I love Tom Waits. Old hipster Beat Waits, and new batshit-building-instruments-out-of-farm-equipment Waits–I love it all. I can have my heart ripped out by San Diego Serenade just as easily as by The House Where Nobody Lives. I think I’d title my autobiography “You Don’t Meet Nice Girls In Coffee Shops”–or at least in my mental world my life is interesting… Read more →
Day: March 21, 2005
We live in science fiction
I keep seeing little things that remind me that we are in fact living in the future (despite the best attempts by the Republicans and Stephen Harper, et. al., to drag us kicking and screaming back into the Dark Ages–but more on that later). For example, we can now apparently make concrete that sucks the carbon dioxide out of the… Read more →
London Characters And Crooks
I spent some time this weekend rereading Henry Mayhew’s London Characters And Crooks. Mayhew was a reporter in the 19th century who had something of a specialization in writing about the seedier parts of London life. London Characters And Crooks is a work that covers Mayhew’s time among the criminal and entertaining. Googling Mayew will find you lots of information,… Read more →
