Governor Tom
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Internet |
| Occupation | Communications Manager |
| Location | Burbank, California, United States |
| Introduction | I was born in Washington, D.C. but did most of my growing up in South Jersey, about 20 miles or so east of Philly. I also lived down North Carolina way in the late eighties, my middle school years. For college I attended Temple University in Philadelphia where I majored in film and minored in German. Then I came out here to Los Angeles to get my masters in creative writing from USC. My passion remains writing, specifically novels and screenplays, which I work on in my spare time while holding down a day job. |
| Interests | My three primary interests are movies, movies, and movies. I eat, drink, breathe, sleep, and defecate celluloid. After that? Let's see. I love to read. And if you've looked at my blog for anything like five seconds, you can tell I love to write. I wrote my first novel at 14 and never looked back. I also like going to sporting events, theater, and opera. The occasional Vegas weekend is nice too. It's like therapy for the sinner in me. |
| Favorite movies | This tends to change now and then, as I go through movies like cold patients go through kleenex. But some films that remain consistently at the top of my list are: Anything with Bill Murray, the original Star Wars trilogy, the James Bond films (especially Casino Royale), How the West Was Won, Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, anything directed by Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Anything directed by Michael Mann. |
| Favorite music | As with films, my music palette is a bit broad. I like rock, jazz, classical, world music, and even a bit of rap and country. Here's what I've got in my car right now: M.I.A., Rilo Kiley, Bat for Lashes, Natacha Atlas, and Count Basie. |
| Favorite books | Gulliver's Travels, The Catcher in the Rye, Imajica, the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, Seabiscuit, Slaughter-House Five, among others. |
When you hesitate before hitting snooze on your alarm clock, are you being lazy?
Not when you hesitate. It's the actual hitting of the snooze that means you're a bum. When I hesitate, that means I have a battle of wills going on in my groggy brain: the disciplined self versus the bum. The bum always wins. I can't remember a weekday morning when I didn't use the snooze button.