Tom Philip Wrote This

Surgeons deserve Oscars. Wake up Hollywood!

I saw Mary and Max a long time ago, but never said anything about it. I saw it again today. What I should have said before is that this is a great film. It’s funny, short, and entertaining, but it’s also maybe the best effort I’ve seen at exploring friendship, love, hate, bigotry, mental illness, and a bunch of other heavy themes that often individually warrant and require an entire movie’s worth of exploration. What I’m saying is, I didn’t say that before, but I’m saying that now. 

I accepted Jesse’s words with friends request on the condition we play as the Farrelly Brothers.

I’ve been in the Florida keys for a few days. This is WINTER for these people, guys. Old people and criminals know how to live.

My top 10 films of 2011

10. `THE DARK KNIGHT

9. Anything I could call “hollow” because that’s a smart-person word when it comes to arts reviews.

8. My boy Ray and I made a Big Bang Theory spoof trailer and it was sick. Once youtube unlocks my account I’ll show you.

7. House S1E1

6. There’s this great one of three girls and two guys, and they have, like, 2 beds side by side, and there’s this brunette with just the most cracking pair. Haven’t been able to find it ever again. If anyone thinks they can help, email me.

5. Finally watched one of those OK Go videos that people lost their shit over. Not bad.

4. This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsg8JccRZCw

3.  Footage of people waving those tiny flags during the Royal Wedding

2. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (paperback)

1. Just rewatched that OK Go video.

cockenblog asked: Direct message from mittens: Tell Tom I say hello but also that I'm still waiting at the door from when he said he was coming for Thanksgiving. Also, he's stupid. But also, I like him.

Making friends with your mum is a life choice I rank alongside “clean socks every day”, “sleeping in”, and “eat that right now” as part of my Best Of collection.

I’ve been watching Peep Show, as everyone should be. 

Don’t worry: Marina and I remain debilitatingly unhappy. 

A while back, I promised I’d “blog” a little more, simply because photos of puppies, while among the best things to exist, view, and share, don’t benefit in any particular way from my personal approach to posting them. Instead, here’s a dumb piece of exploitative purple prose that reveals a part of my soul, or whatever.

I wrote this piece a little while back for class, before I realised I’d rather write something silly and non-comittal. Something that would guarantee at least 3 appreciative chuckles and one sizeable laugh while I told it. This piece rested for a few weeks, before I brought it to class and read it after all. People liked it, and I’ll put it here, too, sans some of the more personal stuff that was in the middle here. That’s reserved exclusively for people who don’t know me at all. 

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My so-far-just-acquaintances-but-not-anymore roommates surprised me tonight with a last-minute Christmas gift, to see off both me and my favourite embattled comedy show. They’re the best*

*Thoughtful assholes I’m going to have to spend my last 24 hours shopping for instead of packing.