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Matthew Lucan

... et pueri mortui iacent sic ut vivere putes

About Me

In the brighter, warmer water higher up swim the beautiful, contemplative perch, perhaps the most characteristic of the Baltic. Well-built and firm, yet all the same a bit bulky, like a cutter, he has the strange blue-green colour of the Baltic and its Nordic temperament. A bit of a philosopher and a bit of a pirate, a gregarious solitary, a shallows creature that seeks deep waters, and sometimes reaches them. An idle eccentric, who pauses and stares at the stones of the shore for long minutes together, until he reawakes and shoots forward like an arrow. A tyrant to his own kind, but soon tame, he returns willingly to the same place and is host to seven intestinal parasites.

My Interests

Books
Cinema
Coffee
Being alone
Parks
School
Libraries
Rain
Cats
Matching suits & Beatle boots
Latin, Greek, French

I'd like to meet:

Mon oncle, M. Hulot:

Music:

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, Velvet Underground, The Clash, Talking Heads, Love, Nico, David Bowie, Radiohead, Tim Buckley, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits, Simon & Garfunkel, Gram Parsons, Eric Dolphy, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Edith Piaf, Marlene Dietrich, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Leadbelly, Skip James, Robert Johnson, Louvin Brothers, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Odetta, Woody Guthrie, John Jacob Niles, Alan Lomax, Ewan Maccoll, Bartok, Chopin, Sibelius, Gorecki, Webern, Berg

Movies:

L'atalante
Zero de conduite
La Dolce Vita
Wild Strawberries
Rules of the Game
Casablanca
A Man Escaped
The General
Playtime
A Hard Day's Night
Persona
Late Spring
Passion of Joan of Arc
The Mirror
Spirit of the Beehive
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Edvard Munch
Color of Pomegranates
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Modern Times
Paris, Texas
White Heat
Jules et Jim
Chinatown
The Big Sleep
The Leopard
Il Posto
The Godfather I & II
Le Cercle Rouge
Royal Tenenbaums
Sunrise
Annie Hall
My Night at Maud's
Band of Outsiders
Rashomon
In the Mood For Love
Woman in the Dunes
Ugetsu
Cat People
El Topo
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Citizen Kane
Children of Paradise
Lawrence of Arabia
Blow-Up
Taxi Driver
The Conformist
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Bicycle Thieves
Rififi
Z
Ace in the Hole

Television:

The Prisoner, The Avengers, Twilight Zone, I Claudius

Books:

Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Petronius Arbiter, Propertius, Catullus, Seneca, Juvenal, Horace, Cicero, Terence, Suetonius, Tacitus, Homer, Aristotle, Sophocles, Euripides
Shakespeare, Gibbon, Melville, Poe, Faulkner, Swinburne, Eugene O'Neill, Ruskin
Proust, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Beckett,
Thomas Mann, Kafka, Hermann Broch, Robert Musil, Arendt, Nietzsche
Strindberg, Knut Hamsun, Gustaf Froding, Par Lagerkvist
Dostoyevsky, Chekhov

Heroes:


And Jean Vigo and tuberculosis.