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tom

Oh lord, I'm so fat!

About Me

Some photos of some of my favourite people...


Thank you to Isobel for burning me the CD of photos, lovely thing!
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My Interests

anti-war, left-wing perspectives, equality, anti-discrimination.
kindred spirits, keepin' it real with my peeps.
acting, being passionate, compassion, dancing, dreaming, God, inspiration, live music, light, poetry, procrastination, rain, singing, seeing theatre, tap dancing.

I'd like to meet:

Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha... Can you imagine the conversations you would have??

Music:

acoustic
m ward, alex lloyd, clare bowditch, jen cloher, jose gonzales, damien rice, garden state soundtrack, joni mitchell, lior, missy higgins, sarah blasko, neil finn, john mayer, tracy chapman, shane nicholson, sinead o'conner, bernard fanning
pop
Christina (her big band stuff from Back to Basics), some Justin stuff, Pink
jazz
ella fitzgerald, elixir, michael buble, jamie cullum, norah jones
rock
ben folds, coldplay, crowded house, david gray, eskimo joe, killing heidi, leonardo's bride, motor ace, powderfinger, triple j, radiohead, you am i, the killers, franz ferdinand, ben harper, the grates, george, silverchair
electronic stuff
sneaky sound system, lamb, portishead, the presets, i need to hear more of the knife, carl cox's set at Harbour Party was awesome... anything from the Ministry Annual 2007, really. I'm very much a mainstream dance boy.
other (but certainly not least important)
ani difranco, antony and the johnsons, björk, fiona apple, frou frou, imogen heap, kasey chambers, peaches, tori amos

Movies:

american beauty, baz luhrmann films, candy, dead poet's society, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, garden state, if these walls could talk 2, love actually, the hours, mysterious skin, hotel rwanda, brokeback mountain, transamerica, hard candy, happy feet, finding nemo

created by:

Romeo & Juliet = Tragic Love

Television:

Grey's Anatomy, Angel, Six Feet Under, Family Guy, Spicks and Specks, The Glasshouse, Will and Grace, Pride and Prejudice (BBC production, of course), Angels in America, The Secret Life of Us, Gilmore Girls (only early seasons though), Stargate SG-1, Smallville.

Books:

I have never been more upset from reading a book than from Holding the Man, 19th century literature- particularly pride and prejudice, anne of green gables, to kill a mockingbird, finding cassie crazy, i have a bed made of buttermilk pancakes, saving francesca, looking for alibrandi, harry potter (all of them), matilda, tony kushner plays (particularly Angels in America), samuel beckett plays, michael ondaatje poems, billy collins poems, t.s. eliot poems.

Heroes:

Acting heroes: David Wenham (because he went to Nepean), Gabriel Byrne, Dakota Fanning (seriously, that girl!) Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Cate Blanchett, Sean Penn, Geoffrey Rush (I walk past him all the time outside school- I'm practically his best friend)... the list goes on.
General life:
-the people that inspire me everyday because they are so boundlessly full of enthusiasm for life.
- People that want to make a difference for the better.
- Those angelic souls that make my day shiny and bright.

My Blog

lover you should have come over

Sometimes I see things changing far too quickly or in directions that I have been hoping that would never happen. I love to think that I can move to a different city and things will only alter when I ...
Posted by tom on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:01:00 PST

On Leaving Home- a gift from my sister

As I sit in my parent's study, having just returned from my first adventure into Melbourne- an adventure full of excitement, frustration, unexpected adoration and more- I feel that now is the time to ...
Posted by tom on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:08:00 PST

The Revenant- a poem

The Revenant  by Billy Collins I am the dog you put to sleep,as you like to call the needle of oblivion,come back to tell you this simple thing:I never liked you--not one bit. When I licked your ...
Posted by tom on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:28:00 PST

a bulletin- for going away drinks

hey all. just in case you missed the last bulletin, and to slightly change the time from the previous bulletin... I'm moving to melbourne soon and so i'm having drinks on sunday. Lex is also going to ...
Posted by tom on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:28:00 PST

an end to 2006. to remember the good times and bad.

My dear friend Dem wrote this poem in her blog. As an end to 2006 I found it a necessary way to reflect on the state of the world and how things are both in the larger world picture and in my own...
Posted by tom on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:26:00 PST

on blogging and nails

Do you know what? I love blogging. I love it. I love writing them, reading them. I love rereading over old blog entries. I love reading friend's blogs and seeing the way that they write- and how I can...
Posted by tom on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:52:00 PST

i will follow you into the dark

Right now, as in right in this very moment as I type, I feel incredibly excited and inspired. Catch this moment and hold it tight, dear observer, because it may be fleeting! Today I handed in my take...
Posted by tom on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:00:00 PST

inarticulate feelings

You know that feeling you get when you watch a film that for some reason resonates with you down to your core? Or after watching a beautiful dance piece? The inspiration you gain from seeing live musi...
Posted by tom on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:50:00 PST

take away our playstations and we are a third world nation...

I know that lyrics posted can be bland, but these lyrics are... amazing. If any readers have the chance to find a copy of this song should look it up. It is...astounding. In fact, listen to it at...
Posted by tom on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:50:00 PST

Love

Love is presented in movies, on stage, in novels as being something reasonably easy. Regardless of whether the piece of art spans a period of 100 years or 2, by the end of it ...
Posted by tom on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:51:00 PST