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by the way watch the part of Coffee and Cigarettes where Tom Waits and Iggy Pop hang out and Iggy is a total dorkasauras it's hilarious
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tom waits hunches like a gargoyle over his desk to write letters with tar instead of ink and sends them to nick cave who sends back vials of dust from a burnt down town in the old west. all the letters are is increasingly aggressive growls and coughs transposed to paper. pitchfork reports on this as a feud but at least one of either waits or cave views it as a collaboration
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Android Blues posted:tom waits hunches like a gargoyle over his desk to write letters with tar instead of ink and sends them to nick cave who sends back vials of dust from a burnt down town in the old west. all the letters are is increasingly aggressive growls and coughs transposed to paper. pitchfork reports on this as a feud but at least one of either waits or cave views it as a collaboration yes, this. always. ---------------- |
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Android Blues posted:tom waits hunches like a gargoyle over his desk to write letters with tar instead of ink and sends them to nick cave who sends back vials of dust from a burnt down town in the old west. all the letters are is increasingly aggressive growls and coughs transposed to paper. pitchfork reports on this as a feud but at least one of either waits or cave views it as a collaboration this is my favorite post in the thread ---------------- |
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"What Her Disappear" was written when he was living in the treehouse built by the single mom down the block. he was in between condemned death row facilities after he learned it wasn't haunted
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Tom Waits has actually been dead for over 20 years, but when the Grim Reaper showed up all he could do was stammer "I'm such a big fan, can you sign my scythe?"
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I'd like to talk about the music video that inspired this thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fju9o8BVJ8 [00:09] The darkness of Tom Waits' home is so palpable, he was able to tie a rope to the darkness. [00:13] Dirt floor theory confirmed. [00:20] Tom Waits, dragging his home behind him, complains that he "had a good home but I left." A couch shaped like a piano grows where the house once stood, no land he ever abides in being free from his mark. [00:34] Tom Waits likes to hang around his house and re-enact the "In Dreams" scene from Blue Velvet. The ghost of Dennis Hopper appears in the form of a cloud of steam. [00:43] Physics really went to poo poo when the Earth died screaming. [01:10] Brand new battleships rust as the house floats past. This may be why that general earlier was really pissed off and also extremely far away from Tom himself. [01:11] He sneaks his pets into every video he does, it's his "thing". [01:23] I wonder how painful it was to him to not have those zippers be rusty and sharp. [01:57] Tom moonlights as a message in a bottle. Eh, it's a living. [02:08] Here, Waits shows off his latest body mod. [03:10] Vampires must sleep in coffins filled with earth from their birth site. [03:31] Waits is extremely bad at sweeping up his workshop. [03:42] I like to think that Tom Waits made a house out of each room and put it in an abandoned warehouse. One house is the bedroom, one is the kitchen, etc. [03:50] He works out his body and his voice at the same time so he can make his train back to Silent Hill. ---------------- |
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When you really get to know the guy, he lets you into his life a little. He likes to break out old dusty family photo albums. His great-great-great grandfather, the pirate. His uncle, a car mechanic. A distant cousin from a few generations ago working as a soda-fountain jock-jerk. Some relative, the steam engine operator. That's when it dawns of you. Each of these photos is actually Tom Waits himself, in his costumes he wore at your Halloween parties all these years. "They're not forgeries" he coughs, and laughs until you wake up screaming, covered in a cold, muddy sweat
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tom waits cell phone is just a collection of cells that have grown into an old-style rotary. it survives by consuming the spittle he produces during a phone conversation. when alone, it can be heard gasping and crying almost-silently.
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tom's piano went to AA, left that enablist relationship, found religion, and stayed sober for the rest of its days. tom waits married a steam organ he found at the scrapyard, where they lived a life of decadent hedonism miserably ever after
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From: http://www.tomwaitsfan.com/tom%20waits%20library/www.tomwaitslibrary.com/faq.html 16. Is there really a Tropicana Motel? It's no longer there. It was torn down in 1987, but Waits did indeed live there from ca. 1976 to late 1979. the Tropicana Motel was on Santa Monica Boulevard 8585 (West Hollywood). It had been a rock-and-roll landmark since the late 1960's. Waits had his piano in the kitchen and the stove was just a big cigarette lighter. There were automobile tools on the kitchen counter and in the fridge. Tom Waits: "I don't think I got any new towels for the whole like nine years I was there. But I never asked, I didn't wanna upset anybody." fema crisis actor fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Dec 2, 2015 |
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in his bedroom, no bed, just an iron gibbet. Tom spends every day standing in it, grinding down the bars with his stubble. The back is open, he could leave at any time--he says he's been sentenced to life plus ninety years, but his prison is the world outside. |
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Tom... Tom waits for no man.
