Thom was everything I wanted to be. He could play instruments, write captivating lyrics and be all enigmatic and stuff.
How i loved my Thommy.
Thommy is now the leading man of Radiohead (thanks google!). I on the other hand, am a disgrunted Information Technology professional.
The moral of this entry: Stay gay.
And now, for all his fans (you know who you are): Thommy's titbits!
full name: Thomas Edward Yorke.
birth: October 7, 1968.
instruments: Guitar, vocals, keyboards.
educationAbingdon School; studied english and art at Exeter University.
previous jobs: Played guitar in Exeter techno band Flickernoise, worked as an ordely in a mental hospital.
key words: Creative, guarded, sarky, moody, hyperactive.
fave music: Past influences - Elvis Costello, Scott Walker, Japan, R.E.M, Throwing Muses, Joy Division. Current faves - P.J Harvey, Faust, Can, Prince Buster, DJ Shadow, Laika, The Verve, Penderecki.
fave movies/tv/books: "Arthur", "Married with Children", anything with Joe Pesci or Dudley Moore, "The Medusa Frequency", "A Night On Earth", Waiting For Godot".
likes: Love, hope, passion, articulation.
dislikes: You tell me.
influences: Lack of sleep.
other: During his first year at Exeter University he sported a long coat and a trilby hat; Steptoe & The Bunnymen chic. Still likes clothes. Changes his hairstyle more often and more radically than the others. Writes the bulk of the songs which the band arranges and mutates. Drives a Fiat Punto.
Other things about Thom:
- Thom likes Macintosh. He has Apple stickers on some of his guitars.
- Once Thom smashed his guitars and trashed Phil's drumkit. Then he realized what he did, and apologized to Phil by taking him and his family out to tea.
- Thom gets mad when people mosh at their concerts or when the press talks shit about him.
- He also doesn't like it when Jonny breaks into his guitars and rewires them.
- When Thom started at his second school, Abingdon Boys School, (a private school), his new mates gave him the nickname "Salamander" because of his eye. He got into a fight with the guy who originated the name but that didnt stop much.
- Thom met his girlfriend Rachel while attending university (he's only doing it to make me jealous, really).
- Shopping makes him happy.
- He's been dying his hair since the age of 13. But now it's back to its original color - brown.
- "He has the ability to make his eyes move completely independent from each other".
Other band members said:
[Jonny] "He's very quiet. He can get tense very quickly. He's moody and childish and aloof but he can also be very affectionate and friendly."
[Jonny] "If he has a day off he'll spend it shopping."
My frustration of the day: If I woul've known that I dated a future millionaire, I would've never let him go.
Well, there's the alarmclock, time to wake up.