Rangers, Strictly Come Dancing, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Primark.
Music
Eclectic. From 60s - The Animals, The Kinks, Beatles, Rolling Stones.
70s - The Damned, Bowie, T-Rex, The Clash, Blondie
80s - Rick Astley (really), Transvision Vamp
90s - Catatonia, Longpigs, Ash, Blur, Oasis, and all the Britpop stuff
00s - Hives, Mull Historical Society, Hard-Fi, Sons & Daughters
and loads of other stuff...
Movies
Top Gun - effectively a bible for modern life.
Kelly's Heroes - effectively...another bible for modern life,
The Godfather Trilogy,
Y Tu Mama Tambien,
Bad Taste,
Roger Dodger,
Old Boy,
Sin City
Batman Begins,
Buffalo Soldiers,
Clerks,
Mall Rats,
Chasing Amy,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
Ed Wood,
Office Space,
Battle Royale,
Hero,
House of the Flying Daggers,
Baseketball,
Weird Science,
Ferris Bueller's Day Off,
and loads of others.....
Television
Curb Your Enthusiasm,
Seinfeld,
Sean's Show (though haven't seen it for years),
Fantasy Football (as above),
Fist of Fun (another classic blast from the past),
Coupling (a controversial choice i know),
Sopranos,
Monkey Dust,
Peep Show,
Shameless
Books
Ian Rankin, Boris Akunin, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Anna Politkovskay, Asne Seierstad, and far more football autobiographies than is healthy!
Heroes
Mavericks in all walks of life.
In football: Davie Cooper, Alexei Mikhailichenko, Charlie Miller, Shota Arveladze.
In comedy: Sam Kinison, Doug Stanhope, Frank Skinner, Sean Hughes, Stewart Lee, Kathy Griffin, Sarah Silverman, Maria Bamford, Frankie Boyle, Allan Miller. (it's kind of 'wrong' having the last two there as i know them!)
Random: Maverick from Top Gun, Ronnie O'Sullivan, my mate jammy Steven, Chris Evans
Belatedly: Alexei Sayle (it's amazing what watching an interview on BBC4 will do to your impressions of someone)
Bruno Tonioli from Strictly Come Dancing. Seriously, how cool is he? Also, Donny McCleary, obviously.
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I'm a freelance comedian and writer. For more trumpet blowing check out my comdian page on www.myspace.com/comedianteddy or www.comedycv.co.uk/teddy
I'm fascinated by Eastern Europe, have been to Prague, Tallinn, Krakow, Wroclaw, Warsaw, Vilnius, Kaunas, Bratislava. Places i'd love to see are Gdansk, Torun, Kiev, Lviv, Brno, Ljubljana and many more.
Quite a few folks have added me either from seeing me onstage or from reading my blog. It's nice to be added by peeps on the same wavelength so if you wannabe myspaz friends...just drop me a message. I can also be found on Facebook as Ross 'Teddy' Craig...though preferably for real people!
Who I'd like to meet: Alexei Mikhailitchenko (l) and Charlie Miller (r) - magical mavericks from memory lane!As well as them: I would like to meet the young ladies making up the Russian girl group 'Serebro', see below. Fucking hell!
As one of Beecake's friends we thought we would share our latest good news. Beecake have been nominated in this years Tartan Clef Music Awards "Best Live Act" If you think we deserve your vote,go here: http://bestliveact. visitscotland. com
Hey Teds, really enjoyed yer show on Sun. It was my 30th. Was a bit hungover and feeling sorry for myself (a wee bit), so thanks for cheering me up! I have used the term 'mono-boob' about 5 times since Sun. Cheers again :) speak to ye soon x
P.s...If you had to choose between having one big huge baw and 6 wee totty ones...which would you choose? Oh, or one big boob or 6 wee ones...(on a female or if you had your own, you choose)? You can't mix and match, though.
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