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Tom

Come and hide your lovers, underneath the covers

About Me

Ok, Since writing my last blurb, a few things have changed so I thought I'd change what was written on here.

My name, however, is indeed Tom Kerridge and I'm 21 years old. It'll be 22 years on the 22nd August this year since I was born into the world at Watford General, nextdoor to the sacred ground of Vicarage Road home to Watford Football Club. Having spent my formulative years living in Watford, I then moved to the lush green grass of Harpenden, a small journey up the M1. Attending Wood End Primary school, I made several friends some of whom moved away but most of them followed with me to Roundwood Park School. It was here that I started learning things, including climbing through windows, dodging homework and throwing sweets into gaps in the ceiling.

It was after miraculously gaining my GCSE's and then my A Levels here that I went on a Gap year with my newly aquired knowledge. It was soon after this I discovered that climbing through windows in most countries is considered breaking and entering, this is not something I continue to do. I travelled for 5 months with a good friend, joined for part of the journey by another friend who was born close to the same hallowed turf on the exact same day albeit several hours earlier. We travelled from London to LA to New Zealand to the majority of Australia then from Bangkok down to Singapore. Despite spending a lot of money doing this it remains a great experience.

On my return I rid myself of my bleached blonde hair and headed down to Ealing in West London to pursue my interest in Journalism by starting a degree at Thames Valley University. It is here that I still attend lectures and struggle desperately to meet deadlines. I still live at home in Harpenden and commute down for my lectures. I also work numerous jobs including bar work at the Public Hall, looking after children and playing music for people to dance to. This pays in part for my student lifestyle and in part for my obsession with music and movies. I play the drums, watch said movies and listen to said music and spend more time than is probably healthy in the Inn on the Green in Harpenden. I don't smoke although I do drink. I was tempted to write one of those little questionnaire things, but I decided to answer the questions in a more creative way. I may not have answered all the questions but I don't think anyone really needs to ask if I like oreos or not because I'm from England and we don't have them here. I've not worn shoes yet today because I feel a bit ill and haven't been out of bed for long.

My Interests

Watford Football Club, Music, Movies, Football, Books, Comic Books and trawling the internet looking for nothing in particular

Music:

At the moment...Sufjan Stevens, The Arcade Fire, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Architecture in Helsinki, Absentee, Band Of Horses, Ray Lamontagne, I'm From Barcelona, Joan as Policewoman, Beirut, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Bjork, Camera Obscura, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Clor, Coldcut, Death Cab For Cutie, Devendra Banhart, Field Music, The Futureheads, Good Shoes, Guillemots, Head Automatica, Hot Chip, Iron & Wine, Islands, James Figurine, M83, Mates Of State, Modest Mouse, New Pornographers, Patrick Wolf, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Shit Disco, Shout Out Louds, Sigur Ros, Spinto Band, Tapes n Tapes, The Boy Least Likely To, The Decemberists, The Go! Team, The Knife, The Rakes, The Streets, Thom Yorke, Thunderbirds Are Now!, Tilly and The Wall, Wolf Parade, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cansei De Ser Sexy, DJ Shadow, Fields, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, The Postal Service, The Holloways, Hot Club De Paris, The Magnetic Fields, Larrikin Love, Liam Frost, Mumm-Ra, Spank Rock, Squarepusher, Sunset Rubdown, The Longcut, The Young Knives.....according to my music library

I was bought up listening to mix of Kraftwerk, The Police, Paul Simon and Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers....so my tastes are varied

Movies:

Spiderman 1&2, Napolean Dynamite, The Big Lebowski, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Bottlerocket, Dogma, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Team America, Fargo, Closer, I Heart Huckabees, Point Break, Blue Crush, Adaptation, Secretary, Shattered Glass, Baseketball, Mallrats.... + pretty much anything adapted from a comic book

Television:

Scrubs, Lost, Neighbours, Simpsons, Futurama, The Mighty Boosh, I Am Alan Partridge, My Name Is Earl, Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, The Office.

Books:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Enduring Love by Ian McEwan, Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, The Looney by Spike Milligan, The Curious Incident Of The Dog and The Night-time by Mark Haddon, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, High Society by Ben Elton, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, 9-11 by Noam Chomsky, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams, All Bill Bryson's books, All Michael Moore's books, Are You Dave Gorman and Dave Gorman's Googlewhack adventure, Isaav Asimov

My Blog

Got me some new photos, and i'm gonna talk about 'em

hmm another blog updating the great interweb on my goings on? ok I uploaded a new photo to my myspace which has so far sparked two, yes two, whole picture comments from people suprised that I'm wearin...
Posted by Tom on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:26:00 PST

always throwing up little suprises

Completely forgot I had a blog on here, I had one on my old profile but I only ever posted drunken grunts in the form of words on that. I guess that in a blog I should reveal my inner-most feelings or...
Posted by Tom on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:49:00 PST