tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67708977240798254052024-02-07T15:31:15.656-08:00Tom Wilson Love from Wilson WorldTom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-32262748946883657102013-08-26T21:28:00.000-07:002013-08-26T21:28:05.168-07:00Albuquerque<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The sky in New Mexico is better than any movie I have ever seen.<br />
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that tiny pedestrian going? How does that woman keep reading that book when those guys are playing frisbee in the grass right next to her? Is that the corner of a Panera behind that abandoned shoe place? But I barely had time to pay attention to tiny pedestrians before the sun had set because I was staring at the sky all day long. Thanks to Presbyterian Hospital and the people who were so kind to me, and <br />
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for helping me to spell Albuquerque. They use Q's a lot in new Mexico. I went to a restaurant called "Forque." "Quercue!" "ABQ!" I met a guy named Kevin who spells it Quevin. They love Q's, that's my point. Oh, and the sky.<br />
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<br />Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-61971535131509191082013-08-23T09:47:00.001-07:002013-08-23T09:47:08.662-07:00Travis Clark!I had a great conversation with Travis Clark, my old friend from the Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. We were friends at the Comedy Store when Travis was ten years old. His Dad is Blake Clark, the comedian and actor best known for his appearances on earlier episodes of Big Pop Fun the podcast, and also Adam Sandler movies and many HBO specials and a lengthy time spent in Viet Nam but not as a tourist. Travis and I talk about a life in the arts and I enjoyed it, and I hope you do too.<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/travis-clark/id477643322?i=164653642&mt=2">https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/travis-clark/id477643322?i=164653642&mt=2</a>Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-25948223722302816732013-01-29T15:20:00.000-08:002013-01-29T15:20:10.143-08:00My Book!I wrote a book and I would love for you to read it. It's called "The Masked Man; A Memoir and Fantasy of Hollywood." So many people have asked me to repeat and write down stories that I created an unusual book to include lots of stories, as well as a very unusual adventure that I get pulled into by the actor Clayton Moore, the man who played the Lone Ranger on television, and has been dead for over a decade. It's received many very positive reviews and I would love for you to read it. Thanks.<br />
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Love from Wilson World,<br />
TomTom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-34117195114503895272011-08-11T12:58:00.000-07:002011-08-11T13:13:42.475-07:00Corn!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUm8-Z_lBCeE7Bzy-Wr0kywa79vO0F29oW2JB3aQeDvHs_hG3hYBbyGNvgsP5b1UaklrT5vGMKfjUqlPALzWoVKlSc8fVGXVB9QsJjIUx_LUw5FgmO9JXYY9yMuKoQVfmdL8JYCwX5MCUy/s1600/IMG_1017.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUm8-Z_lBCeE7Bzy-Wr0kywa79vO0F29oW2JB3aQeDvHs_hG3hYBbyGNvgsP5b1UaklrT5vGMKfjUqlPALzWoVKlSc8fVGXVB9QsJjIUx_LUw5FgmO9JXYY9yMuKoQVfmdL8JYCwX5MCUy/s320/IMG_1017.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639694143650978258" /></a>
<br />I'm back from Philadelphia, and the AAA baseball game between the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs, and the Buffalo Bison at Coca-Cola park. Coke is, as you know, the real thing. Coke adds life. Coke...well, I don't know what their latest world refreshment domination PR line is, but cold Coke at a baseball game is good. Hey, the Iron Pigs lost the game, but any park named after Coke, and serving freshly shucked corn on the cob is way closer to heaven than that place in Iowa where you talk to Ray Liotta and have a catch with your Dad. I never had a catch with my Dad, but we still got along well. He was raised in an orphanage during the depression, so he didn't have things like baseball mitts or, for example, food. So, here's to celebrating my own gluttony by using my Dad's poverty in the 1930's as an excuse. That one's for you, Dad! <div>
