RIOT CABARET: Really enjoying Sublimity Now’s guide to acts similar to Tom Waits. Skewing farther toward the cabaret genre, I think she should try Agnes Bernelle (“It Was Me,” maybe?) and the sublime Marc Almond.

Especially liked “The Man on the Burning Tightrope”–

He could have been somebody
He could have been somebody else
It could have been so much worse.

–and this quick refrain from “Old-Fashioned Morphine”–

Sister, don’t get worried,
Sister, don’t get worried,
Sister, don’t get worried,
Because the world is almost done.