I am forty-eight years old and am attending college as a student of non-traditional age. Most of my peers are between the ages of seventeen and twenty-two. My major is theatre.

In my History of Theatre class, the professor remarked about a movie we were going to watch featuring Marlon Brando. He asked, "Anybody know who Marlon Brando is?" I raised my hand, expecting to be one of many in the class. Turns out I was one of one. Nobody in the class knew who one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema was.

In stunned disbelief, I had to remark aloud, "Do any of you know who Beethoven is?" I felt sure this could not be an incident of pure agism, as Brando was not a recent contemporary film star. I though if anyone knew who Beethoven was, it would make the point since Beethoven had died in March of 1827 in Vienna. I expected everyone to know who Beethoven was, and indeed everyone raised their hand.

"Of course we know who Beethoven is," replied one of my peers. "I've seen all seven of his movies."

Re: TOM MILLER TO BEGIN NEW TOM MILLER SHOW IN 2013 - FORM GAINESVILLE'S NEWEST LEGITIMATE CHURCH - MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT AND PRESS CONFERENCE COMING SOON...‏

For Immediate Release - For Immediate Release - For Immediate Release

ITEM: The Tom Miller Show, the longest running variety/performance art show in the history of Gainesville, begins a new incarnation at a soon-to-be-announced secret location for January of 2013.

WHAT WE CAN SAY: The show will be hosted in a legitimate new Church: The Tabernacle of Hedonism [The Reverend Angeldust will preside]. It will have an open mic component, an independent video component, there will be bands, performers, entertainers, there will be a Little Rascals vintage episode before each evening's sermon, it will be podcast, it will have a multimedia-integrated web presence, it will benefit society, we will petition the City Commission to allow the Reverend Angeldust to provide a benediction for one of the future City Commission meetings [if they do not allow this, we will sue], we will demand the release of classified government UFO secrets, and we will abide by the primary tenet of the Church: "DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT". All are welcome, except parishioners of the Dove Outreach and The Rock. It will be like a Holy Church collided with a children's morning TV show. There will be puppets and glitter. Maybe a drag queen or two...who knows.

There will be membership cards for those deemed worthy by the "Secret Council of Society Deacons".

We will perform fund-raisers for the community. We will support freedom of expression. Nobody will be censored on our stage [except for the Dove Outreach and The Rock].


DO NOT WRITE ANYTHING ABOUT THIS NOW. THIS IS NOT THE PRESS RELEASE. THIS IS THE HOLY WORD OF JAMBA.


May you be blessed by the Goddess, Jamba. May you find a quarter-pound in the dumpster, from which all sustenance cometh.


http://millerworks.weebly.com/the-reverend-angeldusts-tabernacle-of-hedonism-with-your-host-tom-miller.html



Questions: Tom Miller - [email protected] / 386-295-0090  ==================   
COMING JAN. 2013

TOM MILLER on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Miller_%28performance_artist%29


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Hi Howard,

big fan.

Look, I have to make this movie and my legion of fans in Gainesville Florida are just not coughing up the dough. If I write about politics on my blog, 2000 of them chime in with their comments. If I need fifty bucks, crickets. Freaking crickets.

http://www.indiegogo.com/sobog


So since 3 grand couldn't be all that big of a deal to you, especially to make a skunk-ape movie...and think of the press you could derive for sponsoring some weird performance-art guys' little movie, I think it would be worth it. I could ride on on your coat-tail and you could promote and fund some subversive art from a real-deal art wacko. Look: I have a wikipedia page, so I'm for real: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Miller_(American_Performance_Artist)

So the story is a coming of age thing. It's the fourth in a series. The first one shut down Cincinnati's public access channel because they accidentally aired it in prime time. There's a clip on this fund-raising crapo site here with the details. Anyway...look. I know this deal is going down the toilet but on the off chance that human beings read the emails...I promise I will make a movie. Yes, I will squander some of the money on my living expenses. I enjoy lobster and martinis. So yeah...some of that. But I promise I will make a film. And if you will lend your name to this movie, I think it will become a true piece of work in the cult arena. A real chunk of crap! Gootis crap. (Gootis is the Indian name for Skunk-Ape...or at least that's what we're saying.)

3 grand. Genius!

http://www.indiegogo.com/sobog



Howard, you've never let me down before, and that's because I have never asked for anything. Now I'm asking. And if you refuse, I will be mortified. Because for three-thousand dollars, you could waste that on a bad meal in some stuffy English haunted castle, and you won't even get a movie out of it.

Your fan,



-- Tom Miller (Performance Artist, Bohemian, Master Film Maker (and by Film, I mean video)...and I'm 47 and live in a garage. I just need a chance.

Here's the link to the fund-raiser for the movie. There is a link to the previous couple of Gootis movie previews...the Cincinnati thing...the one-page screen play...I already have this thing cast. Wanna' be in it? No problem. Think about it. At least let me know you got it and maybe send a comment like, "Hell no..." or "Get this guy outta' here" so I can use that in the credits. Thanks, Howard.


http://www.indiegogo.com/sobog