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Tommy

God long ago abandoned us in order that we might realize the joy of attaining godhood through our ow

About Me

unpublished tortured writer hopeless romantic wine-drinking third-shifting dog-loving esoteric poet son of a bitch 32nd degree Scottish Rite Freemason, Knight Templar, Martinist recovering Catholic Christian Taoist sometimes Gnostic kinky pothead Deadhead beer-drinking panty-sniffing motherfucker with a BA in English (Creative Writing) from UW-fuckin'-Milwaukee coffee addict tree-hugging radical..please donate to help victims of Stephen Johnson Syndrome http://www.sjsupport.org/index.shtml

Connecticut Beat Poetry Festival 2008

Presented by The Spoken Word Series

Once Allen Ginsberg drew the line after having read Howl, the world was never quite the same.
And now a new time has come, where silent voices of many generations are ready to be heard once again.
The underground and other factions of artists, poets, musicians, and eccentrics are rallying together in mass exodus to commune with each other in Connecticut.
This will be the largest free poetry festival ever held in Connecticut and the Eastern Seaboard.
Who ever participates in this festival will not only network, meet publishers, see old friends and meet new ones, but will also directly contribute to making history.
This will be the Woodstock of poetry festivals.
The underlying intent, in addition to celebrating Beat poets and authors, is to take poets of minor note, regional fame with unknowns and give them strong exposure, just as was the case for our antecedents at 6 Gallery.

To learn more, visit this link:http://www. myspace. com/beatpoetryfestival
Your mom helped me edit my profile with your mom's myspace editor Extended Network generated from http://www.customizeyourspace.comraindrop like a Zen koan like a pebble of kitty litter like splitting an atom on the pavement a simple promise a Cracker Jack prize or a stocking stuffer she moved like a haiku across the floor in a cocoon of a sequin splattered dress which she’d peel out of like a banana split like a butterfly brilliantly colored ready to fly like bacon, lettuce, and tomato on a Sunday morning"If revolution by force, guaranteed in the Constitution of the USA as a right of the people against evil government, would and could do the job of true liberation, no sane mind would hesitate to be all out for it. It was the downfall of all freedom movements based on such beliefs that freedom can not be established by force or decree because fear of freedom is in the people themselves. As long as people fear the streaming of living Life in their bodies, they will fear truth and avoid it by all means. TO TOUCH THE TRUTH IS THE SAME AS TO TOUCH THE GENITALS." - Wilhelm Reich, from The Murder of Christ

My Interests

pizza, pot, pussy, poetry, prose, esoterica
...."Since we all create our habitual reality-tunnels, either consciously and intelligently or unconsciously and mechanically, I prefer to create for each hour the happiest, funniest, and most romantic reality-tunnel consistent with the signals my brain apprehends. I feel sorry for people who persistently organize experience into sad, dreary and hopeless reality tunnels, and try to show them how to break the bad habit, but I don't feel any masochistic duty to share their misery." -Robert Anton Wilson"Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed & governd their Passions, or have No Passions, but because they have Cultivated their Understandings. The Treasures of Heaven are not Negations of Passion, but Realities of Intellect, from which All the Passions Emanate Uncurbed in their Eternal Glory. The Fool shall not enter Heaven let him be ever so Holy. Holiness is not the Price of Entrance into Heaven. Those who are cast out are All Those who, having no Passions of their own because No Intellect, Have spent their lives in Curbing & Governing other People's by the Various arts of Poverty & Cruelty of all kinds."-from "A Vision of the Last Judgement", William Blake

I'd like to meet:

Jesus, Tom Waits, the grandmaster of the Priory of Sion, your mom, Bruce Springsteen, some beautiful, intelligent, artsy young lady who wants my babies & a white picket fence either that or an experimental role-playing nympho sugar mama either that a cute little schoolgirl but that's all only if I can't meet the girl of my dreams & live happily ever after never leaving our bedroom except to walk along the rainy Oregon beach with rest of the world far, far away or blown away by terrorists...someone who I can drink lots & lots of white wine with while reading eachother poetry or Henry Miller or Jack Kerouac novels all night while it rains outside our window and candles burn dripping wax into the carpet...

Music:

Springsteen, the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Pearl Jam, Leonard Cohen, John Prine, Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, the Doors, Guns n' Roses, the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, Zeppelin, U2, Jackson Browne, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Paul Simon, the Eagles, Bob Marley, Lou Reed, Louis Armstrong, Chopin, Violent Femmes, etc
Add Bruce Springsteen to your page.......

Movies:

Henry & June, Taxi Driver, Life Aquatic, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Strange Brew, Where the Buffalo Roam, Spun, The Wall, the first Muppet Movie, Broken Flowers, Down by Law, Night on Earth, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Batman, the Doors, Bloom, Don't Look Back, Blow, Hair, Grease, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, The Last Time I Committed Suicide, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Fight Club....

