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<blockquote data-quote="Philonous" data-source="post: 1490742" data-attributes="member: 22043">Tom Waits. Not for guys who just recently quit drinking or womanizing, as he’s likely to make you go right back to those things. He’s pretty much my go-to artist for long drives. I just go to the Tom Waits page of iTunes and let the songs play over my car stereo. Listen to anything from him. I guess it’s you’d hear from poets in 1950’s New York City artsy-fartsy taverns. Half-drunk poet with an even drunker piano player (although Waits does both the singing and piano-playing—along with the drinking). “Vaudeville”—that’s what it really is. That “Way Down In The Hole” theme song from that old Baltimore crime show “The Wire”—that’s Tom Waits. The few songs he does that touch on Christian themes do so from the standpoint of Primitive Methodism, and he seems to halfway mock it. Sounds like a hobo.&nbsp; A lot of people hate this stuff. It’s escapism. Like playing a video game, only you can do it while you’re driving or working. A “diversion”—has no purpose beyond that. [MEDIA=youtube]qPPvCL4h-EI[/MEDIA][MEDIA=youtube]4GIAawSTisE[/MEDIA][MEDIA=youtube]FdFO3OyPYHI[/MEDIA][MEDIA=youtube]k8XY2d1c9ok[/MEDIA][MEDIA=youtube]3llvPIj_29g[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Philonous, post: 1490742, member: 22043"] Tom Waits. Not for guys who just recently quit drinking or womanizing, as he’s likely to make you go right back to those things. He’s pretty much my go-to artist for long drives. I just go to the Tom Waits page of iTunes and let the songs play over my car stereo. Listen to anything from him. I guess it’s you’d hear from poets in 1950’s New York City artsy-fartsy taverns. Half-drunk poet with an even drunker piano player (although Waits does both the singing and piano-playing—along with the drinking). “Vaudeville”—that’s what it really is. That “Way Down In The Hole” theme song from that old Baltimore crime show “The Wire”—that’s Tom Waits. The few songs he does that touch on Christian themes do so from the standpoint of Primitive Methodism, and he seems to halfway mock it. Sounds like a hobo. A lot of people hate this stuff. It’s escapism. Like playing a video game, only you can do it while you’re driving or working. A “diversion”—has no purpose beyond that. [MEDIA=youtube]qPPvCL4h-EI[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]4GIAawSTisE[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]FdFO3OyPYHI[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]k8XY2d1c9ok[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]3llvPIj_29g[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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