INTRODUCTION TO TOMASIN'S (NON)PHILOSOPHY

Dialogues with MIGUEL TOMASIN.

Trancription & Translation by Anla Courtis.

The following dialogues were transcripted from diary conversations with Miguel Tomasin (the drummer and leader of argentinean band Reynols, who is has by Down's Syndrome). As Tomasin is not interested at all in writing anything, these dialogues are probably the only access to Tomasin's philosopy or non-philosophy. (contact: reynols@htomail.com)

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Question: Do you think the universe exists?
Miguel Tomasin: No, it doesn't exist. It's just fantasy.

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Q: What's the most important thing in your life?
MT: Photocopies.

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MT: The score (of the match) was 1 to 1.
Q: So who scored the goals?
MT: Nobody.

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Q: What came first, the egg or the chicken?
MT: The cock.

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Q: What's there in the moon?
MT: A screw and a chamame tape.

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MT: God is a hidden camera

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Q: Why doesn't clouds fall down?
MT: Because if they fall, they die.

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Q: What was the floor invented for?
MT: To step on ants.

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MT: A girl is frying eggs on her belly.
Q: Doesn't she get burnt?
MT: No.

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Q: Explain your idea about the "Planeta Sardina" (Sardina Planet).
MT: Oh, easy... When you eat a lot of fish a planet starts to grow inside your paunch. That's the Sardina Planet.

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Q: Do aliens exist?
MT: No.
Q: But haven't you seen them?
MT: Yes I saw them, but they don't exist.

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MT: Do you know why the grass is short?
A: No.
MT: Because it was long.

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Q: What do you think: Did Hitler commit suicide or was he killed?
MT: Eh...I don't know. He didn't tell me nothing.

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Q: How many heavens are in heaven?
MT: Noone.

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Talking about plants he said:
MT: We should sow feet.
Q: And what will grow there?
MT: Voices.

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MT: The sun is blocked by the clouds and the sun.

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Q: Do you have blood?
MT: No.
Q: So what's there inside you?
MT: Nothing.

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Q: What does God wear?
MT: God wears shorts and blue nappies.

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Tomasin's definition of noise-music: 'It's music for teeth'.

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Q: What were you like before you were born?
MT: Bigger.

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MT: Guitars inside my socks.

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Q: Are you the Buddha?
MT: No, single.

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Q: Where does the sun go at night?
MT: To the Octopuss.

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MT: Ice cream-spaceship.

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Q: Do you think we are your sons?
MT: Yes and my grandsons and great-grandsons.

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Q: What do you recommend for this week?
MT: You have to eat, stand up, do what you have to do and then ... to sleep.
Q: But what do you do when you get tired of this?
MT: Ah.... I WAKE UP.

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MT: Wind that blows birds.

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Q: Where is the mind?
Answer: (Miguel Tomasin comes and blows on my ear).

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Q: What's this? (a pop can)
MT: A head of seven heads.

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Q: When is your birthday?
MT: Every week.

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Q: What is the Down's Syndrome?
MT: A Fan Club.

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Miguel watches a photo of Ayatollah Khomeini and says:
'He has record-shape face'.

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Q: Does freedom exist?
MT: No.

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Q: What is love?
MT: Eh... I don't understand it.

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Q: What is the Kharma?
MT: It is for going to fish brains.

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Q: Are you Miguel Tomasin?
MT: No.
Q: Who are you then?
MT: I'm a human.
Q: Are you the only human being?
MT: Yes.
Q: So can you tell us what the rest of the people is?
MT: Handkerchiefs.

Tomasin's statement on a rainy day:
'Jesus is sunbathing upstairs on the terrace'.