One of the photos from this series was later used as the cover art for Tom Waits' 1985 album Rain Dogs.

So does Rain Dogs (swimming, as it is, alongside your current thespian activities) signal a new era for Tom Waits?

If you were really a careerist, this is where you'd say Rain Dogs.

Pitchfork Media listed Rain Dogs as 8th best album of the 1980s.

Rolling Stone called Rain Dogs Waits' "finest portrait of the tragic kingdom of the streets."

The two have also expressed plans to eventually team up again for Clem's long-planned post-apocalyptic saga "The Rain Dogs".

In 1990, he and three friends set up their own company, Rain Dog, with the idea of adapting or creating plays through improvisation.

And if you want to talk Tom Waits albums, "Small Change" is way more deck than "Rain Dogs."

Other original series have included Witch World (1997) and Rain Dogs (2000).

Tom Waits's Rain Dogs features track 12, 9th & Hennepin.