Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and EncountersChicago Review Press, 1 серп. 2011 р. - 480 стор. Tom Waits, even with his barnyard growl and urban hipster yawp, may just be what the Daily Telegraph calls him: &“the greatest entertainer on Planet Earth.&” Over a span of almost four decades, he has transformed his music and persona not to suit the times but his whims. But along with Bob Dylan, he stands as one of the last elder statesmen still capable of putting out music that matters. Journalists intent upon cracking the code are more likely to come out of a Waits interview with anecdotes about the weather, insects, or medieval medicine. He is, in essence, the teacher we wished we had, dispensing insights such as: &“Vocabulary is my main instrument;&” &“We all like music, but what we really want is for music to like us;&” &“Anything you absorb you will ultimately secrete;&” &“Growth is scary, because you're a seed and you're in the dark and you don't know which way is up, and down might take you down further into a darker place . . .;&” and &“There is no such thing as nonfiction. . . . People who really know what happened aren't talking. And the people who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up.&” Tom Waits on Tom Waits is a selection of over fifty interviews from the more than five hundred available. Here Waits delivers prose as crafted, poetic, potent, and haunting as the lyrics of his best songs. |
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... Charles Bukowski, Dean Moriarty, or the anonymous singers of the Library of Congress folk songs recorded by Alan Lomax. At his darkest he becomes a seedy slathering of organic word ooze reminiscent of his one-time collaborator, William ...
... Charles, Stephen Foster, Frank Sinatra. . . . My favorite writers, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Michael C. Ford, Robert Webb, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Larry McMurtry, Harper Lee, Sam Jones, Eugene O'Neill, John Rechy ...
... Charles Bukowski is a poet—and I think that most will agree to that.” Waits, raised in various Southern California suburbs, was a frequent commuter from San Diego to the Troubadour's Monday night hootenannies when discovered by Herb ...
... Charles Bukowski in March 1976 when they shared a bill together at the University of Pittsburgh. Waits explained his admiration for “Buk” in an unidentified European interview in 1976: “I was real fortunate to be able to run into Charles ...
... Charles Bukowski, the poet. He has this new novel out, Factotum, and it's terrific. Talks about all the lousy jobs he had to take to be a poet. Lemme see. Oh yeah, I like Johnny Rechy: City of Night, Numbers, and The Fourth Angel. Rechy ...
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January 23 1979Tom Waits for No One | 107 |
Heartattack and Vine 1980 | 113 |
Swordfishtrombones 1983 | 129 |
Rain Dogs 1985 | 151 |
Late 1985Rain Dogs Tourbook | 164 |
Franks Wild Years 1987 | 181 |