Tom Hendricks is an American

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, and creator of a

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called ''Musea''.

''Musea''

Hendricks is the creator of the ''Musea''

which has been published since 1992 and currently has 196 issues. It includes reviews, art discussions, and often, articles about the problems with music and other forms of art being controlled by large

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or institutions. Musea generally favors independent, local music and art. The

is little known outside of the '

' community or his hometown, Dallas, Texas.

Music

Hendricks records music under the name Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar, and he performed concerts from 1996 to 2014 in the box office at the Inwood Theatre, a well-known Dallas arthouse theatre where he was working. Minor publicity for these unusual performances was mentioned in January '06 Texas Monthly Magazine''Texas Highways'' listing for Hendricks
and issue #56 of Texas Music. URL last checked 2006-06-07. and in the May '04 ''Dallas Observer''.
URL last checked 2006-06-07. Hendricks' music for the most part is standard rock, blues, and folk on his Silvertone Standard guitar, but in his zine, on

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, and on the jackets of his self-released CDs, Hendricks complains that " bands" (meaning groups using standard rock instrumentation) are derivative and that it's time for a new form of post-rock-band music he calls "Postism." In 2015 Hendricks released a 150-song, 9-CD boxed set titled ''Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar Outside the Box Set''.

Other activities

Hendricks is also a poster to Usenet with thousands of posts, which are often taken from or related to ''Musea''. He is regularly accused of

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and starting

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s with his rants about the arts and music business. His posts are sometimes a bit off-topic. In Feb. 2015, Hendricks released on the net a short novel called ''Library Planet''. Hendricks was the "Cultural Affairs" editor of the Underground Literary Alliance,Underground Literary Alliance article index
before it disbanded. URL last checked 2006-06-07. a reviewer for Zine World,
while it was published. URL last checked 2006-06-07. and has written an article for the David Darling science website.Hendricks, Tom

''The Worlds of David Darling'' website. URL last checked 2006-06-07.

External links

The Musea websiteTom Hendricks music websiteThe Musea blog

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hendricks, Tom Zines American rock musicians Anti-corporate activists Living people Year of birth missing (living people)