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I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick from the 1700s, that's dog food from the turn of the century, that's a hat from World War II. I'm interested in the minutiae of things. Oddities.

Tom Waits
Dog, War, Oddities
Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2006.
I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like Hey, Ray, what the hell is this? Oh, that's lipstick from the 1700s, that's dog food from the turn of the century, that's a hat from World War II. I'm