Thomas

St. Peters grade school, Notre Dame High School

Michigan State University, Attended 1979 - 1984, Class of , Other, English

Bookseller, sometime writer, dreamer

Louise Brooks Society

surrealism, Man Ray, Andre Breton, collage/montage, the Weimer, the Jazz Age, Louise Brooks, Buster Keaton, Clara Bow, silent film, skyscraper primitives, modernism, mythology, l'amour fou, vamps, flappers, femmes fatales, Mittel Europe, Lulu

biographies of silent film stars, film history, art history, literary history, literary biography, Beat poetry, and most anything by, Jorge Luis Borges, F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Jim Harrison, Stuart Dybek, Jeffrey Eugenides, T S Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, Diane Wakoski, Frank O'Hara, Henry David Thoreau, George Orwell, Frank Wedekind, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Ray Bradbury, Emil Petaja, Greil Marcus, Czeslaw Milosz

Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl, Louise Brooks Looking for Lulu, Amelie, Tin Drum, Blue Angel, Ghost World, Dr Zhivago, Farhenheit 451, Inherit the Wind, Moby Dick, Somewhere in Time, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Reign of Fire, A Hard Day's Night, V for Vendetta, Of Human Bondage, My Man Godfrey, Incredible Mr Limpet, Slaughterhouse Five, Day of the Triffids, Sound of Music, Virgin Suicides, Show People, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Tipping the Velvet, Mysterious Island, Time Machine, Lolita, Prix de Beaute, Robinson Caruso on Mars, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Sunset Boulevard, Sound of Music, The Professional, Cineam Paradisio, Wings, silent film, pre-code

White Stripes, Billie Holiday, Crowded House, James, Sarah Azzara, Marshall Crenshaw, Neil Young, Cranberries, New Order, OMD, Gershwin, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Satie, Sibelius, Stravinsky, The Beatles, Smiths, Cure, REM, Tommy Dorsey, music of the 20s and 30s

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Jeeves and Wooster, Star Trek, Sherlock Holmes, Colbert Report, Daily Show, The Simpsons, Twilight Zone, Danger Man, The Prisoner, Xena, Space Above and Beyond, Outer Limits, Have Gun Will Travel, Perry Mason, Mission Impossible, Angel, Survivors, Hogan's Heroes, One Step Beyond, Time Tunnel

I am the director of the Louise Brooks Society. I am "obessesed" with the silent film star Louise Brooks (see www.pandorasbox.com for a manifestation of my obsession). I like to read. I like to watch old movies. I feel reading old books and viewing old movies are a form of time travel. I am a nerd, and I revel in it.

kindred nerds, fans of Louise Brooks and silent film, others