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Tommy Heffernan

I beat the shit out of my Scantron

About Me



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measurements widthXheight "Goat" oil on cabinet door "Cthulhu I" oil on Durarock "Dinner" 38"X42" oil on canvas dropcloth "Lunch" 16X20 oil on luann 48"X33" acrylics then oil on quarter inch plywood "Brekfast" 16"X20" oil on canvas "The Death of Beowulf" 20"X22" oil on three quarter inch plywood 26"X26" oil on tabletop 18"X20" oil on canvas 16"X20" oil on canvas 18"X24" oil on canvas 21"X23" oil on half inch plywood 26"X26" oil on tabletop 11"X14" oil on canvas 9"X12" oil on canvas

My Interests

music, painting, drawing, collage, folklore, Sidhe, children, their books and movies, the drawings they make, anonymous texts, dreams, illustration, torn edges, geneology, Magic the Gathering, Stuckism, carpentry, fidchell, cooking, beer, cats, peachfish, catharsis, astrology, geometry, ceramics, bonfires, role playing and strategy video games (RIP Black Isle), Art Nouveau, homemade furnishings in houses and vehicles, gizmos and contraptions, castle Legos, Mother Nature, gardening, book and album covers, Zanac, pictures of people dressed up at Comic Book Conventions, cichlids, Community Dark Roast, Zapp's Cajun Crawtators, blacklight posters, pizza, mood rings, olde tymes, clear colored plastic, Pink Hearts, Yellow Moons, Orange Stars, Green Clovers and Blue Diamonds cuz they're Magically Delicious

I'd like to meet:

friends, artists, musicians, photographers, writers

Music:

Melvins, The Jesus Lizard, The Church, My Bloody Valentine, Skinny Puppy, The Cramps, Van Morrison, Them, The Byrds, James Brown, The JB's, The Meters, The Waterboys, Captain Beefheart, Concrete Blonde, Dead Can Dance, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Jimmy McCracklin, Chrome, Pere Ubu, The Dead Boys, Rocket From the Tombs, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Booker T and The MG's, Public Enemy, Wu Tang Clan, Gravediggaz, Minutemen, The Sisters of Mercy, The Dead Milkmen, Bad Brains, Neurosis, Cranes, PJ Harvey, Sigur Ros, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, The Zombies, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Ella Fitzgerald, Louie Armstrong, Charles Mingus, MC5, Love, Mazzy Star, Mekons, Rocket From the Crypt, Jessamine, The Shadows of Knight, The Turtles ("Eve of Destruction"), The Mamas and the Papas, ? and The Mysterians, William DeVaughn, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, Digable Planets, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Tricky, Brian Eno, King Crimson, Talking Heads, Gorillaz, Deltron, Howlin' Wolf, Sly and The Family Stone, T.Rex, Meat Puppets, Eric's Trip, Elevator to Hell, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Grifters, Boss Hog, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Reverend Horton Heat, Southern Culture on the Skids, Portishead, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Chameleons UK, The Go-Betweens, Parliament, Funkadelic, Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, EPMD, The Roots, The Pharcyde, WAR, The Chambers Brothers, Ray Charles, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, De La Soul, MF DOOM, El-P, DJ Shadow, Massive Attack, Gil Scott-Heron, Johnny Cash, Marvin Gaye, Etta James, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Kyuss, Wire, Television, Sex Pistols, The Clash, X, Frank Zappa, Sonic Youth, Prince, Sam Cooke ("A Change is Gonna Come"), Beastie Boys, Freddie King, LaVern Baker, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Claude Debussy, Modest Mussorgsky, Karol Szymanowski, Gabriel Faure, Samuel Barber, Bjork, Big Star, Blue Cheer, The Who, The Seeds, Gong, Soft Machine, Brian Eno, Cowboy Junkies, The Flatlanders, The Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Soft Boys, Richard Hell and The Voidoids, The Specials, Mission of Burma, The Replacements, Mojo Nixon, Angry Samoans, Quicksand, Fugazi, The Stone Roses, Tom Waits, Yo La Tengo, Half Japanese, Spacemen 3, Slowdive, Coil, Kompressor, Nitzer Ebb, etc...

Movies:

Scanners, Phantasm, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Point, Allegro Non Troppo, Wizards, Fantastic Planet, Escape From New York, Mad Monster Party, The Dark Crystal, Tampopo, Sanjuro, Smoke, Montenegro, Antonia's Line, The Triplets of Belleville, Microcosmos, Amadeus, The Road Warrior, Trancers, Five Deadly Venoms, The Elmchanted Forest, M*A*S*H, Flesh + Blood, Ghost Dog, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Big Night

Television:

fuck TV

Books:

