Thunk
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Creative Director |
| Location | Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | This will be the 25th year in which I have made a living by my wits. In Adland. Better than sweeping the streets, obviously. Copywriter, Creative Director, Commercials Director. Worked in UK and NY. Spent 4 years at St Andrews University getting smart, reading what the most articulate humans in western history thought, and 24 years in the Adbiz getting dumber, unlearning how to write and 'give poppy to the poor people'. |
| Interests | The inside of my own head. The outside of the world. Disparity between. How it is - how it seems. And which is which. |
| Favorite movies | Probably easier to say the sort of movies you don't like: the heartless and pretentious; the brainless and commercially cynical. I'm a sap - so any real story with a tug at the heart-strings or a bit of action/suspense will do nicely. And understated craft. Last King of Scotland is best movie I've seen in years. |
| Favorite music | Possibly in order of volume of music bought and frequency of playing over the years... (and can you see the threads?) Bowie, Roxy, Velvets, Doors, Bunnymen, Associates, Billy Mackenzie, Billie Holiday, Ella, Cocteau Twins, Joy Division New Order, Beatles, Steely Dan, Love & Money, James Grant, Danny Wilson, Gary Clark, any jingly-jangly scottish guitar band, Aztec Camera, Roddy Frame, Trashcan Sinatras, Hue & Cry, Blue Nile, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, Stevie Wonder, Tom Waits, Guillemots' Made Up Love Song is best pop track of 21st Century. |
| Favorite books | Ulysses, Any Bertie Wooster story, Damon Runyan, Norman McCaig, the Jacobeans, RL Stevenson, Beckett, Le Carre, McIlvanney, Shakespeare, Marlowe, |