Tom James
Tom James
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If we fix it where you can't make money on war, folks would forget what they're killing each other for
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57 years old
WICHITA, Kansas
United States
Last Login: 8/13/2009
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| General | Any word, sound, picture, texture, or experience that tells a story
| | Music | Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk, Fred Neil, Townes Van Zant, Tom Paxton, Tom Leher, Joan Baez, Pentangle, The Incredible String Band, Paul Seibel, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Holy Modal Rounders, Bonnie Raitt, Jerry Rau, Utah Phillips, Rosalie Sorrels, New Lost City Ramblers, Jesse Winchester, Steve Goodman,John Gorka, Jim Kweskin, Jean Ritchie, Bill Staines, Mark Ross, Hedy West, Malvina Reynolds, Pete Seeger, Faith Petric, Woody Guthrie, The Band, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, The Fugs, Bob Dylan, Donovan and Dire Straits. Then there's the newer stuff, The Decemberists, The White Stripes, Old Crow Medicine Show, Sarah Harmer, The Old 97's, Split Lip Rayfield, Truckstop Honeymoon, Ani D'Franco, Sufjan Stevens. Plus all the Wichita songwriters and other friends I've played with for over thirty years. | | Movies | My favorite movie is still "Moonstruck". However, the list of runners up is long, including "Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead" (only recently available on dvd); "Dead Man", (if you haven't seen this, you haven't seen Johnny Depp); "The Whole Wide World" (two of our best actors in pivotal roles); "Rumble Fish" (Coppola at his gritty best) and old warhorses like "The King Of Hearts" (I cried at the end the first dozen times I saw it, now, I'm OK.)and Harold and Maude (you can't be either young or old and NOT see this movie). And anyone that loves movies owes it to themselves to see Robert Altmans masterpiece, "Come Back To The Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" (You can't get more Karen Black than this). (O.K., "Five Easy Pieces" is close.) But really, find it, see it...only on VHS so far ... As far as the 21st century, I haven't really kept up - "Donnie Darko" and "In America" come to mind. The Linklater stuff is very cool, especially "Before Sunset". Jarmoush survives. Altman, too. The Coens, of course. And new, interesting stuff down the street and around the world. | | Television | Like cigarettes, I had to give it up twice before I succeeded. | | Books | Authors whom I love and have read large parts of their works include, John Steinbeck, Willa Cather, Flannery O'Connor, Larry McMurtry, John Irving, Jorge Amado, Issac Bachevis Singer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Tillie Olsen, Meridel Le Suer, Louise Erdrich, Marge Piercy, Grace Paley, Isabel Allende, Kurt Vonnegut, Tobias Wolfe, Michael Chabon, Louise Erdrich and Mark Twain. And if you haven't read the essays of E.B. White, you're missing some of the true eloquence of the English language, as well as some of the deepest insights into American life and culture. He spoke of planes being able to "burn the towers, crumble the bridges" in 1949. He also wrote about dachshunds and spiders.
Poets who have influenced me at crucial times, in roughly chronographic order, Leonard Cohen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Berryman, William Carlos Williams, John Beecher, Michael Ketchum, Allen Ginsberg, C.K. Williams, Kenneth Patchen, Tom Page Sr., Teresa Anderson, Harley Elliott, Robert Bly, Marge Piercy, and Philip Levine.
| | Heroes | Anyone who speaks their mind |
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Tom James's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Hometown: | Wichita | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Children: | Proud parent |
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About me:
Originally set up as an easy way to store my poems and to give my friends access to them, this page is
slowly becoming the vehicle for communication that the gods of MySpace intended it to be. Or at least I'm learning to use it as such. The poems reside here as Blog Entries. My writings concerning the history of folk music in the Walnut Valley (and folk music in general) reside in a more typical blog form from the "Special Winfield Report" link at http://kansasacoustic.com - the website of Kansas Acoustic Arts Association - the folks who inspired and supported me in this endeavor from the beginning.
I also maintain the email list for the Acoustic Jam at Grandma's Farm, which meets on the Second Saturday of every month on the outskirts of Wichita. Message me here to get on the list. It's great, cheap fun.
Also, some of my original songs can be found at http://www.myspace.com/tjbroomhouse
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Who I'd like to meet:
Anyone who ever attended, knew someone who attended, or knows anything at all about The Black Eye in Winfield, mentioned in the Old Folkie post from October 4, 2007. http://oldfolkie71.blogspot.com/2007/10/black-eye.html
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