by Jordan Dotson | Jun 15, 2020 | Hip tunage
This music video makes me irrationally happy. …”Downtown Train,” track #17 from side 2 of Tom Waits’s remarkable 1985 album, Rain Dogs. Fun fact: that’s legendary middleweight and all-around hard-knock knucklehead Jake LaMotta in the... by Jordan Dotson | Feb 14, 2015 | Things I wish I'd written
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. …Tom Waits, from Vanity Fair, in conversation with…well, precisely the type of person you imagine Tom Waits in conversation with. by Jordan Dotson | Jun 2, 2014 | Things I wish I'd written
My theory is that songs have to be anatomically correct. They need to have weather in them and the name of a town and usually something to eat — in case you get hungry. …guess who? by Jordan Dotson | Nov 26, 2013 | Things I wish I'd written
Notes from the wall above my writing desk, No. 2: …you don’t understand. …from Track 2 of Closing Time, which is inarguably one of the Top-5 Greatest Debut Albums of all time. by Jordan Dotson | Nov 9, 2012 | Things I wish I'd written
There’s no light in the tunnel No irons in the fire Come on up to the house And your singin’ lead soprano In a junkman’s choir You gotta come on up to the house …Come On Up to the House, track 16 from the holy prophet’s Mule...