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I love that John chose Tom Waits as being the celebrity whose life he'd be into watching as reality TV. What a magnificently talented, quirky, moody, awesome person. He lives just outside of my town, and my husband serves him breakfast just about every other week (he sometimes goes out to breakfast with Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, and one of the guys from Counting Crows, which is just so bizarre to me). Friends have taken African dance classes with him, he helped jump-start a friend's car when she broke down, he's been observed yelling at his kids in the car in a parking lot, I've seen him at community dinners, coffee houses, and concerts locally. It's just so great to check in with him now and then. He's so elusive, and private, but it feels so surreal and magical to catch glimpses, like our own local sasquatch.