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Tom

I am here for Networking

About Me

You probably know more than you should already. But I'll keep you posted. Not on here trying to hook up -- when I go looking for love I'll do it someplace respectable like the Gaslight parking lot at closing time. ..

My Interests

Reading, writing, movies, filmmaking

I'd like to meet:

Good people. I already know plenty of villains.

Music:

Joy Division, Massive Attack, Clinic, Lou Reed, John Coltrane, Fear Factory, Leonard Cohen, The Clash, Depeche Mode, Royksopp, Miles Davis, The Knife, The Gyres, Pink Floyd, Filter, New Order, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, The Smiths, Chemical Brothers, Coldplay, Arab Strap, The Jim Carroll Band, Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, The Beatles, Morphine, The Shins, Al Green, The Bravery, Portishead, The Pixies, David Bowie, Hossein Alizadeh, Monster Magnet, The Pogues, Modest Mouse, Iggy Pop, Guns N' Roses, Bob Seger, Interpol, Bob Dylan, Stone Roses, Wagner, Mirwais, The Spinners. And Billy Idol!

Movies:

Adaptation, F for Fake, Blade Runner (DC), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Trainspotting, Contempt, Sunshine, Acid House, Apocalypse Now, Easy Rider, Kwaidan, Fight Club, The Trial, Unforgiven, The Hustler, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Third Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ran, Ghost in the Shell 2, Once Upon a Time in the West, Youth of the Beast, Brazil, They Live, Babel, Happiness of the Katakuris, Heart of Glass, Excalibur, Closer, Eternal Sunshine, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Magnolia, Matrix Trilogy, Nosferatu (Herzog's), The Lady from Shanghai, The Color of Money, Audition, Sexy Beast, The Seventh Seal, The Good/Bad/Ugly, Breathless, 12 Monkeys, Great Expectations, Alphaville, Yellow Submarine, The Fisher King, The Girl in the Cafe, A Scanner Darkly, The Prestige, Pi, Sunset Boulevard, A Touch of Evil
Which Trainspotting Character Are You?

Television:

Trailer Park Boys, Rome, No Reservations, In Treatment

Books:

Authors? Howard Bloom, Irvine Welsh, Paulo Coelho, William S. Burroughs, Phillip K. Dick, H.P. Lovecraft, Herman Hesse

Heroes:

Orson Welles, Howard Bloom, Bernard Hopkins. And that guy who busted up Granby, CO with his A-team bulldozer. Have a look http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Central/06/04/bulldozer.rampage/O kay, not so much that last guy, he was a bit of a bastard. But read it, it's a good story.

My Blog

Downtown Anchorage, circa 1973 -- "They can smell your fear..."

Great story a friend's uncle was kind enough to share: It's the early seventies and these two hippies just finished an obscene amount of mescaline. Trying to decide what to do with the long evening ...
Posted by Tom on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:38:00 PST

Touched by the Ham of God

It's been several weeks, but I still can't seem to shake the shock from one of the most outlandishly stupid and bizarre dreams I've ever had. humor me for a minute and read on...I'm just returning to...
Posted by Tom on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:59:00 PST

Too Many Films For Real

Any Tricky fans out there? Anyhow, the latest film created by my amigos and I has been posted online. It was part of a New York-based contest that assigned us a genre and subject, and gave us two we...
Posted by Tom on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 06:51:00 PST

Depravity

Last weekend I saw it happen. The kind of savagery you add to three parts water to get regular terrible behavior. I showed up at 2am, things started flying by 2:15 and at 2:30 I snuck out the garage...
Posted by Tom on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST