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tom

a victim to one hundred and seven fatal maladies

About Me



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My Interests

radio four, tea, fake blood, bears, napping, john darnielle's inter-song banter, staring absent-mindedly into the abyss, and:
animals in baskets, bad posture, bill murray, bompalomp, bosch, car boot sales, collars, cramp, darkened underpasses, dave the machine, david shrigley, dirty shoes, dorte, double decker buses, falling down, frank spencer, george orwell, girls in surgical masks, hairclips, internet creepdom, john hinde, kebabs, knitting patterns, nuclear warfare, old toys, paruresis, popjustice, pornography, postcards, robots, rust, stupid animals, swedish pop, trench warfare, true life magazines, turkish delight, ukuleles, wes anderson, william eggleston, windolene, hard toothbrushes, WD40, cutting myself shaving, dancing like an idiot, the cold, brighton, charity shops, beans on toast, funny dogs, photography, books, taxidermy, drum machines, the isle of wight, richard kern, the longevity of my shoes, DIY, lists, marine patrol 3000, leering, bokeh, shirts, tshirts, the hope of being able to grow a beard one day, morris dancing, dougal dixon, duct tape, sash windows, doctor proctor's animal jamboree, helping bombardiers, keith trampleasure, cutting my own hair, x-rays, sleeping fully clothed, putting up shelves, poaching eggs, london road, wrong food, dancing bears, radio alarm clocks, milk chews, spice nutriment, miss hoover, typing with gloves on, kilgore trout, breakbite, playgrounds, walking turtles around the streets of brighton, bolting my food, moral fibre, project plowshare, fan art, surfing dogs, flim-flams, hippy-baiting, cheap meat, warhead off flickr, thick socks, phoebe cates clutching a mogwai against her chest, plastic animal masks, liquid latex, baking bread, venomous shrews, henry root, queen medleys, diagrams, howard goodall, giant squids, island gigantism, portmanteaux, speed-dating, tip-exx mice

I'd like to meet:

the renegade master. people with dogs. people with bears.

Music:

the mountain goats, microphones/mount eerie, mirah, low, the blow, jonathan richman, casiotone for the painfully alone, richard x, abba, animal collective, the many faces of stephin merritt, queen, shellac, sparks, various breakcore chumps, lightning bolt, woody guthrie, dfa cowbell nonsense, girls aloud, deerhoof, clowncore, extratone, pukelele, the meatles, daniel taylor and the crazy changes, the hospital bombers, larry david and the hipsters, swimming with dolphins, gershon kingsley, clitorectomy, pals of adolf.
http://www.last.fm/user/bumpoowilly

Movies:

ass-blasters.

Books:

i only read things that might impress girls.

Heroes:

frank cauldhame, kikunae ikeda, j.h. wingfield, momofuku ando, barbara blackburn.

My Blog

fe fi fo fum

today i spent over FOURTEEN POUNDS on groceries. among this haul was a rump steak which was reduced to 78 pence. i cooked it until it was as chewy as it could probably get. oh well.i've got a job. it ...
Posted by tom on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:10:00 PST

how to arrange my mp3s

i have too many. i want to arrange them into ridiculous subcategories like 'electronic noise' and 'friends, associates and hangers on of k records' and 'music to summon the power of the gods' and stuf...
Posted by tom on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:35:00 PST

synth lockdown

i've just emerged from a lengthy experimental freeform keyboard session with olly gimp. i am totally drained. we are now in a band called either 'pomade', 'the pomade' 'something something and the som...
Posted by tom on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:33:00 PST

WHERE HAVE MY BLACK TROUSERS GONE

clearly some fucker has borrowed them and lost them or not given them back. this is what you get for living with hippies. it's like living in a fucking commune. how am i meant to find an easy office j...
Posted by tom on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:11:00 PST

list

- awful terrible few days after NYE.- ride the bus around town.- start to feel slightly less like i'm having a breakdown.- decide i'm going to move to london in the next few months.- rosie the chubbyc...
Posted by tom on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:09:00 PST

'databurst'. how much crap can i write in my blog before my neighbour blocks me from their wifi

er er er er er er er... i don't really have much to say. i just made toast but we have no butter. i've taken down the christmas decorations. pine needles everywhere, especially stuck in my hands and e...
Posted by tom on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:13:00 PST

just like christmas, or 'forced to party'.

after a lengthy period of hibernation i have allowed christmas into my life, for a few days only. BULLET POINTS:- ATP. journey down: drunk on train, the rantings of 'jed'. brush with the law, bedless ...
Posted by tom on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:50:00 PST

"daniel. daniel we're in big trouble. we have to leave."

i'm languishing in a world of dole heaven. london road. pubs. getting up at 1. i have nothing to say again, except ATP is going to be amazing now that i've actually got rid of the tickets and it isn't...
Posted by tom on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:17:00 PST

i don't just say no, i'm too busy saying 'YEAH!'

hey. what's on. went to visit little lady rosie up in that horrible capital city of ours. excellent to see that tubbo again, and that she seems to have put on several pounds what with all the public...
Posted by tom on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:21:00 PST

jammie dodgers or 'updating my blog when i have nothing to say'

i have a single jammie dodger sitting in front of me.uhh. i helped my mum trim a hedge today. and i've been on the internet. downloading frenzy. lucy was supposed to go home today. i'm almost certain ...
Posted by tom on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:01:00 PST