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URKELBOT

This world is wild at heart and weird on top.

About Me

Hi there. The name's Tom. Enter the world of a 23-year-old morbidly obese schizophrenic shut-in from Northern California who mostly spends his time in fits of fantasy and dreams, good and bad, whether he likes it or not. In short, a big mess. A demolished husk of a person with that certain radioactive glow about him. An obsessive compulsive disaster. A real mood swinger.Nevertheless, a spark of humanity remains that's always ready for a good time and maybe an occasional chuckle. Escapism and utter distraction from the bad bits of reality is what keeps me from becoming Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver. To quote the great Cosmo Kramer, 'Here's to having fun all the time!"Writing used to be a serious hobby of mine, and now I'm trying to rediscover it after a long period of disuse. It's a great time waster and something actually more enjoyable than vegging out to those everyday Spongebob marathons on Nickelodeon. My stories are on the silly side with a touch of psychosis, so be forewarned. MY STORIES ON FICTIONPRESS.COM (CLICK HERE) sunshine layouts!

My Interests

writing poetry and short stories but never finishing anything, reading books, Xbox games, sleeping 12+ hours a day, scifi movies on my sweet LCD tv

I'd like to meet:

William Shatner aka Captain James T. Kirk, a spectral Gene Roddenberry because of his hopeful vision of a better future for all mankind, and an open and candid David Lynch so I can ask him what it all REALLY means. Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert so I can be turned onto good movies.

Music:

Ludwig von Beethoven, Bach, Devo, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Talking Heads, Tom Waits,Sarah Mclachlan, The Beatles (mostly the later LSD-laced tunes from the White Album), Yes, The Doors, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Neil Young, Jethro Tull, Johnny Cash, Simon and Garfunkel, Captain Beefheart, The Cure, The B52s, The Police,Nine Inch Nails, Alanis Morrisette (the first album anyway), The Moody Blues, INXS, Prince, Film Scores by John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith

Movies:

The Holy Mountain (Most mind-blowing pic ever!), El Topo, Network, The Graduate, Alien series, Batman, Star Trek series, James Bond, Apocalypse Now, Back to the Future, Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyessey, Ghostbusters, This is Spinal Tap, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Natural Born Killers, Fight Club, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, The Truman Show, The Shining, The Sixth Sense, The Producers, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Toys, Star Wars, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, The Fifth Element, Tron, Zoolander, Troy, Wayne's World 1&2, T2, The Life Aquatic, Lord of the Rings, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clerks, Blue Velvet, Indiana Jones Trilogy. Jaws, AI: Artificial Intelligence, A Clockwork Orange, Total Recall, Robocop, The Godfather, Buckaroo Bonzai in the 8th Dimension, The Abyss, Naked Lunch, Videodrome, Airplane, Mars Attacks, Free Enterprise, Wild at Heart

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, The Office, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Doctor Who, The X-Files, Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9 & VOY), Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks (my obsession), Babylon 5, NewsRadio, Mr. Show, Mystery Science Theater 3000

Books:

Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, Dirk Gently, Do Androids Dream of Electic Sheep?, Martian Time-Slip, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Naked Lunch, Word Virus (in which William S. Burroughs successfully predicts the internet and youtube), Dune, The Gunslinger, H.P. Lovecraft stories

Heroes:

Like Bonnie Tyler, I'm also holding out for a hero.

My Blog

Surviving Schizophrenia

I'm sick of dealing with my mental illness. I can't take these episodes and attacks and just overall ugliness dealt out to my through this fucking chemical imbalance. It never fucking ends. I feel iso...
Posted by T is for Tommy on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:01:00 PST

100 reasons why Kirk is better than Picard (plundered from an ancient bbs)

In this particular blog entry I present to you 100 compelling reasons why Captain James Tiberius Kirk is indeed the better leader out of the whole funky bunch from the subsequent spin-offs. Sure, Sisk...
Posted by T is for Tommy on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:44:00 PST

alone against the wind: in honor of deftone

Taken a picture completely naked? not that I am aware of.Made out with someone on your top 8? negativeDanced in front of your mirror naked? does the bathroom mirror count?Told a lie? have I ever told ...
Posted by T is for Tommy on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:47:00 PST

Eighty Questions

80 Questions I Guarantee You've Never Answered Do you watch Gilmore Girls? not if I can help it. i refuse to watch that filthHave you ever enjoyed listening to Jack Johnson? only after a lobotomyHave ...
Posted by T is for Tommy on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:23:00 PST

fun with blasphemous song lyrics (true filler in place of a blog with actual relevance)

Frank Zappa is a personal hero of mine. While others dared to be stupid, Frank posessed a most triumphant combination of intelligence and humor to get his ideas across through music. Visit youtube and...
Posted by T is for Tommy on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 02:24:00 PST

on the threshold of a dream

Hey gang! Strap on your neon green swim goggles and don your faded lightning bolt pajama bottoms because, face facts, this is the fucking 1980s, and by the time you egress out of this explosive confec...
Posted by T is for Tommy on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:48:00 PST

Quiz Show

Here's a stupid quiz I found on my hard drive that I filled out to temporarily relieve my boredom. Every myspacer fills one of hese dealies out eventually. No big deal. Here goes it.LAYER ONE:-- Name:...
Posted by T is for Tommy on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:00:00 PST

The last Metroid is in captvity. The galaxy is at peace.

And here I thought a change of perscription would somehow affect me in a positive way and give me somewhat of a relief from the suffocating spectre of schizophrena like I had foolishly hoped. Over the...
Posted by T is for Tommy on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 01:32:00 PST

Secrets of the Ooze

Not a whole lot to relate to you at the moment. Everything's fine right now. Fine like wine.The new anti-pshychotic I've been taking, Geodon, has stabilized me for the most part and I generally feel.....
Posted by T is for Tommy on Tue, 02 May 2006 11:01:00 PST

Host Segment (Angst Post)

I'm in the middle of a bad trip brought to me by my burgeoning mental illness. Having crazy mood swings, bad thoughts, a brain that won't quit, always being on the fucking verge of tears all the while...
Posted by T is for Tommy on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:36:00 PST