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T.j. has a huge horn

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About Me

So, you wanna know a lil about me? Ok, here goes:I'm probably the most chill person you could meet. I'm as outgoing and open-minded as they come. And I am quite hilarious to be around. I can be professional, serious, or relaxed at the drop of a dime. No matter what I am almost always fun. Business wise I have a lot to bring to the table when it comes to marketing, promoting, booking events, or just helping to come up with new innovative ideas. I'm big into ideating...lol. I am very open minded when it comes to my thoughts, but can come up with a bunch of silly ideas, as well as some really great genius ideas.
I love music. Not like everyone else says the love it. I don't just listen to music and go "Oh I love it!". I teach it, I write it, I perform it... and I book it. I have been playing baritone for over 15 years. I marched professionally with the Boston Crusaders in '01 and '02 and aged out winning the world championships with the Concord Blue Devils in '03. (see the video in my blog above). I play in 2 bands: The Suicide Clubs (Ska/Reggae/Rock) & Semi-Soul (Funk/Reggae/R&B). I have been booking bands & entertainment for the last 5 years. It started at the old Winners Circle and since it closed I have been booking at Doc's Place and a few other venues in the Lakeland, Tampa & Orlando area. And I teach Riverview High Schools Marching Band every fall.
CFLMP: Central Florida Marketing Products. You may have heard the name or seen the logos somewhere on the net, if not allow me to inform you. CFLMP is my marketing and promotional company. It began as a tshirt business known as T. Press Tshirt & Design...a side hobby I started around 5 years ago to allow my dad's bar Winners Circle and the local bands I was booking, a way to get tshirts for less money. Once I started to make money, I partnered with a friend at the time, changed the name to High Funk Clothing and we purchased the Screen Printing Equipment to provide more professional shirts to our customers and friends. We then were offered to purchase a local screen print shop that was going through a rought time. We moved in only to find out that the business was way more in the hole than what I was told. I stayed for one year doing everything I could to turn the business around, but the partnership began to fail and it was best decided to split ways. I then opened my own shop in Lakeland for one year before I realized that I did not want to be a tshirt maker for the rest of my life. I had built a network of friends, businesses, bands, and entertainers over the past 7 years in lakeland and wanted to build a business that would be paid to promote and help those get the exposure and profits that they need to succeed. Thus launching CFLMP, a promotional marketing company.
Currently, CFLMP is my career and my life. I still do tshirts as a side business but am more focused on other areas of the company, like web design, promotions, and promotional items. I handle all of the advertising, event promotions & coordinating for many of the local entertainment & nightlife venues and companies in the surrounding area. My girlfriend and I are the lakeland representatives for polk county's #1 entertainment, nightlife, and dining magazine: Today and Tonight. You can view all of the businesses I am involved with on my friends list or on the web at www.cflmp.com
And last but certainly not least, my girl. I leave a lot to be said about her because quite frankly I don't think it is much of anyones business but ours and those we are closest with. Brook is my baby, my love, my navigator. The only woman I have ever shared my life with who has stood by my side for all the good and bad decisions I have made over the past 6 years. While we are very much in love with each other, we have also come to realize that what our companionship should never be taken for granted. We know that while life without each other would still suffice and there would be happiness, it would be less meaningful and all around pointless to try and find what we share together with someone else. I would like to say that we are forever and hope that someday we will take the next step.... but for now we are happy in love and building our future with each other. And anyone who tries to ruin that will be met with some serious defense from us, our friends, and our families who love us together as much as we love each other.
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My Interests

Suicide Clubs
Semi-Soul
CFLMP
Event & Entertainment Promoter
Booking Agent
High Funk Clothing
Winners Circle Wing Sauce
Floridas Finest Bikini Babes
Doc's Place
Central Florida Photo
Full Tilt Poker

I'd like to meet:

New Cool Friends, Find Old Friends, and Businesses, Bands, and Entertainers who need more exposure.

Music:

Drum Corps: Blue Devils Locally: See my top friends See Category BANDS Non-locally:
311, Bob Marley, Matisyahu, Dream Theatre, 10 Years, Trapt, Him, Staind

Movies:

Star Wars, I am Legend, Knocked Up, 50 First Dates, Cool Runnings, Goonies, Half Baked, City of Angels, A beautiful mind, Oceans 11 & 12, Office Space, Pirates of the Caribbean, Secret Window, Hitch, Van Wilder Accepted...stuff like that

Television:

Girls Next Door, Chelsea Lately, Sunset Tan, Viva La Bam, Family Guy, That 70's Show, Colbert Report...

Books:

If it doesn't come in Email form, or a bill...chances are I don't even look at it....someday I wont be so busy.

Heroes:

Anyone really.... from the person in the spotlight, to the person who built the spotlight. Everyone has a reason for being and without the big or little people your life wouldn't function as smoothly as it could. So think again when you feel you are better than someone, because you aren't. And I despise you if you think otherwise.
My parents are the biggest hero's in my life....they have taught me almost everything I have needed to know to get me to where i am right now.

My Blog

One Liners about me

So, you wanna know a lil about me? Ok, here goes: I'm Random Usually Funny Caring Business Minded Love Music - every kind Semi Soul - my style Suicide Clubs - my personality Spontaneous by natu...
Posted by T.j. has a huge horn on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:39:00 PST

GDI and .ws websites allow me to make money from home.

I don't know about you, but I spend endless time and money trying to come up with ways to make money. I have come across a new program that I want to tell anyone who is truely interested about. My dad...
Posted by T.j. has a huge horn on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:27:00 PST

Just a lil vent. 20 shirts a month

We are starting to work for the magazine and trying to shift our way to making the tshirt business a side business. So, on wed, I am going to offer 20 tshirts a month at $7.99.  10 of them are pr...
Posted by T.j. has a huge horn on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:06:00 PST

Business and Personal

So the time has come to seperate business from personal. Yep, this guy that has always been business minded wants to focus on other things. Things like love, friendship & family, and all the great...
Posted by T.j. has a huge horn on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:36:00 PST

I am Booking again! Who wants a show!

As many of you know, with the closure of winners my booking end of live music kinda slowed. Well not anymore. I am launching a new website next weekend. You can view the backround work as it is being ...
Posted by T.j. has a huge horn on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:35:00 PST

Winners Circle SPORTSBAR

Hey guys,It comes with great regret that the owner and I have decided to move in seperate directions. After a long haul, me (TJ) am now looking for a place for us to call home where music will be...
Posted by T.j. has a huge horn on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:45:00 PST

Let em tell you about my House of Blues experience

First off, thank you all so much for coming out last night.  It was such an awesome place to be on stage and was so much cooler to come out to the crowd after and just be mobbed by everyone from ...
Posted by T.j. has a huge horn on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:54:00 PST

Winners Circle Update

I have already told a lot of you, but things are not looking good.This may very well be the last weekend that winners circle is open. As I mentioned before when we needed $6k to pay off the rest of th...
Posted by T.j. has a huge horn on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:46:00 PST

Blue Devils 2003 DCI wolrd Champions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPSmoBNe0GQ This is the show my final year of dci. I know I know, we were amazing!...
Posted by T.j. has a huge horn on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:55:00 PST

Blue Devils 2003 DCI wolrd Champions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPSmoBNe0GQ ...
Posted by T.j. has a huge horn on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:54:00 PST