The Charwoman's Shadow- Lord Dunsany, The Worm Ouroboros-E. R. Eddison, The Gormenghast Novels- Mervyn Peake, The Last Unicorn- Peter S. Beagle, 1984- George Orwell, Frankenstein- Mary Shelley, The Mabinogion, Njal's Saga, Lilith- George MacDonald, A Canticle for Leibowitz- Walter M. Miller Jr., Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison, Pan- Knut Hamsun, Little, Big- John Crowley, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath- H. P. Lovecraft, The Decameron- Giovanni Boccaccio, Grendel- John Gardner, A Voyage To Arcturus- David Lindsay, A Scanner Darkly- Philip K. Dick, Creatures of Light and Darkness- Roger Zelazny, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales- Ed. W. B. Yeats, Hamlet- Shakespeare, My Life and Hard Times- James Thurber, City- Clifford D. Simak, More Than Human- Theodore Sturgeon, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest- Ken Kesey, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead- Tom Stoppard, Perfume- Patrick Suskind, Goblin Market- Christina Rossetti, Tales from the White Hart- Arthur C. Clarke, The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World- Harlan Ellison, Neuromancer- William Gibson, Hex- Arthur H. Lewis, The Futurological Congress- Stanislaw Lem, Still Life With Woodpecker- Tom Robbins

Heroes:

Hazel (my daughter), Barbara and Drew Rieben, Boudicca, Brian Boru, Sidney Sime, Kevin O'Neill (Nemesis the Warlock), Ian Miller, Mervyn Peake, Van Gogh's ear, Theodor Kittelsen, Philip Guston, James Ensor, Akira Kurosawa, Jan Toorop, Caspar David Friedrich, Gerald Brom, Clark Ashton Smith, Michael Collins, Giotto, Klimt, Larry Stroman (Alien Legion), Kandinsky, Gustave Dore, W. B. Yeats, Helen Frankenthaler, Roky Erickson, H. P. Lovecraft, Bob Dylan, Blair Lent, Arthur Rackham, George MacDonald, James Thurber, The Church, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Bernie Wrightson, Robert Crumb, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Jon J. Muth (Moonshadow), Ghandi, Steve Biko, Syd Barrett, Mary Shelley, Grendel, Zdzislaw Beksinski, Schmendrick
You Are Animal
A complete lunatic, you're operating on 100% animal instincts.
You thrive on uncontrolled energy, and you're downright scary.
But you sure can beat a good drum.
"Kill! Kill!" The Muppet Personality Test the cover of The Green Door number one-- some of Barbara's work etching

My Blog

Witchcraft

evil priestess of yore.  she's definitely got all the props: the ancient tomes bound in sacrificial manflesh, the PVC skull, the charred lamb-fat candle, the downturned head with the mysterious u...
Posted by Tommy Heffernan on Mon, 19 May 2008 12:45:00 PST

Jaguar

check out my new ride.  Jaguar XJ6 4.0 litre, muthahfuckahs!  it's a '94, has just over 134K miles on it, whcih is low, especially considering that it has been to Minnesota and back twice.&n...
Posted by Tommy Heffernan on Mon, 19 May 2008 07:28:00 PST

the Midgard Serpent

correction: the plural form of mantis is mantids.  i don't know.  may need to correct my correction.i've been reading a book called The Island of the Mighty by Evangeline Walton, which is ba...
Posted by Tommy Heffernan on Mon, 19 May 2008 07:15:00 PST

Praying Manti

i don't know how to write this one without it sounding like a bad trip from A Scanner Darkly.  one evening last month i saw a spot on my wall.  it moved, so i examined it more closely. ...
Posted by Tommy Heffernan on Mon, 19 May 2008 07:11:00 PST

(JFK)/Yvonne DeCarlo (Lily Munster)

(the head of the English department at Gulf Breeze High School is a guy named Ken Killam.  his cousin Hank Killam painted houses with Lee Harvey Oswald.  his wife worked in Jack Ruby's club....
Posted by Tommy Heffernan on Mon, 19 May 2008 07:04:00 PST

Carolyn Jones (Morticia Addams)

in keeping with the theme set by my latest and greatest blog, i give you Carolyn Jones (AKA Morticia Addams).  here is a close-up with her lovely (umm) poison ring.and a circa 1964 TV guide cover...
Posted by Tommy Heffernan on Mon, 19 May 2008 06:33:00 PST

LBJ/Vietnam Police Action

i must deviate from my previous topic to bring you... something deviant.  my deviation was precipitously precipitated by my purchase of an original AP copy of The Warren Report yesterday at the t...
Posted by Tommy Heffernan on Mon, 19 May 2008 06:47:00 PST

Countess Dracula

to honor olde traditionsthru one year of transitionhear this mortar shot resounddislodged when founddistorting your computar skreenhear ye hear ye.  once there was a bond between man and elf, and...
Posted by Tommy Heffernan on Mon, 19 May 2008 06:23:00 PST

imminent death

the death rattle is pronouncedwe haven't had a conversation since i was thirteenmother of my motherwhere'd yer mind go?and was the final blowwhen we moved away from Orlando?did you go blind from watch...
Posted by Tommy Heffernan on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:46:00 PST