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gleebster posted:Stop trying to make the Finnish language make sense. I can see you're not a yesterday grouse's son!
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gleebster posted:So, if I were to ask a Finn "how many were there?"and the Finn answered "kuutonen". I know there were anywhere between 1 and 6? No no no. The answer to "how many" isn't the name of the number six, it's the number six. Like if, in English, you ask "how many", the answer isn't going to be "the number [whatever]."
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3D Megadoodoo posted:No no no. The answer to "how many" isn't the name of the number six, it's the number six.
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fizzymercury posted:What is the word for the numerical concept of 6? "Eläköön Paholainen"
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3D Megadoodoo posted:No no no. The answer to "how many" isn't the name of the number six, it's the number six. I don't like where this is going. Next thing we know, you're going to be making GBS threads on viperless milk and man trains.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Bread doesn't mean money; the guy was just being a huge rear end in a top hat It took me a while to realize that it did, in fact, mean money. "Man, what are you doing here?" certainly fits in with that gay bar interpretation, though that still seems pretty questionable
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Captain Monkey posted:
The spruce, the spruce, the spruce is on fire we don't need no water let the mother fucker burn
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gleebster posted:Stop trying to make the Finnish language make sense. 
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Shifty Nipples posted:The spruce, the spruce, the spruce is on fire
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Thanks to a sudden bout of listening to Kate Bush i just learned that i had no idea what the novel Wuthering Heights is actually about. I mean, i knew "turbulent love story", two names, and something about moors i suppose, but that's it. There's a lot more revenge, and death, and ghosts apparently. Maybe i should read the drat thing.
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May 25, 2021 02:29
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It's wretched, don't.
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packetmantis posted:It's wretched, don't.
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May 25, 2021 02:45
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Just spend five seconds on wikipedia so you can nod and look intelligent when it comes up in conversation rather than having to read the drat thing
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May 25, 2021 02:47
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A hundred thousand words about Heathcliff and it's not even the cat.
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BrigadierSensible posted:This would probably be best served in a "misheard lyrics" thread. But I just figured out what it is supposed to be, so it technically fits here too. I heard the same thing as a kid and it was because the piano/dead-end gig at a bar was eating his whole life away. A carnivore 
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Trabant posted:A hundred thousand words about Heathcliff and it's not even the cat.
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Trabant posted:A hundred thousand words about Heathcliff and it's not even the cat. Catherine loves the meat tank?
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A "social gadfly" is a person who interferes with the status quo by asking the difficult/annoying questions that other people usually avoid asking, and spurs society into confronting difficult issues in the same way that a gadfly biting a horse will spur it into action. For some reason I always assumed it was a carefree person who spent a lot of time at dinner parties, "gadding about" socially
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Piano Man is just the poor mans The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
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FreudianSlippers posted:Piano Man is just the poor mans The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) Pfft Tom Waits can't even play that one in key
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May 26, 2021 14:23
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I wish I understood Tom Waits.
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fizzymercury posted:I wish I understood Tom Waits. Metaphorically, or literally? Because he's just a weirdo who early on decided to lean hard into an oddball persona that was part Howlin' Wolf/Captain Beefheart/carnival barker. But also writes incredibly beautiful and inventive music non-stop for the last 40+years. If you literally can't understand what he's singing I'm surprised, because despite the demonic delivery he actually enunciates pretty well
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Trabant posted:A hundred thousand words about Heathcliff and it's not even the cat.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Metaphorically, or literally? Philosophically.
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fizzymercury posted:Philosophically. Yeah I guess he's not really trying for mass appeal or anything, just pottering along doing his thing. For about 20 years Waits was just the horrible poo poo my older brother listened to, not cool like the Slayer and GnR records he gave me. Then somehow it just clicked. For me Mule Variations or Rain Dogs are both easy ways into Waits, but also if he doesn't do it for you that's cool too
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Tom Waits is basically GBS: performatively always-somehow-30-something, drunk or on drugs, vacillating between what is cool now, what was cool when we were kids, and what might be cool in the future.
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May 26, 2021 16:38
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30-something? 
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Tom Waits pisses me off because I love Rain Dogs very much but I have exactly the wrong sort of voice to sing his stuff. I have no gruffness at all, so when I sing, it sounds ridiculously sugary. Big Black Mariah is my favourite track and I cannot even begin to sing it. Diamonds and gold has been my in-head background music for literally decades at this point. Fuckin hell, Cemetery Polka rules.
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Pookah posted:Tom Waits pisses me off because I love Rain Dogs very much but I have exactly the wrong sort of voice to sing his stuff. I have no gruffness at all, so when I sing, it sounds ridiculously sugary. I know very little Tom Waits music, but I know Downtown Train was on Rain Dogs and it got Rod Stewart a shitload of airtime in the early 90s I guess that wouldn't help much if you were sick to death of Downtown Train, like me in the early 90s
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Failed Imagineer posted:30-something? Packs a day
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It's called an airlock because it's a lock. For air. Like a canal lock.
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I love Tom Waits. Seeing him in movies is always one of the most rewarding little moments in a film. His voice is amazing and his acting is also top-notch.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:I love Tom Waits. Seeing him in movies is always one of the most rewarding little moments in a film. His voice is amazing and his acting is also top-notch. This right here is why I wish I got his music. He seems neato.
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May 27, 2021 12:48
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My friend had some Penthouse magazines from the 70s in his apartment for some reason. First page I open and there's an interview with a 20-something Tom
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Captain Splendid posted:It's called an airlock because it's a lock. For air. Holy poo poo.  I never made that connection.
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I love Tom Waits, if I saw him in concert I'd cry. His first 4 albums are amazing.
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Pocket Billiards posted:I love Tom Waits, if I saw him in concert I'd cry. His first 4 albums are amazing. Seeing him in concert was Top 5 lifetime gigs for sure. It was in a massive circus marquee tent. During one song he put on a hat that was covered in reflective panels like a discoball, and slowly rotated while the spotlight shone on him, sending rainbows all around the tent. The only shame was no Marc Ribot on that tour, but I would kill to see him again
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My folks got into Waits in the '70s (after seeing him on Letterman) and passed that love onto me from an early age. When he finally, finally toured in the early '00s, we bought the first tickets we could, almost blindly, and wound up going on a road trip from Detroit to Birmingham, Alabama for the Glitter and Doom Tour. It was beyond fantastic. What an experience. We made sure to see him in Detroit in '06, too. It was about a week before my son was born and he was banging around inside right along with Tom.  His earliest albums might be a good introduction, without a lot of the later quirk, pageantry, and gruffness that can turn people off. Other accessible albums I like to recommend are Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs. Bonus: https://youtu.be/wflJVB4cM_c
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Im sure it's there in the compilation, but one of my favourite Waits TV appearances is him doing Make It Rain with half of JSBX. Great vibe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR5SHuJDlUQ
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