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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... film roles enviable of any Oscar-nominated thespian. He is a doomed homeless man (Ironweed), a sun-baked desert prophet on the lunatic fringe (Domino), a fly- eating straitjacketed lackey of Count Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula), a born ...
... film, the soundtrack was written quite a bit later than the film. The film came out about 1947 and I wrote it just a couple of weeks ago and it's about a foggy night on one of those “triangle” films that you see on The Late Show . This ...
... film, but sadly he was killed in a hit-and-run accident less than a year later. Regarding the interview, Waits was a bit nervous at first because he held the then features editor of the paper in very high esteem and he knew the piece ...
... film noir quality, a concept that extended to the front cover of the album, photographed by Hollywood photographer George Hurrell. Waits sat for two portraits, one in the clutches of a passport-yielding damsel reaching from the shadows ...
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