Tommy Collison

@tommycollison • tommy@collison.ie

Month: August, 2009

Favourite Musical Instrument?

Nah, this isn’t one of those silly Facebook quizzes, this is me pondering what my favourite one is. It probably depends on my humour. Sometimes I’m feeling quiet (TrustTommy? Quiet? I must be dreaming!) so I might settle for something like Yo Yo Ma or the Vitamin String Quartet doing covers of famous rock song. [...]

Brand Spanking New About Page

…Can be found here. I’ve updated it and made it timeless. I made it timeless by removing any bands I’d previously named as ‘favourites’. The problem is that my ‘favourite’ artist changes every week. Last week it was Louis Armstrong, this week it’s Anthony Rapp, next week it’ll probably be someone like Yo Yo Ma. [...]

Earphone FAIL

My Skullcandy earphones seem to be doing something funky, the sound sometimes only works in one headphones, fading out and about. Normally, that’s fine, but some of my songs feel the need to split the male and female vocals between earphones. For example, California Dreamin’ by the Mamas and the Papas, Males: All the leaves [...]

Giving up

So, as my 8th month of not eating chocolate draws to a close, my mind is drawn to next year. I really don’t know whether I’ll go back on chocolate in 2010. I definitely don’t see myself counting down the seconds until January 1st and then cramming as much Cadbury’s into my mouth as possible. [...]

It’s got penguins!

Oxygene – Part IV – Jean-Michel Jarre That’s this week’s music recommendation

Why is it?

…that new Apple laptops have that lovely smell about them, and new school books have one, yet one makes me happy and one doesn’t. Photo owned by playerx (cc) No more getting up at ridiculously late hours for me, unfortunately. It’ll be back to 7.55am starts from Wednesday. Was it a good summer though? Totally [...]

Wanting

I wanna be one of those people who observes life, as well as participating in it I wanna record as much life as I live I wanna see as much of life as I can Photo owned by StewBl@ck (cc) I wanna listen as much as I talk I wanna give as much as I [...]

Parents

Disclaimer: I’m not talking about my own mother. Wouldn’t that be awful stupid? What with her blogging too? If you think you know who I’m talking about, you’re wrong. There’s a possibility you’re right, but assume you’re wrong :-). Let’s do an American military on it and don’t ask, don’t tell. I’m going to be [...]

1111

Last night I got an email from John, who’s gone over to Boston, saying that he’d got his Harvard address. Like his previous one, containing his new phone number. I didn’t pay too much heed to either email because I couldn’t see myself trying to contact him other than on MSN and via e-mail. When [...]

Thank you, t’land

It’s good for conversation, it’s good for learning what Apple’s next move is (possibly) going to be, it’s good for 50 people watching a movie at the same time. But it’s better for this: 15 responses later, I had traipsed up to John’s room and yoink!ed the 1GB USB memory stick off his desk. The [...]