Gun Street Girl

Tom Waits just might be one of the last practicing bluesmen. And the last beat poet. All that’s left of vaudeville, too. All that and more, one of the few masters of using the stage to tell human stories more real than reality. And an all-around fun guy, too. Ever think of going to his house sometime? He probably has a grand piano hanging from the ceiling. He probably has exotic chickens in his back yard. He probably makes his own foie gras. He probably lives in some tiny small town in the California woods where nobody’s heard of him and everybody knows his name and he fits right in and drinks at the local pub with all the lumberjacks. He’s probably really boring and goes to bed at 8pm. Who knows…