Most gift shops: Fatima, Portugal

Fotografia retirada do blogue: Afinidades eletivas.

Q: What remarkable things have you found in unexpected places?

A: 1. Real beauty: oil stains left by cars in a parking lot.

2. Shoeshine stands in Brazil that looked like thrones made of scrap wood.

3. False teeth in pawnshop windows: Reno, Nevada.

4. Great acoustics: in jail.

5. Best food: airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

6. Most gift shops: Fatima, Portugal.

8. Most unlikely location for a Chicano crowd: a Morrissey concert.

9. Most poverty: Washington, DC.

10. A homeless man with a beautiful operatic voice singing the word "bacteria" in an empty dumpster in Chinatown.

11. A Chinese man with a Texan accent in Scotland.

12. Best night's sleep: in a dry riverbed in Arizona.

13. Most people who wear red pants: St Louis.

14. Most beautiful horses: NYC.

15. A judge in Baltimore MD1890 presided over a trial where a man who was accused of murder and was guilty, and convicted by a jury of his peers... and was let go, when the judge said to him at the end of the trial, "You are guilty, sir... but I cannot put in jail an innocent man." You see, the murderer was a Siamese twin.

16. Largest penis (in proportion to its body): the barnacle.

Excerto de entrevista de Tom Waits a Tom Waits, publicada no The Independent, ler aqui na integra.

Tom Waits -" God's Away On Business"