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Richard J W Topping

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About Me


Yeah, whatever. If you know me, you know me. If you don't, I guess I can say anything I like. I'm a champion camel breeder with a degree in applied alchemy. I have three nipples and speak only in Cantonese. On Thursdays I mostly eat omelettes.
Oh alright then. It's the age of the Blog, right? Sincerity is the new black. I'm an actor, voice-over bloke and author who moved to Portland seven years ago from London. I'm lucky enough to be working on some seriously good projects with some seriously talented people.
I do like omelettes though.
I'm an occassional artist, of sorts. Here's a selection of pen and inks, some imaginary, some real. Several of these were done for a book of fairy tales, which of course I never finished (that'll be the AADD then) Hope you like them :)

My Interests


"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" The Beatles, Abbey Road..

I'd like to meet:



Music:


Arctic Monkeys... BRMC... Badly Drawn Boy... Band of Horses... Beatles... Blur... Camera Obscura... Cinerama... Coldplay... The Darkness... David Bowie... The Decemberists... Donavon Frankenreiter... Doves... Eels... Elbow... ELO... Flaming Lips... Fratellis... Good Shoes... Graham Coxon... Guster... I Am Kloot... Iggy Pop... Isobel Heyworth... Jenny Lewis... Jim Noir... Kaiser Chiefs... Klaxons... Kooks... Leonard Cohen... Lloyd Cole... Marc Bolan & T.Rex... meiko... Morrissey... Nouvelle Vague... Oasis... PJ Harvey... Portishead... Polyphonic Spree... The Raconteurs... Radiohead... The Redwalls... Richard Hawley... Sean Lennon... The Smiths... The Soundtrack of Our Lives... Spoon... Supergrass... Terrorvision... Velvet Underground... The Wedding Present... The Weepies... The White Stripes... Wilco... The Wolfmen... and so many more :-)

Movies:

Myspace, right? So here's the ones I've been in rather than the ones I like watching. Not that they're mutually exclusive of course....
'Come Hell or Highwater' - Feature (lead) 'The Astonished Man' - Feature (support) 'Lie Detector' - Feature (lead) 'Cathedral Park' - Feature (support) 'Rage' - Feature (support) 'Old Time Sake' - Short (lead) 'Villains' - TV pilot (support) 'The City They Fell (Punk Love)' - Feature (support) 'Mularkey' - Short (Supporting) 'Street Roots' - Feature (support) 'Another Reason' - Short (lead) 'Lacking Lewis' - Short (Support) 'Lovely Coffee' - Short (support) ..

Television:

.. Welcome back Lost. I missed you...

Books:

..My Monty Python book just got re-released. Updated and everything! buy it buy it buy it!

And while we're at it, here's all the other books, wot I wrote. Innit....
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Heroes:



My Blog

Happy New Year all over the world!

Had a great shoot last week for the ad agency Livengood Novack, who used me to create 21 short clips illustrating New Year celebrations all over the world.  Suffice to say that a day spent with g...
Posted by Richard J W Topping on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:05:00 PST

Voting starts today - eeek!

Here we go.  After much faffing about, official voting has finally kicked off in the StoryTeller TV pilot competition.I really, really, really, really want to win. Seriously.Here's the link Actin...
Posted by Richard J W Topping on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:44:00 PST

Vote for 'Acting Up' now! If you're cool with that...

Wow! What a day.Today Nick Hagen and I shot my script for a 7 minute short, a mockumentary on the life of actors in a small city (sound familiar?)It was a fantastic experience, and I hope when you se...
Posted by Richard J W Topping on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:09:00 PST

Me in Montana!

Not that I like to perpetuate any racial stereotypes or anything, but here's a goofy English bloke in the Montana State Lottery commercials.Black... or ORANGE? ...
Posted by Richard J W Topping on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:28:00 PST

That came from... WHERE?

Due to overwhelming popular demand (er... Nick Lyon asked me to...), I'm reposting this story.  It might make you feel a little queasy, so if you've got a delicate disposition, stop right now.&nb...
Posted by Richard J W Topping on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:32:00 PST

Three armed baby

So I just watched the news tonight and apparently a team of surgeons successfully operated on a baby who was born with three arms. They cut one off. Success? er... WHAT? I'd frikkin LOVE three arms! S...
Posted by Richard J W Topping on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 01:30:00 PST

Aw cripes.... smoking again

So I'm smoking again.  Shit.  And I did really well this time.  Several months.    But taking up smoking again isn't a task you undertake lightly.  There's procedures to ...
Posted by Richard J W Topping on Sun, 14 May 2006 12:31:00 PST

Dumb personality tests...

yeah, yeah yeah... say what you will.  This is what my computer thinks of me...   Global Personality Test Results Stability (60moderately high which suggests you are relaxed, calm, ...
Posted by Richard J W Topping on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:16:00 PST

Driving

Us Europeans drive very differently to Americans.  After centuries of invading each other's countries and starting wars for reasons too trivial to recount, we're bred and raised in the art of sta...
Posted by Richard J W Topping on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:29:00 PST

Spam haiku

Haiku's are great.  Spam is not.  Here are some spam haiku's (or Spamkus, if you like) to remind us that processed food and poetry are not mutually exclusive.   People take cocaineto su...
Posted by Richard J W Topping on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 02:27:00 PST