country tom

drawing again

2007-04-05T08:03:00.000-07:00

i had these dreams where i was doing these drawings so i woke up and tried to recreate them.

and i am really enjoying them in a way i havent enjoyed drawing in years.

will get some pictures up as soon as i steal a camera from the store.

i mean buy a camera from the store.

they kinda look like... um... well... super wicked.

yeah, that's it!

they are super wicked.

also a little wicked nice.

but mostly super wicked.

offa haitus

2007-03-23T17:37:00.000-07:00

well i am back to the living world

hey young world!!!

well, in news, i am heading back to japan for a vacation. gonna see if it is still hot. gonna spend sometime in hiroshima but also a few other places. i got one a dem japan rail passes so i can go pretty much anywhere i want. gonna finally make it to shikoku and probably hokkaido. does the shinkansen go to okinawa yet? now that would be a bridge...

also , uh, oh right...

that is why i stopped writing.

I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY!!!!!

actually i have been writing a lot of songs lately and i am feeling pretty good about them.

i am hungry.

at my job i dont burn myself as much as i used to and they finally installed a good ventilation system.

got really drunk in banff on st. patrick's day and now i hate the irish.

i am very hungry.

i got this program called reason for my computerbox. it is a really cool music making program that reminds me that i have no idea about music theory. what do you mean i have to play everything "in the same key" to sound good? what if i want the bass line to be c major and the keys in e minor? screw you music!!!! screw you ears!!!!!

i am still very hungry and while i write this my stomach is slowly taking over my brain.

i only have a few moments left actually...

remember me to california.

tom

lazy tom

2006-10-30T11:52:00.000-08:00

lazy tom is lazy

that is whay we call him lazy tom

one example of how he is lazy is that he doesnt update his blog

bad lazy tom!

tom is doing what he always does. i have been working on some recording stuff and if you click on my myspace page in a month or so i hope to get something up there.

it snowed like crazy yesterday. wondering why i live in such a cold country. the people are friendly, the weather is not.

and tom has been playing final fantasy x-2. this takes up alot of his time.

and cooking! i mad a kick ass thai curry about a week ago. plus i bought a huge ass thing of kim-chi, so i been having that everyday! my breath may stink but my stomach is happy!

onaka suika!!!

sad to hear about some of my favorite bars closing in hiroshima over some stupid dance licence nonsense. makes me wonder what is going on in that city? i leave for six months and everything is changing!

thats it.

typing about food is making me hungry.

anyways.

itadakimasu

writing time

2006-09-03T22:53:00.000-07:00

it is time for me to write things and i will write the following things.

been working alot and getting overtime so i might even have a bit of cash. so much of a bit of cash that i will be able to do something with the bit of cash but... i am not sure what. will put some towards old debts and such. but i will still be able to do something more. maybe travel, instruments, go to a dog show, or buy new teeth. not sure what to do yet.

i have been sweating alot. not as a hobby but just because my work is real hot.

i really love strawberry milk. ya know, like chocolate milk but strawberry flavour.

got video games!

been writing songs a little bit here and there.

gonna go to sleep.

g'night

P.S. you should almost always wear pants

footy footy footy footy

2006-08-19T08:31:00.000-07:00

well... soccer/football is back

how the hell did i get into soccer/football so damn much? and what the hell word can i use? soccer or football?

all right. gonna have to use a new word.

juicy fruit.

thats better.

juicy fruit.

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well, juicy fruit is back and i have something to obsess about. i cant even watch the damn stuff. i just have the bbc website to look at updated scores. it carries all the excitment of watching ticker tape.

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in other news, my job is trying to make it impossible for me to leave. they just gave everyone in the company a very healthy raise. i cant get out!!!! just when i was certain i was gonna take off and find something with better hours and better pay and more related to something i am even mildly interested in, they throw a bunch of money at me.

so i guess i am gonna keep it. for now. but if anyone out there hears of something better for me to do, dont hesitate to tell me. even if you are from a different place altogether. or especially if. not that calgary is boring (crying myself to sleep everynight cause there is nothing to do) but it always does a person good to see other horizons.

