my musical hero

(Even before this happened)

Tom Waits has filed suit over an advertisement that deliberately sounds like him. Waits refused to do an ad for the company in question, so they created an ad that sounds as if he did it anyway.

"Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad — ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor," Waits said in a statement. "While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers." (AP)