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Tom

Man listens to rain and writes nonsense.

About Me

I'm a playwright and actor who lives in New York City. I'm also a support technician at a company that helps teachers perform reading assessments on handheld devices.

My Interests

Writing, acting, baseball, and silliness.

I'd like to meet:

I'm happy with the relationships that I already have. I'm not looking to meet anyone here. I just want to read the blogs of a friend and occasionally drop a blog myself (so to speak).

Music:

Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Johnny Cash, U2, Beethoven, John Coltrane (" . . . a love supreme . . . a love supreme . . . a love supreme . . . "), Aimee Mann, The Who, Louis Armstrong, Bob Dylan, Marty Robbins (El Paso and Devil Woman), Roy Orbison, The Rolling Stones, Charlie Parker, Loretta Lynn (Van Lear Rose), just about anything created in the 1980's, no matter how odd or trivial or downright cheesy (ie., "Take on Me", "Our House in the Middle of the Street", "Jump", Midnight Oil, much of Journey). I tend to like any song that challenged in the Friday Night Video Fights on MTV back in the 80's, even if the songs are non-melodic embarrassments that contain the kind of writing that might result from a 6th grade poetry assignment. Maybe there's something to be said for 6th grade poetry.

Movies:

"On the Waterfront", "Scenes from a Marriage", "Jaws", "Theatre of Blood", "Dawn of the Dead", "Shawn of the Dead", "The Shining", "Trainspotting", "Five Easy Pieces", "The Last Detail", "Dog Day Afternoon", "Angels in America", "Million Dollar Baby", "Batman Begins", "Young Frankenstein", "Manhattan", "Annie Hall", "The Purple Rose of Cairo", "Love and Death", "The Bicycle Thief", "Being John Malkovich", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, King of the Hill, The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Nightline, NOW (on PBS).

Books:

"The Milagro Beanfield War", "Catch 22", "Slaughterhouse Five", "On the Road", "The Dharma Bums", "Jonathan Livingston Seagull", "The Sun Also Rises", "A Farewell to Arms", "Jane Eyre", "Frankenstein", "The Corporation".
Plays: "Curse of the Starving Class", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Camino Real", "Buried Child", "True West", "Glengarry Glenn Ross", "Angels in America", "Breath Boom", "The Dreamer Examines His Pillow", "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea", "Hamlet", "The Tempest", "MacBeth", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

Heroes:

Tennessee Williams, Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson, Bruce Springsteen, Meryl Streep, Sam Shephard, Amy Goodman (of Democracy Now!), Martin Luther King, Jr., all great theatre artists who never became famous but loved what they did and gave everything they had and worked with passion and integrity and intelligence, my father, my brother.

My Blog

yesterday's mania

I just looked at my blog yesterday. I've calmed down a bit about that.  Apparently, it's not so uncommon for people to have these kinds of incidents and present no major symptoms.  I feel pr...
Posted by Tom on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:10:00 PST

craziness

I just got back from Florida a few weeks back.  My father had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass operation to prevent a heart attack.  I went down for a weeks to be with him.  He wa...
Posted by Tom on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 02:30:00 PST

Writing

I'm writing more and more these days. I made a revision of a play that I wrote this spring and it's shaping up nicely. And I just wrote another small one-act. I want to write each day. I'm beginni...
Posted by Tom on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST