Tom profile picture

Tom

...ugh...

About Me

I'm working too hard...

My Interests

Architecture, music, reading, writing, drawing, history, soccer, video games, people, learning new things, travel, legends and myths, playing guitar, anime...everything.

I'd like to meet:

Everyone.

Tommunists
I have an ARMY .

Sis

Vic

Karin

John

Kimmy

Scott

Nette

Rem

Alexa

Jim

The Beatles

The Strokes

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Interpol

Coldplay

Death Cab for Cutie

The Flaming Lips

Franz Ferdinand

Van Hunt

The Brilliant Green

View My Followers

Music:

The Beatles, Led Zepplin, The Strokes, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, N.E.R.D., Debussey, Death Cab for Cutie, The White Stripes, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Motown from the 50s and 60s, Elvis, The Velvet Underground, The Brilliant Green, Sigur Ros, The Rapture, Run DMC, Bob Dylan, the Rat Pack, The Pretenders, The Cars, Johnny Cash, Blondie, David Bowie, Roy Orbison, Coldplay, Ray Charles, Edith Piaf, Beethoven, Miles Davis, Fiona Apple, The Walkmen, Explosions in the Sky, Iggy Pop, Prince, Mono (the Japanese band), The Pillows, Bob Marley, ABBA, ZZ Top, The Doors, Queen, Mozart, Blonde Redhead, Hank Williams, Ertha Kitt, Outkast, Thelonius Monk, Franz Ferdinand, The Cure, Stevie Wonder, Depeche Mode, Digable Planets, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Fugees, Fleetwood Mac, Cyndi Lauper, Muse, Tom Petty, The Cardigans, The Jerry Lee Phantom, Busta Rhymes, Tina Turner, Gypsy Kings, Duran Duran, Gnarls Barkley...this list will go on forever if I continue. I like everything.

Movies:

Old Kung Fu movies, A Christmas Story, Lost in Translation, This is Spinal Tap, Amelie, Life is Beautiful, Shaolin Soccer, In the Mood for Love, 2046, A Hard Day's Night, Rushmore, Seven Samurai, Cinema Paradiso, Blade Runner, Indiana Jones trilogy, A Chinese Odessey I and II, L.A. Confidential, L'Auberge Espagne, National Lampoon's Vacation series, Tron, Wedding Crashers, Grave of the Fireflies...this list will also go on forever.

Television:

Lost, Quantum Leap, Adult Swim, Late Nite with Conan O'Brien, My Name is Earl, The Office, football games from Spanish, English, & Italian leagues, Da Ali G Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, educational programs (history, home repair, nature, travel), Iron Chef (Japanese), SNL, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Dave Chappelle Show...

Books:

Flowers for Algernon, The Every Boy, The Rule of Four, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, Great Expectations, On the Road, Visions of Gerrard, The Fountainhead, works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Alchemist, Naked, Dean & Me, works of Mark Twain, Calvin & Hobbes collection, The Far Side collection, works of William Shakespeare, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Tuesdays with Morrie...I'm tired of making lists.

Heroes:

Parents (hardest working people I know), the J.C. (Jesus Christ), Martin Luther the King Jr., Confucius, Ghandi, Frank Lloyd Wright, I.M. Pei, Siddartha (Buddha), John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Bruce Lee, Musashi Miyamoto, Abraham Lincoln, William Shakespeare, Elvis, Frank Gehry, Conan O'Brien, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mother Theresa, Audrey Hepburn, people who do or did something positive to change the world...

My Blog

End of another era

Another one of my favorite footballers announced his retirement...Hidetoshi Nakata. I'm disappointed. He's still only 29 yrs old, so this is way too early and unexpected. Sucks 'cause he was starti...
Posted by Tom on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:00:00 PST

Hard Gay!

Japanese TV rules! I was introduced to a Razor Ramon Sumintani, a.k.a. Hard Gay, episode not too long ago and now I'd like to spread the Hard Gay-ness..... width="425" height="350">..>...
Posted by Tom on Mon, 15 May 2006 03:21:00 PST

The Greatest

Zinedine "Zizou" Zidane is retiring after the World Cup. :( Say it isn't so... It's the end of an era. Found this clip of the greatest footballer of my generation. Watch in awe of his skills and ...
Posted by Tom on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:07:00 PST

Real Love

This is a sweet song and video..... width="425" height="350">..>...
Posted by Tom on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:39:00 PST