Filed under: tidbit
Every time I see or wear my What Would Tom Waits Do t-shirt I am impressed by the fact that I have never yet been in a situation where I knew the answer to that question. Say there’s a jerk in the left lane who won’t let anyone pass – just what would Tom do? Pull off the interstate and drive the back roads until he came to a barbecue shack run by a one-armed ex-shoe-salesman and his blind wife, Beulah? Or would he pull out a shotgun and blow a hole in the hood of that yellow Corvette? Hang his arm out the window and let the wind smoke his cigarette for him as he daydreams about the girl he left behind in Illinois?
I don’t think there will ever be a right answer to that question.
I do have a question, though, for which there is a right answer. Regarding the one posed in my last blog entry – the song that made me cry was “Widow’s Grove” by Tom Waits. I don’t know why. Thankfully none of you knew that answer. I’d hate to have to ask you to get out of my head.
1 Comment so far
Leave a comment
This i smy favorite interview as of late:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,1932046,00.html
Its beautiful when he says:
‘Well, if it matters to anybody other than me …’
Knowing that if he quit 14 years ago … Mule Variations would have been it… and… that album… and that 1999 concert… it goes without saying… it was all there when they drained the pool.
Comment by Errrch March 16, 2007 @ 8:52 pm