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Thomas Cunningham

My army of trained monkeys will destroy you!

About Me


I write scripts and other stuff. I "paint" with a camera. I do that thing I do. Click below to read some entertaining scripts and look at some really rad images as created by yours truly:
"You Name the Drama and I'll Play the Part"
A one-act play about a cranky art-filmmaker on an internet date and all the things that can and do go wrong.
Gilmore Girls - "Kissing and Horrid Strife"
A spec script of the popular WB show Gilmore Girls that takes place near the end of season 1.
My website (photography/digital imagery):
Me, hard at work with the creative thing:
Me and my girl Natalie.
In 2005, I made a short film that I wrote, directed, edited and acted in. Yeah, I was way too ambitious... It's not great but it's a start. I occassionaly write and record music but I'm NOT in a band and won't try to add you to my myspace friends and force you to listen to my crappy music. However, if you want to hear my crappy music, feel free to go HERE and HERE .
I don't eat meat but I kill people for sport... just kidding, I hate sports. I love big dogs and I only smoke angel dust on holidays. My eyes are filled with lust and my heart is filled with love, my brain processes it all and makes dark irreverant humor out of it. I'm a swell guy.
I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V3.6 !

My Interests

General: Love and madness (I'm pretty sick of madness, actually), comedy, storytelling, pretty things, the absurd and the profound, the sacred and the profane, contradictions and duality, shifting perspective, coffee, keepin' it real, scotch, animals, transcendence.

Artists: Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, John Singer-Sargent, Caravaggio, JW Waterhouse, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Delacroix, Millais, Burne-Jones, Lepage, Odd Nerdrum, Ingres, etc. etc.

Comedians: Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor, David Cross, Jon Stewart, Jake Johannsen, Mitch Hedberg, Eddie Izzard, Zach Galifianakis, Marc Maron, George Carlin, Brian Posehn, Bob Odenkirk, Patton Oswalt, Joe Rogan, Sarah Silverman, Dave Attell, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Steven Wright, Natasha Leggero, Nick Thune, okay... and... David Cope.

These dudes need to be given a real trial so they can finally go home.

I'd like to meet:

Collaborators, Co-Conspirators, Coffee Connoisseurs... Foxy Femme Fatales, Film Fanantics, Fuckin' Funny Friends, Playful Provocatuers and Alliteration Admirers.

Someone to help me kill all the popular kids at school and make it look like suicide.

People who know the difference between "your" and "you're".

People who aren't self-centered jackasses. IE- Nice people -Nice people are nice.

Creative, funny and smart -or at least two out of the three will work.

People who SUBSCRIBE TO MY BLOG!

People who will show their appreciation for my genius and talent by giving me buckets and buckets of cash would be awesome... Bruthas gotta get paid, y'know what I'm sayin'?

People who think I'm funny... 'cause I totally am and I appreciate perceptive people.
--Like this cool cawksucker! He's got the right idea!

Sarah Silverman

Gina Carano

Ana Beatriz Barros

Amy Acker and the David Boreanaz puppet.

Music:



tindersticks, bright eyes, pulp, radiohead, vaganza, tom waits, leonard cohen, billie holiday, miles davis, chet baker, afghan whigs, iron maiden, nick cave, NWA, andrew wk, bob dylan, slayer, DRI, run dmc, jeff buckley, jon spencer blues explosion, the rolling stones, public enemy, francoise hardy, fiona apple, john lee hooker, elliott smith, sex pistols, tom jones, adam and the ants, cheap trick, black sabbath, kiss, jude, the the, black flag, alice in chains, the supremes, marvin gaye, a tribe called quest, jimi hendrix, roxy music, hanoi rocks, aretha franklin, sly and the family stone, the auteurs, david bowie, frank sinatra, iggy and the stooges, pussy galore, morphine, spain, a tribe called quest, misfits, h.i.m., Ennio Morricone, rufus wainwright, Isaac Hayes, maroon 5, prince, judas priest, black flag, the faint, eminem, the replacements, jellyfish, ryan adams, twilight singers, placebo, outkast, suede, the cardigans, Kent, Ivy, Nas, ac/dc, elvis, the birthday party, joy division, johnny cash, nina simone, The MC5, tim buckley, swans, the spitters, otis redding, al green, ween, pink floyd, the doors, squeeze, the faces/early rod stewart, angels of light, lhasa, marilyn manson, the beatles, the beach boys, stevie wonder, the zombies, bauhaus, the cure, ornette coleman, john coltrane, the national, joe jackson, Athlete, Air, Ice Cube, Kanye West, The Jackson 5, Deathcab for Cutie, Muse, Missy Elliott, devo, steely dan, nirvana, josh camp, Patrick Wolf, Denali, Keren Ann, Hey That's My Bike!, the doobie brothers before Michael McDonald turned them into pussies, and the dozens i'm forgetting

Movies:

