{"id":2370,"date":"2008-04-10T19:26:40","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T02:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2008-04-11T08:12:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T15:12:30","slug":"just-like-tom-waits-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2370\/just-like-tom-waits-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Like Tom Waits’ Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was wandering through a funky used record shop the other week, checking out the price per square foot in the 1890’s boutique storefront\u00a0(but really\u00a0hoping to get lost in my distant past), when I heard the voice<\/em> for the first time in a decade,\u00a0maybe longer. It was a voice<\/em>\u00a0that has been famously described as\u00a0sounding “…like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car.” I stood without motion as I\u00a0was drawn in by\u00a0the familiar\u00a0guttural\u00a0sonnets\u00a0dripping through the scratchy piped-in speakers of the\u00a0tiny\u00a0alley\u00a0store with its 14 foot tin ceilings, whose lease, according to my listing sheet,\u00a0would expire in less than a month. At that moment, I have to admit, I\u00a0felt more like a nostalgic sap with a $50,000 line of credit than a realtor on a due diligence assignment.<\/p>\n

An acrid\u00a0Chex<\/em> mix of sad,\u00a0ironic and romantically laced\u00a0phases\u00a0cured in a molasses melody of piano riffs, circus tent\u00a0trombones, and tubas thickened the air for several minutes at a time before being snuffed out between tracks into an imaginary ashtray of half-smoked Chesterfields.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0And then, <\/em>like the\u00a0unnamed but ubiquitously published\u00a0critic wrote so many years ago, \u00a0‘run over by a car.’<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0More than likely,\u00a0an Ol’ 55, if you’re still\u00a0following my drift.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The young guy behind the antique glass counter wanted to sell me\u00a0an evenly worn Tom Waits vinyl disk, just like the one I used to own, for “$20 US.”\u00a0 I told him I didn’t have\u00a0a turntable anymore, or a tape player of any kind, or even a decent set of speakers worth mentioning\u00a0although I did have a CD player in both of my rides.\u00a0He shook his head and gave me\u00a0a funny look as if to say, “Dude, nobody listens to CDs anymore.”<\/em>\u00a0 Or maybe he was just high. I know I <\/em>probably was at his age. He was talking\u00a0very loud because I was wearing\u00a0those ear buds\u00a0tethered with white\u00a0wire that everyone walks around with these days and\u00a0probably just assumed I was simultaneously listening to my iPod<\/em> while checking out what was left on the picked over record racks;\u00a0you know us 50-something, multi-tasking, Baby Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was wandering through a funky used record shop the other week, checking out the price per square foot in the 1890’s boutique storefront\u00a0(but really\u00a0hoping to get lost in my distant past), when I heard the voice for the first time in a decade,\u00a0maybe longer. It was a voice\u00a0that has been famously described as\u00a0sounding “…like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10252,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10252\/google-voice-redux\/","url_meta":{"origin":2370,"position":0},"title":"Google Voice Redux","author":"Damon Chetson","date":"November 9, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in September I gave a lukewarm review of Google Voice.\u00a0 Since September, it's been working much better.\u00a0 Much less lag, much better transcription quality.\u00a0 I use it now on my business cards, website, and so forth, and it's a great tool to help screen calls that come in. 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