I’d say playing Renfield in Dracula is pretty badass

Three more words: “The Wire” Themesong.

He’s almost sixty and he’s leaping around like Billie Joe Armstrong.

Sued Napster and won.

3 more words “Step Right Up!”

Check out this bootleg versions of Burma Shave from San Remo 1986…it will make you cry…

http://www.yout ube.c om/watch?v=VHqD2W0T8wU

Check out this bootleg versions of Burma Shave from San Remo 1986…it will make you cry…

http://www.yout ube.com/watch?v=VHqD2W0T8wU

Recorded with the coolest bass player and weirdo around: Les Claypool

Check out this bootleg versions of Burma Shave from San Remo 1986…it will make you cry…

http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=VHqD2W0T8 wU

His wife was going to be a nun, but she left it to be with him. That’s pretty damn cool.

Three more words: “Coffe & Cigarettes” (acting with Iggy Pop)

He’s “emptied his pockets” in front of all the world and given us “Orphans”!

Has never been a trendy guy, but nevertheless hs allways been modern!

Three more words “The Black Raider”

Plays the preacher gone mad in Domino

Three more words (with a clever slap at Bush junior) “Road to Peace”

Because he is cooler then you and you love it

‘cos he has seen the Cliffs of Dover and the deepest ocean blue

Because he put a fish in his pants on television.

“If there’s one thing you can say about mankind/ It’s there’s nothing kind about man.”

Nobody has continually delved into the drudge of the world (and his soul) for their songs and yet remained musically alive and relevant for as long as Mr. Waits.

The piano’s been drinking, not him.

Anyone heard of the Box Spring Hogs?

A Tom Waits tribute band based in Austin,TX.

How cool is that?

I’ll be checking them out on Dec 1st (hopefully).

I’d love to get a chance to catch the original as well.

Cool track.

“Tom Traubert’s Blues” turned Basquiat into one of the finest films I have ever seen.

Made one of the best albums of the 80’s with “Rain Dogs”

I love black wang.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =VHqD2W0T8wU

would rather have ‘a bottle in front of me instead of a frontal lobotomy’

writing like this;” You wave your hand and they scatter like crows. They have nothing that will ever capture your heart. They’re just thorns without the rose”
mitch

Got sober.
Got off the cigarettes.
Gold standard of ethics.
Kicked a lot of scalperscum ass.

Tom can make a junkyard sound like a symphony.

Fertilizes his garden with bat shit.

Tells us all his secrets but lies about his past

Because “when she’s on a roll she pulls a razor from her boot, and a thousand pigeons fall around her feet…”

Hung out with Chuch E. Weiss

tom waits is cool beacause he taught us a garbage dumpster can be a musical instrument.
he used old militarty equipment to make music.
he can tell a story like a drunken man you have never met but have known your entire life somehow removing you from now and putting you there.

The greatest un-evil scientist in “Mystery Men”.

Because “there aint no devil, there’s just god when he’s drunk”

video removed…those bastards

He’s double jointed, meaning that he can be passed out in two dives at the same time.

Even Keith Richards looks up to him

three words:

HOIST THAT RAG

too bad thisvideo is no longer availa

He played Rudy in “Ironweed”. The only bum who knew where the Milky Way was!

was at the scene when “small change got rained on by his own .38″

Rickie Lee Jones

“…all I say is, dont they pray to the same God that we do? Tell me how does God choose? Whose prayers does he refuse?”

“…I’m so goddamn horny the crack of Dawn better be careful around me…”

Even YouTube isn’t cool enough to hold him. Wow.

“There’s more pressure in New York because you feel like if you’re not productive you’re going to be evicted. Always gotta be on your toes here. You’ll be a hat rack in another week, pal, and no one’s gonna care. We’re gonna pull all the bones out of your body and call you a new suit.” -Tom Waits

Doesn’t cheapen his shows by selling T-shirts, keychains, bumper stickers and official Tom Waits pork-pie hats…and Bob Frickin’ Dylan looks up to HIM…

He understands that if you exorcise your demons, your angels may leave too.

opened for Frank Zappa and The Mothers in 1974, badass..

“Well, I’ve told you before, I won’t tell you again, you don’t defrost the icebox with a ballpoint pen…”

He wrote the theme song to mine and my children’s life: “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up.” He’s acted in films by Francis Ford Coppola, Jim Jarmusch, AND Robert Altman. ‘Frank’s Wild Years’ is one of the greatest albums/shows ever. And by the way, Crystal Gale is fucking cool!

The only person who can remain cool while talking about their kids on a talk show.
Also, he has a genius horse! Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=mfwiZKCtC3Q

Said about Michael Jackson selling his songs for Pepsi commercials: “If he wants to work for Pepsi, why doesn’t he just get hired and get an office?”

When asked what role his wife played in his life and in his music, he said “she spins the chamber and I pull the trigger.”

If he can find a book of matches, he’s goin to burn this hotel down.

He looked out into ” the
dark warm narcotic American night
beneath a pin cushion sky” and saw so many characters that I needed to meet. We’re friends now, me and the members of the Circus.

He’s goin’ thataway, just as long as its paved.

he wrote: “hung his wild years on a nail that he drove through his wife’s forehead”.

I belive he once said “Reality is for people that can’t handle drugs.”

He’s a past middle-age white man who took up beatboxing… and made it work!

“The large print giveth, and the small print taketh-away”

“She was a shattered beauty. Ahh, nothing a Hundred dollars couldn’t fix.”

Frank Sinatra’s troath doctor told him “If you keep singing like that you’re gonna end up like Sinatra.” Tom replied “You mean rich and famous?”

Hes the only male I’ll ever have sex with! xxxx Yum Yum Tom!£$:)

lol each to their own robslong! I would choose the fact he is one of Dylan’s favourite’s!

Potter’s Field – a storytelling masterpiece!

don’t forget hes not ugly he has a masculine face.