Jun 25 2003

Great quote from Tom Waits, in today's Onion AV Club:

'You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs. "More silver discs. Please." I enjoy that.'

Tom Waits wrote the introduction to a great little book called "Gravikords Whirlies & Pyrophones" (by Bart Hopkin)///Excerpt to follow

--busmun, 6/25/2003 12:22:07

Here's something I stumbled upon at my daughter's birthday party: I rubbed the outside of a large tight balloon and obtained the familiar screaming warble you hear when clowns are making balloon animals. I found if you put cornstarch on your hands and "play" it, it sounds very much like an Eric Dolphy solo, or a monkey with his hair on fire."--- Tom Waits/// Waits goes on to talk about a dumpster he bought and then altered by using a cutting torch to open up a sound hole in the side, then attaching piano strings across that. "You can play it with a silver dollar or a guitar pick, or bow it if you're man enough, and you can also use a wine bottle for a slide--- the sound is trainlike and huge, like trash day with a purpose."

--busmun, 6/25/2003 12:33:20