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Matty

Metaphor is the hieroglyph that inscribes life....

About Me

Wise is the man who monotonizes his existence, for then each minor incident seems like a marvel. A hunter of lions feels no adventure past the third lion.--Fernando PessoaYeah, so I work at UT Austin, and I'm just on here to make a few friends, meet a few new people. I write short stories...though most are rather long to be called such...lately I've been thinking about writing for the stage, or rather the thought has (re-)surfaced, as for how long it ricocheted around my unconscious, no one can say.... So, I'm interested in just about anything intellectual (read: I have a very large library), and in addition to loving words, I love the theatre, dance (modern and ballet), and people who look for new and creative expressions of themselves and the world around them.
"I never look back.... It distracts from the now."
Favorite places: Paris, Taos, Wales, the ÃŽle-St-Louis....
Anyway, I think I'll stop before I sound any more boring....
And be sure to check out my other half's website...he's a very talented young photographer: Twin Lens Photography

My Interests

Archaeology, Art, Writing, Reading, Theatre, History, Medieval Studies, Music, Literature, Languages (Ancient & Modern), Movies, French Literature, Queer Theory, Science Fiction, Social History, Intellectual History, Literary Theory, Textual Criticism, Linguistics, Art History, King Arthur, Architecture.

I'd like to meet:

Friends, interesting people, other writers...etc.

Music:

Belle and Sebastian, Rufus Wainwright, Olive, R.E.M., Radiohead, The Divine Comedy, Leonard Cohen, The Killers, Nirvana, Tori Amos, Nine Inch Nails, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Dandy Warhols, The Cure, The Smiths, Beck, They Might Be Giants, The Indigo Girls, The Dresden Dolls, The Strokes, Keane, Scissor Sisters, Sigur Ros, The Libertines, The White Stripes, Bright Eyes, The Honorary Title.

Movies:

Wonder Boys, Amelie, The Ice Storm, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, My Left Foot, Run Lola Run, Life as a House, Torch Song Trilogy, Sleepy Hollow, Dune, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Lilies, The Fifth Element, Children of Dune, Harry Potter, Drop Dead Gorgeous, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Dark Crystal, The Dreamers, anything by John Waters, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Barbarella, Kinky Boots

Television:

Six Feet Under, The West Wing, Queer as Folk, Sex in the City, Stargate SG-1, Smallville, CSI, Law and Order: SVU, Battlestar Galactica, Project Runway (ALL CLICHES I KNOW, BUT IT IS TV, AFTER ALL).

Books:

BOOKS: The Lord of the Rings, Pale Fire, Ficciones, Hallucinating Foucault, Brave New World, Sexual Dissidence, The Book of Disquietude, We, The Education of Hyman Kaplan, The Phoenix Legacy, Dune, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Le Morte d'Arthur. AUTHORS: Rick Moody, Will SelfGeoffrey Chaucer, Abelard and Heloise, Stanislaw Lem, Jack Kerouac, Michel Tournier, Frank Herbert, José Saramago, Oscar Wilde, Dante, Tennessee Williams, Fernando Pessoa, Arthur Rimbaud, William Shakespeare, Julio Cortazar, Philip K. Dick, Jorge Luis Borges, Hervé Guibert, Allen Ginsberg, J.K. Rowling, Samuel Beckett, Guy Davenport, Victor Turner, Yves Navarre, Patricia Duncker.

Heroes:

Martha Graham, Fernando Pessoa, Jorge Luis Borges, Yves Navarre, Hervé Guibert, Barbara Jordan, Daniel Brock, Jean Cocteau