Who would you consider the Tom Waits of literature?
>>23813923Read a book, you fucking retard.
>>23813959Ohh, a snowflake got angry? Muhahahaha
>gritty and violent Americana across a range of genresJoyce Carol Oates
>>23813923bukowski
>>23813923any shitty pretentious American writer
>>23814178this.
>>23814300a lot of waits characters find redemption/transcendence in their misery, whereas buks tend to wallow and roll around in it and at best find themselves resigned to their fate.i saw this guy live in florida, and he was all like "good to be in the sunshine state", and someone yelled out "try the orange juice" and he was like "huh? what? i have no idea what that means" and they were like "you're in florida, dude, where all the oranges are" and then he was like "oh, right" and told a couple short anecdotes about insects getting the vote and bull penis dog treats.
Denis johnson
I don't get it. What's he waiting for?
>>23813923Tom Waits. Lyrics is poetry is literature.
>>23815212his wife wrote a lot of his lyrics
My Daddy told me, lookin backThe best friend you'll have is a railroad trackSo when I was 13 I said, I'm rollin' my own,And I'm leaving Missouri and I'm never coming homeSatchel puddin' and Lord God MoseSittin' by the fire with a busted noseThat fresh egg yeller is too damn rareBut the white part is perfect for slickin' down your hairBlackjack Ruby and Nimrod CainThe moon's the color of a coffee stainJesse Franks and Birdy Joe HoaxBut who is the king of all of these folks? I dined last night with Scarface RonOn tilapia fish cakes and fried black swanRazorweed onion and peacock squirrelAnd I dreamed all night about a beautiful girlWell God's green hair is where I slept lastHe balanced a diamond on a blade of grassNow I woke me up with a cardinal birdAnd when I wanna talk heHangs on every wordAnd I'm lostAnd I'm lostI'm lost at the bottom of the worldI'm handcuffed to the Bishop and the barbershop liarI'm lost at the bottom of the world
>>23815425blood meridian: the song
He’d fit in with the McNally Flats crew in Suttree
I think any booze soaked picaresque
>>23813991
>>23816123Hi on ironically love Boomer Facebook means
>>23814178This
Bukowski's characters are all a bunch of f****** retarded losers who wallow in self-pity, whereas most of weights characters are like down and out ne'er do wells who've held onto shreds of their hope and dignity and strive for more. At least in his later stuff. Also there's a lot less anger in Tom's stuff.
>>23816185did you voice to text this
>>23813923What are his best songs?
>>23816374Yeah bro most of my posts are voice to text I even do the capture by voice to text she is so f****** cash
>>23816396Waits is very consistent, I think he hasn't made any genuinely bad album, so just pick up whatever sounds interesting to you and listen.
>>23813923prove me wrong
>>23816396His career is weird. He got progressively stranger the older he got. I happen to like it all. Except the most bizarre compositions some of those I can't get into. For my money the early years Volume 2 and Blood Money and Nighthawks at the Diner and Mule Variations are the ones you'll want to get a general idea of all his phases.
