Reading, Writing (just for the sake of writing), Painting, Music, Piano (and more piano, and more piano!!!), Art History, and just about anything to do with the Arts...go to pics to see some of my art and several of my favourite artists, and blogs for some of my 'warped' writing.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Matthew
Birthday: 11/10/1979
Birthplace: Melbourne,Australia
Current Location: Melbourne,Australia
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Mousy-Blonde
Height: 5 ft 11 in
Right Handed or Left Handed: Left
Your Heritage: Irish
The Shoes You Wore Today: Chuck Taylors
Your Weakness: Sympathy
Your Fears: Being Alone
Your Perfect Pizza: any
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: moving overseas to work
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: It's all good!!!
Thoughts First Waking Up: Coffee
Your Best Physical Feature: Eyes
Your Bedtime: late
Your Most Missed Memory: That one I've always loved
Pepsi or Coke: None...
MacDonalds or Burger King: None...eat healthy
Single or Group Dates: Depends...usually single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lipton
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee
Do you Smoke: unfortunately
Do you Swear: unfortunately
Do you Sing: if you consider monotones...then sure
Do you Shower Daily: Yes
Have you Been in Love: Too many times
Do you want to go to College: Been there, done that...
Do you want to get Married: Depends...if I find the right person
Do you belive in yourself: Of course
Do you get Motion Sickness: No
Do you think you are Attractive: Haven't really thought about it
Are you a Health Freak: No
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes
Do you play an Instrument: Yes
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes
In the past month have you Smoked: Yes
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yes
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Probably
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: No
In the past month have you been on Stage: No
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No
Ever been Drunk: Yes
Ever been called a Tease: No
Ever been Beaten up: No
Ever Shoplifted: No
How do you want to Die: In love
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Already there...still working on it
What country would you most like to Visit: Italy
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Brown
Favourite Hair Color: Dark brown
Short or Long Hair: Long
Height: Doesn't matter
Weight: Doesn't matter
Best Clothing Style: Bohemian/Alternate...what ever you want to wear
Number of Drugs I have taken: No response
Number of CDs I own: 357
Number of Piercings: None
Number of Tattoos: One one my back
Number of things in my Past I Regret: Several, but who hasn't!!
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Really in love with World music and 40/50's Blues and Jazz at the moment...but in Modern days the list is endless...Beirut, Sarah Blasko, Spoon, Expatriate, Cold War Kids, The Shins, Bluebottle Kiss, Art of Fighting, The Cat Empire, Claire Bowditch and the Feeding Set, Great Lake Swimmers, Major Chord, Sidewinder, Jeff Buckley, Ryan Adams, Gotye, Augie March, Damn Arms, Faker, The Cops, Youth Group, Peabody, Rocket Science, Magic Dirt, Tumbleweed, Sheryl Crow, Autopilot, John Butler Trio, Ammonia, Jebediah, Fini Scad, Gelbison, Kings of Leon, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, The Devoted Few, Big Heavy Stuff, Gersey, Nick Cave and the Badseeds, Lou Reed, Decoder Ring, Pollyanna, Martha Wainwright, Feist, Portishead, Death Cab for Cutie, Regina Spektor, Beth Gibbons, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, PJ Harvey, The Drones, Because of Ghosts, Sandpit, Dirty Three, The Klaxons, Longview, Devendra Banhart, Something for Kate, At The Drive In, Tori Amos, 78 Saab, Gomez, Doves, Elbow, The Strokes, The Whitlams, Matt Handley, Jamie Hutchings, Tim Rogers, G.A. Richards, Neil Finn, Martin Craft, Hunters and Collectors, Pink Flloyd, The Sleepy Jackson, Slint, Unkle, Duran Duran, Stone Temple Pilots, Sonic Youth, The Beatles, The Eurythmics, Paul Simon, Urge Overkill, Bluejuice, Sean Lennon, Not from There, Custard, Pretty Violet Stain, Fleetwood Mac, Midnight Oil, Cat Stevens, Sigur R'os, The Silents, The Mess Hall, The Walls, Beth Orton, Neil Young, Motorace, Massive Attack, You Am I, Seafood, The Sand Pebbles, Cat Power, The Killers, Leonard Cohen, Arid, Lior, Aqualung, REM, The Smiths, Damian Rice, Elliott Smith...and so many more that if I keep writing I should cut off my hands...
World Movies, Classics, Anything by David Lynch...Shawshank Redemption, Pollock, Sideways, Dark Horse, Shindlers List, Falling Down, Freedom Writers, Somersault, Born Free, Ring of Bright Water, Animal Farm, Watership Down, Motorcycle Diaries, Blood Diamond, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Sleepy Hollow, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Memento, Adaptation, V for Vendetta, Snow Falling on Cedars, Remember Me, Michael Collins, Gattaca, Leaving Las Vegas, The Colour Purple, Oscar and Lucinda, Empire of the Sun, The Constant Gardener, House of Sand and Fog, The Power of One, Misery, The Green Mile, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ferris Buellers Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Edward Scissorhands, American History X, Being John Malkovich, Gandhi...and what a childhood memory, The Sound of Music, Xanadu, Grease, Milo and Otis and The Neverending Story and Stand by Me!!!
Meadowlands, Dexter, The Riches, The Chasers War on Everything, That 70's Show, The 7:30 Report, House, Thank God You're Here, Spicks and Specks, Lost, Stand Up Australia, any bloody good doco, ABC rocks...that's about it...TV can go to Shit!!!
Far too many to name...reading 'Into The Wild' by Jon Krakauer...inspiring.
The Beatniks, Artists, musicians, my family, Gandhi, Mandela, Marx, Oscar Wilde, Kandinsky, Roberto Matta, and of course Jackson Pollock...anyone who stands up for what is 'right' and 'moral' in this world