tom_waits kingsuperspecial Frank settled down out in the valley, and he hung his wild years on a nail that he drove through his wife's forehead. He sold used office furniture out there on San Fernando Road and assumed a 30,000 dollar loan at 15.25% put a down payment on a little two bedroom place. His wife was a spent piece of used jet trash, made good Bloody Marys, kept her mouth shut most of the time, had a little Chihuahua named Carlos that had some kind of skin disease and was totally blind. They had a thoroughly modern kitchen, self cleaning oven, the whole bit. Frank drove a little sedan, they were so happy One night Frank was on his way home from work, stopped at the liquor store, picked up a couple of Micky's Bigmouths, drank them in the car on the way to the Shell station. He got a gallon of gas in a can, drove home, doused everything in the house, torched it. Parked across the street, laughing, watching it burn, all Halloween orange and chimney red, and Frank put on a top forty station, got on the Hollywood freeway, headed north. Never could stand that dog. 020925 ... bethany h'es got that video that used to play on vh1, it was even rare for that but now NOW it's on senor moby's house of music go figure once again people are telling me that my weird taste is... 020925 ... gumby im big in japan 020926 ... kingsuperspecial and I look good without a shirt on. 020927 ... mikey I must be insane, to go skating your name, and by tracing it twice, I fell through the Ice, of Alice 021210 ... taojones Who's in charge? Killers, Thieves, and Lawyers... T O M W A I T S 021211 ... Teenage Jesus "...I shot billiards with a midget until the rain stopped..." 021211 ... misstree growls and painful croons and drunken swaggers and you can hear the purple under his eyes and the whiskey in his throat and nothing else could cradle me just so today. 040202 ... murder in the red barn roadkill has its seasons just like anything there's possums in the autumn and farmcats in the spring 040202 ... zeke all the donuts have names like prostitutes 040202 ... zeke he blew a hole in the hood of a yellow corvette 040202 ... zeke using parking meters like walking sticks 040202 ... zeke I dangled from a rope of sand 040202 ... zeke put a high ball in the crank case nail a crow to the door 040202 ... zeke I pulled on trouble's braids 040203 ... unhinged i can't get into it maybe i should listen again 040203 ... zeke speaks from the underside of the rust belt in dream logic cadence 040203 ... oldephebe i used to listen to him back in the day "you can hear the purple under his eyes.." - now that's evocation mtree 041201 ... oldephebe z - nicely done, wonderfully captured david spade as tom waites in the cinematic contemplation of:What if tom waites never got his big break, never nurtured his dreams and became a slacker taking mostly under paid jobs in the service industry...Oh and he gets to his penultimate semester in college and simply walks away from a career as regional manager of his fathers 12 store intra-state hardware supply discount outlet chain because you know they both could use a sandwich and both kinda exuded the chic postures of exhausted indifference way before it was cool to do so... ... 041201 ... (z) (his father was named jesse james waites. tom is very near my aesthetic center, style and content balanced precariously, with references to americana that are at once familiar and obscure. he brings us to a country peopled by last ditch mechanics, defrocked preachers and the fallen, where tragedy is the stuff of daily life and everybody has a past. his alias' rival david bowie's in variety and depth. he speaks truth as known by the loser and the predator, the truth of the insane and the ones we left behind. and there is beauty there. whispered darkness thoughts and cries for not deliverance, but the oblivion of another day lived in fear. he lives forever in that rain soaked country, inhabiting the lives and souls of us all. he inhabits the archetypes we have cast off as used up.) 041201 ... oE well put - Z thankyou for putting it into perspective 041201 ... () () 041201 ... () (too bad so many lukewarm covers have eclipsed his great works. why people feel compelled to misuse art is obscure to me.) 041201 ... silentbob Sean played a tom waits song on the juke box the hour he turned 21. 041201 ... amillio My eyes say their prayers to her Sailors ring her bell Like a moth mistakes a light bulb For the moon and goes to hell 050526 ... silentbob for no one 050929 ... three words tom_waits in_the_box howl 060307 ... caresscoffee I'd sell your heart to the junkman, baby, for a buck, for a buck 080831 ... in a silent way dig this, which may eclipse the studio version: https://vimeo.com/33803455 starts out sounding like a joke, with that voice growling, "charlie, i'm pregnant," and the audience laughing after every second line. by the end, no one's laughing anymore, and you realize what you thought was going to be an amusing little role-playing exercise has revealed the depths of its beating heart and ripped yours out of your chest. good old tom. it's timely, too, with christmas just around the corner. 141217 ... fishawk Reads " the_laughing_heart " http://m.youtube.com/watch?sns=fb&v=Txe6NDt7DHU 141219 what's it to you? who go blather from