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The Tom Collective

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum.Visit my blog:

The Collective Archive

My Interests

Stories. Storytelling. Geeky shit. Women. Food. Travel. Philosophy type shit. Self improvement shit. World domination.

I'd like to meet:

The inspired minority who get it.
I made my layout at killerkiwi.net

Music:

Film scores, and pretty much everything else except rap, R&B, and country.

Movies:

I like movies that don't suck.And these make me giggle:

Books:

My library grows continually.

Heroes:

Anyone who can teach me something.

My Blog

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I've been enjoying life without a job. Which means I've been partying a lot. Nonetheless, Work I$ Cheap is moving into another quick revision, then another round of readings, and then maybe som...
Posted by The Tom Collective on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:42:00 PST

Journal Entry: 5-6-08

I am overwhelmed nightly with the inevitability of my ending. Laying down for bed, it is not sleep but a growing sense of mortality that rolls over me like a slow tide. Guilt keeps me awake. Guilt for...
Posted by The Tom Collective on Tue, 06 May 2008 11:28:00 PST

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It has been two weeks since my last day at the treatment center. Life without crazy people is grand. Work I$ Cheap draft 4.0 was completed last week. There was supposed to have been a subsequent r...
Posted by The Tom Collective on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:46:00 PST

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The second reading has come and gone. The suck: Only one actor showed. The awesome: That actor. Despite the lack of people, we were able to hear the opening song performed. It sounds fucking fantastic...
Posted by The Tom Collective on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:55:00 PST

WORKISCHEAP.COM

Work I$ Cheap, the new musical I am developing with Berklee graduate Wes Smith, has just updated its web page. Check it out for information on upcoming readings, auditions, and the upcoming summer wor...
Posted by The Tom Collective on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:39:00 PST

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The reading went very well. It was a small affair, four readers, and me listening. We all sat around a table at Schlotzky's Deli. It took about an hour and a half to read the whole thing, and we di...
Posted by The Tom Collective on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:17:00 PST

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  The reading has been given a definite date and time: Saturday, march 8th, at 2 PM. Needless to say, I am excited to see this happening. The musical director and I are adding some quick tweak...
Posted by The Tom Collective on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:49:00 PST

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Work I$ Cheap will have its first reading in roughly three weeks. This will be the first of, I think, three. Developing plays often host readings, where actors read the work, and the author takes note...
Posted by The Tom Collective on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:29:00 PST

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I finished the latest draft for Work I$ Cheap, the musical I've been talking about, just last Friday. This is, as they say, kick ass. My partner and I have decided on some changes for the production p...
Posted by The Tom Collective on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:03:00 PST

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For those who don't know, my uncle died recently. So I've been dealing with that for the past few weeks. I was in NYC for about two weeks just doing dead uncle stuff.To my credit I managed to write a ...
Posted by The Tom Collective on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:10:00 PST