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Tom

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About Me

I'm from Wales but lived in Manchester for five years. Except now I live in Japan. Everyone always says they don't know what to talk about in this section, or that they don't like doing so, but they clearly do and I'm no different. Except I can't be bothered typing loads, so I'll just write it in list form. Please read on.Things I like include after eight mints, football, castles and stately homes, the sunshine, learning Japanese, jelly babies, christmas, cryptozoology, sleep, cosy lighting, holidays, rpgs, gigs, starry nights, fruit, the Champions League, pop punk, thinking, Shenmue, the smell of new magazines, mountains, tic tacs, humming, aquariums, having lots of plectrums, wotsits, snow, not having to get up early, maps, herpetology, sticks, pretty girls, getting nice things in the post, buying cds, philosophy, football podcasts, ufos, caves, sponge cupcakes, festivals and lots of other things too. Did I mention football? This is home.

My Interests

Learning Japanese, gigs, playing guitar and a bit of bass, football, reading, tic tacs, writing the odd article here and there, coca-cola and herpetology

I'd like to meet:

People I guess.

Music:

Blink 182, Boxcar Racer, Angels And Airwaves, Plus 44, Yellowcard, Senses Fail, Finch, Lydia, The Early November, Saosin, Story Of The Year, Mest, Homegrown, The Ataris, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, Over It, Armor For Sleep, Copeland, Dashboard Confessional, Thrice, Hidden In Plain View, New Found Glory, Thursday, Funeral For A Friend, NOFX, Steel Train, Matchbook Romance, Jimmy Eat World, Fenix TX, The Starting Line, Saves The Day, Poison The Well, The Beautiful Mistake, Coheed and Cambria, An Angle, Park, Silverstein, Atreyu, From First To Last, The Bled, Alexisonfire, Halifax, From Autumn To Ashes, I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business, Allister, Further Seems Forever, Spitalfield, Northstar, Socratic, Jack's Mannequin, The Juliana Theory, Adelphi, Morning Call, Alkaline Trio, A Thorn For Every Heart, Zebrahead, Underoath, The Track Record, Day At The Fair, Self Against City, Zolof The Rock And Roll Destroyer, June, Circa Survive, Hawthorne Heights, Mae, The Transplants, Houston Calls, The Academy Is..., The Format, Straylight Run, This Providence, Head Automatica, Panic! At The Disco, Brandtson, Something Corporate, Count The Stars, The Rocket Summer, Simple Plan, All American Rejects, Terminal, Anberlin, Days Away, Sherwood, Sigur Ros, Waking Ashland, Race The Sun, This Day And Age, The Postal Service, JamisonParker, Valencia, DeathCab For Cutie, Refused, Hit The Lights, Relient K, Four Year Strong, Cartel, Cute Is What We Aim For, Finding Westerly, A Day To Remember, We The Kings, All Time Low

Movies:

American Beauty, Gladiator, Lord of the Rings, Lost In Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Broken Flowers, American Pies, The Goonies, the first hour of Superbad

Television:

I'm Alan Partridge, The Office, Blackadder, Extras, The League of Gentlemen, QI, Match of the Day

Books:

The Lord Of The Rings, Life of Pi, Kafka on the Shore, Birdsong, Siddhartha, Oxford Japanese Mini-Dictionary

Heroes:

Alan Partridge, James Stannage, Cristiano Ronaldo, Bill Murray, Steve Irwin

My Blog

The More Things Change...

So it's a new year, and although time is a man-made concept, I guess now is as good a time as any to make some life-improving resolutions.  I'll check back here in three months time to feel guilt...
Posted by Tom on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:17:00 PST

Bands I've seen

I've never seen anyone do one of these before, so here's a list of all the bands I've seen play live over the years.   50 Cent A The Academy Is Anberlin Angels and Airwaves Blink 182 (I give up f...
Posted by Tom on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:25:00 PST

No, But Really

So it's about time I wrote a blog, although no one ever looks at my page, but that's besides the point. Well today I played a bit of Pro Evo 6 and was thoroughly beaten by AFC Spieljdaa or someone lik...
Posted by Tom on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:20:00 PST