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Steve

Hasta la fuego!

About Me

I come from Scotland. Currently an unemployed actor, having spent two years as a corpse in Taggart. Hoping to play the lead in the West End* revival of Supergran.*Byres Road

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

Manel Roig when he is sober, or Jesus.

Music:



Movies:

Harold and Maude, El Dia de la Bestia, Crimen Ferpecto, Being There, Evil aka Ondskaan, If. Muertos de Risa The Beat That My Heart Skipped Infernal Affairs (so much better than The Departed) Braveheart (for the historical liberties taken rather than the acting)

Television:

Oz, Coast, Black Books, ideal,The Wire, Dream On (80s American comedy) Shameless, Arrested Development (only the first two series, the third jumped the shark), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld.

Books:

I enjoy reading Tobias Woolf, Orhan Pamuk, Magnus Mills, Alan Warner, John Updike, Alexei Sayle, Irvine Welsh and James Ellroy.

Heroes:

William Wallace, Klaus Kinski, Montgomery Clift, Roy Orbison, Arthur Lee, Alex Salmond for his political posturing and luck on the horses. George Galloway for always winning his court cases.

My Blog

Larry Sanders Show

I have just been watching an old video called The Best of the Larry Sanders show. This quote by a fan on Amazon sums up the spirit of the show and its characters:Larry and Hank are the two 'stars'. Bo...
Posted by Steve on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:11:00 PST

Some day a rain is gonna come

...to wash away the scum.I would be really interested to see if the dam breaks in Yorkshire. Imagine that, the whole of central Sheffield under water. That will teach them not to recycle! It's global ...
Posted by Steve on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:51:00 PST

Hearts v Barcelona

Have Barca bought Thierry Henry just because they are worried about losing to Hearts in their forthcoming friendly?Comments from crazy Barca fans welcome!!
Posted by Steve on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:46:00 PST

Matt Willis is a cock

I have just been on youtube watching old Primitives videos. To my horror I learned that he had covered Crash. So I posted a comment on youtube:This is absolutely dreadful. He should not be allowed any...
Posted by Steve on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:02:00 PST

Popworld no more

Channel Four in Britain, have announced that they are to scrap their Popworld programme. Thank fuck because it is such poor quality. The presenters are muppets and patently trying to hard to be ironic...
Posted by Steve on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:26:00 PST

The Giro Playboy

I have just read The Giro Playboy by Michael Smith. It is a very brief but entertaining book which recounts the downs and downs of Smith's life.Here is an extract from page 158 that I have typed mysel...
Posted by Steve on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:13:00 PST

Classic artists that I really ought to like, but don't really care for.

1. Slint - I know that Spiderland is seen as this classic album but I really do not see what all the fuss is about. I like plenty of bands that could be considered as post-rock but I have always found...
Posted by Steve on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:49:00 PST

Michael Dracula

Michael Dracula have an album out on Ze Records in April. I remember seeing them in Manchester's In the City swigging a bottle of vodka on stage. They were HOT HOT HOT!!!I hope they might incorporate ...
Posted by Steve on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:22:00 PST

Willy Mason free gig in Preston 7th March

Willy Mason is putting on a free gig at Bruccianis, the Italian cafe/ice cream parlour on Fishergate (Wednesday 7th March)You can get tickets if you pre-order his latest album from either HMV or Actio...
Posted by Steve on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:42:00 PST

Richmond Fontaine live

I'm going to see Richmond Fontaine tonight for the 3rd time.The first time was in London with the lovely Ladybug Transistor and the second time was in Manchester a couple of years ago.I love Willy Vla...
Posted by Steve on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:11:00 PST