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I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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Pomona
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Thomas Alan Waits
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