Tom Waits: In addition to a hard drinking, heavy smoking lifestyle, Waits says he was trying to imitate his Uncle Vernon, because “everything he said sounded important, and you always got it the first time because you wouldn’t dare ask him to repeat it,” he tells Buzz magazine. “Eventually, I learned that Uncle Vernon had had a throat operation as a kid and the doctors had left behind a small pair of scissors and gauze when they closed him up. Years later at Christmas dinner, Uncle Vernon started to choke while trying to dislodge an errant string bean, and he coughed up the gauze and the scissors. That’s how Uncle Vernon got his voice, and that’s how I got mine- from trying to sound just like him.”

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i swear, this could have been posted in new orleans somewhere. i love this.

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i used to watch this movie over & over & over.

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