June 18th, 2008

Question for Tom Waits: What's scary to you?

Waits’ response (via):

  1. A dead man in the back seat of a car with a fly crawling on his eyeball.
  2. Turbulence on any airline.
  3. Sirens and searchlights combined.
  4. Gunfire at night in bad neighbourhoods.
  5. Car motor turning over but not starting, it’s getting dark and starting to rain.
  6. Jail door closing.
  7. Going around a sharp curve on the Pacific Coast Highway and the driver of your car has had a heart attack and died, and you’re in the back seat.
  8. You are delivering mail and you are confronted with a Dobermann with rabies growling low and showing teeth… you have no dog bones and he wants to bite your ass off.
  9. In a movie… which wire do you cut to stop the time bomb, the green or the blue?
  10. McCain will win.
  11. Germans with sub-machine guns.
  12. Officers, in offices, being official.
  13. You fell through the ice in the creek and it carried you downstream, and now as you surface you realise there’s a roof of ice.

Well said, Tom.  Well said.

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