Original footage of Tom Waits for No One

The animated film Tom Waits For No One is more or less well know amongst Waits-afficionados, but now a 45 second clip of the original film used to make this has surfaced on YouTube.

According to the uploader, austinstein, these images - featuring Tom Waits and 'exotic dancer' Donna Gordon - were recorded at the La Brea Stage in 1978 and later used to produce the 'rotoscope video' (a process that takes live action footage and is traced back frame by frame turning it into animation).

Most intriguing part of this is his (her?) claim 'the footage will rise like the Phoenix from the ashes of obscurity'.






(thanks to Dorene)

Waiting room

Not too sure what this is all about, but The waiting room has a Waits-dedicated podcast. 

Way down in the hole for download

Spinner.com has another track from the Healing the divide album on line for download: Way down in the hole (mp3).

Healing the divide track on line

Kronos has the track Diamond in your mind from the Healing the divide album on line at the Quartet's Myspace page.

(thanks to Nathan)

When the beans are gone

The new Book of Knots album Traineater includes a collaboration with Tom Waits; Pray, in which Mr. Waits asks the poignant question ,,What you gonna do when the beans are gone?''

Pitchfork Media is kind enough to offer an mp3 file of the song.


(The BoK website is under construction, but you can check them out on MySpace.com)

UPDATE: Record company ANTI not only mentions Tom Waits' involvement (lyrics/vocals, guitar, percussion), but also the contribution of Kathleen Brennan (lyrics/vocals).