AliceAlice is one of the most distinctive of all Waits creations, occupying its own corner in the odd angeld room that is Tom Waits body of work. While there are familiar partsthe redoubtable ragged voice, jazz ballads and poignant musings on death and longingthe whole is strange and exotic. A devastatingly beautiful atmosphere made of sorrow and reverie, insanity and resignation, rises like a mist in Alice. Its a lyrical melancholia, a feeling that creeps