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Tom Oldham

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About Me

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My Interests

Music:

The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Refreshments/Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers, Travis, Weezer, The Ramones, U2, Garbage, The Replacements, Marvelous 3, Black Lab

Movies:

Star Wars (original trilogy), The Princess Bride, West Side Story, Rushmore, Singin' In the Rain, Casablanca, A Hard Day's Night, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Vertigo, The Silence of the Lambs, The Manchurian Candidate (original ONLY)

Television:

Freaks and Geeks, Smallville, Sports Night, The X-Files, Danger Mouse, Home Movies, King of the Hill, How I Met Your Mother, Arrested Development, LOST, 24, The Office (both UK and US), Scrubs

Books:

any play by Tom Stoppard, The Great Gatsby, Le Petit Prince, Lord of the Flies, Cyrano de Bergerac, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Once and Future King, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Catch-22, The Remains of the Day

My Blog

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Yeah, so the new semester has started.  Blech.  Looks like I'll be reading straight through 'til spring break. Christmas break was good.  Saw fam, friends, ate half my weight in cheese,...
Posted by Tom Oldham on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:46:00 PST

its time I got back

I find myself blogging for the first time in forever, mostly because, for the first time in forever, I don't have anything due immediately.  yay! Note the word "immediately."  Over the next ...
Posted by Tom Oldham on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:41:00 PST

don’t fear the reaper

OK, I have a new favorite tv show (and no, it's not Reaper, despite the title of my blog post--I haven't seen that but it's supposed to be good).  It's Pushing Daisies. While Cavemen is just good...
Posted by Tom Oldham on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:36:00 PST

Unbelievable

I have seen the future of American television, and it is called Cavemen.  No, actually it's pretty good.  A whole hell of a lot better than I thought it would be.  Plus, it has Tony-Awa...
Posted by Tom Oldham on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:35:00 PST

ain’t that America...

Well, here I am, months since our last visit.  I have just moved to Bloomington, IN, home of John Cougar and Indiana University, where I will be pursuing my PhD in Theatre. Well, that's about it ...
Posted by Tom Oldham on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:00:00 PST

I'm still alive

Holy crap!  New blog! Don't get too excited, it's gonna be short...just didn't want to move without posting one last time. Yep, I'm getting ready to leave New York.  I'm sad and excited and ...
Posted by Tom Oldham on Mon, 28 May 2007 07:50:00 PST

nights on broadway

Wow, it's been a while.  Don't have much to say right now.  Still making up my mind about what comes after the MFA. Saw Inherit the Wind with Brian Dennedy and Christopher Plummer. Saw Curt...
Posted by Tom Oldham on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:50:00 PST

Why can't this be love?

Damn you, Van Halen!!!!!
Posted by Tom Oldham on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:14:00 PST

You need something warm to embrace/to help you put on a smilin' face

Tonight, saw Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio, starring Liev Schreiber.  He was great, but the play definitely felt twenty years old.  Other than that, though, it was pretty decent: The whole pla...
Posted by Tom Oldham on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:34:00 PST

Would it be enough for your teenage lust--would it help to ease the pain?

So, random updates: *finished all my PhD applications; already been rejected by one (Stanford) *saw "Little Dog Laughed."  really funny, pretty well-constructed, and with one of the best performa...
Posted by Tom Oldham on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:43:00 PST