Tomas Matthew Delonge, JR or as fans know him better Tom Delonge is a very influential composer. He was born December 13, 1975. His parents were Connie and Tomas SR. He has an older brother named Shon, and a younger sister named Kari. He grew up in Poway California. Originally he wanted to be a firefighter and even went through the San Diego Cadet program. His parents divorced when he was 18 which was the influence for some of the songs he wrote. On May 26, 2001 Tom married his girlfriend of 6 years, Jennifer Jenkins. The band Jimmy Eat World played at the reception for them. He has two children Ava Elizabeth born in 2002, and Jonas Rocket born in 2006. They currently reside in Del Mar California.
Tom suffered from a herniated disc which led to chronic pain and his eventual addiction to Vicodin. He stopped cold turkey when he could not get any pills for a week. Tom also was diagnosed with skin cancer and even though it has been treated and cleared up he still started a foundation to help raise money for breast cancer research.
He helped create a clothing line known as Atticus Clothing and a shoe company known as Macbeth Footwear. He sold his shares of Atticus and is now the sole owner of Macbeth. He is also a children’s book author. He has a couple of websites one is a place for people to talk about alien sightings and abductions as Tom is a very big believer in extra-terrestrials, and the other is a place for fan’s to talk to bands and for musicians to talk to each other.
Tom attended Poway High School until his junior year when he was kicked out for being drunk at a basketball game. Getting kicked out lead to him attending Rancho Bernardo High School for the rest of his junior year where he met Anne Hoppus who felt that Tom...
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...a recurring theme in his music. On Enema of the State there is a song called “Aliens Exist”, there is a video he put out for Love that is all done in a space ship and in outer space. He tends to get side tracked during interviews if aliens are mentioned. He has his own studio in his home to record when he feels like it. It was this studio that lead to the break-up of Blink 182. He wanted them to come to his house to record their new album and the other guys did not agree with it and this was when they decided to go on hiatus. Tom stated that he hated school and would only try the bare minimum to get a C because all he truly enjoyed doing was music and skateboarding.
Works Cited
“Blink 182”: Tales from Beneath Your Mom – The Official Biography – Mark Hoppus, Tom Delonge, Travis Barker, Anne Hoppus.
We Don’t Need To Whisper The Documentary – Video by Tom Delonge.
Tom was twenty-five years of age; he was married with three children; he had been in trouble with the law before: he once received thirty days for disorderly conduct.
Annemarie grew up in Vancouver, WA during the 1970's and 1980's, when school was much different than it is nowadays.
a normal life for all of Clancy's childhood. After graduating from high school in Baltimore, Clancy attended Loyola College in his hometown, where he majored in English. Tom graduated from college in 1969 and soon thereafter married Wanda Thomas. Wanda was an insurance agency manager and Tom joined in the business. Although Clancy wanted a career in the military, he was denied due to very poor eyesight. He became an insurance broker in the city of Baltimore and then in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1973 Tom joined the O.F. Bowen Agency, and later became part owner in 1980. Throughout his life Clancy maintained an interest in the armed forces.
Tom has been living for thirty years, hiding and scared of his Vietnam incident. He's scared of facing his fears. It made him live a dead, hidden life for all these years and
Tom is represented as a “supercilious”, “arrogant”, and “fractious” character, who thinks that he is superior to everyone else. Right from the get-go, Tom was characterized as the man at New Haven who everyone hated, which further enhances the idea that this man was haughty since the beginning.
Tom Outland was a young man who left his mark on not just the St. Peter Family, but also on the people he surrounded himself with and the ones who idolized him and benefitted from his inventions. Tom was a self-made man who came from being orphaned by his parents when he was only a baby. He was from New Mexico and never went to high school of any sort (96). He had spent the last few years before then riding around and digging up the Mesa with his brother-like companion. He came to Professor St. Peter for help in getting into the University. While he did not go to high school, he did studied and knew Latin quite well. From the first meeting with Professor St. Peter, and
In high school Cobain befriended a gay student and had to endure bullying from people who though he was gay. Cobain later admitted that he was “gay in spirit” and “probably could be bisexual” (“The Dark Side,” 1992). He dropped out of high school two weeks before graduation because he did not have enough credits, and became a janitor. It was in high school, however, that the beginnings of Cobain’s career were formed. He met Krist Novoselic, and later co...
Jack had little formal schooling. Initially, he attended school only through the 8th grade. In later years, Jack returned to high school in Oakland and graduated. He eventually gained admittance to U.C. Berkeley, but stayed only for six months because he said it was boring.
