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Matt

I drink by the way. And shave.

About Me

I'm Matt. Intoxication, Gasps of self-confidence and bouts of self-doubt: all under the smiling veneer of a Head Boy proudly clinging to a trophy that says Personality of the Year 2002.

My Interests

Compulsively rearranging words (Plus, marry? swore: co-living = danger!); Eating fried eggs on toast at 7am; Beatboxing in the shower; Chewing pens; Contravening file-sharing laws; Squinting at black and white films with subtitles; Putting off having an eye-test; Practicing cooking rice and quinoa; Checking for lumps; 10-hit combos with King; Multiple-hit combos with intricate references; Scrubbing in the shower with a puff; Being forced to sit with a stranger for hours through what seems like bad luck (being stuck in a lift, for example) and ending up good friends; Picnics; Parties; Pork pies; Preening to no avail; Pretending not to notice people I don't want to talk to; Finding pretexts to talk to people I do want to talk to.

I'd like to meet:

Aaron, Zoe, and everyone in between.

Music:

Hip-hop, Reggae, pretentious ageing Rock, Funk, Drum & Bass, most things Warp, old Soul and R&B.

Movies:

Yep, like 'em a lot.

Television:

BBC News 24 until they started trying to turn it into Ant & Dec - enough with the BANTER already.

Books:

Who reads this books section?? Nobody wants to rea... oh okay, you twisted my arm: Milton, Coleridge, Keats, Joyce, Kafka, Nabokov, Borges, Calvino, Rushdie at times, Alan Moore at times, and a new addition: Charles Burns. In order of historical appearance.

Heroes:

John Milton. He read in his bedroom for six years non-stop and then went blind. Incidentally, blindness appears to be a mark of literary genius. Homer, Milton, Joyce, Borges, Blunkett... blind as bats, the lot of 'em. Did I mention that I need an eye-test bad?