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Matt

September 11th: the anniversary of the day I saw Rory McGrath walking down my street

About Me

Fought my way out of Sutton Coldfield mean streets via testing Bangor University "education" to settle in North London hideaway writing for weird music and lifestyle magazines. Now writing for a business magazine...

My Interests

Beards, streetfighting, sweets, snuggling and - of course - mildew.

I'd like to meet:

the bloke who stole my hats.

Music:

The Smiths, Nirvana, The Beatles, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Bootsy Collins, Can, Beefheart, Dead Kennedies, Frank Zappa, The Stones, The Meters, Queen, PJ Harvey, The Stooges, T Rex, Yo La Tengo, White Stripes, Johnny Cash

Movies:

The golden era of Carry On ('64-'72), The Elephant Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Brokeback Mountain

Television:

UK Gold.

Books:

'The Great Shark Hunt', Hunter S. Thompson; 'The Castle', Franz Kafka; 'The Age Of Reason', Jean-Paul Sartre; 'The End Of The Affair', Graham Greene; 'Post Office', Charles Bukowski; 'The Naked Anarchist', Luis Fernandez; 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being', Milan Kundera; 'England's Dreaming', John Savage

Heroes:

Peter Cook, Hunter S Thompson, Indiana Jones