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About Me

You can find out a lot about yourself online. I've read that I'm a "Punk Rock Legend"... This is probably not true plus I think you may have to dead to qualify. I've also read about how I was 10 year old Punk Rocker in the 70's and hung out with and met all sorts of people who probably have some vague memory of some little kid who liked to talk about records. This is more or less true. I consider myself to be an obscure collectable and an aquired taste.
Since 1981 I have had an experimental Punk band called The Brain People. The guitar player refuses to play (but sometimes plays horn) the drummer has never learned to play, I am the bass player and session musician. We do improvisation racket that I record then try to edit, mutate and overub upon until it sounds like something. They have their own myspace page here
Aside from The Brain People, I also have an electronic project called Machine Section who have one CD out. I have also been in The Wankers, Happy Warfare, La-Bas and released a bunch of records under my own name "Tommy Dog".. In those days I hadn't added the affectation of spelling my last name in all capitols.
www.tommydog.com
www.brainpeople.com
www.sodrecords.com

My Interests

Buying and building musical instruments, listening to records. -I'm a collector in general when it comes to musicology. I'm also building a portable freak show.

I'd like to meet:

Musicians and artists whose work I respect, learn about new artists and maybe form an all star Punk Rock orchestra featuring people playing instruments they don't know how to play. -wait, I may have already done that record.. eh, whatever.

Music:

Punk has been my 1st love since I was 10. I do buy Rock & Roll, Jazz, Funk, Dub, Psychedelic, weird thriftstore oddities, lounge, you name it... Anything but MOI shit, Opera, Disco and modern Counrty gets a spin on the wheels of steel.

The thing about music is there's always something new and something old that I haven't heard. I stick them slabs in my earholes and check it out. You never know whether it's gonna be someone like Squarepusher or The Cripples that puts out the next thing that blows off my fucking head.

Movies:

B-movies, horror, you know the drill..

Television:

Simpsons, Law & Order (s)

Books:

Huysmans, Thompson, Burroughs.

Right now I'm they are being boxed and stuffed in a storage space.

Heroes:

Anyone who ain't been caught yet and everyone who done their time right.

My Blog

a note about the tech blog

It's hard enough to keep up with real life. Virtual life in the ether is almost impossible.I have started bloging on my more technological interests here: http://oldsocksandnewtoys.blogspot.comAs I of...
Posted by Tommy DOG on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:28:00 PST

collecting

Everybody needs a hobby.A collector is to be judged not just by the quantity but by quality, depth of knowledge, scope and over all condition.A collector is a librarian, scholar, shaman, hunter and dr...
Posted by Tommy DOG on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:18:00 PST

some things you may not know.

1. I'm such a dominant personality that I rename anyone I have the slightest affection for.2. I am a sexual braggart not because I am proud but because I'm surprised that I could charm that many.3. I'...
Posted by Tommy DOG on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:12:00 PST

is this poetry?

As I lay me down to sleep...The final meal of the family in the family home.There is no fan fare. No comments in the toasts.This is it little brother. No more family home at all.Dylan can feel it. The...
Posted by Tommy DOG on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:35:00 PST

rambling on a fever

Peter Crowley (of numerous legends, in my youth it would be his assoiciation with Max's Kansas City) had reposted one of those question things that people pass around on myspace. This one pertained to...
Posted by Tommy DOG on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:44:00 PST

The only true history of Punk written by anyone at all at any time part 1

Punk's tribal as we all know and agree. But did you ever consider the amazing relevance of it's folk lore?I remember there was a story told about how The Viletiones had played CBGBs and during the fir...
Posted by Tommy DOG on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 08:07:00 PST

my lawyers bad advice

So I'm about to go away for a few days and I get this weird idea in my head that I need a "new" GG Allin CD.. I mean I don't listen to his shit too often and I'm the first to admit that I I thought hi...
Posted by Tommy DOG on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:00:00 PST

Random notes

I walk with the beasts and they in turn walk with me. I have always been thought of as a bit sideways thinking, I believe in loyalty, honor and truth but I expect less from others. I am married to thi...
Posted by Tommy DOG on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:57:00 PST

My "brother" george

Anything to disrupt by healthy intrusion.
Posted by Tommy DOG on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:46:00 PST

The Studio

After about six years in the current location I'm closing shop. I've had a project studio or a home studio for most of my life. I stared on a mono cassette deck when I was 10 and started recording ban...
Posted by Tommy DOG on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:17:00 PST