Tom Birkenstock
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Direct Care |
| Location | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a cultural sponge. This site is merely a series of ruminations on whatever I've recently seen, read, or heard. |
| Interests | The Transcendentalists, punk rock, the Romantics, pop art, post-modern literature, drinking beer, traveling, writing, soccer, science-fiction, Batman, the Beat writers, euchre, liberal politics, comic books, and law I suppose. |
| Favorite movies | The Usual Suspects, The Empire Strikes Back, Rushmore, Lost in Translation, Repo Man, Barton Fink, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Blade Runner, Trainspotting, The Seventh Seal, Dark City, Army of Darkness, Chinatown, Dangerous Liasons, Dr. Strangelove, Ed Wood, The Truman Show, Roshomon, SLC Punk, Alien |
| Favorite music | Nirvana, The Clash, David Bowie, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, At the Drive-In, Sleater Kinney, Beck, Erase Errata, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Pere Ubu, Sonic Youth, Spoon, Fugazi, The Black Keys, The Futureheads, Comets on Fire, Wolf Parade, Super Furry Animals, Icarus Line, TV on the Radio |
| Favorite books | Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, The Trial by Franz Kafka, 1984 by George Orwell, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, The Odyssey by Homer |
All of the phone numbers have fallen out of your address book. Whose number do you look for first and why?
Address book? What is this, the 1890's?