Tom Miller (performance artist)

He worked there as an actor and sound and light technician for five years and appeared in several TV commercials and locally produced television programs.

[1] Miller was inspired to learn to play the bass guitar and record his own songs after listening to bassist Paul McCartney.

He performed in the bands Plastic Age, Middle Earth, Penguin, NDolphin, Bill Perry Orchestra,[2] The Space Masons, and Chicago's Vini and the Demons as the bass player.

[6] He is also known for performance art stunts including a naked press conference,[7] a 17-hour reading of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood[8] and frequent UFO secrecy protests.

[9] In 2010, he conducted a 30-hour marathon to raise awareness of transcendental meditation by watching the entire Twin Peaks television series, the two-hour pilot, and the film Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me - all while consuming only products popularized by the series: coffee, doughnuts, and cherry pie.

[12] In 2016, Miller stared for two hours at a photograph of Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz's Mouth, as reported in the Huffington Post's News of the Weird.

[16] He was the host of Gainesville's HempFests,[17] and was a plaintiff among several organizers in a 1995 First Amendment lawsuit which the city lost, both on its initial filing and on appeal.