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I got to experience what few artists experience - the thrill of opening the men's room door and finding their artwork behind the toilet. Can Van Gogh say that? If he could, would he? No and no. Case closed. Thanks, guys!Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-42617077548231676902010-10-28T15:01:00.000-07:002010-10-28T15:03:04.411-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(100, 95, 94); font-family: verdana; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap; "><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/16261528" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/16261528">Knoxville!</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3394041">Tom Wilson</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(100, 95, 94); font-family: verdana; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(100, 95, 94); font-family: verdana; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I went to Knoxville. In Latin, "place of Knox." Boomershine!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(100, 95, 94); font-family: verdana; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Love from Wilson World,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(100, 95, 94); font-family: verdana; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tom</span></div>Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-9002109541981207482010-08-26T13:22:00.000-07:002010-08-26T13:25:43.943-07:00Voice Over!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(100, 95, 94); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:verdana;font-size:10px;"><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/14342374" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/14342374">Tom Wilson - Voice Over</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3394041">Tom Wilson</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</p></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(100, 95, 94); 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font-family: verdana; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap; "><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10587338&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10587338&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/10587338">Tom Wilson - Philadelphia</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3394041">Tom Wilson</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(100, 95, 94); font-family: verdana; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(100, 95, 94); font-family: verdana; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had a great time in my hometown!</span></div>Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-3375193989455066542010-03-19T13:22:00.000-07:002010-03-19T13:23:07.729-07:00Lexington!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(100, 95, 94); font-family: verdana; font-size: 10px; white-space: pre-wrap; "><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10222760&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10222760&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/10222760">Lexington, Kentucky</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3394041">Tom Wilson</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(100, 95, 94); 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There was an angry homeless guy leaning against the sign for support, yelling unintelligible things unrelated to Thomas Merton, but probably concerning issues of social justice. I would have stayed longer, but there's no stopping.<div>Love from Wilson World,</div><div>Tom</div>Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-31387377999887195912009-10-14T13:31:00.000-07:002009-10-14T13:47:24.999-07:00No people like show people<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzC2db3TSPj0DKl67TLiDrkRxs0CKBTe6V3AFd-vjIAgXifA5Dq9rhauXdRhjlqhQBQ7KpQvSwwwVpDCNyLInvbDDxT4-prVRyA6yyNOTkM5kTTlSebILP1fU78B1LpruTJvoob1Ub4J2/s1600-h/IMG_0014.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzC2db3TSPj0DKl67TLiDrkRxs0CKBTe6V3AFd-vjIAgXifA5Dq9rhauXdRhjlqhQBQ7KpQvSwwwVpDCNyLInvbDDxT4-prVRyA6yyNOTkM5kTTlSebILP1fU78B1LpruTJvoob1Ub4J2/s320/IMG_0014.