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martin

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About Me

Freelance TV scriptwriter living in the west end of Glasgow.

My Interests

Radio 4, ironing while listening to Galaxie 500

Music:

MBV, JMC, kraftwerk, VU, bowie, c twins, THE SMITHS, yo la tengo, stereolab, GALAXIE 500, bunnymen, joy division... NEU! eno, skip james, woody guthrie, arab strap, lucky pierre, b&sebastian, mogwai... songs: ohia

Movies:

transamerica was good, as was Little Miss Sunshine... Lynch, Loach, Coen bros, Hal Hartley, Kaufman, enjoyed Sideways... moved by The Wind that Shakes the Barley

Television:

I, Claudius, the Sopranos, Six Feet Under, BUFFY, doctor who, the cops, royle family, The Street, Extras, Curb... the Sky at Night, River City www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/tv/rivercity

Books:

Richard Yates, James Kelman, Kafka, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Salinger, Carver... scripts - buffy, sopranos, alan bennett monologues, boys from the blackstuff...

My Blog

Big Issue Cracker article - full text!

here's the full-length piece I wrote for the Big Issue in Scotland (first published in the sept28-oct04 2006 edition)   Cracker: Reinventing the Detective   "It's a bag of shite" is how...
Posted by martin on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:15:00 PST