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Dr. Dave

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About Me

I'm taller than Tom Cruise, but I'm not a Scientologist (though I did take the application test once at their headquarters in LA... research for a movie script I was co-writing); I have more hair than Patrick Stewart, but less than King Kong; I have all my own teeth; I have worked in fashion, comic books, newspapers, magazines, radio, music, film, animation, television and escalator cleaning. Just finished a stint managing a band, currently developing four animated TV series.My proudest moments include being Snorky The Elephant from The Banana Splits for a Cartoon Network promo spot, a comic strip I scripted making the front page of the Daily Star, and winning an MTV Europe award for a U2 music promo I art directed.I'm a happy bunny, except when I'm not...
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: DKNY
Birthday: Happy... oh, is this not word association?
Birthplace: On the banks of the Thames, in the shadow of Big Ben.
Current Location: In front of a laptop.
Eye Color: Blue.
Hair Color: Brown.
Height: 5' 10", I think...
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right, right?
Your Heritage: Lovemonkey
The Shoes You Wore Today: White Adidas clamshell.
Your Weakness: Kryptonite.
Your Fears: That someone will discover I'm the bastard off-spring of Tom Jones.
Your Perfect Pizza: Texas BBQ or American Hot.
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Already achieved it (directed the pilots for two TV shows I've been developing).
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: lol
Thoughts First Waking Up: Ommigod, THAT wasn't there before...!!!
Your Best Physical Feature: My right ear.
Your Bedtime: ...is rarely dull.
Your Most Missed Memory: If I could remember it, it wouldn't be missed. Right?!
Pepsi or Coke: Coke... ha ha.
MacDonalds or Burger King: They're both corporate spawns of the devil... but my god, a quarter pounder with cheese tastes good when suffering with a hangover!
Single or Group Dates: Orgies.
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Twinings Lemon & Ginger.
Chocolate or Vanilla: Both... that's why god made Oreo cookies.
Cappuccino or Coffee: Neither particularly.
Do you Smoke: I am smokin'... does that count?
Do you Swear: Like a Russian peasant!
Do you Sing: Also like a Russian peasant.
Do you Shower Daily: As if... only once a month if I can help it. I'd quite like to shower Tess Daly, however.
Have you Been in Love: I have the scars to prove it.
Do you want to go to College: Been there, done that.
Do you want to get Married: Been there, done that.
Do you belive in yourself: Absolutely, I think therefore I am.
Do you get Motion Sickness: Yes, I am sick of motion. It's vastly overrated!
Do you think you are Attractive: I think my right ear is attractive.
Are you a Health Freak: Just a freak who happens to be healthy.
Do you get along with your Parents: I'll get back to you on that...
Do you like Thunderstorms: I like running on the beach in thunderstorms.
Do you play an Instrument: Pfft, I wish
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol:
In the past month have you Smoked: Nope.
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Only while I was smoking a packet of cigarettes and downing six bottles of Bombay Sapphire gin.
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yep.
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yep.
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No, but I had an Oreo Frappacino-type thing from Coffee Republic.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Nope.
In the past month have you been on Stage: Only the Stage Of Life.
In the past month have you been Dumped: Are you trying to tell me something??!!
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Yes, unfortunately I did it at mid-day in Trafalgar Square and was promptly arrested.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Yes, a moment's quiet.
Ever been Drunk: Who writes these things? A nun?!
Ever been called a Tease: Yeah, baby!
Ever been Beaten up: Yeah. By love.
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How do you want to Die: Like Don Simpson. Or a Viking, so I can enter Valhalla.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Fat chance of THAT happening...
What country would you most like to Visit: Japan.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: I'm not that shallow.
Favourite Hair Color: I'm not that shallow.
Short or Long Hair: Long. Okay, I am THAT shallow...
Height: She should have height, yes...
Weight: ...and weight...
Best Clothing Style: Traditional Moldovian. Gets me every time.
Number of Drugs I have taken: I've never taken them, I've always paid for them. Ha haaa! Oh, I DO amuse myself...
Number of CDs I own: Far too many to count. Thousands.
Number of Piercings: Two.
Number of Tattoos: One.
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Don't regret. Just learn from your mistakes.
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My Interests

