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Tom

Bandage this noise, you whinning lil' bitch!

About Me

Corn fed. Up the down staircase. Milk drinker. Labelless labler labling labels. Boring. Tea drinker.

My Interests

Gear and Kit(synths, drum machines, puters, music software, samplers), shoes, chocolate, radio(WMSE), music, art. Sciences, bird watcher, photography, boxing, weather and storms, avid bowler w/ a human skull ball(see photo).

I'd like to meet:

apes who like other apes. People who like Buttermints and Boyer Smoothies.

Music:

Frontline:kevin coyne, john cale, can, kraut rock, JG Thirlwell, tangerine dream, hawkwind, all the Tzadik I can handle, Foetus, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Einstruzende Neubauten, Bill Nelson, Shockheaded Peters, Okka disk, Die Haut, rip,rig,panic, lemon kittens, On-U, alienfaktor and all decibel, Forced Exposure, Dusty Groove, Atomic Records, Rush-Mor Records, 60's 70's Soul and funk, dub, brazzaville, Clock DVA, A3, Centro-Matic, Severed Heads, Industrial, Hula, Chakk, In the Nursery, Sheffield, Old ass country, Ornette Coleman, Utech records, Micha Fixes Clocks, Blurt, Ted Milton, Philadelphia 5, Force Dimension, Wilco, Henry Cowell,Michel Chion, Dhomont, Morton Feldman, Lou Harrison, Dead Serialists, Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers, John Oswald, Eno, Ed Blackwell, John Fahey, Flanger, AACM, Sun Ra, Radar Brothers, Johnny Cash, Kraftwerk, Sparks, Yank and Brit Pop, Stockhausen, Meredith Monk, The Stranglers, Lemmy, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sakamoto, Takahashi, Hosono, Ministry, Coltrane, Glenn Branca, The Ex, Motorhead, all GLAM, Bowie, Fripp and KC, Scanner, V5, barkmarket, Tackhead, Tom Waits, P.P. Arnold, VDGG=Hammill, Magma, jiri-receiver, PGR, Fred Frith, Don Cherry, Hafler Trio, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, Thin Lizzy, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat Trio, Brithday Party, U-Men, Big band, Skeleton Key, Conlon Nancarrow, Nels Kline, Baptist Generals, Albini and all of his ilk, Faust, Peter Brotzmann, Cabaret Voltaire, mastadon, sunn0))), earth, ju ju, afrobeat, gamelan, Fela, rai, christain marclay, turntable terrorism, merzbow, velvet underground, Wergo records, Computer music, Front242, Zappa. This is surface.+-+-+ Francois Houle,, bibio, boy robot, arovane, Otto von Schirach, Broken Social Scene, Ultravox, John Foxx, Danny Cohen, Mike Patton, beequeen, the Billy Nayer Show, Gerald Collier, Magic Arrows, die blutieuchte, christain marclay, Tony Allen, SGM, Porn Sword Tobacco, cowboys international, the new V5, gang of four, Laibach, Erik Satie, All kinds of Boogie Woogie Piano music, Maurizo Bianchi, Territory Band, Caspar Brotzmann Massaker, 2 Foot Yard, Faun Fables

Movies:

All Lynch, All Fassbinder, All Greenaway, Chris Cunningham, Anton Corjbin, Herzog, Wes Anderson, Eraserhead, Cabinet Dr. Caligari, The Ninth Configruation, Horror cheapness, John Ford, William Wyler, Nicohlas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Salo, All Kubrick, Holy mountain, Peter Sellars, Decalogue, Throne of Blood, Any movie w/ Sandy Dennis, Douglas Sirk, Svankmajer, Fritz Lang, Bunuel, Pixote, Cocteau, Cassavettes, Julian Beck, Japanese horror, Pasolini, man ray, Radley Metzger, Rinse Dream, John Waters Quay Brothers.

Television:

First Person. POV. nature. nova. Total guilty - Cops, Forensic Files, Court TV..I know....I know...it's skanky ass TV it's like watching a train wreck,...Weather Channel.

Books:

Field guides, boll, r a wilson, colin wilson, burroughs, hunke, selby, genet, jim carroll, mysterious skin, william gibson, true crime, j g Ballard, G Grass, medical guides, Insects, invertebrates, science, weather, art books..hornby, the Beleiver, McSweeney's, Quimby's, microbiology.NYTimes too many magazines.jose saramago, irving. jack london, meville. On and on..even robert bloch and ellison, hal clement/needle. moorcock/behold the man.Phillip Dick get his own category.

Heroes:

Mom the Chemist and Dad the Earth Ground.

My Blog

Hugh

Crawford, Hugh D. Sr. Wed., Oct. 25, 2006 after a brief and valiant battle with cancer, age 86 years. Loving husband of the late Sonia. Father of Hugh D. (Robin Erickson) Crawford, Jr., David (Stella...
Posted by Tom on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:12:00 PST

Memorial For Gary Pollack

There's going to be a Memorial Service for Gary Pollack. Our artist friend and close friend of Charlie Dwyer. Charlie took care of Gary last decade of his life, teaching him how to paint and giving h...
Posted by Tom on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:31:00 PST

G-Dog the Lucky Strike

This is a picture of Gary Pollack taken by his close friend Charlie Dwyer. Gary died peacefully Monday June 26th. I will miss Gary. There's a serious piece of heavan waiting for you Charlie...
Posted by Tom on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:41:00 PST