Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits

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The Real Thing, Miss Scarlett
Published 5/21/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Simon Crowe) at Mostly Movies
Tom Waits: (NPR) Q: Most thrilling musical experience? A: My most thrilling musical experience was in Time Square, over thirty years ago. There was a rehearsal hall around the Brill Building where all the rooms were divided into tiny spaces with just enough room to open the door. Inside was a spinet piano- cigarette burns, missing keys, old paint and no pedals. You go in and close the door and it's so loud from other rehearsals you can't really work- so you stop and listen and the goulash of music was thrilling. Scales on a ...

Shorties
Published 5/21/2008 by david (boy@largeheartedboy.com) at Largehearted Boy
... Tom Waits interviews Tom Waits. Q: What's the most curious record in your collection? A: In the seventies a record company in LA issued a record called "The best of Marcel Marceau." It had forty minutes of silence followed by applause and it sold really well. I like to put it on for company. It really bothers me, though, when people talk through it. ...

The Quotematon 3000
Published 5/21/2008 by spencer at goldenfiddle -
GQ: Lindsay has had a tough road. Why subject Ali to the same temptations? Dina Lohan: I’m not going to close a door where God opened a window for Ali. click on pic for the rest. (via GQ, again) Afterwards, you can wash that awful taste out of your brain with this Tom Waits interview. (via)