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Thom

And what is it what goes on in this postmodern gas chamber?

About Me

The situation couldn't have been any worse. The work continued to stagnate. The staff members were dropping off because of the mysterious serial killer. And, hiding something important, Tamiko, my assistant, was probably keeping a watch over me. And, it's possible because of his obsession with the production, Handawara came back as a zombie. With those two as my team, I had to complete the unidentifiable movie.

My Interests

absurdism, adult swim, anarchism, animation, anti-authoritarianism, atari, atheism, beer, bizarre magazine, body horror, bolo ties, british pubs, cocktails, coffee, collecting shit, comics, cult film, denim, dive bars, dystopian fiction, egoism, false documents, film noir, fitness, futurism, gallows humor, gaming, giallo, individualism, jidai geki, mutualism, new journalism, non sequiturs, pinku eiga, po, portmanteaux, postmodern lit, postcyberpunk, pulp, robots, screenwriting, '70s sci-fi films, sketch comedy, soviet kitsch, strobe lights, transhumanism, westerns, yakuza eiga, zippo lighters, zombies

Music:

Currently on rotation:

alternative country, death rock, early punk, gothic, hip hop, indie pop, industrial, metal (death, doom, drone, sludge, stoner, thrash), noise rock, post-punk, psych, psychobilly, shoegaze, soul, synth pop

Movies:

Current GreenCine rentals:
Wes Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Ralph Bakshi, Mario Bava, Ingmar Bergman, Luis Buñuel, John Carpenter, Kaige Chen, Peter Chung, Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, Brian DePalma, Atom Egoyan, Sergei Eisenstein, Abel Ferrara, John Ford, Kinji Fukasaku, Lucio Fulci, Samuel Fuller, Terry Gilliam, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Haneke, Werner Herzog, Walter Hill, Peter Jackson, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chuck Jones, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Kim Ki-Duk, Satoshi Kon, Akira Kurosawa, Neil LaBute, Charles Laughton, Mike Leigh, Sergio Leone, Joseph Losey, David Lynch, Guy Maddin, Neil Marshall, Jean-Pierre Melville, Russ Meyer, Takashi Miike, Hayao Miyazaki, Chan-wook Park, Sam Peckinpah, Bill Plympton, Michael Powell, Sam Raimi, Jean Renoir, Bruce Robinson, George Romero, Roberto Rossellini, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorcese, Seijun Suzuki, Todd Solondz, Jan Svankmajer, Paul Verhoeven, Lars Von Trier, John Waters, Billy Wilder, Michael Winterbottom, Edgar Wright

Television:

On the air: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Battlestar Galactica (the remake), Dexter, Frontline, Heroes, Iron Chef, Jericho, Law and Order, Lost, Masters of Horror, Metalocalpyse, The Mighty Boosh, MythBusters, The Sarah Silverman Program, Saul of the Molemen, Torchwood, Ugly Betty, The Venture Bros., The Wire

RIP: Alias, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica (the one with space discos), The Ben Stiller Show, Deadwood, Disinformation, Firefly, Futurama, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Invader Zim, The Kids in the Hall, Mr. Show, Red Dwarf, Rome, Spaced, The State, Tenacious D, Ultraviolet

Books:

Currently reading:

Iain Banks, J.G. Ballard, Alfred Bester, William S. Burroughs, Albert Camus, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Umberto Eco, Ralph Ellison, Nikos Kazantzakis, Franz Kafka, Haruki Murakami, Henry Miller, Alan Moore, Vladimir Nabokov, Flann O'Brien, Harold Pinter, Thomas Pynchon, Terry Southern, Hunter S. Thompson, Ivan Turgenev, David Foster Wallace, Robert Anton Wilson, P.G. Wodehouse, Gene Wolf

Heroes:

Max Stirner, Benjamin Tucker, Bob the Angry Flower, Destro, Robert Anton Wilson, Mitch Hedberg, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Vince Noir

My Blog

Judith Light as an alcoholic WASP? Brilliant!

I have a confession to make:I am addicted to Ugly Betty.Yes, I watch Ugly Betty.  I had previously believed that Heroes was my new favorite show of the '06-'07 season, but then I was shown the er...
Posted by Thom on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:22:00 PST

10 Observations About L.A.

Or, a few things I've learned about the left coast after one month of residency:1. An "exclusive" club on the Sunset Strip offers pretty much the same atmosphere as a less exclusive, run-of-the-mill c...
Posted by Thom on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:27:00 PST

Adventures in Postmodern Dreaming, Part II

It was the spring of 2008, and for reasons unknown I was attending my ten-year high school reunion. Since none of my friends had decided to show up, I was wandering around the hotel in a tasteful pins...
Posted by Thom on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:03:00 PST

Adventures in Postmodern Dreaming

When I was a kid, I remembered my dreams rather frequently. I even became something of an amateur lucid dreamer. As I got older, I began to remember less and less, and my ability to edit the script g...
Posted by Thom on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST