Tom the Pipers Son's Profile |
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This is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago |
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| Age: | 55 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | Phoenix, Arizona |
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| Height: | 6' 0" |
| BodyType: | Average |
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| Last Login: | Nov 6, 2008 (390 days back) |
About Me |
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| tenor saxophone, fingerstyle guitar...reader, writer, walker | |
My Interests |
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| improvisation and play, obscure beats, some beat poets (without pretension to beatness, or, unknowingly beat), maps, trees, mysteries, history, old-time baseball, other languages, round sounds, rain sounds, lonesome whistles and whipporwills... | |
I'd like to meet:...it'll happen when it happens. |
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Music:lester young (early prime years 1936-1945, this the cream), bert jansch, john renbourn, django reinhardt, sonny rollins, serge chaloff, erik satie, verdi, puccini, isaac albeniz, debussy, lunasa, planxty, paco de lucia, hamza el din, sam cooke, otis, fred neil, innocence mission, jolie holland, joao gilberto, donovan (the ones the radio doesn't play) beatles, love, byrds, skip james, mississippi john, lightnin', dusty springfield, jolie holland, be good tanyas,...anything with un-prefabricated soul |
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Movies:children of paradise, topper, trouble in paradise, the shop around the corner, nights of cabiria, divorce italian style, amelie, decasia, lyrical nitrate, house of flying daggers and movies where folks flip backward over walls or walk through mirrors..... |
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Television:prime suspect, english mystery, monty python, jeeves and wooster (i guess i should have an english tv)...... |
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Books:The Glory of Their Times, The Story of Lucy Gault, You Must Remember This, The Black Flower, Cold Mountain, Angela's Ashes, Think On These Things, The Deptford Trilogy, Jewel In the Crown, All The Pretty Horses, At Swim-Two-Birds, Crock of Gold, A Cast of Killers, The Alienist... |
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Heroes:Gandhi, Joan of Arc, Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, Lord Buckley, Laurel and Hardy, Laurel Clohessy |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | In a Relationship |
| SexualOrientation: | Straight |
| Religion: | Taoist |
| Children: | Proud parent |
| Education: | Some college |
| Occupation: | musician |
My Blog |
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Top Friends |
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| Just to say i'm putting up more of my "real world" friends as "top". I get the feeling people think i'm trying to associate myself with hip, dead, or living iconic people when i put them up as top fri... Posted by Tom the Pipers Son on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:11:00 PST |
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Woody Allen short story excerpt |
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| Woody Allen has a new collection of short stories called Mere Anarchy. One of the selections involves a would-be writer of the Next Great American Novel relegated to writing novelization of Three Stoo... Posted by Tom the Pipers Son on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:00:00 PST |
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"Appealing Touches in Film Directed by Mr. Lubitsch" |
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| I had the good fortune to be able to do a research paper on my favorite director of bygone days, Ernst Lubitsch. I stumbled across an article in the New York Times on Nov 23, 1924 describing a scene i... Posted by Tom the Pipers Son on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:16:00 PST |
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Mini Rant |
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| If there's one thing i can't stand in today's popular films it's the use of human voices dubbed over the dogs, cats and the entire animal kingdom whose mouths are digitally tweaked to accomodate the s... Posted by Tom the Pipers Son on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:42:00 PST |
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Creosote Anecdote |
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| Last weekend we walked through the new Rio Salado Park down by the oft barren and forgotten Salt River between downtown Phoenix and South Mountain. It has now become a nature preserve replete with des... Posted by Tom the Pipers Son on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:54:00 PST |
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"I like, SO have to read this book!" |
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| A pal that works with me at the library kills time reading the annotation/blurbs that accompany books on the catalog page...."The Kzin are warcats supreme, bringing the galaxy under feline dominion pi... Posted by Tom the Pipers Son on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:20:00 PST |
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mesquite fire and other scents |
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| walking out tonight here in phoenix into a cool breeze as the season finally turns i smell that familiar desert smell - i don't know if it's rain on sage or creosote or mesquite fires but i recall thi... Posted by Tom the Pipers Son on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:46:00 PST |
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Far From Heaven Music |
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| Late last night on televison we chanced upon the last 15 minutes of the 2002 movie Far From Heaven. I'd seen the movie before, but this time the film music caught my ear and held my rapt attention. Fr... Posted by Tom the Pipers Son on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:51:00 PST |
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Interterrestrial Shower transport |
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| We have a grand old shower stall with an archway entrance. This morning, i went in and started the water up when I discovered there was no soap in the tray. So, i go to the cupboard and find one the m... Posted by Tom the Pipers Son on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:52:00 PST |
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Mountains of the Moon |
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| Galileo was looking at the moon for the first time in his telescope and noticed that twilit/between area where the dark of the moon merged with the light. As the light turned, there were shadowed elli... Posted by Tom the Pipers Son on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:03:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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laurel chuggy-pie, Chris Hansen Orf, steve, The Elephant Years, lbc, elizabeth, Mopsy, Peke a l'orange, Hermione Swinford, wise greasy bastard, Sharon, Kristin, Jimmy Peggie, Ryan Madiar, Four String Swing, Sarah, Chris, wright, Vittorio De Sica, Lester Young, Sonny Rollins, Bert Jansch, Ernst Lubitsch, Django Reinhardt, Sandro Botticelli, Monica Vitti, Woody, Joseph Cornell, manitas de Plata, The Be Good Tanyas, Paul Desmond, The Byrds, tiffinie, Green Spot, Jenna Nicholls, Dick, SUZY, Brendan O’ Shea, Ricciardiart, The Misanthrope, Davy Graham, Tarran the Tailor, aly, Zaggered Epoch
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