Tom Waits-I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
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You’ll never recognize yourself on heartattack and vine
This is a “Tom Waits is magic” blog.
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Tom Waits - Cold Cold Ground (live)
this is my favorite right now, folks.
The jam, forever.
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For some reason, when I see a picture of Brian Fallon, I mistake him for a younger Tom Waits. I am the only one that thinks they look similar?
Def thought this was Tom Waits, scrolling past.
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Arguably as fun as listening to Joy Division in the dark.
This. Just, this forever.
TOM WAITS: I was trying to imagine myself as a real New Yorker, and I was having a hard time. My wife was pregnant with our second child; we were living down on 14th Street over a Cuban-Chinese restaurant. But at that moment, I was busting at the seams that Robert Frank was photographing me. I just thought, Shoot me now. The record was called “Rain Dogs,” so we were expecting to find a rainy day, which we did not find. But we found the one rain puddle in the whole park, and I’m kind of down there like a dog. Maybe that was the idea: I’m gonna get down on the dog’s level, and then Robert would get there at a dog’s level with me. Anyway, I don’t know why people in music seem to want to squat down. Maybe we just want to feel close to the earth. I’m still down there, actually. I’m squatting right now.
ROBERT FRANK: I think he saw that puddle, and it was his idea to sit there. Tom’s comfortable that way, and it’s a good angle. I think he’s very aware when he’s being photographed — the stance he takes, the way he moves and the way the picture is going to be. That’s one of his favorite positions anyhow. When he comes in the room, he sits like that.TED BARRON: I lived on the Lower East Side and was out walking in the neighborhood. I was just cutting through Tompkins Square Park and walked up to this scene, and I immediately recognized Robert Frank, because at that point I was probably looking at his photographs every day. I realized who he was photographing, and I made a few photographs while I was watching. I didn’t want to be in the way, and I didn’t want to become part of what was going on.
Tom Waits - Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
Favorite Christmas carol
I decided that it was finally time that I should listen and I kinda really like him. I already downloaded Swordfishtrombones. I’m just wondering what albums you guys recommend.
Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs and Frank’s Wild Years are like the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit as far as I’m concerned. Heart Attack and Vine is also real good and has Mr. Siegal which is the sexiest song ever.
deadashistory:newfilosofee:byronic:scout:aar0n:
This is a great interview. (…)
Q: What’s heaven for you?
A: Me and my wife on Rte. 66 with a pot of coffee, a cheap guitar, pawnshop tape recorder in a Motel 6, and a car that runs good parked right by the door.
Q: What’s wrong with the world?
A: We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Leona Helmsley’s dog made 12 million last year… and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio made $30,000. It’s just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. We are monkeys with money and guns.
Q: Can you tell me an odd thing that happened in an odd place? Any thoughts?
A: A Japanese freighter had been torpedoed during WWII and it’s at the bottom of Tokyo Harbor with a large hole in her hull. A team of engineers was called together to solve the problem of raising the wounded vessel to the surface. One of the engineers tackling this puzzle said he remembered seeing a Donald Duck cartoon when he was a boy where there was a boat at the bottom of the ocean with a hole in its hull, and they injected it with ping-pong balls and it floated up. The skeptical group laughed but one of the experts was willing to give it a try. Of course, where in the world would you find twenty million ping-pong balls but in Tokyo? It turned out to be the perfect solution. The balls were injected into the hull and it floated to the surface, the engineer was elated. Moral solutions to problems are always found at an entirely different level; also, believe in yourself in the face of impossible odds.
Q: Do you have words to live by?
A: Jim Jarmusch once told me “Fast, Cheap, and Good… pick two. If it’s fast and cheap it wont be good. If it’s cheap and good it won’t be fast. If it’s fast and good it wont be cheap.” Fast, cheap and good… pick (2) words to live by.
Q: Tom, you love words and their origins. For $2,000…what is the origin of the word bedlam?
A: It’s a contraction of the word Bethlehem. It comes from the hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem outside London. The hospital began admitting mental patients in the late fourteenth century. In the sixteenth century it became a lunatic asylum. The word bedlam came to be used for any madhouse- and by extension, for any scene of noisy confusion.
Q: What is a gentleman?
A: A man who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
Everyone needs to read all of this.
clap hands-tom waits.
have i posted this before? i don’t really care. it’s worthy of a double post.
Mmmmyes!