Staring at inappropriate trees, Daleks, rearranging all the letter M cds in the Rock And Pop section of every HMV I go into so they're out of order, Tiki culture & Hawaiian shirts, making useful household objects out of navel lint, Godzilla, Gamera & Ultraman, clenching my buttocks, ranting, emailing while I'm naked, listening to the soundtrack music in my head that accompanies my everyday life, worrying traffic wardens.I'm also interested in any monetary offers for Scatz and I to reform our band, The Self-Righteous Brothers. Offers, bribes, etc. should be sent c/o this page...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who'd like to give me a million pounds.
Who Are You? Ooh Ooh!
Name? Rex Reynolds from Dimension 22
Favourite Dinosaur? Keith Richards
Favourite City? London has my heart... but she's a cruel mistress.
Favourite Star Wars Film? The Empire Strikes Back
Favourite Bond? Connery, of course. Though Pierce runs a close second.
Elvis or The Beatles Both, of course.
Keith Chegwin, Genius or Monkey? Gibbon.
Zombies or Vampires? I wouldn't invite either for dinner or drinks (see what I did there?).
Favourite Band of All Time? That's like trying to choose a favourite child.
Joy Division or New Order? Either/or, depends on my mood.
Favourite Chocolate Bar? Mars
Adam and Eve, believable? S'yeah, right!
Brian Blessed, Hero or Villain? GORDON'S ALIVE?!! Hero, naturally...
Arsenal or Spurs? Neither. Life's too short.
Boston Red Sox or New York Yankees? This is obviously an american survey. The rest of the world just doesn't 'get' baseball...
U2 or Coldplay? U2, Bono would at least make a witty drinking buddy.
Johnny Cash or Willie Nelson? The Man in Black.
Is Tom Hanks a good actor? Have you seen Joe Vs The Volcano?!
How old are you? Old enough to have seen Joe Vs The Volcano on it's cinema run.
Do you believe in Aliens? Yep, possibly Cameron's finest movie.
How long IS a piece of string? THIS long, you fool!
Do you Pimp your page? No, but I do pimp my ho's and biathches!
King Kong, Old or New? What kind of question is that? How could you forget Dino deLaurentis's middle version?!
Do you offer to buy the first round? Not always, but I usually buy the last...
Left or Right side of the Road, which is correct? Depends where you are, man. Is that existential?
What has Love got to do with it? ...it's a second hand emotion.
Are we Nearly there yet? Stop asking, or we'll turn right around and go home!
Peace or War? Peace out, dude!
Bush or Clinton? A warmonger with an empty soul or someone who inserts cigar tubes into the vagina of some poor, affection starved idiot? What a choice...

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Music:

Marley to the 'Stones, Mendelssohn to Lemon Jelly, Queens Of The Stone Age to Burt Bacharach, Primal Scream to The Streets, Martha Wainwright to Ojos de Brujo, Curtis Mayfield to Johnny Cash, Peaches to Cream, The Fratellis to Charlie Parker, The View to Harry Belafonte, The Chemical Brothers to Ray Lamontagne, Elton John to Oasis, Ali Farka Toure to The Who, Ella Fitzgerald to Lily Allen, Yma Sumac to The Velvet Underground, George Harrison to Nick Drake, Kings of Leon to Kasabian, Lucky Jim to Kirsty MacColl, Akira Ifukube to Stevie Ray Vaughn, Arctic Monkeys to Handsome Boy Modelling School, The Beatles to Damien Rice, Sex Pistols to Jackie Mittoo, N*E*R*D to Badly Drawn Boy, Lee Perry to The Killers, Miles Davis to Green Day, Beth Orton to Sam & Dave, Bernard Herrmann to Death In Vegas, Ibrahim Ferrer to Ron Sexsmith, Sub-Rosa to DeSade, Danny Elfman to Steve Earle, Howlin' Wolf to ELO, Foo Fighters to The Vessels, Carl Stalling to The Congos, Missy Elliot to Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop to The Undertones, Hank Williams to The Feeling, John Barry to Q-Tip, The Kinks to Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits to Gnarls Barkley. Anything and everything..
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Movies:

Brazil, Withnail and I, The Empire Strikes Back, Ikiru, Godzilla Vs The Smog Monster, In The Mood For Love, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Magnolia, Freaks, Garden State, This is Spinal Tap, Seven Samurai, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Citizen Kane, Down by Law, Robocop, So I Married an Axe Muderer, Tokyo Story, Beetlejuice, Moulin Rouge, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, Lawrence of Arabia, Little Miss Sunshine, Natural Born Killers, Spider-Man 2, The Ghost And Mrs. Muir, Napoleon Dynamite, Touch of Evil, Superman; The Movie, The Maltese Falcon, Starship Troopers, High Fidelity, Ninotchka, Kill Bill (1 and 2), Bride of Frankenstein, Austin Powers; International Man of Mystery, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze, The Terror of Tiny Town, Sin City, The Exorcist, Sideways, Eyes Without A Face, The Wages of Fear, Dumbo, Beautiful Girls, Singin' in the Rain, Black Sunday, Fight Club, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Anchorman; The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Hellboy, It's A Wonderful Life, The Naked Gun, Suspiria, Ed Wood, The Godfather (1 and 2), Jaws, Django, Spirited Away, Joe Vs The Volcano, Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, Heat, Stranger Than Fiction, Kingdom of Heaven (check out the excellent director's cut), Sid and Nancy, Dawn Of The Dead (Romero's version), Les Diaboliques (Cluzot's version, of course), Tombs of the Blind Dead, Nacho Libre, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Amelie, Zombie Flesh Eaters, Pulp Fiction, City of God, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (quite partial to both versions), Toy Story, Theatre of Blood, The Tenant, Pan's Labyrinth, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Re-Animator, Goodfellas, The Third Man, The Incredibles, Leon, Lost in Translation, the films of Tim Burton, Paul Naschy and Mario Bava and anything with Vincent Price, the Marx Bros., John Belushi, Bill Murray or Jessica Biel. Ask me today and I'll list a hundred films, ask me tomorrow and I'll list a hundred more.Gotta love this movie, the only all-midget, musical western ever made... The Terror of Tiny Town

