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Matthew

Life is a party. I'm a bit tired though, I might not go.

About Me

I'm not sure what I look like, I think sometimes I am too vague, I am lightly obsessed with balance and justice.

To promote myself momentarily:

Listen to 95bFM Wednesdays 10am-12midday
Watch ALT TV Sundays 2-4pm for some Lovely times...

Come to a show I'm putting on:

LULLATONE (Japan)
March 24th at Whammy w/ friends & March 25th w/ CSS etc at Kings Arms!

My Interests

Walking around with my ukulele and talking to people.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet lots of folks. I've already met some wonderful wonderful people though. My friends are the best people on Earth.

Music:

Broken Social Scene, Okkervil River, Explosions in the Sky, Grizzly Bear, Lullatone, A Silver Mt Zion, Nick Cave, Belle & Sebastian, Will Oldham, Jason Molina, Smog, Lawrence Arabia, Ryan McPhun and the Sons of Fun in the Sun, Mum, the Nudie Suits, Shaft, The Situations, Sufjan Stevens, The Brunettes, Ed Cake, Voom, Joanna Newsom, Jens Lekman, The Gladeyes, Micah P Hinson, Renee-Louise Carafice, Low, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Teen Wolf, The Whipping Cats, Pajo, Sigur Ros, PJ Harvey, The Dirty Three, Black Heart Procession, The Make-up/Weird War, Al Wilson, Alton Ellis, Amina, Ananda Shankar, Animal Collective, Antony & the Johnsons, Apostle of Hustle, Archie Bell & the Drells, Arcade Fire, Arab Strap, Apples in Stereo, Animal Collective, Ariel Pink, Architecture in Helsinki, Arthur Russell, Arthur Conley, Au Revoir Simone, The BarKays, The Beach Boys, Beat Happening, The Beatles, Beck, Beirut, Ben Kweller, Billy Childish, Blonde Redhead, Blur, Bjork, Bob Dylan, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Bobby Hebb, Brad Mehldau, Brightblack Morning Light, Broadcast, Caetano Veloso, Calexico, Calvin Johnson, Camera Obscura, Cansei De Ser Sexy, Captain Beefheart, The Carpenters, The Carter Family, Cat Power, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Celebration, Chairmen of the Board, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Chromeo, Clarence Carter, The Clash, Claudine Longet, Cloudboy, Coco Rosie, Colin Blunstone, Conway Savage, Cortina, The Crayon Fields, Crooked Fingers, The Cure, Curtis Mayfield, The Czars, Damien Jurado, Danielson, Dave Van Ronk, David Bowie, DFA 1979 and not 1979, Devendra Banhart, Dudley Benson...
.... The Conjurors & The Cosbys!

Movies:

Yes, I love movies. Love love love.

Television:

The reception isn't great, and for this I am grateful. Mostly I hate the tv, despite it being the vision-vehicle for my movie obsession.Note: I'm currently house sitting and watching SKY 24/7, so the above only applies when I have no aerial.

Books:

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

-The Laughing Heart; Charles Bukowski

Heroes:

Batman / Jackie Wilson

My Blog

The Disappearing Month

Hello, this is a postcard.I'm still in London - though inbetween our last epistles I've spent a week spread across Copehagen and Gothenburg. A few hilarious things happened there, also I managed to fi...
Posted by Matthew on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:41:00 PST

They don't say "innit" anymore, innit.

Ok, music update - I saw Rosie Thomas a few nights ago. She was playing with her pal Denison Witmer at a venue called Water Rats. Not sure if you know who Rosie Thomas is, but she used to be in a band...
Posted by Matthew on Sat, 26 May 2007 02:33:00 PST

Travelogue Voluma Treeh.

Everyone,I'm going to work backwards, because it's the only way not to gush and ruin the ending. Just have to tell the ending first and regress.Today I'm sitting at the dining room table of the house ...
Posted by Matthew on Tue, 22 May 2007 06:32:00 PST

22.9cm Nails

Those are some long nails, those 22.9cm nails. I guess a more catchy way of describing them is Nine Inch Nails, who (hilariously) I managed to see for free two nights in a row here in Melbourne. What ...
Posted by Matthew on Wed, 16 May 2007 07:53:00 PST

"Tour Diary Entry #1"

So. It turns out Sydney is actually really great. I'm in Melbourne right now, but I'll see if I can remember what happened over the last few days. Arrived in Sydney after a dramatic (where's my passp...
Posted by Matthew on Mon, 14 May 2007 09:15:00 PST