Music, film, animation, politics, transit, sex, world affairs, composition, vintage synthesizers, film scoring, masturbating to fireworks made of numbers while slowly pulling my teeth out with pliers, marimba, video games, Nintendo, art, Murakami, North Korea, Animal Crossing slash fanfiction, electronica, simcity, maps, fellatio, making fun of stuff, languages, sexuality, the complete annihilation of Glenn County, travel, road trips, languages, food, surrealist fiction, surrealist reality, driving surface streets late at night
Music
Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Beethoven, Bizet, Mussorgsky, Satie, Copland, Holst, Keiko Abe, Joe Hisaishi, Yoko Kanno, Shiina Ringo, EGO-WRAPPIN', GO!GO!7188, POLYSICS, capsule, the pillows, bidziliba, Asakusa Jinta, Buffalo Daughter, Guitar Vader, detroit7, Björk, Stereolab, Lamb, Metric, Hello Stranger, Hecuba, The Polyphonic Spree, Ladytron, The Go! Team, múm, capsule, Justice, BT, Paul Van Dyk, Pizzicato Five, Porno Graffitti, Seikima II, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Le Mystére Des Voix Bulgares, The Beatles, Evelyn Glennie, video game music
The Sarah Silverman Program, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Wonder Showzen, Strangers With Candy, The Boondocks, Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex, South Park, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Home Movies, The Critic, Family Guy, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Daria, Degrassi, Wonderfalls, Cowboy Bebop, Roseanne, The Amazing Race, Gilmore Girls, Kino no Tabi, Fat Girl's Club, The PBS/NPR Radical Leftist Communifagterrortastic Liberal America-Hating Flag-Burning Fun Hour, Veronica Mars, Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Books
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harry Potter, Culture of Fear, The Onion, Animal Farm, 1984, America: The Book, Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood, Porno
Heroes
Cute girls and boys with keytars, scarves, and accordions all over the world
About me: I graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA with a degree in Film Scoring; now to make something other than desperate starvation and poverty happen in my hometown of Southern California. Being away from LA has helped me gain a new perspective on how the rest of the country thinks and feels, and has taught me this: I hate the rest of the country. California is like America, only better.
I can't take a good picture to save my life. AIM is pilgrim snow -- if you don't have anything interesting to say then be prepared for a boring, one-sided conversation that will end in a mutually-awkward fashion.
I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley, and thus have a lot of Asian influence in my life. My California upbringing has made me comfortable with street signs in Spanish, Korean, and Chinese, made exotic and delicious food a commonplace staple, and absolutely spoiled me with a lifetime of fresh produce.
I like to cook and learn how to cook. I make excellent curry. I'm taking languages at PCC right now - it's sort of a hobby; so far I've studied Japanese, French, Italian, Mandarin, and Spanish.
This is all, naturally, pleasant distraction while I get my music together... right? I just moved into a cottage in charming and historic Echo Park, where I spend each day enjoying the neighborhood while totally not being shot at. I totally dig this neighborhood.
I spent a month in Japan last summer and it cost me jobs, status, money, and someone I loved. I would do it all again in a second.
Facebook > MySpace, so if you know my full name, add me there. ;)
Who I'd like to meet: Cute, creative, musical, intellectual people of all stripes.
NEWS FLASH: I am a creature of COMMUNICATION. I WILL NOT ADD YOU UNLESS YOU MESSAGE ME AND GIVE ME A GOOD REASON / MAKE FRIENDLY BANTER / ARE NOT A STRANGER. I'm not a snob - I'm just tired of spambots, myspace whores, and porn-bait.
tommy! im going to add you on facebook BUT!! implaying the piano now,and i really want to play something you've written it would be AWESOME if there was a way i could get a hold of something to play by you :] i love you and miss you
that's good! your car wasn't messed with at all? we stayed at andy's house until 3 am, just talking, eating chicken, and messing up each other's hair. it was mega fun :D
Tommy, I enjoyed your bday get-together. I heard you had a primaries party to help finish off the birthday booze. good idea! My man Mike Gravel didn't do so hot...