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392559484136729234" /></a><br />I just filmed an episode of the HBO show "Big Love," and had fun with Bill Paxton, as he told me many stories of his past, including sneaking onto a set to watch me shoot a scene many years ago, and I drove from there to The Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, my favorite place on earth, filled with my favorite people. Larry Miller was working in the show with me, and Garry Shandling was getting a ream of new jokes ready for upcoming T.V appearances. My friends, the talented comedians Brian McKim and Traci Skene were there, as well as Brian Gillis, the world's greatest magician, and a young lady named Lindsay who did a silent and theatrical juggling act that brought the house down. It was a beehive of show biz activity with people going on and coming offstage, and Larry Miller, overtaken by the wonderful energy of it all, just leaned back in his chair, smiled and said "By God, this is cool."<div>I couldn't agree more, Larry.</div><div>Love from Wilson World,</div><div>Tom </div>Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-49900679164351310432009-08-26T12:20:00.000-07:002009-08-26T12:31:19.114-07:00Dallas!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM7gDtiJTJj6cS1Yl70EULIZtY9cwU3B6HQf7YXNvwZhpbprMYKIWnDVfJfquh62qr9h7FK_4JYsDNilr4S9WWnRpAhi6KQ0D9kTM-OaoXl1okH4l8X5_fRFhmbmTUJkA_P1-aVqT__3h-/s1600-h/IMG_2139.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM7gDtiJTJj6cS1Yl70EULIZtY9cwU3B6HQf7YXNvwZhpbprMYKIWnDVfJfquh62qr9h7FK_4JYsDNilr4S9WWnRpAhi6KQ0D9kTM-OaoXl1okH4l8X5_fRFhmbmTUJkA_P1-aVqT__3h-/s320/IMG_2139.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374357295970083218" /></a><br />The Addison Improv was great last weekend, with fun shows as I did my part to welcome the new football stadium to the great Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, where crowds of zombies surrounded the white monolith, mumbling "Screens! Larger screens! Who needs to see live action when we have giant screens?!!" And, if the first game is any indication, the Cowboys are going to try to outlaw punting in the NFL, since it gets in the way of commercials. Thanks to the great people at the Improv there, and my friends out at St. Joe's, where we had a nice Sunday worshipping God. No, not the new stadium, I mean the other God.Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-91395251207706165972009-05-27T13:55:00.000-07:002009-05-27T16:37:35.199-07:00Rock and Relient K<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1405yvk6S_KCojX-N74ggG6MUCMTaXWYFPVtJtOjGdqcMXkezDjZYJ44saXFbN7UhGJtDE5EcoPG-TkRpvhKK4lnfdwsgcvywZyXL0otKs-h4CyFhnsmd0AMdrMYIROHQGuEv2xn7V90K/s1600-h/Photo+11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1405yvk6S_KCojX-N74ggG6MUCMTaXWYFPVtJtOjGdqcMXkezDjZYJ44saXFbN7UhGJtDE5EcoPG-TkRpvhKK4lnfdwsgcvywZyXL0otKs-h4CyFhnsmd0AMdrMYIROHQGuEv2xn7V90K/s320/Photo+11.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340614473448335474" /></a><br />Back from Kansas City, where the shows were great, and the camera went missing, so I'm using Mac's photobooth for pics now. We heard, saw, hung with, and wonderfully experienced the band Relient K last night in a hot, thumping club in Pomona, California. The music was fantastic, the guys were superb as always, and we even had some good barbecue before the show. Yes, I had to come back from KC to Pomona for some barbecue. After some BBQ and rockin', I'm headed to Calgary, Canada, to perform for a large group of Canadians in the town where I once performed a rock version of "Home On The Range" for a giant crowd of cowboys at the Calgary Stampede rodeo.<div>No kidding, I have had quite an adventure.</div><div>Love from Wilson World,<br /></div><div>Tom <br /></div>Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-4227304265936805612009-05-18T16:29:00.000-07:002009-05-19T09:55:05.996-07:00Comedians<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNvIfbADL1vauSqJy9LPPEJrHehkF9a4-YEGwKXsusv7PenIQAwPNGofahppHu-7HUzK9MSw2lxsbB5WQu1oCfIleL3eKcYw-dEMf8VufpDZZfB2yPDWjCW8m7zp8N5jp-lmtXgerN_4qC/s1600-h/IMG_0817.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNvIfbADL1vauSqJy9LPPEJrHehkF9a4-YEGwKXsusv7PenIQAwPNGofahppHu-7HUzK9MSw2lxsbB5WQu1oCfIleL3eKcYw-dEMf8VufpDZZfB2yPDWjCW8m7zp8N5jp-lmtXgerN_4qC/s320/IMG_0817.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337313315096700594" /></a><br />Most comedy clubs across the country are lined with old headshots of comedians who've performed there over the years, an increasingly humiliating collection of youth and foolishness. There is a grinning, over-eager shot of me in the entryway of the Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood that people still guffaw over, making sure to mention it the next time they see me. "What were you...thirteen years old?!" Yes, I was, thirteen. And a bad person with a gun forced me to wear that shirt, too.