January 4, 2013
nprfreshair: For your weekend reading, a piece from the LA Review of Books by Alex Harvey that is ostensibly a review of Barney Hoskins’ 2010 biography of Tom Waits, Lowside of the Road. To call it just a book review, however, seems limiting because it’s about fathers and sons, femme fatales, lust, music, addiction, influence, Los Angeles, film noir, biography, autobiography, Tom Waits, “Tom Waits”, and finding one’s voice. And it is pretty fascinating.: When he and Jones split up, he moved out of the Tropicana and into a more laidback East Hollywood neighborhood, close to his father. By day he worked in the old RCA building on Sunset and Ivar, pushing his images and verbal fragments into a new kind of coherence. Gone was Chandler’s white knight in the form of Marlowe, or the melancholy search for the urban epiphany. In its place is the voice of a semi-psychotic street predator, snarling over savage guitar and bass. Incidentally, Tom Waits is going to be on The Simpsons on January 6. And here is the Fresh Air interview with Mr. Waits. -Nell image by Anthony Corbijn (2004) via  lifecomesfromwithin

nprfreshair:

For your weekend reading, a piece from the LA Review of Books by Alex Harvey that is ostensibly a review of Barney Hoskins’ 2010 biography of Tom Waits, Lowside of the Road. To call it just a book review, however, seems limiting because it’s about fathers and sons, femme fatales, lust, music, addiction, influence, Los Angeles, film noir, biography, autobiography, Tom Waits, “Tom Waits”, and finding one’s voice. And it is pretty fascinating.:

When he and Jones split up, he moved out of the Tropicana and into a more laidback East Hollywood neighborhood, close to his father. By day he worked in the old RCA building on Sunset and Ivar, pushing his images and verbal fragments into a new kind of coherence. Gone was Chandler’s white knight in the form of Marlowe, or the melancholy search for the urban epiphany. In its place is the voice of a semi-psychotic street predator, snarling over savage guitar and bass.

Incidentally, Tom Waits is going to be on The Simpsons on January 6.

And here is the Fresh Air interview with Mr. Waits.

-Nell

image by Anthony Corbijn (2004) via  lifecomesfromwithin

3:43pm
(Notes: 667)
  
  1. countryandtown reblogged this from redhousecanada
  2. mehrblick reblogged this from redhousecanada
  3. themostrepulsivemanalive reblogged this from lifecomesfromwithin
  4. theemperorofthenorth reblogged this from insanityofthefuture
  5. insanityofthefuture reblogged this from iamthenewflesh
  6. beacon-for-pissed-ships reblogged this from main-antagonist
  7. rumordeescamas reblogged this from throw-my-bones-to-the-pigs
  8. same-deep-water-as-you reblogged this from countgackula
  9. throw-my-bones-to-the-pigs reblogged this from countgackula
  10. countgackula reblogged this from riversofgoreriversofgore
  11. riversofgoreriversofgore reblogged this from lifecomesfromwithin
  12. thehipstersbeard reblogged this from theonlymagicleftisart
  13. lidayda reblogged this from theonlymagicleftisart
  14. deblocari-usi reblogged this from theatlantic
  15. sonic-scientist reblogged this from redhousecanada
  16. front-porch-view reblogged this from cocainemindandwhiskeymouth and added:
    I’m not a badass, but I still like the pick.
  17. cocainemindandwhiskeymouth reblogged this from thewhiskeybarrel
  18. porkchophurricane reblogged this from thewhiskeybarrel
  19. redhousecanada reblogged this from thewhiskeybarrel and added:
    I’m just waiting on a friend.
  20. thewhiskeybarrel reblogged this from jeanfivintage and added:
    same kinda bad as me…
  21. nonnam reblogged this from theonlymagicleftisart
  22. the-waking-life reblogged this from your-tiny-infinity
  23. dugenstyle reblogged this from nprfreshair
  24. professorenidgumby reblogged this from theatlantic