Basically Tom Waits used to make me want to throw up and die. Adam would put him on and I’d freak out.
He was subtle.

“Sarah McLachlan LOVES Tom Waits”

“so what I don’t care he makes me want to throw up and die”

“Ol’55 is a Tom Waits song”

“SO FUCKING WHAT”

We’ve been together almost three years. I didn’t turn overnight.

When Adam said stuff like he never toured and he missed him last time and he never thought he’d ever get to see him, Tom Waits was this he was that, I just refused to cave. Stupid stubborn couple shit.

“I don’t get it, I do not understand how it is you don’t like Tom Waits almost every artist you love sings his songs”

“what is that song he does with that dude for Christmas? I like that one and there is this other I don’t know but it doesn’t make me want to throw up and die”

oops

Below is Adams’ experience in 2004 when he got himself a ticket to a rare show.

If you see the guy, tell him he got me out of a day of work. Besides that, i waited on the concrete 10 hours for a 127 dollar ticket, so were even for the show. But thats not entirely true. The waiting, oh yes, the waiting is accurate, but i have accepted that for being allowed to see the spectacle i will be dropping a few castes next life. But i saw larry taylor. Christ sakes. And marc ribot. Hes actually human. I saw him. And Brain too. For realz tho, i would have liked to see it sitting down becus standing tends to draw blood to the legs and away from the sound glands. The reason this is all coming out gibbered is the fault of it all didnt seem real. Too much stimulation. Everything built. Months beforehand, 5 am and bringing my work backpack. I thot i was going to work after i got the ticket. Little did i know, i would get no ticket, but then NO ONE got a ticket, it was all take this voucher and if you lose it youre screwed so show me your identification�id was required on account of the first show sold out in two shakes of a lambs cutoff tale, two admissions per person only and you had to be there at voucher AND show time and no buying for other people. The song and dance was for US, the ones who wanted it, the ones who wanted to wait so that everybuddy outside of the queue was not us. The waiting made us angry at disney but that was good.

I bought one and i still dont believe it. Pleez forgive the ottoformat. Its not my thault.

He came home with a limited edition poster and WENT OFF on how he was going to frame it in STEEL and make a steel frame at work and it just sat on the table.
I took it and had it framed for him in a faux blue steel. I was really nervous about whether he’d like it or not.

And I was just as nervous last month when I decided I was going to do ‘Step Right Up’ for my Add to Liner Notes column on Estella’s Revenge but I knew I had to pick a song by a man because I had already submitted pieces on Natalie Merchant and Neko Case not really thinking at the time I was committing to write on TOM WAITS. But I guess it was my way of saying sorry to Adam for cutting up his favorite artist for ‘a while’ knowing full well I’d kill him if he did that to me.

If you haven’t checked out Estella’s Revenge yet here is your chance, this is the third issue! The forum is up and the archives are also available, it keeps getting better by the month.

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