<div>I stopped in my tracks when I came upon the two guys above. Yes, that's Bill Hicks, and he's wearing a "Member's Only" jacket. Sorry, "trenchcoat mafia," Bill owned that jacket and wore it, before he took up chain smoking and speaking truth to power. In nightclubs where he got paid. Bill was a friend of mine a long time ago, and he's no longer here. Steve Oedekerk is here, though, and making many, many movies. I actually took that photograph of Steve, back when nobody had the money to pay photographers for pictures of themselves. We took it in my yard.</div><div>Just a little cloud of memories, as I stare at the wall between shows.</div><div>Love from Wilson World,</div><div>Tom</div>Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-71847353553392575972009-04-20T07:57:00.000-07:002009-04-20T08:07:10.282-07:00Arizona!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOUjOxxcxIncFtlSzfQ9fABKIFbFuLgqcfkO4FebAx54MURy-HJC7dXGSkqFjnLCHQ-2FL6m6B4ej6inisKp3lOkSjYdU57aU1Sz2IgduKCdaT5X-zQyJHv9mApVPGJmIskQds4OeuDkqb/s1600-h/IMG_1214.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOUjOxxcxIncFtlSzfQ9fABKIFbFuLgqcfkO4FebAx54MURy-HJC7dXGSkqFjnLCHQ-2FL6m6B4ej6inisKp3lOkSjYdU57aU1Sz2IgduKCdaT5X-zQyJHv9mApVPGJmIskQds4OeuDkqb/s320/IMG_1214.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326790319172883090" /></a><br />I went to Tempe, Arizona recently to perform for the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State University. We had a great time there, and it was interesting that a school of mass communications couldn't find a microphone stand for me to use! My friend "Jonny Cool Rag" and I hopped over to Scottsdale to check out what's happening in the art galleries there. We were speaking passionately about a large painting, when a woman walked up to us. "You don't like art!" she blurted, without ever having met us, "You look like two construction workers! Macho guys don't like art!"<div>Okay, lady. You know, we were treated more nicely in Quartzite, Arizona, in the middle of the desert, where we saw a shrunken head from 1906. Trust me, the shrunken head was a lot better than most of the paintings.</div><div>Love from Wilson World,</div><div>Tom</div>Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-26184969592210056452009-04-02T13:30:00.000-07:002009-04-02T13:37:35.145-07:00Blue Boy, Zuma Beach<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxxMCTUzsJdRdgwiZwADJiix7vR0O5qm6G2BwgQTMerZW0o_wGr-WvVoFS_NtBpyB4_q0p1Uvki7kfN63FOOHUPcpAOI4US-T_cB0wk8gjl02ka5Qg97BEnnDAmtjmcS3w2RrLiEHdS5R1/s1600-h/IMG_1014.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxxMCTUzsJdRdgwiZwADJiix7vR0O5qm6G2BwgQTMerZW0o_wGr-WvVoFS_NtBpyB4_q0p1Uvki7kfN63FOOHUPcpAOI4US-T_cB0wk8gjl02ka5Qg97BEnnDAmtjmcS3w2RrLiEHdS5R1/s320/IMG_1014.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320195954453860290" /></a><br />This painting is 30 x 40, a big challenge. Oddly, a human being is the hardest subject for a painting, since a half inch mistake wrecks the whole thing. As the master painter John Singer Sargent said; "A portrait is a picture where there's something wrong with the mouth." Well, there is plenty about this painting that could be improved, but it's a boy with his boogieboard at the Pacific Ocean, and it doesn't get much better than that. Cowabunga, dude.<div><br /></div><div>Love from Wilson World,</div><div>Tom</div>Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-2583085723492034372009-03-24T09:47:00.000-07:002009-03-24T10:01:53.396-07:00Sister Corita!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi85k8e9iLRpCKJLB9HvK69vvw4qj4ivyQWRdPVEbi91HG8Gua9CrezXUyxQpelIp620ODdgY4ZD-y290WnS-cYOq0Xw6pLOdUkrXFdtQ9hLbi0NLYlLaz6ewukwb-APqpPSAj6PxNrNpKF/s1600-h/IMG_0920.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi85k8e9iLRpCKJLB9HvK69vvw4qj4ivyQWRdPVEbi91HG8Gua9CrezXUyxQpelIp620ODdgY4ZD-y290WnS-cYOq0Xw6pLOdUkrXFdtQ9hLbi0NLYlLaz6ewukwb-APqpPSAj6PxNrNpKF/s320/IMG_0920.