Pasties and a G String
Step Right Up
Emotional Weather Report
Brilliant artist.
Had a role in a movie, his songs about LA are great. Yes, brilliant...but only marginally.
Well we’re watching a vid on Keith Richards and Tom Waits is featured.
And for me - my intro to Tom Waits is Fernwood Tonight.
I watched this show religiously and was just blown away by this episode.
Brilliant indeed!
New Coat of Paint - “You wear a dress, baby, I’ll wear a tie
We’ll laugh at that old bloodshot moon in that burgundy sky.”
Bad Liver, Broken Heart - An alcoholic begins to wrestle with what his drunkenness has cost him, and wallows in self-pitying cliches.
I’m Still Here - 1:50 of pathos that could make a grown man cry, yet ends on a note of defiant hope.
Downtown Train -(regarding “all those Brooklyn girls”) “You raise your hand and they scatter like crows. They’re nothing that could ever capture your heart.”