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tommy collars

don't let the bastards get you down

About Me

musician, cerebral kneivel, generally jovial man about town, but don't get on my bad side. i dream of pastoral moments, wistful psychedelic times but think like concrete.BEGINMYSPACETOOLBOXBACKUP VERSION 1.1;;000000; http://www.adphicornell.org/adphicor/Archives/1940s/1942-Jun iorWeek-8.jpg; Center Center; fixed; no-repeat; 000000; ; bold; ; ; ; Times New Roman, Serif; 000000; ; bold; ; ; ; Times New Roman, Serif; 003333; ; bold; ; ; ; Times New Roman, Serif; 333333; ; bold; ; ; ; Times New Roman, Serif; cccccc; ; Center Center; scroll; no-repeat; 330033; solid; 1px; 90; 333333; 666666; 999999; cccccc;;ENDMYSPACETOOLBOXBACKUP

My Interests

music. film. politics. winklepickers.

I'd like to meet:

Burt Bacharach and Ghandi, preferably over a beer. Bud abbott and elvis costello. Karl and Groucho.

Music:

all and every, except for dreary poo. love music, marry music, don't just ring her up occasionally and expect her to care.

Movies:

powell and pressburger. frank capra. luis bunuel.

Television:

Anything Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews or Armando Iannucci have had anything to do with.

Books:

anything by Murakami. Don Delillo. Orwell. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. PG Wodehouse. Dumas. David Mitchell. William Boyd. Umberto Eco. Damon Runyon. Paul Auster. etc. etc.

Heroes:

george orwell. michael powell. dr. john.

My Blog

another day

Well the puppet show was a roaring success and a lot of very happy nippers left the theatre singing the songs and clutching their 'shoebaby' books. On with the stuff for grown-ups now. Heard the actua...
Posted by tommy collars on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:18:00 PST

today

So another day elapses, and I'm working on a children's puppet show - psychedelia for the under 5's. Who knew writing twee little forrays into the absurd could be so pleasing. All hail Syd Barrett. Sa...
Posted by tommy collars on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:08:00 PST