Tom Waits

The Louche Life

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Sightings of Tom Waits were a talking point, a curiously shared experience amongst friends when I lived in LA. Anyone might catch him shuffling through West Hollywood, just east of Beverly Hills and south of the Sunset Strip; a drive-by glimpse in the obscurity of pre-dawn light, looking like some hapless dude in a slept-in suit, navigating the sidewalk to oblivion within a wedge of corridors that converged at Melrose…