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According to the Tom Waits Twitter feed
Posted by hermon hermit on 20 April 2009 - 7:54pm.
he's "in a hard time with money" and is having to flog ringtones via his tweets.
Is this the real Mr Waits? He is assuring followers that it is see -
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The real Tom Waits?
I doubt it:
Doesn't really sound like our man, does it?
There is no way
Tom Waits 'twitters'. It would be so wrong somehow.
Hell will freeze over first...
...thereby fulfilling a Tom Waits lyric.
The following is representative of his attitude to mobile phones and technology, from the gig I saw in Dublin:
"Your phone is also a camera. Well, my sunglasses are also a tricycle".
The idea of him flogging ringtones - while tweeting - is laughable.
What's more, I don't doubt that this impersonator will be hearing from his legal team shortly. Waits has been known to have a sense of humour failure when it comes to using his identity / likeness for profit. As many an advertiser has learned to their (substantial) cost.
Way Down in the Hole
is played at the beginning of every episode of The Wire, bringing in, I should imagine, a good deal of cash. It can't be him Twittering.
It has now..
been suspended due to `'strange activity"!!