Music For the Masses-Tom Waits Edition
Love him or hate him, you know what camp you’re in. Tom Waits is ‘bulo’s role model. So, baby, this one’s from the heart.
“…and manslaughter dragnets and the ghosts that sell memories, they want a piece of the action anyhow”:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZmqbcBsTAw&feature=related[/youtube]
‘Tom Traubert’s Blues’- “Small Change”
“I’d buy a used car lot, and never sell any of ’em…”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qBoy2rhVw&feature=related[/youtube]
‘Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis’- “Blue Valentines”
“Gonna whittle you into kindlin'”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VDTa7uXUp4[/youtube]
’16 Shells From a 30-Aught Six’- “Swordfishtrombones”-Clip from the movie “Big Time”
“And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget…”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40FjQH3Xw0M[/youtube]
‘Time’- “Raindogs”-Clip from “Big Time”
“Never trust a man in a blue trenchcoat, never drive a car when you’re dead.”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-t9z8OLoCg[/youtube]
‘Telephone Call From Istanbul’- “Swordfishtrombones”-From “Big Time”-the loser flipping cards is Iggy Pop.
“…and my plane, it will touch down, on the day after tomorrow.”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM6SQvQKl0Q&NR=1[/youtube]
‘Day After Tomorrow’- “Real Gone”
“Children are playing at the end of the day…”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oGVDLcpXQ8&feature=related[/youtube]
‘I’ll Take It With Me’- “Mule Variations”
Tags: Music
I’d no more click on one of those videos than I’d stick knitting needles in my ears.
Memo to (him)self: “Whittle Jason into kindlin’ “.
Let’s just say that I like the stuff on the bottom shelf.
“Jason got rained on with his own .38. And nobody flinched down by the arcade…”
It’s funny, I know you were going to post this and yesterday in my car whilst listening to Sirius a Tom Wait song came on. Hold On I think it is called. I don’t think I ever listened to one of his songs. I think I have/had him confused with some other “Waite” guy.
The song was good and the guy has a deep voice, so I’m not where jason is, but I imagine if I had a choice I would still try to find something else
The guy is the ultimate in acquired tastes, ‘bulo grants you. But once you’ve acquired it, it’s got you in its clutches for good. In ‘bulo’s case, he first saw Waits at the old Main Point back in 1975, so there’s a lot of history.
Are you like 90 years old?
“And the clock ticks out like a dripping faucet
’til Jason’s full of rag water and bitters and blue ruin…”