Ill-lit and Vomit-green

A few months into this time, around December, a journalist named McGee came to interview him for Rolling Stone. In the published interview, the journalist describes the room as “ill-lit” and “vomit-green” with porn magazines and cigarette butts strewn all around. In spite of this, or maybe because of this, the journalist and him became friends. The journalist and his wife would invite him over to their house for dinner every now and then. He would sit at their table feeling shy but happy.

-from "Resident Bohemians: The Nighthawk, Tom Waits" by James Yeh, originally published in The Rumpus (2010)