Keith Telly Topping

• Age: 252
• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Scorpio
• Zodiac Year: Rat
• Industry: Communications or Media
• Occupation: Author/Journalist/Broadcaster
• Location: His Gaff, Newcastle upon Tyne : God's Own Country (Merrie Albion) : United Kingdom

About Me

is a self-employed freelance author, journalist and broadcaster. His interests include - the copious scoffing of chicken and king-prawn curries; exotic foreign travel to exciting locations; socialising with friends; football and his beloved (albeit seemingly unsellable and doomed to relegation) Magpies; cricket; film and television - Buffy, Angel, Doctor Who, The West Wing, The Shield, Eddie Izzard, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (particularly Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads), Qi, Our Friends in the North, The Sweeney, DS9, The Avengers, The Simpsons, Soccer AM, CSI, Time Team, Millennium (season 2), Lost, 24, House, Bones, Life on Mars, Top Gear, Coast, [Spooks], Waking the Dead, Is It Bill Bailey? etc.; geneology; military, social and local history; literature; music; winding up the pseudo-intellectuals, the boneheads, the school bullies and the clowns and watching them squirm.

Interests

• chicken & king-prawn curries
• exotic foreign travel
• socialising with friends
• football & my beloved Magpies
• cricket
• music
• film & television (see full list in About Me)
• military
• social and local history
• literature
• winding up the pseudo-intellectuals
• the boneheads
• the school bullies and the clowns and watching them squirm.

Favorite Movies

• The Godfather II
• A Matter of Life and Death
• The Kids Are Alright
• Almost Famous
• The Usual Suspects
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Yellow Submarine
• Sleepy Hollow
• Live & Let Die
• Apocalypse Now
• JFK
• The Italian Job
• Get Carter
• Dr Terror's House of Horrors
• Dracula AD 1972
• Captain Clegg

Favorite Music

• White-boy guitar-based pop by popular beat combos of the 60s
• 70s
• 80s and 90s
• sweet soul music
• loud abrasive punk thrash
• genteel-folk-stylings
• "it's gotta good beat to it"...

Favorite Books

• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• The Collector
• The Manchurian Candidate
• Revolution in the Head
• Shots From the Hip
• Before I Get Old
• A Man on the Moon
• The Gun Seller
• Testkill
• No Future
• Tragically I Was an Only Twin
• Spectre
• The Buddah of Suburbia
• The Sandman

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