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man. i sure do love juicy fruit.

to post

2006-07-24T22:43:00.000-07:00

to post is to write and write up i will. as i will it to be it will be in fact the thing that is.

rock it rock it rock it

it is a day like a day like an anyother day. like a day where the sun comes up. i come up with the sun unless i am sleeping.

but not today.

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hey all folks. what is the good?

ponderous

2006-07-23T01:25:00.000-07:00

a man of deep thought and distinction

misunderstood and misappropriated

can we possibly break into the inner thought?

is it in fact too far away?

what is left for us but to ponder?

just but to ponder ...

my room

2006-07-18T21:54:00.000-07:00

is so clean!

you dont even understand!

hey...

stop pretending you understand!!! cause you dont!

it is really nice in here. i even have a desk that my computer is sitting on right now. and beside my computer was a pastrami sandowich and currently is a roast beef sandowich.

that's right. two sandowichs.

thinking about going to go rent a movie.

i am living the life.

clean room, desk, renting movies. what else is there?

and earlier today i had a fallafel from a fallafel place just down the street. AND they also make some bad ass donairs.

so what are you doing?

it's been a long time

2006-07-12T15:58:00.000-07:00

well, well, well,

what is going on?

well, i am living in a new house! or rather i am living in a house that is new to me but actually a bit old. that is, i am living in an old house. but it is nice. i may or may not be haunted.

i am also experiencing homesickness. for hiroshima. i guess it is that reverse culture shock. people here in calgary are so stupid!!!! well... not all of them. but alot.

but the new house is good. i am living closer to downtown and in walking distance of almost everything i need. which is good.

also...

i went camping. with my sister and vicky (who is now known as "binky"). we made some very interesting art video that i am sure you will all be interested in. if i can get my sister to say it is okay to show some. we actually look a little silly. and drunk. but it is art!

back on night shifts again, but i am getting used to it. i feel alright.

that is it for today.

kiyosukete

dream

2006-06-24T08:05:00.000-07:00

so, it was strange.

i was on a boat that was sailing over what used to be someones farmland but was now nothing but ocean. really dark, rough waters.

now, on this boat we were loading gold that belonged to this man.

i think it was in japan.

then i was taking a bath... with an old man... uh... strange.

he was telling me about the land that used to be there.

then he changed into a woman. this was much better. but after a while i realized that her husband was sitting there watching us.

so... what does this mean?

iggy pop dream

2006-06-13T08:30:00.000-07:00

i had a dream that i was teaching iggy pop english.

and he was as bored as hell.

that sucked.

iggy pop doesnt like my lessons.

things i remember (hiroshima)

2006-06-07T04:53:00.000-07:00

sitting by the peace park singing "bohemian raphsody"

falling into that the river going to look at fish after audrey pointed them out.

getting prepared to eat level twenty tsukemen and getting my name on the wall of bakudanya

the full moon festival. riding in the back of a truck thinking i was going to fall off and die but all the while keeping my cool demeanor. getting in for free cause they thought i was in a band.

walking through the peace park at 6 am on a sunday and realizing i was surrounded by about fifty old people doing the nhk exercises together.

7 am, getting off the train to iwakuni in itsukaichi and getting sick on the tracks after a loooong night.

seeing bom playing jambei in alcoholiday for the first time. amazing.

hitching to tokyo and being picked up by a single mother whose car had noodles on the floor.

the crazy old lady on the train from obatake who rubbed my chest.

the one time at around midnight i saw a man walking a monkey in iwakuni. (still not sure if that really happened)

beatboxing at jamaica.

making "phone henge" in lotus.

the whole night i made "phone henge" (the night i broke my collarbone)

falling in love in the hospital.

the first time i had a conversation in japanese.

going to the indian shops to buy cheap clothes.

running into jesse on the street before i really knew jesse and she asked me where she could get rid of old clothes.

