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Thomas

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

About Me


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Last of the Red Hot Socially-Liberal Rappin-White-Boy Christian-Left Moderate-Republican Generation-X Macintosh-Owner Texans.
I also dabble in Second Life as well. There, I'm known as PyThomas Olbracht. (It sounded the closest to my real last name.)
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Thomas Overbeck
Birthday: December 2nd
Birthplace: Galveston, TX
Current Location: Dallas, TX
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'8"
Right Handed or Left Handed: Mostly right handed
Your Heritage: German, Norwegian
The Shoes You Wore Today: White LA Gears
Your Weakness: Your Sweetness
Your Fears: That the afterlife will be boring
Your Perfect Pizza: Meat Lovers plus Mushrooms
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Start my own business
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: pretty much
Thoughts First Waking Up: What the hell was I dreaming???
Your Best Physical Feature: My eyes
Your Bedtime: 11 pm
Your Most Missed Memory: Astroworld
Pepsi or Coke: Coke Zero
MacDonalds or Burger King: McD's
Single or Group Dates: Group
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Arizona!
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee
Do you Smoke: Nope
Do you Swear: Damn straight
Do you Sing: Yep
Do you Shower Daily: Every other day
Have you Been in Love: Many times
Do you want to go to College: Not anymore
Do you want to get Married: Uh... no, cuz I'm already married
Do you belive in yourself: I'm agnostic about myself
Do you get Motion Sickness: Only when I'm reading
Do you think you are Attractive: From the neck up
Are you a Health Freak: I wish
Do you get along with your Parents: Decently
Do you like Thunderstorms: Only when I'm inside
Do you play an Instrument: Piano and drums
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes
In the past month have you Smoked: No
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Just the ones prescribed to me
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yes
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yes
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Just a couple of oreos
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yes
In the past month have you been on Stage: Yes
In the past month have you been Dumped: Nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Nope
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Nope
Ever been Drunk: Once
Ever been called a Tease: Yes
Ever been Beaten up: Yes
Ever Shoplifted: Yes... and I wasn't proud of it
How do you want to Die: Painlessly, that's for sure
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Rich
What country would you most like to Visit: Japan
Number of CDs I own: About 200
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Too many
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My Interests

Classic video games, pinball games, roller coasters, Lego, Transformers, rollerblading, football, hockey, basketball, cartooning

I'd like to meet:

Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Anyone from Monty Python, Alyssa Milano, Drew Barrymore, Shannon Elizabeth, R.E.M., Depeche Mode, New Order, Chuck D, Beastie Boys, Robin Williams, Dennis Miller, Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, Opie & Anthony

Music:

Alternative Rock, Rap, Classic Country, Classic Rock, Techno, Metal, Industrial, Old-School Funk
As for artists... Top 10 are R.E.M., Depeche Mode, Beck, Sublime, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Merle Haggard, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Johnny Cash
The rest, in no particular order... Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden, Modest Mouse, Bloodhound Gang, Snoop Dogg, OutKast, Joy Division, New Order, Hank Williams, Jr., The Strokes, Big & Rich, AC/DC, The Cure, Rush, Van Halen, Sarah MacLachlan, EPMD, Waylon Jennings, Metallica, Son Volt, Interpol, Green Day, Jimi Hendrix, Prince, Def Leppard, Ice Cube, The Clash, System of a Down, KMFDM, Ben Folds Five, Alice In Chains, Creed, Days of the New, Nirvana, Weezer, INXS, Limp Bizkit, Staind, Front 242, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Shackleford Brown, Franz Ferdinand, White Stripes, Regina Spektor, Red Hot Chili Peppers, P.O.D., Korn, Orgy, Faith No More, Tool, Lush, Dave Matthews Band, Smashing Pumpkins, Gretchen Wilson, Wolfgang Press, Butthole Surfers, Cheap Trick, Ludacris, Gnarls Barkley, De La Soul, Green Day, The Polyphonic Spree, The Dandy Warhols

Movies:

