Tom Waits - For No One
Tom Waits’s 1979 live performance filmed and hand painted into this animation
Joel Brodsky - Tom Waits, Backstage at a Strip Club, Lower East Side, New York City, c.1970
Tom Waits, as the lunatic Renfield in Dracula.
Tom Waits - “More Than Rain”
“Eh this is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some really bad days. And I kept them in a little box. And one day I threw them out into the yard. Oh, it’s just a couple of innocent bad days. Well, we had a big rain… I don’t know what it was growing in, but I think we used to put egg shells out there and coffeegrounds too. Don’t plant your bad days! They grow into weeks, the weeks grow into months, and before you know it you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me: CHOKE those little bad days! CHOKE ‘em down to nothing! There are your days, CHOKE ‘em! You choke my days, I’ll choke yours!”