Television:

South Park, Family Guy, the Simpsons, Seinfeld, Cheers

Books:

my own books, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, anything else by Henry Miller, the Bible, the Tao te Ching, Morals & Dogma, The Gnostic Gospels, Holy Blood Holy Grail, the Templar Revelation, the Tao of Pooh, anything by Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Wilhelm Reich, Kerouac, Bukowski, Philip K. Dick, Anais Nin, Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Terence & Dennis McKenna, Chuck Plahnuik, William S. Burroughs.."A writer woos his public just as ingnominously as a politician or any other moutebank; he loves to finger the great pulse, to prescribe like a physician, to win a place for himself, to be recognized as a force, to recieve the full cup of adulation, even if it be deferred a thousand years. he doesn't want a new world which might be established immediately, because he knows it will never suit him. He wants an impossible world in which he is the uncrowned puppet ruler dominated by forces utterly beyond his control. He is content to rule insiduously-- in the fictive world of symbols-- because the very thought of contact with rude and brutal realities frightens him. True, he has a greater grasp of reality than other men, but he makes no effort to impose that higher reality on the world by force of example. He is satisfied just to preach, to drag along in the wake of disasters and catastrophes, a death-croaking prophet always without honor, always stoned, always shunned by those who, however unsuited for their tasks, are ready and willing to assume responsibility for the affairs of the world. The trult great writer does not want to write: he wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of imagination. The first quivering word he puts to paper is the word of the wounded angel: pain. The process of putting down words is equivalent to giving oneself a narcotic. Observing the growth of a book under his hands, the author swells with delusions of grandeur. Et cetera ad nauseam." -Henry Miller, "Sexus."....

Heroes:

Robert Anton Wilson, Jesus, Paul Molitor, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Jesus, Hiram Abiff, Tom Waits...." ........


My Blog

"Bethlehem" (2008)

Bethlehem, my dear Bethlehemlet me touch you & I will touch youfirst whisper to me everything you've ever thoughtnothing is wrong when it's alright& it will be forever you'll see you knowin em...
Posted by Tommy on Sat, 17 May 2008 08:42:00 PST

"A Voice Crying in the Wilderness" (3)

    The thing was, Daniel Knew he was the Greatest Writer in the World.  Maybe not Ever, but Here and Now.  And he wasn't just being egotistical or even confident, it was just...
Posted by Tommy on Thu, 15 May 2008 09:16:00 PST

"A Voice Crying in the Wilderness" (2)

    It was that time again, the time when Americans got excited about America, participating in the Democratic process.  Forget the olympics and baseball and even Super Sunday, pol...
Posted by Tommy on Thu, 15 May 2008 06:39:00 PST

"A Voice Crying in the Wilderness" (2008) the beginning of a new novel

    Daniel was a normal guy with an abnormal superpower.  He could write something, and by the grace of his magic pen, it would become true.  And the magic pen only worked whe...
Posted by Tommy on Thu, 15 May 2008 05:28:00 PST

"Oh Felix Culpa" (2004-08) (excerpt 30)

I woke up to my cat licking my face.  Madeline.  I had named my cat after Mary Magdalene.  Oh, what a holy fool am I!  I brushed my teeth and shaved my face.  My morning coffe...
Posted by Tommy on Wed, 14 May 2008 02:39:00 PST

"Oh Felix Culpa" (2004-08) (excerpt 29)

proposed new secret society THE ORDER OF THE BURNING BUSH       Eastern Light Degrees (Spring) You are an Apprentice of the Eastern Light The Word a) rewrite a Bible chapter b)...
Posted by Tommy on Wed, 14 May 2008 02:32:00 PST

some speculative Masonic history

(excerpted from my unpublished book Exegesis)   C.W. Leadbetter in his book Freemasonry and Its Ancient Mystic Rites proclaims that Hiram Abiff was indeed "a real personage," being "the son of ...
Posted by Tommy on Wed, 14 May 2008 12:11:00 PST

"Oh Felix Culpa" (2004-08) (excerpt 28)

consider children growing up with personified animals in their afternoon cartoons in light of early man worshipping aspects of their gods personified in animals & see how the macrocosm confor...
Posted by Tommy on Tue, 13 May 2008 02:05:00 PST

dream journal 5/13/08

First I'm riding in the car with my brother Bryan and we get pulled over.  The mean goateed cop addresses me in the driver seat without hardly acknowledging my goody-two-shoes brother in the driv...
Posted by Tommy on Tue, 13 May 2008 09:38:00 PST

"Oh Felix Culpa" (2004-08) (excerpt 27)

7/6/05   Begin OSCA work today.  Did indeed see a full moon in my dream last nightthat's all I remember save for a pair of blondesone who liked to play games while I kissed her mouth &am...
Posted by Tommy on Tue, 13 May 2008 09:32:00 PST