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Elijah Thomson

On, Wildfire. On!

About Me

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My Interests

Reading, smoking, making records with my friends, writing, hanging out with my family, playing live shows with Richard Swift... not necessarily in that order... but almost.

I'd like to meet:

Living -- Brian Eno, Erykah Badu, Dave Chappelle, Quentin Tarantino, Sacha Baron Cohen, Natalie Portman, Tchad Blake, Thom Yorke, Pino Palladino, Peter Kay (The Phoenix is rising from the ashes!), my Indian spirit guide.Dead -- Enoch, Ernest Hemingway, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Emanuel Swedenborg; Jack Kerouac, Bob Marley, Jaco Pastorius, Lonnie Frisbee, Mitch Hedberg.

Music:

I like what you like, and I also like Richard Swift and the Sons of National Freedom.

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, Clockwork Orange, Pulp Fiction, Adaptation, Raising Arizona, The Incredibles, Rustler's Rhapsody, and all the other ones.

Television:

Phoenix Nights, Six Feet Under, Carnivale, Ali G, History Channel.

Books:

The Brothers Karamazov, On The Road, Ulysses, The Sun Also Rises.

Heroes:

Rex O'Herlihan: The Singing Cowboy

My Blog

Richard Swift Euro-Trip 6: Part Deux

Richard Swift Euro-Trip 6: Part Deux-- 12-16-2006 -- Fullerton, CAI've calculated a math equation in my head, and the results are depressing. Having just completed our sixth transatlantic round-trip o...
Posted by Elijah Thomson on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:13:00 PST

Richard Swift Euro-trip 6 -- Vol. 1

Richard Swift Euro-Trip 6 -- 12-08-2006 -- Cork (pronounced: Cark), IrelandAdmittedly, it has been far too long since I've managed to compose a tour journal from the road, but laziness (in this instan...
Posted by Elijah Thomson on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:36:00 PST

Richard Swift in NYC Nov. 30th

East Coast Peeps--Anyone in the NYC area with nothing to do on Thursday night? Well, Richard Swift and the Sons of National Freedom will be performing at Mercury Lounge on November 30th, so try and ma...
Posted by Elijah Thomson on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:06:00 PST

Richard Swift Autumnal Tour Dates 2006

Hello friends,Richard Swift is not finished with touring for 2006 just yet. We are off to England again for five shows with "Two Gallants" (as opposed to two shows with "Five Gallants") the first week...
Posted by Elijah Thomson on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:10:00 PST

Richard Swift Autumnal Equinoctial Retrospective 2006

Richard Swift Autumnal Equinoctial Retrospective 2006 -- 09.24.06As of 9:03 PST Friday night, the earth, spinning top-like at a twenty-two degree lean, began moving it's ass-end toward the glowing bal...
Posted by Elijah Thomson on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:28:00 PST

Richard Swift Tour Journal -- Ireland and England: Part II

Richard Swift Tour Journal -- Ireland and England: Part II -- 07.20.06Cue Kool. Cue his gang too. Jet-lag be damned. I have never subjected myself to such torturous and inverted party-to-sleep ratios,...
Posted by Elijah Thomson on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:35:00 PST

Richard Swift Tour Journal -- Ireland and England: Part I

Richard Swift Tour Journal -- Ireland and England: Part I -- 07.18.06Fin. Finished. This is the end, my only friend. And of course, being the end of our most recent eight-week intercontinental traveli...
Posted by Elijah Thomson on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:22:00 PST

Richard Swift Tour Journal -- U.S. Cross-Country -- Episode IV

Richard Swift Tour Journal -- Cross-country -- 07.11.06The consummation of the age. One age climaxes, then disappears into a moonless starless midnight, precisely at the simultaneous moment that a ne...
Posted by Elijah Thomson on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:11:00 PST

Richard Swift Tour Journal -- Northeastern U.S -- Episode III

Richard Swift Tour Journal -- Northeastern U.S. w/The Walkmen and Rockwell-- 07.03.06On our previous coast-to-coast effort last fall, we spent a few weeks zig-zagging our way eastward, only to turn a...
Posted by Elijah Thomson on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:39:00 PST

Richard Swift Tour Journal -- Midwest U.S & Canada -- Episode II

Richard Swift Tour Journal -- Midwest U.S. and Canada w/The Walkmen -- 06.29.06Last night we played in Montreal, Quebec, which is a town Chris Colbert declared "The greatest city in North America". I ...
Posted by Elijah Thomson on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:10:00 PST