{"id":331,"date":"2012-08-07T17:45:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T17:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/tuesday-table-tom-waits-characters\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T16:57:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T22:57:44","slug":"tuesday-table-tom-waits-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/tuesday-table-tom-waits-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Table: Characters Inspired By Tom Waits Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Tom Waits has a new album on the way, here’s a random table of characters from his songs. No matter how you work them into your game, they’re bound to add a little weirdness.<\/p>\n

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Correction: <\/b>As it turns out, Tom’s teasers weren’t for a new album announcement. They were for the video of “Hell Broke Luce”<\/a> from Bad As Me<\/i> . Wishful thinking on my part, I guess.–Steve <\/p>\n

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  1. George W. Bush from “The Road to Peace” (WWPHITM? Dennis Quaid)<\/li>\n
  2. The Captain (A one-eyed dwarf who’s fond of gambling.) from “Singapore” (WWPHITM? Peter Dinklage)<\/li>\n
  3. The hooker from Minneapolis from “Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis” (WWPHITM? Marissa Tomei)<\/li>\n
  4. A man in a blue trench coat (Never trust him) from “Telephone Call From Istanbul” (WWPHITM? Donald Sutherland)<\/li>\n
  5. Hannibal, or maybe just Rex (He knows karate. Voodoo, too) from “Goin’ Out West” (WWPHITM? Gary Oldman from True Romance<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  6. The Jersey girl from “Jersey Girl” (WWPHTIM? Alyssa Milano)<\/li>\n
  7. The Black Rider from “The Black Rider” (WWPHITM? Johnny Depp)<\/li>\n
  8. The neighbor from “What’s He Building In There?” (WWPHITM? Tom Waits)<\/li>\n
  9. The soldier in “The Day After Tomorrow” (WWPHTIM? Mark Wahlberg)<\/li>\n
  10. Frank from “Frank’s Wild Years” (WWPHITM? Jeremy Piven)<\/li>\n
  11. Big Joe from “Big Joe and the Phantom 309 (WWPHITM? John Goodman)<\/li>\n
  12. The hobo in “Cold Water” (WWPHTIM? Jim Beaver)<\/li>\n
  13. Philly Joe Remarkable from “Heart Attack and Vine” (WWPHTIM? George Clooney)<\/li>\n
  14. Presley from “Burma Shave” (WWPHITM? Nicholas Cage from Wild at Heart<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  15. The cook from “Filipino Box Spring Hog” (WWPHITM? Woody Harrelson)<\/li>\n
  16. John from “Gun Street Girl” (WWPHTIM? Johnny Knoxville)<\/li>\n
  17. Peoria Johnson (He can break out of any jail with a fish bone) from “Fish in the Jailhouse” (WWPHITM? Steve Buscemi)<\/li>\n
  18. Big Jack Earle from “Get Behind the Mule” (WWPHTIM? Robbie Coltrane)<\/li>\n
  19. The guy on shore leave in “Shore Leave” (WWPHTIM? Nathan Fillion)<\/li>\n
  20. Your second cousin from “The Heart of Saturday Night” (WWPHTIM? Ken Marino)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Since Tom Waits has a new album on the way, here’s a random table of characters from his songs. No matter how you work them into your game, they’re bound to add a little weirdness.   Correction: As it turns out, Tom’s teasers weren’t for a new album announcement. They were for the video of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1996],"tags":[2667,2679,2678,2677,2676,2675,2674,2673,2672,2671,2670,2669,2668,43,2666,2665,2664,2569,2567,2394,1761,1595,1321,886,572,417],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumb-tables","tag-marissa-tomei","tag-ken-marino","tag-nathan-fillion","tag-robbie-coltrane","tag-johnny-knoxville","tag-woody-harrelson","tag-wild-at-heart","tag-george-clooney","tag-mark-wahlberg","tag-johnny-depp","tag-alyssa-milano","tag-gary-oldman","tag-donald-sutherland","tag-qags","tag-peter-dinklage","tag-dennis-quaid","tag-bad-as-me","tag-steve-buscemi","tag-jim-beaver","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-npcs","tag-john-goodman","tag-tom-waits","tag-dumb-tables","tag-jeremy-piven","tag-true-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3961,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/3961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}