Happy Birthday, Tom Waits!
So our readers want beefcake. So they don’t get why we love you. So they find your looks and your drunken bear who escaped from the circus voice weird. We don’t care. We get you, and you get us. Don’t ever stop singing.
This is the song whose title I ripped off for my newspaper column.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
December 7th, 2010 at 12:42
He does sound like Cookie Monster sometimes. I only knew of “I Hope that I Don’t Fall In Love with You” from the movie soundtrack – but I’m glad to learn about “Please Call Me Baby” from your blog. I also love “Alice”.
December 7th, 2010 at 13:27
I have to admit, when I first listened to him on one of your posts, I thought he ate an entire chalk box. I’d been trying to “discover” other singers, musicians, etc. Tom Waits is a good start :)
December 7th, 2010 at 17:50
Of course we love Thomas Alan Waits. We lay dibs on “The Heart of Saturday Night.” Many happy returns, Tom.