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316800596465695858" /></a><br />Sister Corita Kent was a Nun in California in the sixties, and I was a boy in Catholic school in Philadelphia in the sixties, so I experienced the passion, and vibrancy, and color, and innovation of that time while wearing a suit and tie, taught by young Nuns, many of whom were exploding with the thrill and wonder of the kind of work that Sister Corita was creating - color splashed posters with lots of poetry and flower power. I saw an exhibition of Sister Corita's work yesterday and was transported back to that time, when Op art and Pop art and poetry were presented to kids as a completely rational and beautiful reaction to a time of great upheaval and fear. I'm really glad that in the fourth grade Sister Ruth had us making colorful collages about war, and joy, and Warhol soup cans, and I'm proud of the day that my grandfather put Pop art daisy stickers on the back of his car.<div>Thanks, Sister Corita,</div><div>Love from Wilson World,</div><div>Tom</div>Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-39191534453058360082009-02-24T15:32:00.000-08:002009-02-24T15:52:57.583-08:00Pretty Good Morning, America<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_AZ0D9BIJWdvw8Us0j2bmSWPtfN1Rae9Ucwi7UXMTYvDU4K_yZXAPJY0GcQS7GVXhu8ZzhXGGHMFNSifMd6jiQh5Yzq2AkSATYOQoYbBDfCs88O58iO6qIk5g7Iok7AWJhBx6qfoRDdsw/s1600-h/IMG_0686.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_AZ0D9BIJWdvw8Us0j2bmSWPtfN1Rae9Ucwi7UXMTYvDU4K_yZXAPJY0GcQS7GVXhu8ZzhXGGHMFNSifMd6jiQh5Yzq2AkSATYOQoYbBDfCs88O58iO6qIk5g7Iok7AWJhBx6qfoRDdsw/s320/IMG_0686.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306516101364902370" /></a><br />Just back from New York City, where I appeared on "averyspecial" Oscar weekend Good Morning America. When I'm on shows, I like them to be promoted as "averyspecial" whatever. (deep announcer voice) "Next...on averyspecial Blossom..." The crew on GMA were nice, and the view from the studio windows is incredible! Million square foot flashing billboards, and crazy people mumbling to themselves! Times Square has come so far from the pit of vice and degradation it was when I lived there. Okay, just kidding, it's the same. <div>The same retail experience, too! The mumbling, apathetic girl at Modell's sporting goods made no eye contact and threw my bag of overpriced junk back at me without taking off the anti-theft device, so I had to damage the shirt back here in California. Thanks Radyka! Thanks Modell's!</div><div>I did take a walk up to the Upper West Side, and my old neighborhood. The pizza place is gone now, but they're still calling it 74th Street, so some things never change.</div><div>Love from Wilson World,</div><div>Tom<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-12693066455617949372009-01-21T21:34:00.000-08:002009-01-21T21:43:07.600-08:00Notes on America<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM1paarOnbch5dyFwatA2d6VV6reT5l46hX941QQAWbA00yazbNh6Mhfxl7V19_Ek7F1LudZ-8YgW5vgs2XzTqgR-lwomXcCDNZSf-DC06KMjbAiGa9uVIMpkCAzYLXJ5UgkqU3byAtirM/s1600-h/IMG_0557.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM1paarOnbch5dyFwatA2d6VV6reT5l46hX941QQAWbA00yazbNh6Mhfxl7V19_Ek7F1LudZ-8YgW5vgs2XzTqgR-lwomXcCDNZSf-DC06KMjbAiGa9uVIMpkCAzYLXJ5UgkqU3byAtirM/s320/IMG_0557.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293989365197076770" /></a><br />Good news, my friends! My daughter is taking AP U.S. history in an academically challenging high school, where the teacher allows ONE index card to be used for notes, and prohibits the use of a magnifying glass. This is the card that our in-house genius wrote for herself. It's even color coded with tiny highlights. She will certainly get an "A," but the really good news is...I don't have to take a history final and make notes like that! Isn't that great?! Never again in my life! For example - if a history teacher asked me what events precluded Washington's attack at Trenton, I could just say "Would you like a Popsicle?" Yeah! That's good news.<div>Love from Wilson World,</div><div>Tom</div>Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-61343498593148775792008-12-29T12:52:00.000-08:002008-12-29T13:05:27.587-08:00Edmonton!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuFhgik9zuh7Nzuwx1CZfRCCeB-en_i7Yo46b_75PGvbTCR0BlTwgNXVbFn8an2pnqoMw_nlx3cP6Hmo6r6F5BjafLYjI-Cruq7tw7RTq1d9EZbWvkhakiizExsyuykhHb7Glru3bXY0hG/s1600-h/IMG_0428.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuFhgik9zuh7Nzuwx1CZfRCCeB-en_i7Yo46b_75PGvbTCR0BlTwgNXVbFn8an2pnqoMw_nlx3cP6Hmo6r6F5BjafLYjI-Cruq7tw7RTq1d9EZbWvkhakiizExsyuykhHb7Glru3bXY0hG/s320/IMG_0428.