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tommah!

YOU MADE ME!

About Me



My raison d'etre is to assemble the world's greatest collection of YOU MADE ME photos: it is early days yet, but i think it has the potential to be HUGE:

YOU MADE ME, IRELAND!!!




YOU MADE ME, FRANCE!!!




My Interests

Music (playing piano, cello, bass, sing in a choir), sleeping, WATCHING sports (49ers, West Ham, cricket), cinema, the pubs and beverages of Samuel Smith.

I'd like to meet:

Norah Jones. Lee Alexander can come too, if he must. (I'm used to it.) (Though i don't trust anyone whose surname can be a first name...)

Music:

Primus, James Brown, Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, Paul Curreri, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Schnittke, Bach, Beck, Lewis Taylor...

Movies:

Buffalo '66, Vertigo, Lemming, Harry He's Here To Help, Ring, Dark Water, Team America: World Police, This Is Spinal Tap, The Life of Brian, Pan's Labyrinth, Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould,

Television:

South Park, The Office, Extras, Nighty Night, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Green Wing, Popworld (at least before Simon and Miquita left), The Simpsons, Family Guy

Books:

"Watt" by Samuel Beckett, "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien, and other weighty and profound tomes.

Heroes:

Shostakovich, Beethoven, Jerry Rice, Thomas called Didymus.

My Blog

Private bloody Eye

I've mentioned before how whenever i send funny things to "Private Eye" they never print them. Hence i saw little point in sending them the "Enter Shikari"/Shakira photograph and caption fro...
Posted by tommah! on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:20:00 PST

Choir concert, Friday evening

This is not really a blog properly-so-called, more a general invitation to anyone who might be interested in coming to our choir concert on Friday evening to, er, come. It's a small amateur chamber c...
Posted by tommah! on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:41:00 PST

Colemanballs

  A couple of funny things i've heard during the week. I sent them to "Private Eye", but they never print my contributions anyway so i might as well share them with you.   Reporter warn...
Posted by tommah! on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:51:00 PST

Bankers!

I went to the bank yesterday, to a different branch than usual. First of all the glass entrance has a huge sign which reads (something like) "Through these doors walk the nicest people on Southampton ...
Posted by tommah! on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:26:00 PST

One thing i won't miss when i finish my Ph.D.

Sentences like this:"Were it not for the kind of methodological running commentary that has accompanied the preceding analyses, I should not now be in a position to maintan the fundamental yet fine di...
Posted by tommah! on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:20:00 PST

Signs o' the times

    I am tidying my room, which involves sorting through the piles of little scraps of scribbles. That's what comes from spoddishly having blank paper and a pen in my shirt pocket every day ...
Posted by tommah! on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:09:00 PST

Thank-you letters and BLEEPs

Yet more riveting correspondence from the pages of The Times:   The fading thank-you letter (Times, 29 December 2006) Sir, The informative and well-meaning Christmas thank-you letter has been in ...
Posted by tommah! on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:08:00 PST

Robbie meets Jesus

"Who would you like to invite to dinner?""The first one would be the Good Lord Jesus - he is a friend for life and what he did enabled me to live this wonderful life on earth. [...] the last...
Posted by tommah! on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:51:00 PST

Good advice

Usual engineering work on various parts of the tube network at the weekend, but an unusual piece of advice heard at Stratford station: "Due to planned engineering work, the Central Line is suspended b...
Posted by tommah! on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:54:00 PST

No justice

There was a letter in The Times on Wednesday to which i simply had to respond: The Times, 25 October 2006 "Maths on the motorway..." Sir, A little mathematical thinking highlights a...
Posted by tommah! on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:40:00 PST