Tom Waits | News | Tom Waits “Seeds On Hard Ground” Chap Book UPDATED:
Tom Waits is releasing a limited edition chap book of “Seeds On Hard Ground” exclusively through his website in collaboration with Anti records to raise funds for homeless services in his region and to bring attention to a growing problem in today’s hard times.
Tom Waits is one of my heroes.
On the literary horizon is an extraordinary book entitled “Waits/Corbijn – Photographs 1977-2010” featuring an array of beautiful artistic images of Tom Waits taken by the renowned photographer Anton Corbijn. Tom Waits and Anton Corbijn are a perfect artist – artist match. Their 30-year collaboration now yields this book of portraits by Corbijn plus more than 50 pages filled up with images/writing by Waits himself.
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Tom Waits gives the devil his due | Film | The Guardian : This is one of the best and funniest articles I’ve read in a while (thanks to the author’s faithfulness to Waits’, uh, “way”). Who else but Tom Waits could say, “I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.” !
Long story short, Tom Waits is playing the devil in Terry Gilliam’s new film, The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, a role Gilliam said he was born to play. I can’t imagine a better fit for him either.
(My compliments to The Criterion Collection’s Current for this gem)
