Friday Music Videos

 Some time between 1979 and 1982 I started listening to Tom Waits. I saw him in concert at some point and continued to listen to him religiously for a long time and then listen sporadically although he is still a go to music fella in times of need. Via comes two videos of one interview, which are great for a variety of reason.





This comes from about the time I started paying attention.  Recently, I think yesterday, Waits released a video from his Bad as I Want to Be Album, which I got as a gift. What struck me on seeing it was the fact that it is clearly an anti-War on terror song and, whatismore, one the few that I can think from the present crop of whatsits:



Some of his more recent stuff is too something or another for me but this one seems to be a example of an man and musician trying to make sense of the horrors of permanent war and the misery it inflicts on soldiers.

Enjoy your weekend while you still have one. 

From Here to There

How do you go from vaguely Dylan incomprehensible poetry like this:



To full on political engagement like this



Or, for that matter, from comedic jazzy whatnot like this



 To the near madness of this



To the philosophical depth of this



And that is leaving aside one of the finest albums ever.

In other words, what seems today to be clear and certain will or might in the fullness of time become if not its opposite at least something both weird and wonderful. Or so I tell my self when surveying the current economy and my  place within it.

Tom Waits: Hopeless Romantic II

Is the suggestion here that despite the content, dreams are ideal states toward which we ought all tend? Note, as by the way, the accordion



And on true love:





It's the spitting on Eddy Arnold, bird flipping, and wing giving that define true love.

Then again:



Then yet again:

Tom Waits; Hopeless Romantic

He used to be young once too, you know:

Brilliant

Tom Waits and Muppets:
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Years ago Tom Waits sang this

because this is what the world looks stripped of fallacies

Tom Waits' Iron Man II Theme Song

This



Didn't make the cut, lord know why.