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el tommy

tbirdistheword

About Me

chilling, living, people, music, film, trends, reading. i'm down with all of the above.

"Pursure what you want in life. Why be shy about something like that?"

My Interests

- 19th century magicians
- glam
- writing
- film
- details

I'd like to meet:

spike lee, martin scorsese, johnny depp, willem dafoe, meryl streep, michel gondry, paul giamatti, neil gaiman.

Music:

- the white stripes
- the velvet underground
- iggy pop
- david bowie
- gillian welch
- nick cave and the bad seeds
- the black keys
- public enemy
- the decemberists
- scissor sisters
- marvin gaye
- gorillaz
- al green
- air
- tom jones
- thievery corporation
- the smashing pumpkins
- u2
- beck
- johnny cash
- belle & sebastian
- bob dylan
- the notwist
- daft punk
- the kinks
- sigur ros
- tom waits
- wolf parade
- the dandy warhols
- elton john
- t-rex
- =w=

Movies:

- apocalypse now redux
- eyes wide shut
- the exorcist
- malcolm x
- rushmore
- seven samurai
- unforgiven
- ran
- jaws
- the deer hunter
- taxi driver
- the godfather
- the godfather part II
- a streetcar named desire
- the english patient
- amadeus
- princess mononoke
- in the name of the father
- the shining
- the lord of the rings trilogy
- crumb
- heat
- goodfellas
- alien
- aliens
- 2001: a space odyssey
- a clockwork orange
- fight club
- cat on a hot tin roof
- the elephant man
- boogie nights
- blade runner: director's cut
- john carpenter's the thing
- kill bill
- 28 days later
- the good, the bad and the ugly

Television:

- fishing with john
- harvey birdman
- south park

Books:

- the alchemist by paulo coelho
- less than zero by bret easton ellis
- anil's ghost by michael ondaatje
- the english patient by micheal ondaatje
- watership down by richard adams
- dracula by bram stoker
- a streetcar named desire by tennessee williams
- the lord of the rings by j.r.r. tolkien

Heroes:

- francis ford coppola
- clint eastwood
- jack nicholson
- johnny depp
- jack white
- spike jonze

My Blog

no work, sun's-a-shinin'

very nice. i've got the day off, it's a gorgeous day. this kicks ass. i've gotta get back on track with my short script i was doing. i'm excited for today. things seem great today. why? who kno...
Posted by el tommy on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:53:00 PST

work

gotta work a double today, then gotta write an essay tomorrow on my day off. nice.
Posted by el tommy on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:34:00 PST

work

gotta work a double today, then gotta write an essay tomorrow on my day off. nice.
Posted by el tommy on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:35:00 PST

new film

having just shot my first new short film in quite some time, i've been in the greatest mood for a few days now. it's fantastic. and i really think that it's probably the best thing i've done thus fa...
Posted by el tommy on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:54:00 PST

fuck.

have you ever been asked to do something you have no desire to do, given your honest answer of "no", then been forced to deal with the asshole who asked treating you like a piece of shit? if you have...
Posted by el tommy on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:17:00 PST

the morning after. aka: "hung over"

head ache? check.tired? check.feeling generally shitty? check.wicked memories from the kick ass night which was last? checkmate.and i wouldn't have it any other way.
Posted by el tommy on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:09:00 PST