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TOM OROURKE

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Censored - Eye of the Storm - What a Police State Looks Like
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اثر بلادي الخطوات على هذا الكوكب ، تكشف عن رحلتي من الولادة الى زوال ، وبعد ذلك عرض كل ليراها الجميع ، وليس لدي اي سبب يدعو الى العزله عندما نريد لهذا العالم كما هو من الان واحد فقط واعلم أن اسكن. .الانسانيهtranslation:- Trace my steps upon this globe, reveal my journey from birth to demise and then display all for all to see, I have no reason to want for solitude when this world is as of now the only one I know that I inhabit. Humanity.
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Well what about me? I've lived in Liverpool for the last twelve years I arrived back here on July 4th 1995 independance day after being away doing many other things since 1969. I am the proud father of two boys Robert James and Blake Douglas who have now entered their own adult lives and are doing ok. I am a musician/singer/guitarist/artist/writer/poet /traveller and most of all a lover of life.PEACE LOVE FREEDOM OM MANI PADME HUM NAMY YOHO RHENGE KYOMy Music section is www.myspace.com/iatlbas
Make your own custom scroller sign at ProfileMix.com!"I was laying in bed delirious, sort of hallucinating for about 24 hours. I had this one vision in my mind of a place that was like the ark of buildings, like a modern hotel, with all these rooms made of concrete. There was an electronic eye which scanned everything. In one room you had a couple that were making love, but lovelessly. It was cold sex with books and gadgets and what have you. In another room there was somebody just looking at himself in the mirror, just obsessed with himself. In another room there was a musician with a bank of synthesisers, wearing headphones, and there was no sound.This was a very terrible, bleak place. Everybody was taken up with self-interested activity which kept them looped in on themselves. It wasn't like they were prisoners, they were all active, but only within themselves. And that kept them from being a problem or a threat to the cold order represented by the eye.A couple of days later I was on the beach sunbathing and suddenly a poem popped into my head. It started out 'I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe, I will tell you things at random' and it went on about how the quality of randomness, spontaneity, surprise, unexpectedness and irrationality in our lives is a very precious thing. And if you suppress that to have a nice orderly life, you kill off what's most important. Whereas in the Penguin Cafe your unconscious can just be. It's acceptable there, and that's how everybody is. There is an acceptance there that has to do with living the present with no fear in ourselves." Simon Jeffes PCO
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My Interests


Musician, guitarist, singer songwriter, poet, artist, lyricist, traveller, lover, father, dreamer, dancer, orphan, philosopher, elder wiser, player, eating / actor / movies / Buddhism / conversation / live performance and anyone who enjoys life.Masthead Banner Made with MyBannerMaker.com! Click here to make your own!

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Add to My Profile | More VideosAt the end of days in my beach house in ibiza full of friends playing music and watching the final sunami roll in from the East and ready with my board for the last breaker.

Music:

from jazz to infinity and beyond and names of solo artistes and groups too numerous to mention and they are still being mentioned as I write ok Dylan / Taylor / Waites / Cohen / Buckley / Drake many many more. And into this mention I must add my own stuff for good measure. Stuff of which I will upload as and when I finaly get to grips with this infernal torture called the infernet..sorry internet.

Movies:


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Comic from Charlie Chaplin / Laurel and Hardy / Keystone Cops / Harold Lloyd / through the silent years and on into the classic movie mogul studio driven periods i.e. Monroe / Bogart / Flynn / Welles / Brando into the sixties with Sellers / Milligan / Elvis / The Beatles / Fonda [Peter and Jane] Easy Rider and Barbarella

Television:


Has its place but has become the plaything of the media moguls i.e. Rupert Murdock / Fox / ABC / NBC / Sky / CNBC / et al. The age of the celeb and the vacuousity of emptyness that purports itself as being interesting was coined by Murrow in the early nineteen fifties as being the drug of the masses on which we will all amuse ouselves to death.

Books:

Nostradamus / The poets of the enlightenment and the age of reason such as Byron / Shelly / Keats / Blake Wordsworth / Defoe / Coleridge / Wolstonecraft /Godwin / anything by tennesse williams / Twaine / Greene / anything political, Gore Vidal / Norm Chomsky / Hunter S. Thompson / The beat poets Burroughs / Ginsberg / Kerouak / Kassady / Mailer / Snyder / Hunke / Wilde / Behan / Heany / Doyle, and many more are influences in my life.

Heroes:

The little man child by the name of Carlo

My Blog

scott ritter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTGf4X_Qjew
Posted by TOM OROURKE on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:37:00 PST

Chomsky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTGf4X_Qjew
Posted by TOM OROURKE on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:27:00 PST

DEEP SHIT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biibvLxBR-U ...
Posted by TOM OROURKE on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:45:00 PST

MAYDAY PROTESTS AND POLITICS IN GENERAL

FROM DEMOCRACY NOW [THE WAR AND PEACE REPORT]COMES NEWS OF AN ANTI WAR PROTEST BY THE INTERNATIONAL LONGSHORE UNIONSTHEY PLAN TO SHUT DOWN ALL WESTCOAST PORTS IN PROTEST TO THE WAR IN IRAQ. WHAT ARE O...
Posted by TOM OROURKE on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:03:00 PST

Democracynow.org

I have been watching and listening to democracynow.org [broadcast on freespeach TV after 1700 hrs GMT times vary for other nations] for nigh on 4 years and it's history goes back to the early 90's. Pl...
Posted by TOM OROURKE on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:59:00 PST

God

Does God do what he does because he knows it, or does God have nothing to do with us human beings at all? After all the word God is just that, a word that was introduced by some philospher or so...
Posted by TOM OROURKE on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 07:28:00 PST

be free

Don't be decieved when they tell you that things are better now. Even if there is no poverty to be seen; because the poverty has been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy mo...
Posted by TOM OROURKE on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:12:00 PST

iatlbas

From the begining the only reason I could see for my existance on this 3rd rock from the sun was to be persecuted by older syblings for whatever kick they where getting from the act [they would obviou...
Posted by TOM OROURKE on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:18:00 PST

music life love and the persecution of the free-radicals

Well who would've thought this thirty years ago that one day I would be looking at a screen putting words into a box and those words would be read by Cat Stevens [Yusuf Islam] allegedly. If it's true ...
Posted by TOM OROURKE on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:47:00 PST

enjoy

    Whisper [Tom O'Rourke] Jan 2006 © With a whisper she drew upon a billion flies And there in the blackening mist did death overcome the people sleeping fear and dread grew amongst the...
Posted by TOM OROURKE on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:36:00 PST