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Watch me jumpstart, as the old skin is peeled, see an opening, and jump into the field

About Me

Born in Flint, Michigan. Lived in Traverse City, Southfield, and Lathrup Village, Michigan. Moved to Dallas in 1978. Missed seeing the Sex Pistols by a week. But did see the Ramones @ the Western Place in 1979. Then, got out of Richardson. Lived in Austin in the glorious summer of 1981. Did a stint in the navy, then lived in LA for a while when I got out. ...Saw 8 million and one punks bands. Then moved back to Dallas and formed The Peyote Cowboys, B.A.G.,and Sofa Kingdom (so fucking dumb ,get it?) with alot of my friends like Mike Marco, Chris Merlick, Murry Hammond, Lorna Hicks, Jeff Holinski. I also shot the infamous footage of Kurt Cobain nailing a bouncer in the head at Tree's in Dallas in Oct 1991(see footage below). I guess my only real claim to fame in Dallas) I Moved to Chicago in Nov. 1992. It was the single best move I ever made. When I got to Chicago, I worked as a cook, a bouncer, a personal assistant, a cookie delivery man,, a house cleaner and finally I now work as a gun range technician ( I fix target carriers at gun ranges..police departments, military bases, etc...). My true calling, I guess. People often ask me how I got a weird job like that.... I guess I wonder what drives people to become salesmen, as well. I hate salesmen. If I ever have to wear a tie to work again, i will use it to hang myself with it the first day on the job. I love to travel to remote places and get away from it all. I love to reminisce about punk rock shows. I love not having to constantly explain myself. I LOVE Mexican food. The hotter the better. I love hockey. I love San Francisco. I love Godspeed You Black Emperor. I love all of my friends and family more than you know.Hope. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. HORRIBLE FUCKING QUALITYThe footage of Nirvana on Sat. Oct 19, 1991 in Dallas, Texas @ Tree's It's been bootlegged and you-tubed to hell and back again and again and again to infinity + 1 in perpetuity, throughout the universe.........You can really tell how many times this has been bootlegged. I still have the original VHS tape, and no you can't a copy of it. I'm a prick, sorry. I washed my hands of it many, many years ago.

My Interests

..This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editorâ„¢ V2.5My Favorite quote ever : "I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable."

I'd like to meet:



Music:



+ Early Man, Set Fire To Flames, McClusky, The Undertones, Labradford, Crime, Cluster, A Silver Mt. Zion & Tra-La-La Band, Pulp, Wilson Pickett, Depeche Mode, Blue Mountain, The Dicks, Montrose, X-Ray Spex, Fear, Afghan Whigs, Stereolab, Neu!, The Verve, Grandaddy, Burt Bacharach, Judas Priest, Boards Of Canada, Mouse on Mars, The Frogs, Add (n) To X, The Headcoats, Gorillaz, Ride, King Missile, Stone Roses, Lee Hazelwood, Enon, Sunn O)))), Lush, The Big Boys, Nig-Heist, Sloan, M83, Humble Pie, Pong, Lou Reed, Doves, Squarepusher, To Rococo Rot, Fear, 16 Deluxe, Old 97's, SS Decontrol, Iron Maiden, Jorge Reyes, Codeine, Stevie Wonder, No Neck Blues Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Minor Threat, Brittish Sea Power, Miles Davis, Sacharine Trust, Keane, Built To Spill, Verbena, Dummy Run, The Mummies, Ethyl Meatplow, The Stranglers, Wire, Tad, Gaye Bykerz On Acid, Slayer, The Carpenters, Peter Murphy, J Mascis & the Fog, The Huns, Crass, Graham Coxon, Pantera, Al Green, Jon Wayne, Esmerine, The Pretenders, Fuxa, Do Make Say Think, Bent, Zen Geurilla, Peaches, Barry Adamson, Public Image,ltd., The Saints, Green River, Polyphonic Spree, Fu Manchu, Moistboyz, GBH, Air, Bongwater, The Kinks, Lee Harvey Oswald Band, The rezillos, Tom Verlaine, Yes, Ministry, Hunting Lodge, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Pussy Galore, Gang Of Four, Fang, Das Damen, Coldplay, Stock,Hausen & Walkman, Queens Of The Stoneage (W/Nick), Oasis, The Melvins, The Offenders, Sister Double Happiness, Elliot Smith, Sonic's Rendezvous Band, The Knitters, Teenage Fanclub, Flesheaters, Nurse With Wound, The Exploited, Comets On Fire, Lightning Bolt, The Wipers, Subhumans, Hanoi Rocks, Spaceman 3, Part Chimp, Carla Bozulich, Mike Watt, The Faces, Simpletones, Rank & File, Blonde Redhead, Neil Diamond, Squirrel Bait, Party Owls, T.Raumschmiere, Blur, Ulrich Schnauss, Kiss, Loretta Lynn, Weezer, Flying Saucer Attack, Pere Ubu, The Cramps, Poison Girls, Shattered Faith, Todd Rundgren, Boredoms, The Warlocks, The Libertines, Interpol, Slint., etc,,,,,,,more to add someday. :)

Movies:

ANYTHING with Peter Seller's in it. Dark brooding blood soaked movies like "28 Days Later". Any Bruce Robinson films. Danny Boyle. Gus Van Sant, Music docu's. Ridiculous, Stupid over the edge stuff and of course the movies listed below.............

Television:

Hell's Kitchen, No Reservations, Beyond The Limit :Everest, Lancelot Link, The Simpsons, Star-Rock, Speed Racer, Monthy Python, The Fast Show, Seinfeld,

Books:



Heroes:

Godspeed You Black Emperor, Mogwai, A Silver MT. Zion, Iggy, Jeff Holinski, Tom Waits, Micheal Moore, Jimmy Page, Charles Bukowski, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Angus Young, Robert Pollard, Peter Jackson, Boyd Rice, Jim Jarmusch, John Lurie, Hunter S. Thompson, Guided By Voices, David Fincher, Richard Hell, John Spath, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Russ Meyer, Anthony Bourdain, Danny Boyle, Peter Sellers, Mark Borchardt, Ian Curtis, Roche Featherstone, William S. Bourroughs, The Butthole Surfers, Die Kreuzen, The White Stripes, Doves, Woody Allen, Joe Coleman, Michael Winterbottom, Stanley Kubrick, Ron English, Killdozer, John Waters, Davy Rothbart, Frances Ford Coppalla, Mia Zapata, Ralph Steadman, Redd Kross, Hilly Kristal, Gus Van Sant, Evil Kinevil, Chris Cunningham, Ween, Jason Cohen, Kiss, Syd Barrett, Michel Gondry, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Mark Linkous, Walt Whittman, JFK, Countless others........Oh, and guy who started www.detroityes.com

My Blog

Poor Syd

Syd Barrett, the founding member of Pink Floyd, has died aged 60 at his Cambridgeshire home where he became a recluse 30 years ago.The guitarist, singer and lyricist founded the band in 1965 and was o...
Posted by (((((( B R A D )))))) on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:58:00 PST

Withnail & I fans will love this

I took these photo's while in England this summer. The BBC used them for a webpage. Enjoy!! just copy and paste...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/content/image_galleries/crow_cr ag_gallery.shtml ...
Posted by (((((( B R A D )))))) on Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:23:00 PST