Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2021 2:08:32 GMT -5
In an interview with Tom Waits - ‘Tom Waits Makes Good’ in LA Times Magazine, February 22, 1987, compiled in the book Innocent When You Dream: Tom Waits Collected Interviews’ he says
‘Like the guy in prison who made a tattoo machine out of a Bic pen, a guitar string, and a cassette loader. Some red ink.’
[so a different color]
I just stumbled on this, I don’t know if it’s what inspired the line though. The book was published in 2005...they could both be paraphrasing an old story or something in one of the Beat books
Something something Christmas Card From A Hooker in Minneapolis
A later interview in the book talks about how 9th and Hennepin is about a ‘pimp war’ in Minneapolis...
‘Like the guy in prison who made a tattoo machine out of a Bic pen, a guitar string, and a cassette loader. Some red ink.’
[so a different color]
I just stumbled on this, I don’t know if it’s what inspired the line though. The book was published in 2005...they could both be paraphrasing an old story or something in one of the Beat books
Something something Christmas Card From A Hooker in Minneapolis
A later interview in the book talks about how 9th and Hennepin is about a ‘pimp war’ in Minneapolis...