While precious little is known about Mr. Eastwood's Gran Torino, the score is available online over at the Warner Brothers awards site--a site with which we've become mildly obsessed. Buried at the bottom of that page is a song called "Gran Torino", written by Mr. Eastwood, Mr. Cullum, Kyle Eastwood (Clint's son, who also co-wrote the entire score) and Michael Stevens (the other co-writer of the score). It's a slow and meditative number at first; all lilting piano notes and cymbal brushes. So far, so good. But then Mr. Eastwood begins singing with a voice that reminds us of Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Christian Bale-as-Batman in The Dark Knight. (We assure you, it's not as awesome as that sounds.) Hearing Mr. Eastwood growl his way through rudimentary lyrics like "gentle now, the tender breeze blows, whispers through my Gran Torino" is just about as terrible as you'd imagine.

Thankfully for Clint's sake, he only sings the first verse. When Mr. Cullum starts in verse two, the song actually starts to sound like a real song and not some spoof. So here's hoping for a Best Original Song nomination for Mr. Eastwood and a subsequent performance at the Academy Awards. At the very least, hearing "Gran Torino" performed live will be more exciting than watching Peter Gabriel.