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285320911003508482" /></a><br />Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is north of an imaginary line, above which human beings should not live. I worked there the week before Christmas, at the largest mall in the world, trying to find an empty table at the world's busiest food court, and telling jokes to Christmas parties full of festive nice people celebrating Christmastime, and drunken morons celebrating the ice road truckers that drove the booze up that far. The photo above isn't noteworthy except for the guys ahead of me. Folks, it was 37 below zero. Those guys were not dressed for the weather. A hoodie and a T-shirt? Wow. After taking this photo I ran into the "Fantasy Grill" and fantasized that I was eating in a city that was warm. Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-51999987332868008952008-12-24T10:54:00.000-08:002008-12-25T23:11:09.643-08:00Relient K!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4OaxXmmTBOHEIoyZhlkuuXE4oJ7DO6OxdjMLlvBqoaRwFutvsLEwKisYmlgyttfSnOJoKsbOzT1SMKgeYoFabu2x60tR4Mp5cAmITnnT3MDFoC9qwYBRXSEkc9bWKJ5xZHkHaTjT4DMgj/s1600-h/IMG_0407.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4OaxXmmTBOHEIoyZhlkuuXE4oJ7DO6OxdjMLlvBqoaRwFutvsLEwKisYmlgyttfSnOJoKsbOzT1SMKgeYoFabu2x60tR4Mp5cAmITnnT3MDFoC9qwYBRXSEkc9bWKJ5xZHkHaTjT4DMgj/s320/IMG_0407.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283433584674868050" border="0" /></a><br />What a blast I had on The Tonight Show with the band Relient K the other night - replaying this Christmas night, so check it out! - They emailed me and invited me to play with them on Jay's show, and it was one of the highlights of my life as a performer. We got to the studio early to rehearse, and it was great to have lunch with a bunch of great guys who are tremendous musicians, and I was thrilled just to be able to keep up with them on the guitar. I'm getting emails from all over asking if that was me playing with Relient K from confused people who don't really get it. Well, I get it, Relient K gets it, and a very Merry Christmas to everyone!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tomwilsonusa.com/myspace/relientk.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 304px;" src="http://www.tomwilsonusa.com/myspace/relientk.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770897724079825405.post-72324926126945629872008-12-09T11:14:00.000-08:002008-12-09T11:34:30.068-08:00Brotherly Love<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfFmHpntDp9YJdnDyZi46mhMsDIAe-mlI18IIPdiOUOMvhX4LNc6dNjFTHiXzzXsEgifKhkD1E5MZKUHq87OMnTii67emuBNon8GB7Vn2pGbcqKvp-NdQZa3vYdfL55ulqwgZuX_W5fX00/s1600-h/IMG_0381.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfFmHpntDp9YJdnDyZi46mhMsDIAe-mlI18IIPdiOUOMvhX4LNc6dNjFTHiXzzXsEgifKhkD1E5MZKUHq87OMnTii67emuBNon8GB7Vn2pGbcqKvp-NdQZa3vYdfL55ulqwgZuX_W5fX00/s320/IMG_0381.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277874767305719586" /></a><br />Just back from Philadelphia, home of the world champion Phillies, the American flag, and lots of people who came to my shows last weekend at the Helium Club. It's always fun to perform in Philadelphia, and before the shows I always take a walk downtown and reminisce through the mist of memory and subway grates. That building is the Union League, on Broad Street, where my Dad used to take my brothers and I to Father-Son dinners a long, long time ago. I met Daniel Moynihan there when he was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, before becoming the Democratic senator from New York who championed Democratic ideas like the partial privatization of Social Security, and the illegalization of partial birth abortion. Huh? Yeah, that's him. They also had a dinner there with "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, the drag racer, who gave us drag racing Hot Wheels cars. "Big Daddy" made a bigger splash than ambassador Moynihan, but still, it was a great evening with Dad, wearing a suit and tie and pretending I was going to be going to the University of Pennsylvania to study something where you eventually wear a suit and tie all the time.<div>That plan didn't work out. </div><div>Love from Wilson World,</div><div>Tom</div>Tom Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10265946091758782560noreply@blogger.com6