From 2002, this is Tom Waits' fourteenth album, simultaneously released with Blood Money. For a third time, Waits made a studio version of the music that he used in a play, this is the second part of a trilogy involving The Black Rider. Waits' album is absolutely beautiful, but quite scary. Alice, the title track, is a song of obsession and love that pulls you into it's murky waters and holds you under. Table Top Joe is a great song, very full of life, and it reminds one of Straight Up To the Top. Reeperbahn is a sandpaper song with stories of various people, and their tragedies.
An excerpt from Alice's-
Reeperbahn
Now if you've lost your inheritance
And all you're left is common sense
And you're not too picky about the crowd you keep
Or the mattress where you sleep
Behind every window, behind every door
The apple's gone but there's always the core
The seeds will sprout up right through the floor
Down there in the Reeperbahn
Reeperbahn
Now if you've lost your inheritance
And all you're left is common sense
And you're not too picky about the crowd you keep
Or the mattress where you sleep
Behind every window, behind every door
The apple's gone but there's always the core
The seeds will sprout up right through the floor
Down there in the Reeperbahn
by Frank Rider August 23, 2009
Get the Alicemug. In a sense taken from the music of Tom Waits, a vine is a man's life, and more specifically, his love life.
If one were to listen to the song Another Man's Vine, a song of envy and infidelity, you would hear that a man's lover is a rose on his vine, and when she is unfaithful...Another man picks that rose.
If one were to listen to the song Another Man's Vine, a song of envy and infidelity, you would hear that a man's lover is a rose on his vine, and when she is unfaithful...Another man picks that rose.
An excerpt from Another Man's Vine,
From the album Blood Money,
By Tom Waits-
"Golden Willie's gone to war
He left his young wife on the shore
Will she be steadfast everyday?
While Golden Willie's far away
Along the way her letters end
She never reads what Willie sends
I see a red rose
I smell a red rose
Red rose blooming
On another man's vine"
From the album Blood Money,
By Tom Waits-
"Golden Willie's gone to war
He left his young wife on the shore
Will she be steadfast everyday?
While Golden Willie's far away
Along the way her letters end
She never reads what Willie sends
I see a red rose
I smell a red rose
Red rose blooming
On another man's vine"
by Frank Rider August 23, 2009
Get the Vinemug. A clever reforming of the words crafty bastard. Brian Brushwood, host of Revision3's internet show - Scam School, commonly uses the phrase. He could have been the creator, or one of the people to make it mainstream.
by Frank Rider August 22, 2009
Get the Basty Craftardmug. Some who is future fucked or who is future fucking people up,
1. (n) Can be a kid from birth to 10 that follows current clothing, music, and television trends.
2. (v) Someone who forces all of the current trends upon their children or the children around them.
They will be idiots when they grow up, and they will have no real culture of their own.
1. (n) Can be a kid from birth to 10 that follows current clothing, music, and television trends.
2. (v) Someone who forces all of the current trends upon their children or the children around them.
They will be idiots when they grow up, and they will have no real culture of their own.
1. Little Johnny knows all of the rappers, wears baggy jeans that show his boxers, he loves MTV, and he thinks he has bitches and homies. He's definitely Future Fucked.
2. Johnny's parents are Future Fucking him, by buying him gold chains instead of food, teaching him rap songs instead of grammar, have him watch MTV instead of Sesame Street, and letting him hang out with all the bad kids.
2. Johnny's parents are Future Fucking him, by buying him gold chains instead of food, teaching him rap songs instead of grammar, have him watch MTV instead of Sesame Street, and letting him hang out with all the bad kids.
by Frank Rider August 23, 2009
Get the Future Fuckedmug. Almost anything pertaining to Tom Waits is Waitsian.
1. Any music he has made, or been involved in.
2. His style in art, clothing, and conversation.
3. His very singular voice.
4. Any memorabilia, like autographs.
And so on.
1. Any music he has made, or been involved in.
2. His style in art, clothing, and conversation.
3. His very singular voice.
4. Any memorabilia, like autographs.
And so on.
by Frank Rider August 22, 2009
Get the Waitsianmug. Closing Time was Tom Waits' debut album, from 1973. It held twelve beautiful tracks, and lasted a great forty-five minutes. Some highlights from the album are Ol' 55, Ice Cream Man, and Grapefruit Moon. The music relies heavily on Waits' exceptional piano-playing skills, and his vocals.
An excerpt from Closing Time's ninth track-
Ice Cream Man
Clickin' by your house about two forty-five
With a sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise,
I got a cherry popsicle right on time
A big stick, mamma, that'll blow your mind
'Cause I'm your ice cream man,
I'm a one-man band (yeah)
I'm your ice cream man, honny,
I'll be good to you.
Ice Cream Man
Clickin' by your house about two forty-five
With a sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise,
I got a cherry popsicle right on time
A big stick, mamma, that'll blow your mind
'Cause I'm your ice cream man,
I'm a one-man band (yeah)
I'm your ice cream man, honny,
I'll be good to you.
by Frank Rider August 22, 2009
Get the Closing Timemug. A way of pronouncing Chihuahua, reserved for the Chihuahuas owned by fat people, body builders, and gay men.
"Looky there at the Chee-Who-A-Who-A and it's owner...
...I've never seen a person waddle so much like a penguin."
...I've never seen such a big guy and a small dog."
...I've never seen such a bright shirt in public before."
...I've never seen a person waddle so much like a penguin."
...I've never seen such a big guy and a small dog."
...I've never seen such a bright shirt in public before."
by Frank Rider August 22, 2009
Get the Chee-Who-A-Who-Amug.