Teddy Shardlow - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I write songs.I play frisbee.I sort people's finances out.I have no sense of smell.I love to dance.

My Interests

Guitar, Ultimate Frisbee, my girlfriend, my friends, films and music, Arsenal FC, bass guitar, money.

I'd like to meet:

Aaah... Friends old and new. Future clients, which is anyone who thinks they need to sort their finances out.

Music:

All good music - good tunes, good beats and/or good words. Particular favourites: The Beatles, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Embrace.

Movies:

Everything from mindless entertainment to foreign arthouse intellectualism. Favourites? It's a Wonderful Life, Manhatten, Signs, Fight Club, Shaolin Soccer, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Monty Python...

Television:

What Office Space character are you?
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Books:

Yeah, I don't read enough. Tell me some good books and I'll try to read them. Harry Potter is truly excellent. For non-fiction I like Dawkins and similar, and The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller is revelatory.

Heroes:

Darwin, Dawkins, Newton, Einstein, Lennon, Buckley, Drake, Dylan, Woody Allen, Dali, David Attenborough, Churchill, Blair, Ken Livingstone, Ali, Beckham, Henry.

My Blog

I, Questionnaire

OK, load of questions. Some interesting-response-provoking, some spuriously facile. Let's roll... 1. Ever punch someone in the face? Playfighting, yes. Drunkenly lashing out, probably not. I'm a lover...
Posted by Teddy Shardlow on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PST

I've seen 83 of these 239 films...

I'm just going to get the blog rolling again with a couple of cliched bulletin/forward/generic posts. Which can be quite fun, although I'll do my best to add my own touch. First up, what films have yo...
Posted by Teddy Shardlow on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:41:00 PST

Family Misfortunes

Here's something a little more light-hearted. These are really funny. You may have seen them before, but they age well. Credit to the Family Fortunes format for provoking such bizarre answers. ...
Posted by Teddy Shardlow on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:28:00 PST

More God stuff

Someone asked me for a handy, memorable one-liner that would win any argument with someone of a religious or spiritual persuasion... Right. The trick is to get where the other person's coming from, wh...
Posted by Teddy Shardlow on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:12:00 PST

The Great Urban Indoors

My friend Ed posted this article on his blog. My comments follow: This article was written by David Nicholson-Lord, chair of the Urban Wildlife Network and deputy chair of the New Economics Fo...
Posted by Teddy Shardlow on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:09:00 PST

The God Delusion

I've recently read Richard Dawkins new book, The God Delusion. I was brought up Catholic, although my Mum's the more religious of my parents. My Dad stopped going to church when I was about 11,...
Posted by Teddy Shardlow on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:47:00 PST

Sleeps with Angels

Approaching my 28th birthday in a couple of weeks, and given the brush with mortality I had last December, I've realised recently that I could have died age 27. For many years, especially since Kurt's...
Posted by Teddy Shardlow on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:18:00 PST

The Good Will Out

Been to see Embrace and the Lemonheads in recent weeks. Embrace are probably my favourite band of the last ten years. I've never seen them live before, and perhaps in some ways they're not primarily a...
Posted by Teddy Shardlow on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:52:00 PST

How do I smell?

How do I smell? It's not easy. You either can or you can't. There's no really skill to it either. I seem to recall being pretty good at it. But not any more. You don't know what you've got till it's g...
Posted by Teddy Shardlow on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:12:00 PST

Who knows what a face is for?

Ok, so there's a nice mix here. I have quite a variety of facial comrades, although I think in some cases lighting is the connection rather than features, but you tell me. ...
Posted by Teddy Shardlow on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:14:00 PST