nabe at audreys and jesses.

walking out of mac's for the first time seeing the sun already out.

lots of dancing.

tobi. naoko. ed. james. nick. yumiko. mayumi. ian. dannette. monique. michelle. naoko. jamie. billy. maiko. shin-chan. kenta. aiko. nao. dannelle. ag. susu. yuuki. koba. takako. phillipa. ryoko. miki. hiroshima taro. derek. sachiko. and that girl.

sweating all the time in the summer. wearing towels on my head.

hiking with joe, sam, and paddy.

the sake festival.

the night i was telling off white people. "anyways... i hate white people"

watching homestarrunner for a few hours with audrey.

staying up till 6 am at tobis.

yu's green shirt.

making the guys from mogwai laugh. "scotland is funny".

aso.

beatboxing in koba.

the secret alleyway.

ramen.

peace.

monkeys on miyajima.

diving into the sea at the break of dawn on miyajima.

duncan. jason. mark. mac. jamie. natasha. ramsey. kit. mary. maggie. rie.

the day of two bowls. a pretty good day.

krazy (by gnarls barkley)

2006-06-01T02:20:00.000-07:00

i just love this song right now. can't get it out of my head. it's been a long time since i liked a song this much.

i want to write songs like this. i need to write songs like this. i am gonna have to start hanging out with people who call them selves things like "danger mouse". perhaps i can find somebody like "precarious dolphin" or "unstable giraffe".

if your name is "precarious dolphin" or "unstable giraffe", i would really like to meet you and become friends. how bout it? you can come over and play my x-box? ... well ... it's my sister's fiance's x-box but i am sure he wouldn't mind. i mean your name is unstable giraffe for god's sake!

in other news, uh... i... uh...

well, me and the boys (that is jayson and grahamn) jammed again. we have about three songs getting ready to be close to being called finished. i am rocking out.

also i am currently wearing the most bad ass sweater this side of a theo moment with doctor huxtable. that's right. my sweater is even better than a cosby sweater. if i ever get up the engergy to figure out the digital camera you all will see to. i will see to it.

so get on up!

get on up!

return of the insomniac

2006-05-30T03:20:00.000-07:00

can you sleep? cause i can't.

there are several possible alternatives to sleep. one of those is to count the numbers of eyelashes you have. without using a mirror.

you could also make a list of all the cities you think might possibly have a great burrito restaurant. then you could pit those cities in head to head pong battles that would light up the night sky.

you could entirely stop making sense and then start typing.

or maybe you are the kind that likes to randomly search for prepositions through google. i suggest "at on up". quite thrilling.

if you cant sleep you could try lying in your bed for hours pretending that you are sleeping. but i have tried this and it doesnt really fool anybody who cares, which is really only you, the person trying to sleep.

i had a crazy ass dream where i was skiing. which is not at all crazy except that when i got to the bottom of the moutain i saw some of those at-at things from the empire strikes back. ya know. like hoth.

so i woke up and havent been able to get to sleep since.

i wish i was lying.

i think i am going to change the color of this blog from black. although if you are reading this it probably isnt black anymore. so, for future reference, this blog used to be black.

so... to liven things up... if anyone is reading please give me a subject to talk about/ riff on/ waste my time with. can be anything or anyone. anywhere.

this contains no meat.

no need to post

2006-05-19T04:02:00.000-07:00

there is no need to post!

it is not required!

you may feel that it is neccesary but that is just not true! it is just not true!

why do you post? why do you do it?

i post. therefore i am. i dont post. hey, guess what? i still am. aming (i guess i should say 'being') is not related to posting. at all.

but then again...

i am on night shifts right now. passing the time by passing the time.

for the first time in a long time i watched a t.v. show and felt moved. i dont know what this means. when i was younger i really got caught up in the stories and the characters; really began to see them as important entities. which sounds really stupid to believe. but i liked it.

