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Tom

Overgrown

About Me

"I'm going to rent myself a house
In the shade of the freeway
Gonna pack my lunch in the morning
And go to work each day
And when the evening rolls around
I'll go on home and lay my body down
And when the morning light comes streaming in
I'll get up and do it again
Amen"

My Interests

Playing music ( the Army of Summer , the Blue Angels , Jagtown ); bicycle ruin and repair; the Chicago Cubs; the brain; mental health; public health; crosswords; PBS; NPR; PBR; REI; photography; screenprinting; still biting off more than I can chew.

I'd like to meet:

"I'm going to find myself a girl
Who can show me what laughter means
And we'll fill in the missing colors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams
And then we'll put our dark glasses on
And we'll make love until our strength is gone
And when the morning light comes streaming in
We'll get up and do it again
Get it up again"
JB (1976)
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Music:

My life's story would go something like this: the Muppets & John Denver; Let it Be; Kenny Rogers & the Carpenters; Duran Duran & the Police; Prince & the Revolution; false metal & true metal; Dear Prudence; the Experience & Zeppelin; Jeff Buckley & Elliott Smith; Louisville math- & Chicago post-rock; Blackbird; Hum & Walt Mink; Bjork & Radiohead; Jackson Browne & Bruce Springsteen; Wilco & Ryan Adams; Nico & Neko; Miles & Mingus, D'Angelo and Badu, and then god-knows-what after that.

As you can clearly see, there's not a single drop of punk rock in me.

Movies:

Arthouse/indie; crime/intrigue; big-budget pseudo-history; martial arts; superhero; the Old West; memory/amnesia; time travel; silly Brit/UK; revenge.

Television:

4 8 15 16 23 42

Books:

Umberto Eco; Frank Herbert; Salman Rushdie; Kurt Vonnegut; John Steinbeck; David Foster Wallace; Oscar Wilde.

However, I am a literary sloth.

Heroes:

Oliver Sacks; Bruce Lee; Thomas Edison; Joan of Arc.