Maladroit Mattoid profile picture

Maladroit Mattoid

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

To save you time reading all the guff below here is the brief lowdown.....Realistic, Environmentally and Socially conscious, music loving, vegetarian. I sound like a New ager but without the flimsy, trite rhetoric and tangled hair. I think I'm becoming an urban hippy!!!
I am big on environmental issues, I work for a company that builds Biomass and waste to energy power stations (Heat/Power from Waste, Wood, etc) Its the only job I have really loved, because I feel my skills are being used to benefit the world, not just line the pockets of others, somewhat altruistic I know, I still feel I am not doing enough though

I love music, I like to write my own music just for myself in my front room, I play Bass, and Guitar. I intend to make a little recording studio in my new house and make a better fist at recording all my new ideas

I am also a vegetarian, have been for 6 years. I became veggie mainly for a lack of confidence in what it was that I was eating and how it had been "produced"

My favorite places are Sweden, Stockholm in particular, as I used to work over there on and off a few years ago and fell in love with the place. And also the Highlands of Scotland, the scenery is beautiful!

I am liable to whimsical ideas, that I am most likely not going to achieve due to lack of application, and fundamental practicalities, for example I want to build my own house, out of converted shipping containers.

I also love football, but despise the retarded blokeyness of it, so I wont watch it in pub. I support Everton, but above all I love playing, given the choice between watching a game at home on TV or down the park in the wind, rain or snow charging around, my boots would be on, and I'd be at the park gates before you finished the call.

My Interests

Music, playing and listening
Environmentalism (is that a word?)
Science & Technology Magazines
Football (Soccer) its my only real exercise at the moment,

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people,
Music Lovers,
People with similar tastes to me, so that we can share our thoughts,
People with different tastes to me, who may be able to enlighten and show me new horizons
I am open to all people, if you want to say hi, please stop by

Music:

Jeff Buckley
Biffy Clyro
Millencollin
SNUFF
Fleetwood Mac
China Drum
3 Colours Red
Wildhearts
Lewis Taylor
Jewel
Kent
Tom Petty
Future Ex-Wife
No Doubt
Timothy Parkes
Deacon Blue
Human League
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
65 Days of Static
Dave House
Jimmy Eat World
Tori Amos
Linda Strawberry
Del Amitri

there is more but, then we would have nothing to talk about would we.

Movies:

'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'
'Ferris Buellers Day Off'

Television:

for Scrubs, Spooks, Doctor Who, CSI, Stargate, Brainiac

Books:

A Singular Man by JP Donleavy

45 by Bill Drummond

Heroes:

Heroes are dangerous, but there are individuals who have inspired or touched me in some way

Lindsey Buckingham - for being a brilliant and inspiring guitarist, songwriter, producer

Peter Green - to me a true guitar hero, nobody can make it sing like him, his touch is amazing

Bill Drummond - one of the craziest musical and artistic geniuses ever, his work always has the ability to push my mind a little further

My Blog

Because it has always been that way.

Watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind tonight, I decided that it is my favorite film, no other film speaks to me like this one, or makes me feel quite as much as this one. Everytime I watch i...
Posted by Maladroit Mattoid on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:55:00 PST

My Valentines Message......

This week, I finally got my old works phone back that had been on loan to one of my engineers, and I have been receiving a glut of texts for him ever since, including this mornings valentine message.....
Posted by Maladroit Mattoid on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:27:00 PST

It's Snow Joke!....

On Thursday morning, during all the snowy weather, I sat in my car listening to the radio for the traffic news before setting off, but first I had to sit through half an hour of school closure announc...
Posted by Maladroit Mattoid on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:59:00 PST

Resolution Revolution

I don't believe in new years resolutions, because if you really wanted to do something, you would be able to do it there and then. There are many things I "resolve" to do in my future, but I shalln't ...
Posted by Maladroit Mattoid on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:55:00 PST

My Words...

Last night I wrote my first words in about 4 years, they are always in my head, but I could never write them down, it makes my stomach turn and for some unfathomable reason loathe myself as pathetic. ...
Posted by Maladroit Mattoid on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:28:00 PST

Robbie Williams has no soul.......

.....that new song he has done....Lovelight....he has destroyed it!I urge you all to track down the original by Lewis Taylor, a very special artist. Go search for it on limewire or something similar. ...
Posted by Maladroit Mattoid on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 03:24:00 PST

Do I really look like any of these people?.........

...
Posted by Maladroit Mattoid on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:41:00 PST

The problem with girls........

.....is I always find something wrong with them.or is that just the problem with me?
Posted by Maladroit Mattoid on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 06:54:00 PST

Dull Calculation.......

If my assumptions and calculations are correct......I was the 230201st person to join myspace.....out of 90million, that makes me in the first 0.25 percent of people to join.What a dubious honour........
Posted by Maladroit Mattoid on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:24:00 PST

Nationalty, Patriotism and Identity

In this current climate of fervent patriotism brought on by the world cup, I decided to blog a little about my own view.....Just over a year ago I decided to renounce my nationality, I felt I did not ...
Posted by Maladroit Mattoid on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:54:00 PST