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Tom

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About Me

There is an inherent insanity about me.
I am a composer with hopeless addictions.
I like obscure television.
I wish I was British.
Or Swedish.
Ann Coulter is a COCK!
Sarah-Jane Smith has flaps!
These degrees I have make me seem scary, bit I'm really not.
I'm hard to get to know.
But, just start talking to me.
I'm not sure if I'm being serious right now.

My Interests

I love going to school; I just can't stop.
I have two kitties that I adore.
I will never get over my inherent inability to warm up to dogs on a first meeting.
I like films, not movies.
Being pretentious is fun.
Music theory and music composition are consuming me.
I enjoy going to elitist concerts and reading snooty program notes.
Sushi.
Weird food.
And sushi.
Which really isn't weird.
Eating slugs is.

I'd like to meet:

People who I like.
Weird people.
People who like to be terribly un-PC.
Opinionated people.
People who aren't easily offended.
People who like to go to non-Madison gay bars.
People who like wine.
And cheese.
And sushi.

Music:

Schoenberg, Carter, Crawford, Ligeti, Davies, Berg, Webern, Beethoven, Bach, Berio, Boulez, Debussy, Ravel, Crumb, Imbrie, Britten, Reich, Bartok, Mahler, Stravinsky, Anderson, Ferneyhough

Sunday in the Park with George, Eight Songs for a Mad King, Variations for Orchestra, Crawford's String Quartet, Violin Phase, Pierrot lunaire, FLUXfilm Anthology, Mozart's operas esp. Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute, the Sequenze, Sinfonia, Concerto for Orchestra, Lulu Suite, Songs of a Wayfarer, Songs of the Death of Children, Shakespeare Songs, The Rite of Spring, United States I-IV, Ligeti's Second String Quartet, Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Adagissimo, Black Angels, Ancient Voices of Children, Poemes de Stephane Mallarme, New York Notes, Coro

Movies:

Donnie Darko, The Shining, As Good as It Gets, Full Metal Jacket, Transamerica, Get Real, the Star Trek films, Beautiful Thing, The Birdcage, Mean Girls, Contact, Amelie, 28 Days Later, Elizabeth and its sequel, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Silence of the Lambs, Transformers: The Movie (as in the animated one)

Television:

The Up Series, Doctor Who, TOS, TNG, DS9, Sex and the City, David Letterman, Battlestar Galactica, Spooks, As Time Goes By, Black Adder, Red Dwarf, Absolutely Fabulous, Fawlty Towers, Queer as Folk, Black Books

Books:

I don't get much of a chance to read fiction anymore. I'm usually reading scholaraly journals like "Contemporary Music Review."
Did I mention being pretentious is fun? Or am I not being serious right now?

Heroes:

Tom Baker. People who are getting this.

My Blog

On Being Stressed Out

So, last semester--when I was finishing a fancy Master of Music degree, a thesis composition, and comprehensive exams--was utterly insane.  Just when I thought it couldn't get more insane than la...
Posted by Tom on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:33:00 PST

Heterosexuality Questionnaire

HETEROSEXUAL QUESTIONNAIREFrom Martin Rochlin, Ph.D, January 1977This questionnaire is for self-avowed heterosexuals only. If you are not openly heterosexual, pass it on to a friend who is. Please try...
Posted by Tom on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:12:00 PST

On Ann Coulter

(I'm going to be terribly cynical.......)I hate her. I really do. And if she calls herself Christian, she better re-read (or perhaps read) what Jesus has to say about peacemakers. Or maybe she, like 9...
Posted by Tom on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:45:00 PST

Making Fun of Jane Austen

Mr. Darcy, by whom at this point had exhausted his accounts, had, without exception and out of the most sincere nature of his heart, began to discuss with Mr. Popplewick, that is to say his lawyer of ...
Posted by Tom on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:28:00 PST

My Inexplicable Love of Techno

Yes, I love it. I can't explain it. Perhaps the gay gene is compelling me to like this music.It goes against everything I hate about minimalism... that is, Philip Glass. I know this.The insistent "...
Posted by Tom on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:18:00 PST

The Interrupted Dream

A collaboration between playwright Harlan Chambers and composer Thomas C Lang.Performances: 7 and 8 September 8:00, 9 September 4:00Location: Rarig Center's Xperimental Theatre, UMTC West Bank Arts Q...
Posted by Tom on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:41:00 PST

An Avoidance of the Old

So I recently checked out an Ursual Mamlok CD from the library and was tickled slightly at the "listener reference scale" that was included on the back.  The "applicable categories" were: minimal...
Posted by Tom on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:00:00 PST

On Gays in (American) Television

**Spoilers ahead** (Also, extreme nerdiness ahead.)So, in 2005, the new Dr. Who series starring Christopher Eccleston aired. In the final episode of that first series, Captain Jack, a pan-sexual sold...
Posted by Tom on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:23:00 PST

Ruminations on Becoming a Telemarketer

I have had so many unusual jobs.  I really have. (At least I think I have.)  Let me just list them for a moment:McDonalds (St. Cloud)McDonalds (Winona)Rodrigo Festival Art Gallery GuardSt. J...
Posted by Tom on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:53:00 PST

Reaction to My Blog Entitled "Textspeak"

Languages evolve.  English is not a dead language.  Therefore, we would still be putting a whole bunch of e's at the end of words and saying "thy" and "thou."Still, I do get depressed that p...
Posted by Tom on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:19:00 PST