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Thomas

thhammond

About Me

I am a Third Culture Kid I am an audiophile. "The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, 'Hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride...' ...and we kill those people."
-the late Bill Hicks aim - THHammond I thought this was cool. Check it out... www.last.fm/user/THHammond/ My Online Photo Album div

My Interests

i am fascinated by music and other forms of human artistic expression. Humans in general intrigue me. i try to learn as much about them as i can.

I'd like to meet:

zinedine zidane, gustav mahler, john frusciante, kurt vonnegut (r.i.p.), chris potter, dr. dre.

Music:

Radiohead, Gustav Mahler, Jaga Jazzist, Drive-By Truckers, By the Sins Fell Angels, Foxes That Fight, Meshuggah, Ray LaMontagne, RHCP, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Bad Plus, Richard Wagner, The Classic Struggle, Johannes Ockeghem, Béla Fleck, Smashing Pumpkins, Necrophagist, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, A Life Once Lost, C-Mon and Kypski, Tom Waits, The Red Chord, Steve Reich, From Graves of Valor, Pink Martini, The Mars Volta, Thomas Tallis, Rage Against The Machine, Arvo Pärt, Ben Folds Five, Benjamin Britten, The Faceless, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Rufus Wainwright, Chris Potter, Between the Buried and Me, Ludwig van Beethoven, Simon Shaheen, Jason Isbell, John Frusciante (the man has the voice of an angel), Sergei Rachmaninoff, Cephalic Carnage, Dmitri Shostakovich, Balkan Beat Box, Sublime, The Roots, and yeah Debussy...

Movies:

Road to Perdition, The Big Lebowski, Inside Man, 300, Sin City, High Fidelity, Koyaanisqatsi, The Royal Tenenbaums, Dead Poets Society, Romeo and Juliet (both versions), West Side Story, Contact, The Village, Collateral, The Bourne series, Lost In Translation, Janghwa Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters), House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Talladega Nights, Kill Bill, Snatch, Donnie Darko, The Triplets of Belleville, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, others...

Television:

Planet Earth, the Daily Show, Man vs. Wild, Reno: 911, the Office, Family Guy, Futurama, South Park, all things considered, this american life

Books:

Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Motherless Brooklyn, Slaughterhouse-five, Mother Night, Galapagos, Orpheus Lost, The Bell Jar, Due Preparations for the Plague, The Great Gatsby, Catch-22, A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain, God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian, bogambo snuff box and other short stories, Cat's Cradle, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, the Catcher in the Rye, On the Road, tess of the d'urbervilles, The Birth of Tragedy, The Age of Reason, frankenstein, a brief history of time, gun with occassional music, where the wild things are, the little prince, biographies of interesting people.also, anything that my genius sister writes.Currently reading anything relating to Richard Wagner and Benjamin Britten

Heroes:

Gustav Mahler, and John Frusciante.

My Blog

20 million

The going rate for a ticket to the international space station is $20 million. I've decided that if i ever have that much money I'm gonna fly into space and satisfy one of my boyhood dreams that never...
Posted by Thomas on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:16:00 PST

greatest band ever

This is my dream line-up for some kind of contemporary rock, jazz, whatever ensemble.Olivia Ruiz - female vocalsTom Waits - male vocals, pianoTrey Anastasio - electric guitarDerek Trucks - electric gu...
Posted by Thomas on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:19:00 PST

A brief history of time.

God creates heaven and earth.  God creates man.  God delivers the gift of his own creativity and artistic expression to lift Man above the beasts.  Man mistakenly creates religion. ...
Posted by Thomas on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:58:00 PST

Fun at the Blue Martini

I jammed last night for the first time at a jazz club in columbia called the Blue Martini.  My friend Robert, who is an amazing saxophonist, convinced me to get over my fears and play on some Mil...
Posted by Thomas on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:28:00 PST

Television has melted my brain.

Throw your Televisions away!  Throw your computers away!I am trying to ween myself off of these vices of mine.  I have decided that TV and my usual internet activities have been more detrime...
Posted by Thomas on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:08:00 PST

Time for Change!

This is an email i got the other day.  It is addressed to members of a group called ECA which stands for Eastern Cultural Awareness (with a special emphasis on middle eastern culture).  I th...
Posted by Thomas on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:55:00 PST

Eurotrip 2006 pictures are now available!!!

Check it.I finally got around to putting together a photobucket picture album of all my pictures from my fantastical trip to europe this summer.  Just click the link and it should take you right ...
Posted by Thomas on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:13:00 PST

American/Israeli foreign policy is the death of reason and justice.

Israeli raid in Lebanon kills 54 Sun Jul 30, 2006 1:31 PM BST By Hussein SaadQANA, Lebanon (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed 54 Lebanese civilians, including 37 children, on Sunday, pro...
Posted by Thomas on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:51:00 PST

this guys knows better than you do.

The Real Choice in IraqBy Zbigniew BrzezinskiSunday, January 8, 2006; B07"Bring 'em on."-- President Bush on Iraqi insurgents, summer 2003The insurgency is "in its last throes."-- Vice President Chene...
Posted by Thomas on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 06:16:00 PST

György Ligeti (1923-2006)

Gyorgy Ligeti; influential composer of wry, startling pieces By Richard Dyer, Globe Staff  |  June 13, 2006 As a young composer, Gyorgy Ligeti heard music in his head that he didn't know h...
Posted by Thomas on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:25:00 PST