History
*Musician and actor TOM WAITS is one of the great countercultural artists of our time, His '70s albums documented low life America in an LA that no longer exists
*Filmmaker Alex Harvey, author of 'Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles’ comes to the Bureau to tell how Waits mined a rich seam of the city’s low-life locations and characters, letting the place feed his dark imagination.
*We hear how Tom blended real life with the mythic, turning autobiographical details into songs that were both romantic and disturbing - and created a vision of LA as the warped, narcotic heart of his nocturnal explorations.
*For more on Alex http://alexanderharvey.org/
*For Song Noir: http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781789146639
*For more on Tom Waits: http://www.tomwaits.com/
*For The Bureau of Lost Culture https://www.bureauoflostculture.com
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