If it's Friday, it must be time for Tom Waits

With a tip of the tattered fedora and a raising of the chipped juice tumbler full of cheap fortified wine to Driftglass


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The mind reels while Tom Waits

David over at Jim Dandy Goodness has thrown down the gauntlet, declaring that he does not like Tom Waits. I, therefore, in the spirit of Sam-I-Am, must poke, prod and otherwise annoy him until he gets his mind right.

Sure there's the music,


which continues to get more avant-garde


and the hypnotic and sometimes hyper-strange videos


But really, its the total package: the persona and the performer



and only Waits or Bob Dylan is the kind of subversive genius that would come up with this:



And as if that isn't enough, here is an entire concert from the same tour, from last July in Atlanta, that is stone gar-un-freakin'-teed to blow your mind.

The corner of Bedlam and Squalor
More like the corner of Genius Ave and Frickin' Genius Blvd. While I think of something useful to say watch Tom Waits on Fernwood 2Night