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About Me

All things of interest occur at

Jeff Beck playing "People Get Ready"

David Ruffin performing "Common Man"

My screenplay Mr. Brightside
is now available

Start 2007 off right with a Pickle on a Shit Sandwich to pull-start those endorphins and open those neural pathways

Web site
www.matthewstamand.com
Bio
Novelist, screenwriter, amateur ghost-hunter, part-time ordained minister, and husband with a slowly-improving track record.
My name is Matt St. Amand, and somehow my surname is often misconstrued as St. Armand, Stamandand, Starman, and Sand. The best one yet happens with the automated telephone voice of the Essex County Library when it calls to say the books I reserved are in. The computer reads the short form of "Saint" -- "St" -- as "Street": "Mat/thew Street A/mand, this is the..."
My namesake, St. Amand, is the patron saint of "bar staff; barkeepers; bartenders; brewers; hotel keepers; innkeepers; merchants; vine growers; vintners; wine-makers; wine merchants".
Press
The Bike Man Cometh , The Bard of Jolly Avenue , and at Murphy's Law Press .
Listen
* The Art of the Deal
* Interviewed on the Paul A. Toth Podcast
Religion
The Cruciflex
Interview with the Devil
From James Joyce's Ulysses: They believe in rod, the scourger almighty, creator of hell upon earth, and in Jacky Tar, the son of a gun, who was conceived of an unholy boast, born of the fighting navy, suffered under rump and dozen, was scarified, flayed and curried, yelled like bloody hell, the third day he arose again from the bed, steered into haven, sitteth on the beamend till further orders whence he shall come to drudge for a living and be paid.
Jesse of Nazareth
Mohammed Cartoon Revisited
The Devil gave man religion to keep him away from God
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Opinions

Spam Hunter & Uber Executive,
Xavier Lipshitz
The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit
Worthy Blogs

Ascendantlive A Stop At Willoughby Corporate Jesus Disillusioned Lefty The Dossing Times DoucheBlog d r i f t g l a s s firedoglake Going Postal With Pryvett Rawgers Hypnocrites Images: A Journal of Film & Popular Culture The Inside Dope Kirktastic Michael A. Young Photography Monkeys For Helping The Non-Affirmed Life Osmosis has always bothered me reader of depressing books Real History Blog Rhodian Attic Rigorous Intuition The Rude Pundit Specious Reasoning Symptomatica Toothpaste for Dinner Thighs Wide Shut

My Interests

Forever & a Day Flash Movie

"Book of the Moment" Review of As My Sparks Fly Upward & Other Stories

Excerpts: Prologue & Chapter 1 | Chapter 19 | Chapter 45
(2006)
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(2005)

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(2002)

Original two-act black comedy titled Shine on You Crazy Diamond (from the Pink Floyd song, yes).

My screenplay Mr. Brightside will also soon be going into production in Essex County, filmed by the Windsor Film Club.

More information can be found at www.matthewstamand.com

Be informed:

* GNN
* Salon.com
* Mother Jones
* TomPaine.com
* From the Wilderness
* Greg Palast

I'd like to meet:

Somebody who'll pay me a million bucks for something I write.

Chris Hansen of Dateline NBC under the most embarrassing of circumstances.

Movies:

* Apocalypse Now
* Catch-22
* Schizopolis
* WayDownTown
* Last Night
* Bar None
* Parallax View
* Bound
* American Movie
* Psycho
* Rear Window
* Koyaanisqatsi
* Sexy Beast
* Cube
* Foxy Brown
* Dawn of the Dead

Television:

TV should be eradicated as polio was decades ago.

Books:

* About the Author by John Colapinto

* Havoc, in Its Third Year by Ronan Bennett

* The Subject Steve by Sam Lipsyte

* Cosmopolis by Don Delillo

* The Guards & The Killing of the Tinkers by Ken Bruen

* Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

* Rogue's Wedding by Terry Griggs

* Sweet & Vicious by David Schickler

* Tumbled Over Graves by Jess Walter

* Principato by Tom McHale

Heroes:

Lenny Bruce, Sam Cooke, Kurt Vonnegut, George Carlin, Ken Kesey, Francis Ford Coppola

My Blog

Weather as a power source?

So, the wind's blowing like hell around my neighborhood this evening, and as I was closing some windows around the house, I thought to myself, Man, am I ever glad that we don't have tornadoes around h...
Posted by Matt St. Amand on Sun, 18 May 2008 06:11:00 PST

The Turner Diaries - Review

A blurb on the back of The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce (under the pseudonym Andrew MacDonald), states that if books were banned in America, this novel would surely be banned. It's good th...
Posted by Matt St. Amand on Thu, 08 May 2008 02:08:00 PST

Ugh -- a photo essay

I recently found these photos of my nieces and nephew. That's Connor in the middle, his sister, Mekiah, on the left, and his cousin, Alexandria, on the right. The picture was taken in 2003, I believ...
Posted by Matt St. Amand on Wed, 07 May 2008 03:41:00 PST

"canada has that much spare time to put laws on visibility of things?"

More evidence that Canada is the world capital of surreality and a certifiable bureaucratic nightmare. From today's Windsor Star:Provincial ban of cigarette packs from view:Seeing cigarette packs in ...
Posted by Matt St. Amand on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:56:00 PST

W. Puts on His Pardoning Hat

With nine months left in his reign (p)residency, George W. Bush is enjoying a tradition of office: rolling out presidential pardons to rogues, scoundrels, and in W.’s case Coke dealers, Heroin p...
Posted by Matt St. Amand on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:56:00 PST

Officialdom

I was born in Otherland, right on the border with Theland. As you can tell by the names of each country, they are very similar -- similar in culture, as well; language, customs. To be honest, if you...
Posted by Matt St. Amand on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:36:00 PST

Kwam-foolery: The Delusions of the Emperor of Detroit

Accusing Detroit Emperor Kwame Kilpatrick of arrogance only goes so far toward illuminating the roots of the Kwam-foolery that has engulfed Detroit since 2002. Kwame is arrogant, yes, but after losin...
Posted by Matt St. Amand on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:21:00 PST

Snow is the New Asbestos

The local news has lost its mind. Channel 4 in Detroit actually now calls itself "Rescue 4", as though they'll get your cat out of a tree, resuscitate someone's dying grandmother, or do Blackwater du...
Posted by Matt St. Amand on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:57:00 PST

Careless Stupidity Has No Expiration Date

Report: Security relaxed at Obama speechFeb 21 05:27 PM US/EasternDALLAS, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- The Secret Service told Dallas police to stop screening for weapons while people were still arriving at a c...
Posted by Matt St. Amand on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:37:00 PST

Terrorist Ice! D.C. Crackdown on frozen menace!

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates suffered a fractured shoulder after slipping on ice Tuesday night at his Washington home, the Pentagon said.Gates, 64, didn't seek treatment unt...
Posted by Matt St. Amand on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:22:00 PST