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  • From: "Never call me Phil" <philipayers AT yahoo.com>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: a ll' help? tom waits related plea
  • Date: 8 Apr 2005 13:19:24 -0700

I started out on this newsgroup about 1996 with a simple question about
tom waits. that question got a lot of sarcastic replies from folks like
3.2.3, ross ,?? etc. well, I'm hoping to end up in brooklyn by
september on a downtown train, so i wanted to bla bla bla...
anyway there IS a tom waits newsgroup: alt.music.tom-waits
really.

John I wrote:
> nathan wrote:
>
> > does anyone by chance have a copy of the tom waits promo cd "Bone
> > Machine: The Operator's Manual" (Island Promo CD PRCD 6743-2) that
i
> > might borrow briefly for a school project?
> >
> > just wanna hear his remarks about songs floating in the air into
the
> > radio.
> >
> > thank you,
> > nhb(7)
> >
>
>
> "Songs are...I guess when I was a kid, I thought songs lived in the
air. I
> didn't know anything about songs publishing. I just thought they, one
day a
> song like landed in your backyard like a UFO or something. God, did
you hear
> that song? I still, I still do, I mean even though I know more
how...about
> songs. I still think it's important to look at them that way, and
wonder
> about them. Songs are small. You hold em in your hand, and they're
about as
> big as a bar of soap, really. And, umm, sometimes you only listen to
them for
> maybe that long. As long as it takes to wear down a bar of soap and
then move
> on to something else...another song."





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