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Matthew

Alienated, Thoughtful, Cynical Idealist.

About Me

I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddamn stupid useless conversations with anybody.

For
    Global free sharing of information (I don't oppose all copyrights - some system is needed but the one we have at the moment sucks).Creative works that are original, strange and insightful.
Against
    People who accept things at face value or do stuff simply because it has been beaten into their heads as 'education'.The widespread obsession with the American Dream.Organised religion. Parents indoctrinating their children is a form of mental abuse.Overpopulation.Unconstrained Globalisation.
At Present...
I am studying for an MSc in Information Systems.

My Interests

Japan, Martial Arts, Gothic/Power Metal, Books/Films/CDs, Horror and the Cthulhu Mythos, Resident Evil, Zen, Sustainability, Information & Systems, Philosophy.

I'd like to meet:

...people who think that staying alive just to consume and reproduce is pointless. People who do that are all ready dead.

Music:

Metal (clean vocals)
Iron Maiden, Falconer, Nightwish, Bruce Dickinson, Iced Earth, Kamelot, Demons & Wizards, Tristania, Lacuna Coil, Blind Guardian, Kamelot, Within Temptation

Other
Bal-Sagoth, Children of Bodom, The Delgados, BoA

Movies:

General
I Robot, Donnie Darko, Pitch Black, Starship Troopers, Stigmata, Eqilibrium, Heat, Rollerball, Dragon, Meet Joe Black, Snow White - A Tale of Terror, Run Lola Run.

Japanese
Sky High, Azumi, Ghost in the Shell, The Spirits Within, Mononoke Hime, The End of Evangelion, Lost in Translation, American Beauty, Saving Private Ryan, Cowboy Bebop The Movie, The Twilight Samurai

Television:

SciFi
Firefly, Stargate SG-1, Stargarte Atlantis, Berserk, Lain, Gungrave, Trigun, Noir, GTO, Neon Genesis Evangelion, GITS: Standalone Complex

Books:

Fiction
Ian Banks, Steven King, H.P. Lovecraft, Janny Wurts, Robin Hobb, Terry Pratchett, Richard Morgan, Steven Erikson, Peter F. Hamilton, Robert Heinlein.

Non-Fiction
Daniel Dennett, Daniel Kahnemann, Amos Tvesky, Rickard Thaler, Edward Fullbrook, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Douglas Hofstadter.

Heroes:

Actual
Da Vinci, Einstein, Tim Berners-Lee, Richard Dawkins + [Iron Maiden, Nightwish and Within Temptation]

Inspirational Characters in Fiction
Gatsu (Berserk), Claire & Leon (Resident Evil)