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Thomas

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I love Louisville. It's filled with people who inspire me. Hopefully I'll end up being a decent person when it's all said and done. Last year I enjoyed playing music with the band LITANY'S LAST CALL. We're on a hiatus. One of these days we'll play together again. These days I'm living as a sculptor. I'm lucky... I love what I do for a living. I wouldn't be anything without my friends and family. Now I live in Brooklyn and work with Okamoto Studio Ice Sculpture NYC. I spend all day learning, and occasionally throughout the week I get a chance to see the inside of some of the most beautiful spaces in New York. Lucky lucky. During my down time I'm soaking it all in, always. Always exploring. Always growing. Homesick, but happy. The grass will always be greener in Louisville, the crown jewel of Kentucky, and as far as I'm concerned... the midwest ( maybe even the world) But hey, Iive in Brooklyn now... and I goddam LOVE it!

My Interests

Having a good laugh at my own expense, or maybe yours. Experimenting with music and sounds. Listening to live music. Climbing onto the rooftops of old warehouses. Climbing up hills. Playing in creek beds. Listening to trains. Watching things grow. reading. I mostly enjoy making things (art) out of whatever. Spending all of my time and money at local businesses. Eating fresh foods grown close to home. Watching fire.

I'd like to meet:

The people who know the people I know, people. People who want to know me. People of interest. Lucky so far... Real lucky

Music:

Music with soul... the list never ends. Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Can, Tortoise, Tom Waits, T. Rex, Pixies, Phantom Family Halo, Memphis Slim, Bonnie Prince Billy, Fela Kuti, Blonde Redhead, Zepplin, Ravi Shankar, Morphine, Chet Atkins, Brian Eno, Django Reinhardt, Tara Jane O'Neil, Arcade Fire, Love, Love and Rockets, Bill Withers, Otis Redding, Radiohead, The Racheals, Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Absorb Dissolve, Beastie Boys, John Spencer, Trans Am, My Morning Jacket, Wax Fang, Joe Manning, Cat Stevens, Ray Charles, James Brown, Jose Gonzalez, Iron and Wine, Cat Power, Feist, Jolie Holland, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Tiger Saw, Maui Maui, Chin Chin, TV on the Radio, LCD Sound System, Queens of the Stone Age, Nina Simone, all of the Loiusville's For Lovers compilations, Devandra Barnhart, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faun Fables, Black Diamond Heavies, the Photographic, Teneia Sanders, Louis Armstrong, Pokey Lafarge, Louis Prima, Sinatra, Harry Connick Jr., The Makeup, The Shins, Beirut, Aretha Franklin, Slint, Broken Spurs, Paul K and the Weathermen, Six White Horses, Star Killer, Papa M, Etta James, Amy Winehouse, Ralph Stanley, Depeche Mode, Prince, Seluah, People Noise, Beck, early Stones, Cash, the Clash, John Lee Hooker, D.W.Box, King Kong, Tarrentel, the Mercury Program, Old Time Music, Liars, Elliot Smith, Woody Guthrie, Van Morrison, Pinback, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Wilco, the Flaming Lips, the Beetles, Primal Scream, Massive Attack, Tricky,...etc.

Movies:

Harold and Maude, Into the Wild, Jacob's Ladder, Kubrick's films, One Flew Over the CucKoo's Nest, Rushmore, Baraka, Lord of the Rings, Little Miss Sunshine, Shawshank Redemption, 40 yr. Old Virgin, Tommy Boy, and documentaries on art, music, war, sex, science, culture, and architecture.

Television:

surf's up- T.V. is my worst enemy... but if I must Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, History Channel, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, K.E.T., The Weather Channel, U.F.C., Flight of the Concords

Books:

history, science, art books, biographies, Tom Robbins, Bukowski, Borroughs.

Heroes:

Somebody save my ass. Be a hero.