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Tom

What is life all about then? I seem to have forgotten

About Me

Ambling along trying to find my place in the world but worrying that I don't want to arrive too soon as maybe thats the kind of thing that takes a bit more time, a lifetime perhaps, but the mystery will unfold in it's own course I'm sure.

My Interests

Diving, Photography, Hiking, Live Music and therefore festivals, Cycling, Finding new places or about new things about places I already know, current events.

I'd like to meet:

Jacques Cousteau, Mozart, Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Johnson, David Attenborough, Charles Darwin, Matt Groening, Peter Sellers, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Luc Besson, Arthur Grimble, Robert Plant, Abraham Lincoln, Sigmund Freud, Nina Simone, James Brown, Dante Alighieri, Armando Ianucci, Aung San Suu Kyi.......but most of all I'd like to know my relatives that have passed away (not to put a downer on things but I'm not gonna lie to y'all!).

Music:

RJD2, Groove Armada, Shirerage, Architeuthis Rising, Zero 7, Led Zeppelin, Giles Peterson, Mozart, Tracer AMC, The Aggrolites, Grieg, The Divine Comedy, Chopin, Beck, Nina Simone, Dr Rubberfunk, Bent, The Cimarons, David Bowie, Damon Albarn (All Projects), UNKLE, Iron Maiden, Seu George, Supergrass, Bjork, Dreadzone, The Cat Empire, Nick Drake, Foo Fighters, Forss, James Brown, Micheal Jackson, Jurassic 5, Radiohead, Aphex Twin, Roykssop, Sigur Ross, The Shins, Seasick Steve, Manu Chau, Mr Scruff, The Go! Team, Granville Williams, Daft Punk.

Movies:

Akira, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Dr Strangelove, Napoleon Dynamite, Alien 1-4, Laputa, 28 days later, Belville Rendevouz, The 8th Day, The Ring (Japanese version), Battle Royal, Momento, The Machinist, Comandante, The Life Aquatic, Batman (1,2 & Begins), American Splendor, Coming to America, Motorcycle Diaries, Deep in the Woods, Sin City, Kill Bill (1&2), Withnail & I.

Television:

Yes Minister (& Prime Minister), The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Arrested Development, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The thick of it, House of Cards Trilogy, Ghormonghast, People Like Us, The Armando Ianucci Show, The Silent World, Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Life in the Undergrowth, Green Wing, The Mighty Boosh, The Adam & Jo Show, Alan Partridge (All Formats), Nathan Barley, Father Ted, Peep Show, Look Around You.

Books:

A Pattern of Islands, Life of Pi, The Shadow of the Sun, The Beach, Stories of Icelanders (The Icelandic Sagas), The Silent World, Alice in wonderland & through the looking glass, The Divine Comedy.... I spend my day reading heavy documents and can't remember the last time I had time to really get into a book. Suggestions here would be welcome!