- Maintains a private book collection of over 5,000 volumes.
- Once opened for the indie rock band Modest Mouse in Dublin, Ireland as a solo guitarist.
- Once jumped out of a moving taxi on the Pacific Coast Highway while riding to Malibu with Jack Nicholson's Danish-born daughter, Honey Hollman.
- Dropped out of high school at age 15 and left home by bus to play blues in Chicago.
- Designed the "laser guitar" for The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016) with his brother Jacob.
- Maintains several artistic personas under an unknown number of pseudonyms.
- Attended college at the University of Oklahoma and Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
- Briefly partnered with Playboy model-turned-songwriter Misty Lawrence.
- Was lifelong friends with the famed commercial artist, Bruce Eagle, best known for creating movie posters for several Disney movies as well as Tim Burton features including Batman(1989).
- Is an avid lover of blues music and began his entertainment career as a blues guitarist.
- Earned a living as a street performer.
- Descended from Swedish, Danish, Irish and Native American ancestry.
- Was nominated as a finalist in Guitar Player Magazine's Jim Hendrix Electric Guitar Competition at age 14.
- Has one son whose godfather is former All-Ireland Light Welter Champion boxer Oisin Fagan.
- Claims to have been given a $100 bill by infamous Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger in 1996 while Bulger was on the run and Thompson was on a "pilgrimage" to Woody Guthrie's hometown in Okemah, Oklahoma.
- Among the places he lived were Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (his birth place), Chicago, Illinois, Los Angeles, California, Dublin, Ireland, Derry, Northern Ireland, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Malibu, California, Ozone Park in Queens, New York, Tulsa, Oklahoma and Burlington, Vermont.
- Completed his first album of original music with Mike Elizando, renowned producer and bassist for Dr. Dre.
- Is mentioned in the acknowledgments of several books including an autobiography by a former New Orleans Mafia captain and the academic textbook Canonical Texts: Selections from Religious Wisdom Traditions by the sociologist, Dr. Thomas J. Burns.
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