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hi, i'm tom. i was born in the midlands in 1987 but was moved to devon as a small child to be raised in sunny torbay, the place i now call home.
i currently reside in the not so lovely stoke-on-trent, where i'm studying film at staffordshire university.
i've been told that my glass is half empty, and that i'm a bit of a pessimist. which i suppose i am, but surely it's a better way to live. i mean i can be pleasantly suprised more often, and by often i mean never. i have a firm belief that most of the earths population are idiots, that exist purely to annoy and irritate me.
i'm coming off as a bit of a grumpy bastard aren't i? i'm an alright guy really i guess. i'm not mean or anything. i've been told i'm quite funny, but i don't really know about that. i can be a bit quiet and shy around people i don't really know, this problem seems to vanish after i've drank some alcohol. but once i know you then it's ok. also i'm pretty indecisive, or am i? - hah classic. ...but seriously i am.
like most people, music is a big part of my life. i listen to alot of the stuff. life would be totally shit without it. as for my musical tastes, i listen to quite a wide range of genres including electronica, folk, indie, metal and punk as well as stuff inbetween. don't really like hip hop though. it's just a bit shit really, it sounds like a typewriter chewing tinfoil, being kicked down some stairs. but yeah, if i think the music's good then i'll listen to it. i also try to play the guitar. i've played it on and off for years, but only really started seriously a few months ago. i'm not very good, but then again i'm not very bad.
film's are another big passion of mine. this is probably why im studying film really. i'd like a career in the media when i've finished uni, but who knows. i'm not really into all this hollywood shit that gets made nowadays, some of them can be enjoyable, but most are just rubbish. indie and world cinema is where it's at. also i believe that george lucas and steven spielberg pretty much ruined cinema.
errr what else... as well as music and film, i also enjoy comedy, well good comedy anyway, which if were honest is pretty scarce. but yeah i enjoy stand-up, radio, literary or televison based comedy. that's all that TV is good for today, comedy. but even then its still a rarity that something advertised as a comedy is actually funny.
oh, i've just got into reading properly too. its quite good isn't it?
well i think thats all your getting for now. plus i really can't think of anything else to put...