Q: What's the difference between an onion and an accordion??
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A: Nobody cries when you cut up an accordion!

One night I was visiting a friend in a bad part of town. I had my accordion with me in the back seat of my car. I knew at the time I parked the car I had made a mistake. And sure enough, when I came back someone had smashed my rear window and left another accordion.

That rocked.

Thank you, subby.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: One night I was visiting a friend in a bad part of town. I had my accordion with me in the back seat of my car. I knew at the time I parked the car I had made a mistake. And sure enough, when I came back someone had smashed my rear window and left another accordion.
Everyone at work is wondering why I laughed out loud.

FTA: Q: Favorite Bucky Fuller quote?
A: "Fire is the sun unwinding itself from the wood."

Wow. I need a nap.

Hey now, a lot of my favorite bands have accordions.

Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, Bruce Hornsby, among others.

It's not any worse than jazz flute.

Shut your gravel hole, Tom Waits. Esteban Jordan (new window) is ready to play circles around you. Choose the instrument of your destruction.

A gentleman is someone who CAN sing like cookie monster, but realizes that would sound ridiculous, so doesn't.

I like some Tom Waits.

Q: What's hard for you?
A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

Especially Chinese Algebra

/-ssieres

Q: What's heaven for you?
A: Me and my wife on Rte. 66 with a pot of coffee, a cheap guitar, pawnshop tape recorder in a Motel 6, and a car that runs good parked right by the door.

That makes me smile.

/love the Waits.

What is a Juggalo?

He probably just sat down and wrote that in 45 minutes.

Gangway Fathead: A gentleman is someone who CAN sing like cookie monster, but realizes that would sound ridiculous, so doesn't.

It's better to think of Tom Waits as sublime literature expressed musically. If you're listening for Western tonality or consonance, you're not going to get much from it. If you listen to the words and the energy, it's engrossing, and occasionally it will completely knock you on your ass. He can write decent melodies, too, but only if they fit the song.

/I love Tom Waits
//Easily a better poet than Dylan

i finally listened to "swordfishtrombones" this weekend... i had the cd lying around for months... it's actually pretty good... not as completely totally excellent as most professional reviews say, but it was def. a departure for him from his usual studio-album-fare before it...
gotta pop in "rain dogs" too...

anybody seen the "big time" concert vid?
wish they would put that on dvd...

Third_Uncle_Eno: anybody seen the "big time" concert vid?

Me being a movie geek before being a music geek that was my introduction to him. I was flipping through the channels on my dish (before i got rid of it), and on the documentary (now bold) there was this weird little vinnet about time, then the song. I then was entranced and had too stay up til 2:00am for the replay.

Since then I've been a fan, there's always something new in his catalog to discover.

Would like to have a word with you

Asperger Jones: Q: What's hard for you?
A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

Especially Chinese Algebra

/-ssieres

Cheers!

/From the, hmm, compendium, here!

CatJumpJohn: //Easily a better poet than Dylan

Then both he and Dylan should publish books of poetry and not subject us to their brain-melting ear death.

I have no clue who this is but he rocks. That is all.

You gotta love this guy:

Q: What's the most curious record in your collection?
A: In the seventies a record company in LA issued a record called "The best of Marcel Marceau." It had forty minutes of silence followed by applause and it sold really well. I like to put it on for company. It really bothers me, though, when people talk through it.

Tsukue: I have no clue who this is but he rocks. That is all.

Ever try to belch the alphabet?

Tom Waits does it with lyrics.

TheShadow: What is a Juggalo?

An Emo kid who raps.

All Songs Considered has a full 2 hour concert from his last tour stop in Atlanta in their podcast. Link here.

" Jim Jarmusch once told me, "Fast, Cheap, and Good... pick two. If it's fast and cheap, it won't be good. If it's cheap and good, it won't be fast. If it's fast and good, it won't be cheap." Fast, cheap and good... pick (2) words to live by."

Awesome...Just...Wow!

Angel of Death: CatJumpJohn: //Easily a better poet than Dylan

Then both he and Dylan should publish books of poetry and not subject us to their brain-melting ear death.

don't listen.

/if its to loud, turn it down.

Q: You are fascinated with irony. What is irony?
A: Chevrolet was puzzled when they discovered that their sales for the Chevy Nova were off the charts everywhere but in Latin America. They finally realized that "Nova" in Spanish translates to "no go." Not the best name for a car... anywhere "no va."

Irony Police?...triple dog dare you.

Omorda: don't listen.

This is my usual approach, but sometimes, you can't control the music that's playing where you happen to be at the time, and you can't readily leave and/or kill the person playing it.

Massa Damnata: Q: You are fascinated with irony. What is irony?
A: Chevrolet was puzzled when they discovered that their sales for the Chevy Nova were off the charts everywhere but in Latin America. They finally realized that "Nova" in Spanish translates to "no go." Not the best name for a car... anywhere "no va."

Irony Police?...triple dog dare you.

The story's a canard. If we pretend the story is true, then yeah, a car with a name that is intended to sound exciting but actually means it doesn't move is ironic. It's rather meh for a definition though.

Angel of Death: CatJumpJohn: //Easily a better poet than Dylan

Then both he and Dylan should publish books of poetry and not subject us to their brain-melting ear death.


Not everyone can be Nickelback.

Third_Uncle_Eno: gotta pop in "rain dogs" too...

Every song is great on it. Every song.


/sounds good on a $20,000 stereo, or a cheap single-speaker cassette player your french teacher used to use...

mekkab: Third_Uncle_Eno: gotta pop in "rain dogs" too...

Every song is great on it. Every song.

Agreed, and amazing considering tht some of the songs on there are touching love ballads, some are jazzy toe tappers and others are songs clearly meant to be played while on a pirate ship.

Tom Waits is God.

1. Put snakes on plane


The story's a canard. If we pretend the story is true, then yeah, a car with a name that is intended to sound exciting but actually means it doesn't move is ironic. It's rather meh for a definition though.



Yeah...you didn't really get to the last sentence.

Not the best name for a car... anywhere "no va."

Note the period is on the inside of the quotation marks.

Massa Damnata: 1. Put snakes on plane


The story's a canard. If we pretend the story is true, then yeah, a car with a name that is intended to sound exciting but actually means it doesn't move is ironic. It's rather meh for a definition though.



Yeah...you didn't really get to the last sentence.

Not the best name for a car... anywhere "no va."

Note the period is on the inside of the quotation marks.

Are you in liquor? What the fark kind of significance are you pulling from him using the American punctuation style?