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he keeps his voice in a mason jar by his night stand, it's full with an old, sunbaked dirt road and cut with 20 year barrel aged whisky
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in my imaginiation the house tom waits lives in is just like any other house. its got a kitchen and a bathroom and all that cool stuff. he even watches the tv programs everyone else watches on a completely normal tv. wow... its really great to be a guest in tom waits house here in my imagination |
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What is he thinking about there? Fury of god? Rusty metal stains he saw last week? A soldier fighting in a forgotten war?  ` o O {( little brown sausages )}
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Qwerinty posted:tom's piano went to AA, left that enablist relationship, found religion, and stayed sober for the rest of its days. tom waits married a steam organ he found at the scrapyard, where they lived a life of decadent hedonism miserably ever after Today's Episode of American Pawn Stars... Corey: Hello, what have we here? Guy: I have here the one, the only- Tom Waits' piano! Chumley: Do you have any provenance on it? Corey: Chumley, would ya let me? Do you have any provenance on it? *eyes Chumley darkly*' Guy: Well, the piano's got cirrhosis of the liver! Corey: yep, that's his alright! https://i.imgur.com/QKTkerO.mp4 |
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"It's like no one remembers my early stuff", Tom chokes out. He sinks a bit deeper into the Triumph-come-psychiatric couch. Harlan Ellison leans back in the conductor seat pulled from the No. 1 out of Memphis, scribbling notes. "Piano bars, rye whisky, used car lots, kids these days don't get that poo poo. You gotta sing about poo poo they can relate to. Smoke, rust, the world ending, that's the world they're growing up in." Ellison nods, finishing his outline for a story about a man whose past takes the physical form of a coal train. "I bet no one even knows what a potter's field is anymore." The story is given a name: "Six Post Derail"
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the real irony is that his early stuff was released under the Asylum Records label
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Tom Waits is recording his latest album on a Xbox 360 headset-mic from a detroit pawnshop, whose previous owner was a loud slurring preteen with a propensity for the word 'f-----'. The child, now 22, will also be featured in backup vocals as part of a halfway-home program for recovering meth addicts. |
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"does life seem nasty, brutish and short?" a claw snakes out of a cloud of dust, reminding you of Stephen King's "Peanuts", grabbing you around the shoulders in what seems to be an attempt at friendliness. "come on up to the house"
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I was listening to rain dogs this afternoon so i approve. You try to add ice to your scotch and he says "the water has lived a million lives in the endless water cycle" you drink neat instead |
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A LOVELY LAD posted:I was listening to rain dogs this afternoon so i approve. Tom puts bits of coal in his scotch |
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Macy and Peppermint Patty are dancing in the clasic scene from a Charlie Brown tv movie. To the side, cartoon Tom Waits plays a grand piano, his adult head reaching to offscreen in the classic style. He begins singing, "waaowawawawaowaowao". |
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fake, tom waits would never be seen with mercy
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tom waits brand is red hot and will give you an infection
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A LOVELY LAD posted:I was listening to rain dogs this afternoon so i approve. I was just reading about how raindogs is the starter album, & I was like no it's the finish album, there's a reason he's better since he was sober since 1980 The real Tom Waits invite you over to do yoga in his Zen garden at his secret Northern California Big Sur pad, yogurt is on tap, and the whole yard is landscaped with granola |
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You have to go through a quartz crystal maze to get to his new Big Sur pad, but every way out is the right way |
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The password to his front gate is so loving basic, it's "OM" |
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I'm going to go hang out with Tom Waits, this is so cool * sit thru 3 hours of Tai Chi just to learn how to hop a moving train* |
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