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Thom

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About Me



I joined youtube. Better late than never. At the moment there's a couple of videos filmed from inside art installations, but there's a couple of things in the pipeline that might surface there soon: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=DarqHermit
I'm on Last.FM. At the moment I only really use it to remind myself what gigs I've been to or am about to go to, although they're not ALL on there. I wish I could remember dates. Check it out and let me know if you're going to any of the same gigs as me: http://www.last.fm/user/Thommmmmm/
I'm also on facebook. At the moment I just use it to taunt my friend Max while we're at work. Add me so I can pretend I'm popular: Search for Thom Thom.

My Interests

Music:

Adem, Animal Collective, Aphex Twin (and all his various aliases), Angelo Badalamenti, The Bark Haze, Lou Barlow, BARR, Battles, Frank Black, Blood On The Wall, Brad, Buffalo Tom, Bill Callahan, Comets On Fire, Billy Corgan, Cotton Museum, Crazy Horse, Dead C, Dinosaur Jr, Diskaholics Anonymous Trio, Don Caballero, The Drag City Super Session, Earth, Erase Erata, Eyes Adrift, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Vincent Gallo, Philip Glass, Stone Gossard, Green River, David Grubbs, Hi God People, Jack Irons, Daniel Johnston, Liars, Loose Fur, Stephen Malkmus, J Mascis, Meat Puppets, Joni Mitchell, The Monkeywrench, Thurston Moore, Mudhoney, Joanna Newsom, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, No Age, Oneida, Jim O'Rourke, Panda Bear, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Radiohead, Lee Ranaldo, Lou Reed, Slint, Smashing Pumpkins, (Smog), Sonic Youth, Sparklehorse, Squarepusher, Marnie Stern, This Song Is A Mess But So Am I, Three Fish, Alexander Tucker, Wilco, Yo La Tengo, Thom Yorke, Neil Young, ZwanWhat I'm listening to most at the moment:Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Nine Inch Nails - Maybe Just Once/Purest Feeling 7"
The Thirteen Ghosts w/ Derek Bailey and Thurston Moore - Legend of the Blood Yeti
Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
Battles - Tonto single
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
The Bark Haze (Thurston Moore & Gown) - Untitled lp
Liars - s/t
Liars - Plaster Casts of Everything (singles)
Earth - Earth 2
Earth - Divine and Bright 7"
Joanna Newsom - Ys

Movies:

I would never be able to write a list of all the films I'm into, but my favouritest directors whose films I go all funny over are: P T Anderson, Pedro Almodovar, Atom Egoyan, Victor Erice, Vincent Gallo, Terry Gilliam, Harmony Korine, Kristof Keislowski, Takeshi Kitano, David Lynch, Hayao Miyazaki, Hideo Nakata, Andrei Tarkovsky, Wong Kar Wai, Lars Von Trier I also like the following directors enough to voraciously seek out anything they have done: Wes Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Chan Wook Park, Coen brothers, David Cronenberg, Abel Ferrara, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Jonze, Stanley Kubrick, Richard Linklater, Polish brothers, Julian Schnabel, Martin Scorsese, Kevin Smith, Steven Spielberg, Francois TruffautThe most noteworthy films I've watched recently are: Infernal Affairs III - dir. Wai Keung Lau & Siu Fai Mak
The Devil And Daniel Johnston - dir. Jeff Feuerzeig
The Prestige - dir. Christopher Nolan
Infernal Affairs II - dir. Wai Keung Lau & Siu Fai Mak
Ivan's Childhood - dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Riding Giants - dir. Stacy Peralta

Books:

Rick Harsch, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, Hunter S Thompson, Phillip K Dick, Alan Moore, Michael Chabon, Clive Barker, Mike Carey...etc.

Heroes:

Bill Callahan, Vincent Gallo, Brendan Fowler, Rick Harsch, Daniel Johnston, Jim O'Rourke, Lars Von Trier, Adam Horvitz, Lee Ranaldo, Chris Onstad, Jeff Tweedy...et al.

My Blog

Today

Today an old man came in to the office with the look of someone who craves confrontation said nothing. I said "How can I help you?" He turned to me and snapped "I beg your pardon?"...
Posted by Thom on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:40:00 PST

Yesterday

On the back of a packet of salmon fillets it said: Allergy advice:Contains fish.
Posted by Thom on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:13:00 PST

Remember that time UFOs landed?

Remember that time UFOs landed? They came down in the park near my house I went over to say hello They said "Yeah, do I know you or something?" As I walked away I flipped them the birdThey didn't see ...
Posted by Thom on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:45:00 PST

TALES FROM MALGORM 3

The Eatery3You could tell when Matthew Fark had been having a good day, because he'd always be in here looking for something to get extremely annoyed about, and he'd always find that something inside ...
Posted by Thom on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I took some nice photos last Sunday

Please go here to see more:http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b46/DarqHermit/Dance/ ...
Posted by Thom on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 04:40:00 PST

Another cartoon for your face

  ©2006
Posted by Thom on Thu, 25 May 2006 10:05:00 PST

A Short Short Story

"It's right there next to the shampoo" she replied before turning on the hairdryer and dropping it into the bath he was sitting in. She then went to the chemists, stopping on the way back to sit in a ...
Posted by Thom on Thu, 25 May 2006 07:55:00 PST

Total Eclipse Of Your Aunt

©2005No, this wasn't lettered by a four year old.
Posted by Thom on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A Niggling Doubt When Your Eyeballs Fall Out

 2005. Words selected and put in that particular order: 2002 
Posted by Thom on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Well, I think it's been long enough

The funniest thing ever to appear in a newspaper:http://observer.guardian.co.uk/waronterrorism/stor y/0,1373,668707,00.htmlhttp://observer.guardian.co.uk/waront errorism/story/0,1373,668677,00.htmlhttp:...
Posted by Thom on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST