Comedying. And football (Red Star Belgrade / Crvena Zvezda, AFC, Grimsby Town, Queen of the South and Scotland). And anything to do with contemporary Balkan history, the legacy of the Chernobyl disaster, jaywalking, bull-fighting, badger-baiting and seal-clubbing.
Music
Ravel, Wagner, Shostakovich, Boney M, St Ettienne, The Charlatans, The Smiths, Bucks Fizz and The Paul Shane Project.
Movies
No, don't like films. Haven't been to see one for about 15 years. Don't have the attention span, nor the desire to spend a fiver to go and visit some bloody retail park / industrial estate to go and sit in a warehouse, stuffing my face with overpriced confectionery, just to watch a big telly in silence with a bunch of strangers. I've got a 40" widescreen now, so no need to go. Dont like the film buff and actory culture either. Far too far up its own arse. Or anything to do with Holywood or the likes. So no, I don't have a favourite film. Apart from 'Beyond The Valley of The Dolls'. I quite like that'.
Television
Now you are talking. love Sky News. Will never tire of the aftermaths of suicide car-bombings in market places up and down provincial Iraq. Or bored PCSOs manning cordons in the rain.
Books
erm....I don't own a single book. I once had lonely Planet: Ukraine, but I gave that to the Heart foundation shop on Nicholson Street. I read The Possessed by Dostoyesky at Uni once. But no, I don't read books. Too much telly going on for that.
Heroes
The firefighters of Chernobyl
Zoran Djindjic
Bogic Bogicevic
Christian Dailly
Kemal Ataturk
Arthur Bostrum
Ebbe Skovdhal
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Graduated: 2002
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: MA Haberdashery (Hons)
Minor: Rounders
Clubs: Masonic Lodge 1082
1998 to 2002
Franklin College
Grimsby, United Kingdom
Graduated: 1998
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Applied Infanticide and Ancient Slovene
Minor: Chip and Pin
Clubs: North East Lincolnshire Badger Baiting Assc.
About me: 'Ows tricks people?
Well, everyone else has a Myspace page, so here is my pathetic effort.
Aye, I'm one of Scotland's Top 400 stand-up comedians. Its nowhere near as sexy or glamorous as you think it is. Mainly consists of getting booed at for 15 minutes, shaking like a shatting dog and having to fend-off aggresive beggars at Buchanan Street Bus Station at two in the morning, apres gig, who've got eyes for my cigarettes/wallet/bag/mobile phone/faberge egg. If you've seen me perform in Glasgow, you'll probably think I am about as funny as Beslan.
Mainly peform at The Stand (heads up) and the Heresy Project. And for anyone else who will take me.
More mundanely I am a servant of the Crown, fighting (fiscal) crime and becoming intimate with the array of Microsoft Excel formula applications and functionalities.
Oh, and I'm also involved with Saputnik Films in Belgrade, Serbia assisting with the production of a feature length documetary critque of the marginalisation of Kosovo Serb and Roma communities in KFOR Kosovo. (www.saputnik.net). Aye, beat that.
Also, have I ever told you I've been Chernobyl? I did. Look at the ruddy photos if you don't believe me.
Who I'd like to meet: An IC1 male, approximately 5"8 and 5"9, around 30 years of age wearing a checked ben sherman shirt and rockport shoes who was in the vicinity of the Halal, Is It Me You're Looking For kebab place on the Market Place, Cleethorpes on the night of the Morocco v Scotland game during the 1998 World Cup. You struck me in the face and thought it was quite funny. Mark my words, I am three inches taller now, 15 stone, skinhead and my sole purpose in life is to track you down and harm you. Looking forward to it.
Ho Ho Ho, its that festive time of year again and we’ve got a little treat up our santa suits! Before that we would like to thank you if you came down to our launch, the pictures are now up for a little gander.
Hope you can make it down to our Christmas party at the best wee venue in Edinburgh, henry's cellar bar. As usual - 4 bands, cheap drinks and more free badges. Doors open at 8 and finish at 1am so come down and have a JOLLY good time :)
Loving the new blog Gordo. That shoplifting tale reminds me of the days when you could fill your bag with mangos but choose "prunes" as the fruit on the self-service weigh scales. That little scam enabled me to retire at 24. I've reserved some tickets for Reginald D Hunter on 25 Nov if you fancy it.
Ooh, good tip. Yeah, it's a wee club that runs monthly. I was born in Beverley, by the by, so lots of getting back to me roots stuff methinks. My parents are comnig to watch me for the first time. Bye bye inheritance.
