I found dis in the street at some roadworks
JAMIE COOK
Is that thing safe?
TOM WAITS
Yeah, yeah it safe and it sound real sweet. Hey Dave where that traffic cone be?
DAVE
Here Tom
TOM WAITS
Alex you sing through dat. Let’s hit this shit
WHEN THE SUN PGOES DOWN PLUS WURLITZER, COWBELL, DRILL IS HEARD
That good, you can feel them angry stabbing dwarfs in that man. But we got to play it backwards
ALEX TURNER
What?
TOM WAITS
Play it backwards, play it backwards, play it backwards
ALEX TURNER
That sounds f**kin’ awful
TOM WAITS
But you gots to feel it man
ALEX TURNER
Nah you’re alright like
TOM WAITS
That cool, that cool