A Bout de Souffle (as in "Breathless" by Godard with Belmondo NOT Gere), Heathers, Fight Club, The City of Lost Children, Donnie Darko, Wings of Desire, 12 Monkeys, Little Miss Sunshine, Dead Man, Bande a Part, Clockwork Orange, Casablanca, Nights of Cabiria, No Country for Old Men, City Lights, Buffalo 66, Batman (1966), Juno, True Romance, The Big Lebowski, Office Space, The Proposition, SLiTHER, Paradise Lost, Freeway, Trouble Every Day, Superbad, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Fanny and Alexander, The Thin Man, This is Spinal Tap, Dario Argento films, Serenity, The Seven Samurai, High and Low, Ikiru, Monthy Python and the Holy Grail, Rushmore, Lost and Delirious, Bad Santa, The Specials, Clifford, The Hustler, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Mysterious Skin, Harold and Maude, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Darjeeling Limited, American Beauty, Bubba Ho-Tep, Paris Texas, 2001, The 400 Blows, Lolita, Happiness, Waking Life, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, A Fistfull of Dollars, 21 Grams, Repulsion, Blue Velvet, X-files, Monkey Business (Marx Bros.), Leon The Professional, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Mulholland Drive, Pulp Fiction, Real Genius, Reservior Dogs, Se7en, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 24 Hour Party People, Swingers, Gerry, The Conversation, Swimming with Sharks, In the Mood for Love, Chung King Express, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Cold Blooded, Camille Claudel, My Life to Live, M, Nashville, Mirror, Ratcatcher, Lollilove, Love and Death on Long Island, Dog Soldiers, Ginger Snaps, Man on the Train, Betty Blue, Dark City, Dreamlife of Angels, Ghost World, Romeo is Bleeding, The Salton Sea, Sexy Beast, Cool Hand Luke, Taxi Driver, That Obscure Object of Desire, American Movie, May, Ichi the Killer, The Return, The Barbarian Invasions, Knife in the Water, Good Burger, Lethal Weapon, The Road Warrior, Tromeo and Juliet, South Park, and even though it's by in large an awful movie: Reality Bites.

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, House, Freaks and Geeks, Dexter, Lost, Alias, Entourage, Batman, Hustle, Land of the Lost, Mr. Show, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, X-files, The Kids in the Hall, Lars Von Treir's The Kingdom, Rescue Me, Battlestar Galactica, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Office (UK & US), Wonder Showzen, Ultimate Fighting Championship, Get a Life, 21 Jump Street, South Park, Jackass, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Viva La Bam, CKY, Sifl and Olly, ALF, many old skool cartoons, Just about anything on the Science Channel, Discovery, etc.

Books:

I dig: DH Lawrence, Lewis Carroll, Kafka, WS Burroughs, RM Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Palahniuk, Henry Miller, Camus, Jack London, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Krishnamurti, Nick Cave, The Toy Collector, I like biographies a lot too.

Heroes:

Anyone who shakes the world up for the better and/or suffers the slings and arrows of their misfortune with courage, dignity and a wicked sense of humor.

Johnny Rotten, Marcel Duchamp, Bill Hicks, Nick Cave, Arthur Rimbaud, Buffy Anne Summers, Alexander "Xander" Harris, Sydney Bristow, Michel Poiccard, Tyler Durden, Fox Mulder, Gregory House, Peter Gibbons, John Lennon, James Gunn, Joss Whedon, Sarah Silverman, Bam Margera, Johnny Knoxville, Angelina Jolie, James Dean, Humphrey Bogart, Jesus, and of course, Adam West... and in the words of Sean, "Ohmygoooodness... Nathan's my hero." HA!

My Blog

"You wear a dress, baby, I'll wear a tie"

Want to know what I'm up to in between the times when I can expend the energy to write a blog proper? No? Ohh... Okay. Never mind then. But just in case you change your mind, I'm doing the Twitter thi...
Posted by Thomas Cunningham on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:51:00 PST

Ten tips to become a successful screenwriter by a not quite yet successful screenwriter

Okay. Believe it or not people ask me for screenwriting advice fairly regularly. I'm like "I dunno, why don't you ask a successful screenwriter like that lovable cocksucker Gunn?" But, hey, I've had s...
Posted by Thomas Cunningham on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:05:00 PST

The Savage Pilgrimage

I didn’t really mean the last entry to be a manifesto. I guess it’s more that I felt, personally, I should try to write more entries that weren’t just updates and/or me being hilario...
Posted by Thomas Cunningham on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:44:00 PST

Cinnamon Hugs Math

The following are all anagrams of my name, Thomas Cunningham.An anagram, for the slow section is when you rearrange all the letters in a word or phrase to create different words or phrases. Hangman Co...
Posted by Thomas Cunningham on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:40:00 PST

Updateiness

I know. I know. You're all like: WTF with that muhfuckin' Tom dude!? And I'm all like: Yeah, I know!Sorry for the lack of communications and such.I was in Vegas visiting Moms for the x-mas time and th...
Posted by Thomas Cunningham on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:04:00 PST

My short film DESPERATE MAN online + "making of" story

Back in the summer of 2005, I was living in the east village/alaphabet city area of NYC. I was writing but still not sure exactly what to do with that writing. I watched a lot of movies in my lifetime...
Posted by Thomas Cunningham on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:35:00 PST

Ava Jane waits at the greenlight while some oblivious driver yacks on a cell.

So, Ava Jane has hit some delay. Nothing has changed as far as the funders giving the verbal greenlight and choosing AJ as one of three films they want to finance but the fact is the contracts have ye...
Posted by Thomas Cunningham on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:49:00 PST

WGA Strike Rally at Fox Studios -NOW w/ RAINN WILSON PIC!

If you happen to see a picture of Rainn Wilson from The Office holding a picket sign and looking comically angry, I just want you to know that it was me who directed him to "look angry!" while a photo...
Posted by Thomas Cunningham on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:30:00 PST

Ava Jane and the greenlight

So, my screenplay "Ava Jane" was optioned back in mid August and now, it's been greenlit. So, barring unforeseen disaster, it will actually get made with at least a 1 mil. budget.Pretty fucking awesom...
Posted by Thomas Cunningham on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:17:00 PST

Weird text message

So, 10/9/07 I get the following text message from a number in the 661 area code that I don't recognize. The message says:"Im GONNA BEAT u"What would your response be, dear blog reader? Mine was: "Ok.....
Posted by Thomas Cunningham on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:15:00 PST