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Tom

Everybody's Merkin For The Weekend

About Me


By day i work as a city planner in a place that is less an office than a repository for civil service detritus. Working amongst the fromunda cheese of society gives me a false sense of superiority and a wealth of material from which to draw inspiration for my music and general amusement.
My current solo project is called Rotary Club. I know...project(myspace.com/rotaryclubmusic).
If you so choose, check out myspace.com/bulkheadmusic and myspace.com/betwixtmusic and myspace.com/jackfrosting for other bands in which I've rocked and rolled.
I'm also infinitely amused by people who mine the vast wasteland of MySpace cyberosity for the purpose of friend collecting. I hold the guys who accept friend requests from porno star wannabees and spammers in especially high regard.
Other things I enjoy include, but are not limited to:
Listening to Nextel walkie talkie conversations (especially the beeping sound), car alarms, people who watch DVDs on the train, Top-40, commercial rap and adult contemporary music played at sonic boom volume on a supah bad car stereo, blow outs, comb-overs and button down shirts tucked into pleated pants for a sporty look, people who only talk about real estate, strong, cheap and overused mens cologne (especially in a confined area), people who throw trash out of their car windows, on the subway tracks on sidewalks and anywhere else that is not a trash receptacle, people who fall asleep in public with their mouths open, homeless people who defecate in public and people who live in Long Island and drive to work in the city.

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My Interests

Urinating in subway cars, throwing stuff out of my car, falling asleep during important meetings and using archaic catch phrases like "Where's the Beef". But some of my other interests include, Art Deco architecture, the band the Fall, September and October weather, which I suppose is the season the Fall, that first cup of Jo', New Yorker magazine, Charlie Christian's guitar, Thelonious Monk's piano, Fender amps and guitars, great documentaries, Christopher Guest films.

I'd like to meet:

Someone with whom to eat finger food on the train. Preferably chips or chicken wings. BR

Music:

The Fall, Ornette Coleman, Nick Drake, Big Star, The Kinks, Velvet Underground, Wire, John Coltrane, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, The Monks! Mississippi John Hurt, Can, Neu, Cluster, Thinking Fellers, Duke Ellington, Roxy Music (first four records at least), Erik Satie, Syd Barrett, Skip Spence, John Cage, Love, John Fahey, Pere Ubu, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Dome, Billie Holliday, Beach Boys (Smile!), Eno, Liars, Mission of Burma, Charlie Christian, Bowie (if only for Hunky Dory) on and on...

Movies:

Waiting for Guffman, Spinal Tap, Best In Show for starters.

Television:

Nanny and the Professor, Family Affair and any other early 70's shows featuring now deceased child stars in action.

Books:

I'm currently reading Gotham: History of Manhattan to 1898. I'm a huge New Yorker (the magazine) addict, which leaves me little time to read fiction these days. Some of my all time fave authors: Pynchon, E.L. Doctorow, DeLillo, Mann, Dostoevsky, Diderot, Nabokov...

Heroes:

Subs, Hogies and Grinders