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Tom

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My Interests

Singing; running; talking to my parents; teaching; reading; eating cupcakes.

I'd like to meet:

Joan Crawford's spirit; Justin Bond; David Sedaris; all of the Scissor Sisters and the Dixie Chicks; Kate Winslet; TORI AMOS; the siblings Wainwright; Michael Cunningham; Meryl Streep; Mika; Tim Gunn; the Project Rungay boyz

Music:

Tori Amos; Martha Wainwright; Rufus Wainwright; Madonna; Dixie Chicks; Imogen Heap; Neko Case; Lucinda Williams; Dar Williams; Liz Phair; Blondie; Patty Griffin; ANDY MULLEN; Antony and the Johnsons; Regina Spektor; Sufjan Stevens; Gnarls Barkley; Over the Rhine; Damien Rice; SCISSOR SISTERS; Scott Matthew; Janis Joplin; the Beatles; Bob Dylan; Sinead O'Connor; Morrissey; Angie Stone; Beth Orton; Cry Cry Cry; Fiona Apple; Jack Johnson; Joni Mitchell; Kate Bush; Loretta Lynn; Liza Minnelli; Nina Simone; Pretenders; MIKA; Elvis Perkins; Amy Winehouse; Lily Allen; Peggy Lee; Kiki and Herb What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?
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Movies:

The Hours; Grey Gardens; Mommie Dearest; Cabaret; Brokeback Mountain; The Station Agent; Annie Hall; Chicago; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Sense and Sensibility; Adaptation; Angels in America; The Godfather (this one's for Francis); Moulin Rouge; Far from Heaven; Y Tu Mama Tambien; Talk to Her; Bad Education; Casablanca; Trois couleurs: Bleu, Bialy, Rouge (Krzysztof Kieslowski); Philadelphia; The Silence of the Lambs; The Devil Wears Prada; Little Miss Sunshine; Mulholland Dr.; Quinceanera; Half-Nelson; The Queen; Maurice; Little Children; The Great New Wonderful; SHORTBUS; The Departed; BABEL; Letters from Iwo Jima; Pan's Labyrinth; Shut Up and Sing; Volver; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; City of Lost Children

Television:

Family Guy; Sex and the City; Weeds; PROJECT RUNWAY; The West Wing; GREY'S ANATOMY; Desperate Housewives (I know, I know--I'm such a follower); Top Design

Books:

The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger); The Wings of the Dove (Henry James); Absalom, Absalom (William Faulkner); The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald); The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford); Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen); King Lear (Shakespeare); The Hours (Michael Cunningham); Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison); Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston); Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin); The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje); To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf); Lord of the Flies (William Golding); Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck); Black Boy (Richard Wright); The Best of Everything (Rona Jaffe); Great Expectations (Charles Dickens); The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan); Howard's End (E.M. Forster); Maurice (E.M. Forster); Play It as It Lays (Joan Didion); Rosie (Anne Lamott); Atonement (Ian McEwan); The Shipping News (Annie Proulx); Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham); The Street (Anne Petry)

Heroes:

My parents; my former students at I.S. 275 and my current students at Manhattan East (hey 8A, 8B, and 8C!); Loring Henderson, the man who'll save the world; my boyfriend Tony

My Blog

American Doll Posse

I'm fairly obsessive over the new Tori Amos album at this moment--American Doll Posse. It begins with what one reviewer referred to as a "dirge" about President Bush, "Yo George." The final lyric--"Yo...
Posted by Tom on Sun, 20 May 2007 07:06:00 PST

I miss snow

I'm sitting here, enjoying the quiet of the morning while Tony sleeps, but I can't help but be slightly irritable. The temperature today is expected to climb to 67 degrees, and I miss snow. I don't wa...
Posted by Tom on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:41:00 PST

Dad is sick

I found out last night that Dad has prostate cancer. We didn't know for sure until the biopsy came back. Now, we have to wait another week before the doctors can tell if they can remove it completely,...
Posted by Tom on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:26:00 PST

Dad's Birthday

Today's Dad's 65th birthday. Crazy, huh? I'm thinking about him a lot because I've been living in New York for two years now, and I just don't see him that often. I remember when I moved to Chicago fi...
Posted by Tom on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:00:00 PST

Glitter and Be Gay

Currently I am torturing Tony with the original cast recording of Candide. He's an awfully good sport about such things. I like to play Henry Higgins every once in a while, and educate him about somet...
Posted by Tom on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 05:53:00 PST

Why the Dixie Chicks are so great

So I've been reading that some of the dates on the Dixie Chicks tour--Memphis, Houston, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis--might be cancelled due to poor ticket sales. Frankly, I'm getting pissed off the mo...
Posted by Tom on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 05:52:00 PST