tom Waits

[scotchegg]

from an interview in the guardian:

Q: What remarkable things have you found in unexpected places?

A: 1. Real beauty: oil stains left by cars in a parking lot.
2. Shoeshine stands in Brazil that looked like thrones made of scrap wood.
3. False teeth in pawnshop windows: Reno, Nevada.
4. Great acoustics: in jail.
5. Best food: airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
6. Most gift shops: Fatima, Portugal.
8. Most unlikely location for a Chicano crowd: a Morrissey concert.
9. Most poverty: Washington, DC.
10. A homeless man with a beautiful operatic voice singing the word "bacteria" in an empty dumpster in Chinatown.
11. A Chinese man with a Texan accent in Scotland.
12. Best night's sleep: in a dry riverbed in Arizona.
13. Most people who wear red pants: St Louis.
14. Most beautiful horses: NYC.
15. A judge in Baltimore MD1890 presided over a trial where a man who was accused of murder and was guilty, and convicted by a jury of his peers... and was let go, when the judge said to him at the end of the trial, "You are guilty, sir... but I cannot put in jail an innocent man." You see, the murderer was a Siamese twin.
16. Largest penis (in proportion to its body): the barnacle.

Comments

[padiwack.livejournal.com]

I like this. Thanks for posting it!

you are welcome!

[scotchegg.livejournal.com]

here is the whole thing:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/tom-waits-a-conversation-with-himself-846164.html