if the sky falls mark my words we'll catch mocking birds

Wonderful article/quasi-interview by musician/scribe Jim Christy with the inimitable Tom Waits in today's GS.

"It's like taking two angry dogs for a walk at the same time and they want to go different ways."

About Jim Christy

"Call him the Canadian Tom Waits, I'm sure he won't mind. Transplanted South Philadelphia poet Jim Christy is now one of Canada's favourite sons, appearing on the CBC and criss-crossing the country looking for more stories to tell.

Christy is also a world-traveler, traveling to Honduras and other war zones as a journalist. He is also a sculptor and artist whose works are on display all over the world. As an author, he's written biographies of fellow spirits Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski, as well as a couple of crime novels set in early Vancouver. It all melds together in the end."