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tOm

Happy Colored Marbles are Rolling in My Head

About Me

BE AS RADICAL AS REALITY!

My Interests

World Revolution, Dancing in the moonlight, Space exploration

I'd like to meet:

People willing to act on their beliefs; the vanguard; Du musst tanzen!

Music:

Jane's Addiction, Bob Marley, Public Enemy, Black Sabbath, Dungen, (International) Noise Conspiracy, Dead Kennedys, Tia Carrera, the Ex, Attack Formation, Radiohead, drum n bass, Timo Maas, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Thin Lizzy, Flaming Lips, Atari Teenage Riot, Faith No More, Rolling Beatles, Oh, Beast!, Joy Division, Faust, more

Movies:

Bunuel, Herzog, Godard, Kubrick, Gutirrez Alea, Dziga Vertov ("The Man with a Movie Camera" - wow!), George A. Romero

Television:

Gil Scott-Heron knows the answer.

Books:

Final Speeches of Malcolm X, The Hobbit, The Stranger, Yellow Wallpaper, Communist Manifesto, Homage to Catalonia, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 2001, Dune, labor history

Heroes:

el pueblo, angry farmers, negros with guns, SoUl ReBEls

My Blog

Lady Birds Legacy - Pretty Flowers and Mutant Vietnamese Babies

I’ve had enough of all this celebratory history around Lady Bird Johnson’s death.With all the talk of beautification, she helped create Town Lake in Austin, wildflowers on the roadside. Ye...
Posted by tOm on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:15:00 PST

40 hours, 5 countries, and a night in the Havana Airport

Well I've finally made it back to Austin. My attempt to make it through four connecting flights in five countries in 12 hours failed, but home none the less. After getting up at 3 a.m.(CST) to ta...
Posted by tOm on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 06:56:00 PST

Space Monkies, Vegetarian Zombies, and Robots that Feel

Once, when I was young, I used to think Madonna and I could rule the world. Though, once the Space Monkies, the Vegetarian Zombies, and the Robots that Feel rendezvous at geodome Shaka Zulu with the c...
Posted by tOm on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 04:07:00 PST

Zombie food

I think you have to be happy, because when you are not happy thats when the zombies eat you. I heard something outside my window, so I'm being happy. I don't want to become zombie food.
Posted by tOm on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:08:00 PST

My Dark Lover

Austin, everytime I want to leave you, you sweep me up and make me stay. Cruising, wandering, drinking, dang why should I stay? Then. Friends of old and new ring true, That woman from the balcony...
Posted by tOm on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:04:00 PST