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mikalebrug · **Joined:** Thu May 22, 2008 9:23 am **Posts:** 3471

daffy1974 wrote:

Good afternoon all,

Here's a question fot the experts out there:

I remember reading an interview where Tom said that he was doing some songs on the last tour that he'd never played before (Other Side of the World was one of them), and I've just read on another post that he's never played Soldiers Things live.

I know when he tours an album he usually plays the vast majority of his new tracks live but are there many tracks from his back catalogue that he's never played live?

Just curious.

David

I think I did a list once... :whistle:

But Tom has been very good at covering his back catalog. There a just a few tracks here and there that never got any live renditions. With the exceptions of Alice and Blood Money which hasn't been played very much live.

Surprisingly, even though Tom did an Orphans tour, very few of the tracks from Orphans were actually played on that tour.

I'm still waiting for Georgia Lee, Never Let Go and On The Road...(among others) :drool:

anti-octopus · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2012 4:39 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUJ_8hK-gqA[/youtube]

MikeWaits · **Posted:** Wed May 16, 2012 7:43 pm

anti-octopus wrote:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUJ_8hK-gqA[/youtube]

I actually kind of dig this, thanks for sharing

anti-octopus · **Posted:** Thu May 17, 2012 12:39 am

MikeWaits wrote:

anti-octopus wrote:

I actually kind of dig this, thanks for sharing

No problem here it is for download
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/6RH9qP/900bats.com/2010/blockhead-remixes-tom-waits/

MikeWaits · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 4:25 am

I'll grab that Anti-Octopus thank ya =)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK5jdFag2qw[/youtube]

Check this out, around the 1 minute mark.

man of constant sorrow · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 8:44 pm **Posts:** 931

Quote:

I read your essay on The Basement Tapes cover photos and noticed that you wrote, "Unfortunately I have not been able to find the names of the other carnival performers hired to represent Mrs. Henry, Tiny Montgomery, Quinn The Eskimo and such."

The little person is Angelo Rossitto, star of Tod Browning's Freaks. He also appears on the cover of the Tom Waits album Swordfishtrombones.

Gooble gobble,
Scott Warmuth

http://chalktalkbooks.blogspot.com/2011 ... dylan.html

bourbon_jockey · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 9:06 pm

In one of my favorite films Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, one of the things associated with Clementine that Joel brought in to the memory deletion company was a CD of Tom's Rain Dogs. This is seen during a montage of items (sorry, couldn't find a clip of it). She certainly seems like she'd be a Waits fan!

Also, and I didn't make this connection until recently, Clementine makes a drink for Joel called Blue Ruin, and her hair dye color is named Blue Ruin. It wasn't until I was listening to 9th & Hennepin a couple days ago and heard that line, "and a clock ticks out like a dripping faucet, 'til you're full of rag water, bitters, and blue ruin."

The script was written by Charlie Kaufman; I guess he must've been listening to Rain Dogs a lot when he wrote it.

Okay, shit I just read the script, or at least relevant sections. The original script calls out Tom Waits! This is when they're talking on the train, but it wasn't in the film. Get a load of this:

Quote:

JOEL
I noticed your hair. I guess it made an
impression on me, that's why I was pretty
sure I recognized you.

CLEMENTINE
Ah, the hair.
(pulls a strand in front of her
eyes, studies it)
Blue, right? It's called Blue Ruin. The
color. Snappy name, huh?

JOEL
I like it.

CLEMENTINE
Blue ruin is cheap gin in case you were
wondering.

JOEL
Yeah. Tom Waits says it in --

CLEMENTINE
Exactly! Tom Waits. Which song?

JOEL
I can't remember.

and this part wasn't in the film, either, when he's driving her home from the station:

Quote:

CLEMENTINE (CONT'D)
Look, I'm very sorry I came off sort of
nutso. I'm not really.

JOEL
It's okay. I didn't think you were.

There's a silence.

CLEMENTINE
So you like bookstores, huh?

JOEL
I like to read.

CLEMENTINE
Me too. It is Rain Dogs, by the way.

JOEL
Yeah? I can't remember that album very
well. I remember liking it. But --

CLEMENTINE
The song's 9th and Hennepin. I spent
most of the train ride trying to
remember. "Till you're full of rag water
and bitters and blue ruin/And you spill
out/Over the side to anyone who'll
listen." Remember?

JOEL
Sort of, um...

CLEMENTINE
Remember? "And you take on the dreams of
the ones who have slept there/And I'm
lost in the window/I hide on the
stairway/I hang in the curtain/I sleep in
your hat..."
(starts to cry)
Oh, shit. I'm so stupid. Sorry.

JOEL
What?

CLEMENTINE
I'm just a bit of a wreck. "I sleep in
your hat" makes me cry.
(pointing to a house)
Me.

Joel pulls over.

Wow, I'm glad I wrote this post now!

Jeremy · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 9:25 pm

bourbon_jockey wrote:

In one of my favorite films Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, one of the things associated with Clementine that Joel brought in to the memory deletion company was a CD of Tom's Rain Dogs. This is seen during a montage of items (sorry, couldn't find a clip of it). She certainly seems like she'd be a Waits fan!

Minefield · **Joined:** Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:25 am **Posts:** 15771

I love that movie too, BJ. It's my kind of crazy. (Plus, Kate Winslet is always a treat.)

bourbon_jockey · **Posted:** Sat May 19, 2012 4:41 am

Thanks, Jeremy!

Minefield, indeed. And yea...Clementine is the kind of girl I'm always attracted to, and then always end up in blue ruin.

stefanvandenberghe · **Posted:** Sun May 20, 2012 3:21 pm

I was going through a photobook of Cartier Bresson. I came across this picture entitled : New Jersey.

Guess what song I had to think off.

SarahV · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 2:28 am

I noticed that for the last week, I've gotten a ton of comments on one of my youtube videos ("Temptation"). I got curious so I went and checked the stats, only to discover that there was a big spike of viewership a few days ago, and virtually all of the increase was from Poland, 80% of whom were women. :?:

Further research turned up a Polish TV show, a dance competition, where someone danced to that song. It aired last week.

Wonder if we will have any new fans turning up here! I hope so. It's exactly the same way Susie found TW - same song, on a televised dance competition - so we know it could turn up some great new fans :mrgreen:

Minefield · **Joined:** Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:25 am **Posts:** 15771

Haha, that's so funny, Sarah.

But you're right, of course, people can find Tom in all kinds of ways.

jake21221 · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2012 11:30 pm

Was watching Six Feet Under today and the mother (Named Ruth as well) on the show works at a flower store and this exchange happened:

Customer: What flowers would you send to your fiance?

Ruth: Roses, I guess.

Customer: What about a coward who cheated on you? What flowers would you send them?

Ruth: Yellow flowers.

Customer: Sounds good.

Ruth: What would you like the card to read?

Customer: Fuck you, cunt.

Clearly he should have stopped at angry flowers instead of the regular flower store. Sent her a nice bouquet of black orchids and thistles.

bawlerbrawler · **Posted:** Tue May 22, 2012 10:50 am

SarahV wrote:

I noticed that for the last week, I've gotten a ton of comments on one of my youtube videos ("Temptation"). I got curious so I went and checked the stats, only to discover that there was a big spike of viewership a few days ago, and virtually all of the increase was from Poland, 80% of whom were women. :?:

Further research turned up a Polish TV show, a dance competition, where someone danced to that song. It aired last week.

Polka till they sore?

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