Well today is, as it happens, my birthday. Here at NigeCorp, the traditional ox roast is getting under way, and the finest vintages are being brought up from the ancestral cellars. The workers are lined up in their best culluloid collars, hair slicked down, nervously fingering the rims of their doffed caps as they rehearse this year's birthday ode...
As historians will need no reminding, this day is also the anniversary of the regrettable Tumult of Thorn - but, more to the point, I share my birthday exactly (day and year) with the great Tom Waits. Our careers have followed slightly different paths, though, with enough booze and baccy on board, I can manage a passable (to me anyway) imitation. Happy birthday Tom! I am sure that, like me, you rejoice at being one year nearer to your narrow home...
Friday, December 07, 2007
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Happy birthday. And while I'm at it, Merry Christmas.... But I feel the Tumult of Thorn is best forgotten...
ReplyDeleteThe Tumult of Thorn is okay but I preferred his Asylum Years. Happy birthday. And to think we never thought we'd make 25.
ReplyDeleteAnd a very Happy Birthday to you, old chum. As you know, it was mine on Wednesday (we Sagittarians must stick together), a date I share with a veritable triumvirate of diverse genius... Joan Didion, Walt Disney and snooker player extraordinaire, Ronnie ‘The Rocket’ O’Sullivan. Not bad, I think you’ll agree. And at least I can rest in the knowledge that Tom Waits features in my birthday week. Cheers!
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Happy Birthday.
ReplyDeleteApart from the mighty 'In the Neighbourhood' from Swordfishtrombones, my favourite is: What's he building in there?
happy birthday, nige.
ReplyDeleteBut brit, have you got the clip with him and Ian Hislop? it's the only one of his performances I think I like.
'they're just thorns without the rose
ReplyDeletebe careful of them in the dark'
i aspire to be Waits, though so far i've only got as far as being like one of his characters.
Many happy returns Tom. And Nige too.
ReplyDeleteNige, I hope you're wearing your green gabardines with boneroo britches and a leviticously duteronomous sort of catastrophic lunchbox Stetson?
Many happy returns Nige! And can I say that, on a personal level, I'm quite glad you're not too much like Tom Waits.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Nige! Here in the U.S., today marks a major Day of Infamy (Pearl Harbor attack).
ReplyDeleteHmm, Tom Waits. He's a bit beyond my era. I like that other Waits who had one big hit song, "I'm not missin' you at all....."
Thanks everybody - and Chip, how did you know what I was wearing?! That man is psychic...
ReplyDeleteNige, it's what all true Waits fans must wear on his birthday. I know I am... with a thong, of course.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's cool Nige. I share my birthday with Nigel Mansell, my wife shares with Noddy Holder. I think you win. Happy Birthday.
ReplyDeleteDoes Tom live in Carshalton too? Happy b'day Nige
ReplyDeleteMany Happy Returns. Perhaps you will enjoy a tumult of popping corks this evening.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Nige.
ReplyDeleteTom doesn't live in Carshalton yet, Richard, but I'm sure that, as with evryone else, it's only a matter of time. Our celebrated Ponds would surely have a revivifying effect on his muse...
ReplyDeleteThanks again, everyone.
an invitation to the blues methinks...
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