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Television:

Doctor Who (officially the greatest TV series of all time), The Shield, Life On Mars, Heroes, Scrubs, Frasier, The Simpsons, Battlestar Galactica (the new version), The Twilight Zone (the old version), Twin Peaks, Futurama, Ultraman, Ren and Stimpy, Batman; The Animated Series, Buffy, Alias, The Sopranos, Lonesome Dove, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, My Name Is Earl, Vic Reeves' Big Night Out, The League of Gentlemen, Do Not Adjust Your Set, flicking between music channels...

Books:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S Thompson (my favourite book); the Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker; the Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; the Doc Savage novels by Kenneth Robeson; LA Confidential, by James Ellroy; The Brentford Trilogy, by Robert Rankin; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams; High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby; Wired by Bob Woodward; Kinski Uncut, the autobiography of Klaus Kinski; The Battle of Brazil, by Jack Matthews; Adventures in the Screen Trade, by William Goldman; Make Your Own Damn Movie, by Lloyd Kaufman; The Psychotronic Movie Guide, by Michael J Weldon. The graphic novels of Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns - with Lynn Varley, Sin City) and Alan Moore (Watchmen - with Dave Gibbons and V For Vendetta - with David Lloyd), the books of Edward Gorey.Huge reader of magazines, too; Bizarre, Video Watchdog, Empire, Hot Dog, Total Film, Premiere, Rue Morgue, Fangoria, Dark Side, SFX, Starburst, Dreamwatch, G-Fan, Doctor Who Magazine, Uncut, Q, Mojo, NME, The Works, The Word, Heat.

Heroes:

John Belushi, Homer Simpson, Mario Bava, Terry Gilliam, Doctor Cox from Scrubs, Hunter S Thompson, Popeye, Tim Burton and The Doctor. That's a worrying combination, isn't it...?!Sony Bravia bouncy balls advert

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My Blog

The Eurovision Drinking Game

For any of you fortunate enough not to be living in Europe at this time of year, you may be somewhat bemused, if not completely mystified, at hearing talk of some strange, arcane practice called ...
Posted by Dr. Dave on Sat, 24 May 2008 09:48:00 PST

How VERY dare she!!?

I had occasion recently to visit the Century Club in London for a business meeting. The Century is a fairly typical media-friendly member's club, alongside such venues as Soho House and The Hospital. ...
Posted by Dr. Dave on Sat, 17 May 2008 07:22:00 PST

A brief word...

Dear friends, I'm writing this to ask forgiveness for two things: first, that I've been ignoring you all of late and second, that I'm having to address the following as a blog - which is far and away ...
Posted by Dr. Dave on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:35:00 PST

Size Does Matter!

I've just returned from seeing 'Cloverfield' and I can't recommend it highly enough. Filmed entirely verite style, through the conceit of a hand held camcorder, director Matt Reeves and 'Lost' pr...
Posted by Dr. Dave on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:19:00 PST

Coming Soon!

Everybody loves a movie trailer, right?The trailers are often more artfully crafted and exciting than the films themselves, of course, which can prove a trifle disappointing when viewing the final pro...
Posted by Dr. Dave on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:51:00 PST

Strike!

I read with great interest, and no small amount of amusement, that Robbie Williams (via word by his manager, Tim Clark of IM Management) is to go on strike. If this radical action will save us from an...
Posted by Dr. Dave on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:29:00 PST

I STILL don’t like Mondays... (The Remix)

I tried. Oh, how I tried. Sitting here in my studio amidst the detritus of a two week bout of flu and chest infection (boxes of tissues, legal drugs of every shape and size, Pez dispensers, etc...),&n...
Posted by Dr. Dave on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:31:00 PST

Dr. Daves Sick TV!

 "If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed." - Lily Tomlin   Sitting here surrounded by boxes of tissues, rat...
Posted by Dr. Dave on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:02:00 PST

"Merry Christmas", anybody...?

As I've wafted lightly through the genteel hustle and bustle of the happy, smiling throngs of Yuletide shoppers&   No, wait& let me start that again&   As I've viciously elbowed and punched...
Posted by Dr. Dave on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:47:00 PST

A cyborg Japanese schoolgirl isnt JUST for Christmas...

It's that time of year when the TV schedules are once again crammed with seasonal offerings of every kind, from well-worn Christmas specials* featuring your favourite light entertainment stars (oh, do...
Posted by Dr. Dave on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:25:00 PST