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TommO)))

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About Me

Record-collecting librarian party boy. Full-time rhythm engineer for some of London's finest.

My Interests

This and that...foreign menus...travelling...Norse culture...beer...record shops...book shops...libraries...Micro/Mela/Polynesian stuff...drums...marine biology (+ film/books on this subject!)...the life stories of pornstars...

I'd like to meet:

Good interesting people who can tell me something I don't already know. People who can turn me onto great records, films, books and stuff I may not already know.Anyone who wants to sell me the Tropical Dandy LP by Haruomi Hosono!I tell you something else...if you're a band, you'd better have magic in your bones otherwise don't bother....I'm fuckin serious too.

Music:

Poison Idea - Zeke - Turbonegro - Kiss - Ted Nugent - Cheap Trick - Fucked Up - Career Suicide - Government Warning - Annihilation Time - Three Inches of Blood - Thin Lizzy - Harvey Milk - Black Sabbath - Fu Manchu - Black Flag...that sort of thing

Movies:

Bleak Eastern-European drama, horror, smart-ass guff, grindhouse + exploitation, art

Television:

Seinfeld

Books:

Travel books - Bret Easton Ellis - Norse folk tales Icelandic sagas - Martis Amis - Knut Hamsun - Music encyclopedias - "101 Reykjavik" by Hallgrimur Helgason - Jonathan Safran-Foer, Dave Eggers - "A Crack-up at the Race Riots" by Harmony Korine - Photography stuff - a book about old tour t-shirts - Chuck Klosterman - "The Land Where The Blues Began" by Alan Lomax - "The Happy Isles of Oceania" by Paul Theroux - Captain Cook's journals - 1960's/70's British trash/pulp novels - David Shrigley - Crumb - Bukowski - "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole - "May The Northern Lights Erase Your Name" by Vendela Vida - Hunter S. Thompson - Perfume - John Fowles -

Heroes:

Larry David - Donald Fagen

My Blog

Sicker than us

Conversation overheard on the train from Banstead to Croydon this morning. Two young men aged about 21 board the train mid-conversation... Man 1 : ....and then she goes and fuckin' sticks a fork ...
Posted by TommO))) on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:56:00 PST