All the Star Wars films (yes, even the newer ones), Airplane!, Blazing Saddles, 24 Hour Party People, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, American Pie Trilogy, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Matrix Trilogy, Back To The Future Trilogy, Clerks, Clerks II, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, The Breakfast Club, Pink Floyd: The Wall, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Good Will Hunting, Smokey & The Bandit, Can't Hardly Wait, Aladdin, E.T., The Wedding Singer, Star Trek: The Voyage Home / The Undiscovered Country / First Contact, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Woodstock, Urgh! A Music War, Time Bandits, Shrek, Do The Right Thing, Transformers: The Movie, Con Air, Men In Black, Howard Stern's Private Parts, The Nightmare Before Christmas, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, The Blues Brothers, Animal House, Sixteen Candles, Crash (2005), Over The Hedge, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
I'll watch anything that's not too cliche-ridden and doesn't involve children dying.

Television:

All-time favorite: Monty Python's Flying Circus
Timeless classics: Twilight Zone, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Max Headroom, The Muppet Show, BattleBots, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Dukes Of Hazzard, The State, You Can't Do That On Television, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Fat Albert, Quantum Leap
Current favorites: Family Guy, Smallville, South Park, Lost, Gilmore Girls, Saturday Night Live, Law & Order SVU, Deal Or No Deal, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Code Monkeys

Books:

Fave Authors: P.J. O'Rourke, Douglas Adams, J.R.R. Tolkien, Max Barry

Heroes:

Jesus, Johnny Cash, Chuck D, John Lennon, George Harrison, The Dixie Chicks, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin

My Blog

The Big Cinco

It's been a while since I've done a comprehensive recap on my married life. And I figured our five-year anniversary would be a good time for an update.And just be glad that I couldn't come up with any...
Posted by Thomas on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:06:00 PST

More Gas For The Old Fart

Well, here's another sign that I'm getting old... the entertainment industry is starting to give parental figures the same musical tastes that I have.I recently rented "Juno", the critically-acclaimed...
Posted by Thomas on Tue, 20 May 2008 07:19:00 PST

A Plant That’s Gone To The Birds

It all started one night after taking the garbage to the alley for pickup. Usually I water the plants in the backyard after taking the trash out, so I went and did that. When I got to the one hanging ...
Posted by Thomas on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:30:00 PST

Quit Yer Bitchin’ ’Bout The Britches

There seems to be no end to the ridiculousness regarding the fashion sense of the youth. This is a culture clash that's been around forever... or at least since the 1920's, anyway. I can't recall read...
Posted by Thomas on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:45:00 PST

Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler En La Grande "D"

For the second year in a row, extenuating circumstances have forced me to cancel my annual trip to Mardi Gras in Galveston. At least this year, however, Mardi Gras came to me.This past Saturday in Dal...
Posted by Thomas on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:42:00 PST

Just Say No To Nannies

Sometimes I feel like Laurence Fishburne's character in Spike Lee's "School Daze", ringing a huge bell, running around the college dorms and shouting at the top of my lungs "WAAAAAAAKE UUUUUUUP!!!!"Ou...
Posted by Thomas on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:27:00 PST

My Dissection of 2007

Sometimes you just have an "off" year. This was one of mine. 2007 wasn't a total disaster, or even half a disaster - it did have many bright spots - but it seemed more often than usual, things didn't ...
Posted by Thomas on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:59:00 PST

And Heaven And Nature Sing

It must be Christmastime when you start hearing all Christmas music, all the time on some radio stations. Hell, it may even be Halloween time the way some stations are jumping the gun. While I do lov...
Posted by Thomas on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:56:00 PST

Getting Away

It's been over a year now since I've been anywhere but the Metroplex and Mineral Wells areas. And it's bugging me a little. Budgetary constraints and extenuating circumstances forced me to forgo the u...
Posted by Thomas on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:04:00 PST

Its About Time

This has been a long time coming. Ever since my childhood I enjoyed the cartoons of Charlie Brown, Garfield, Bloom County and Far Side, and dreamed of the day when I would become a well-known cartooni...
Posted by Thomas on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:50:00 PST