In this essay I will be comparing the life of two valuable musicians of the entertainment industry, Brad Nowell and Kurt Cobain. Bradley James Nowell was born to Nancy and James Nowell on February 22, 1968. The family resided in Long Beach California. Growing up, Brad was a bright and intelligent boy, but disliked school. In fact, he hated it so much that he would have his younger sister do his homework for him. His parents had concluded that it was just a lack of attention toward one subject at a time. At the age of nine, Brad was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder and was prescribed Ritalin to gain control over it. Kurt Donald Cobain was also diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and was prescribed Ritalin. Kurt was born to Donald and Wendy Cobain on February 20, 1967 in Seattle, Washington. Kurt was also a smart boy with high hopes but also with a dislike towards school. Kurt's parents went through a divorce when he was six years old. His mother had taken him and moved a few towns away from Seattle. He had a hard time dealing with the divorce, going back and forth between parents and aunts and uncles. Kurt eventually started becoming rebellious, unlike Brad, who actually enjoyed the time spent with each parent alone after their divorce. When Brad was eleven, his father took him on a trip to the Virgin Islands where Brad was exposed to the reggae culture of music. This is where most of his influences were developed. He began to teach himself to play the guitar and practice reggae and punk-rock music all day everyday, which had later made him famous. Kurt, on the other hand, had come upon his influences in a different way. Growing up near Seattle, the Pacific Northwest had more of a hardcore punk-rock scene. He started smoking marijuana and taking other drugs like LSD and pain killers. He, like Brad, had begun teaching himself chords on the guitar and creating local bands across Seattle. Kurt had also spend a lot of time reading at the local library to gain more information that he knew he wouldn't learn in school. For instance, he would read books on society and cultures around the states, which influenced many of his songs he had written that had led to his fame.
Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20, 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington. His parents, Don and Wendy, though young (21 and 19 years old), tried to educate him and take care of him. At age 2, Kurt created an imaginary friend, Boddah, and became severely attached to him. Cobain had an interest in music and his family motivated him to play piano, drums, and create song lyrics. In 1972, Kurt started kindergarten and was regarded as “a precocious inquisitive pupil with a Snoopy lunchbox” (“Heavier” 11). He did well in school, but had a knack for art, partially because it was encouraged by his grandfather. Kurt’s ADHD developed in second grade and teachers started to comment on his endless energy. Don and Wendy Cobain decided to give Kurt Ritalin, a medicine to help combat the symptoms of ADHD. But, this was controversial because Ritalin is connected to an increase in likelihood of addictive behavior later in life (“Heavier” 19). In 1976, Kurt’s parents divorced and to Kurt it was “an emotional holocaust” and helped shape his personality later in life...
Unlike Kaleil and his focus on money, Tom is more relationship-oriented. “I would rather see the business fail than lose our friendship.” Tom also shows his dedication to the business and his employees by sacrificing time with his daughter. However, he is easily frustrated and succumbs to adversity. For example, when he realized that he could not be the co-CEO, he made irrational decisions to leave the company and ask Kaleil for a termination letter only to regret the actions afterwards. Not only did this complicate their friendship, but it also made the company appear disjointed in front of the board and other potential investors. In addition, he is not a good communicator and could not remember the city in which Maynard Jackson (a board member and presenter at the meeting) served as mayor. Furthermore, while Kaleil had financial expertises, Tom’s background highlighted many professional deficiencies. Despite his title as head of technology, he had a lack of experience in the core technological underpinning of the company, which led to many disputes with other employees as well as
going out to having a smoke with Tom, or messing up his hair so he could
Tom is a character many people in this generation can relate to. Although the play was written many years ago Tom is just like any other millennial from this day and age. He basically hates his job because it’s not fun. He can’t cope with the fact that he has to pick up all the slack his father left behind. He even seems to think that running away will fix everything. All of these things are very common in society today.
Nevertheless, the internal struggle within Tom becomes apparent as he begins to resort to drinking in order to cope with his toxic relationship with his mother and his hatred for working at the factory. Throughout the play it is palpable that he hates his home life and especially the inability to use his instincts and strengths at the warehouse.
Tom is introduced in the first chapter, and almost immediately the narrator notes that he lives among the wealthiest people in New York in beautiful East Egg. Additionally, it is mentioned that he had previously lived in other places central for rich people including Chicago and France. Tom grew up in a very wealthy family, which granted him opportunities