then that sort of feeling drifted away. the characters on the shows seemed to have less and less to do with the life that i saw around me. or maybe it was something else in me that drifted away and the disconnection with t.v. was just a side effect. i think that may be the case.

so what does it mean to start to care about fictional characters again? (maybe the term again is not right. just one incident of the reoccurence of 'caring' to speak of) should we avoid caring about characters who don't exist? should i even spend my time thinking about it?

it's just that i struck me as a feeling i used to have a long time ago that had kind of stopped. and when did it stop? hmmm......

working on story ideas. mostly just thinking of possible directions that the story could go in. thinking about how much i can rip off my heros without anyone noticing. (p.s. once i do put something out please dont go searching for the ideas i rip off. they will probably be pretty obvious)

i get an idea about the character and then at work i think/feel it over and decide if it really fits. and i guess i decide if it fits or not by how i feel after thinking about it for a while.

right now thinking a little about extra characters. so far i just have the main character and the girl he falls in love with (yeah yeah yeah. a love story. i know... i cant be helped. shoganai.)

but i am thinking about the main characters brother and maybe best friend. a younger brother and a computer geek best friend. just getting a feel for it.

so maybe all this ties together. it is probably easier for other people to see the connections. actually, i think i see some of them myself.

time for sleep.

there is no need to sleep

drawings 1

2006-05-12T22:27:00.000-07:00

here is some stuff i have been messing around with. learning to draw on the computer. these are some pictures of characters and ideas i am thinking about making a comic about. currently running under the title of "nothing but potential"

yeah!

2006-05-11T22:30:00.000-07:00

i have had two comments from people who aren't me! this is reason to celebrate.

to celebrate i will write down my favorite words that begin with c

celebrate
cell structure
car
carrot
ceiling
cantankerous
centucy
celtic
century
cocktail
cockatoo
camping gear
cellophane

well i have three days off! i think i am going to take a shower tomorrow!

gotta get to dancing again soon. anyone who wants to dance, let me know!

okay, some actual info

2006-05-09T15:52:00.000-07:00

so, i am working. i make mineral insulated cable. basically i put steel cables through furnaces and something called a bull block. pushing stuff, lifting stuff, moving stuff. luckily my love of 'stuff' comes in handy.

today i was rocking out big time to the max with graham and jason. if you dont know them, you will. oh yes. worked on one straight ahead rock tune and a boiling hot prince-esk epic epic.

oh, and i have decided to change my name to "tom the most respected journalist in the world magee".

the long awaited third post

2006-04-29T10:39:00.000-07:00

well, after a few weeks and a total of 2 readers, it is time to soup this baby up and add some meat to the it.

i am in calgary! the posibility of this is 100% and growing.

i am working 12 hour night shifts! the posibility of this is the same as above. so, pretty likely.

i just noticed the little things at the bottom here where i can make my words bold. i think from now on i will only use bold letters. i strive to the bold.

so, i guess the next thing to put up here is some pictures. but i dont got any. so i better get some. does anybody know where i can get some? cause i need some.

in other news,

i dont have anyone for my band yet but i have been praying to the gods and i have been blessed with the most powerful band name of all time. it came to me in a dream. and without more ado, here is the name...

dell taco!

it is the greatest name of all time and it came to me and only to me. dell taco will push the limits of the boundries and make soup out of the competition. there is no one who can stop dell taco.

you just try to baby

second post

2006-04-27T15:24:00.000-07:00

well, i am up to two posts. this is truely a thing.

i suppose that pictures would be good. people like them and i like them. so this is something we will aspire to. dont forget to aspire.

first post

2006-04-16T15:16:00.000-07:00

well, here is a post.

i think i am posting. there is a distinct possiblity that i am writing. and that you are reading. i think these are both two good things.

and if there are two good things, well, then... maybe there are more than two good things. perhaps as many as three or four. and, well, if there are four good things it stands to reason that these good things might be even more diverse and we could be talking about a number of things that well surpases ten good things.

and that could possibly be a good thing.

i am hungry and would like a sandwich.

tom