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Thingy-a-Me Matt

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About Me



I edited my profile with Thomas’ Myspace Editor V3.6 !

Okay I know I live in Peterborough, but hey it's better than...um...

Anyway, so the Big Sell version of "About ME!" - I get to write, produce and direct arty looking promos for a TV channel that's available on Freeview, Sky etc (or at least make them as arty as possible). So quite professional really, and it's on nationally broadcast TV so you could say we're a major player in the world of UK media.

But it is a shopping channel...
(Though I did once direct the Great Tony Blackburn with him sitting at my 'dex' - as can be seen right here with 2 PWEI records)

But for now I'll just have to dream about being a film maker as I work on my screenplay for the first time in ages and then go back to promoting kitchen gadgets that fill your cupboards...

My Interests

I enjoy films, music and try and get motivated to finish my screenplay! (I should be working on my screenplay right now but I'm adjusting my MySpace profile instead! how crap am I?)

So basically just check out what I've put below...

I'd like to meet:

Stephen Fry; The Hip; Tony Clifton; Kevin Smith; DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist; Joss Wheedon; Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost; David Fincher; BNL; Z Trip; Janeanne Garofalo; Kids in the Hall; Trailer Park Boys

Music:

I guess there's two sides to my muscial psyche! - there's me the listener and me the DJ.

When it comes to sitting down and listening (or standing up and listening - y'kno when washing up the dishes etc) then the best way to describe my tates is... hhmm... allsorts really, from rock to jazz, soundtracks to acoustic - but to name drop a few (varied) favourites;(in no particular order really)
BareNaked Ladies, Tragically Hip, Thea Gilmore, Half Man Half Biscuit, Tuuli, Pizzicato Five, Gilad Atzmon, Dave Brubeck, DJ Shadow, Jurassic 5, Beth Orton, The Eels, Lemon Jelly, Tool, Danny Elfman, Veruca Salt, Gomez, Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin, Nirvana, Alanis Morrisette (notice how Canada seems to make good music IMHO).

But with me the DJ (under the name Monsieur Cineva) then my ever increasing record collection (still with the old vinyl, haven't moved over to CDJ's yet, too many nice peices of black vinyl still to get) covers lots of old school hip hop and electro, through to more modern hip hop (that still has an old school edge and is based on good beats - J5, Z Trip, Quannum and all) right through to rock, Psych, soul, funk, jazz...

Though I never stick to one genre during a set. What's wrong with blending Kasabian over Davy DMX? or mixing LCD Soundsystem into Marilyn Mansun? Trouble Funk with Daft Punk? The Blues Brothers with Midfield General? - When people want to party I'll try and provide a varied backing track...

Movies:

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Make Your Movie Wall Flixster . Favourite Film makers? Woody Allen, Cameron Crowe, Kevin Smith, Wes Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher, Steven Soderburgh, Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson (not just LotR) Tim Burton and Edgar Wright

But I hear you say, what about favourite films not covered by the above? well The Great Escape (ever since I was young), Heathers, Close Encounters, The Third Man, Shawshank Redemption, Glengarry Glen Ross,

Television:

My TV tends to distract me more than I should allow it...
So over the last year or so I have mostly been distracted by Heroes, Trailer Park Boys, The Mighty Boosh, Lost, Arrested Development, Battlestar Gallactica (the new version), The Thick of It, Nathan Barley, E.R.,

OK I know that's quite US based, but hey, if we're not making it in this country...

As for classic TV shows, well you can't go too far wrong with Spaced, Buffy and Angel, League of Gentlemen, Tales of the City (all 3 mini series), The Office, People like us, Ultraviolet, Project Greenlight, Look around you, Edge of Darkness, 6 feet under, Seinfeld,

Books:

The Tales of the City Series are highly recommended. I've also got book cases full up, covering subjects from filmmaking and scriptwriting to Biographies and Dr Seuss. I also buy loads of comics as they seem to cover a lot of the areas of fiction I like to read (Grant Morrison, Alan Moore etc)

Heroes:

Andy Kaufman - plain and simple he was a genius.

Stephen Fry - Greatest living Englishman

John Peel (RIP) - through the radio he introduced me to some of the greatest music ever

Also Bill Hicks, Kevin Smith, Tony Clifton, Woody Allen, Michel Gondry, Shadow and Cut Chemist,

My Blog

A Letter to the Showcase Peterborough

I've just emailed this - see what you think...Dear Sir/MadamYet again I am compelled to complain about your Peterborough Showcase Cinema, still the worst Cinema I've had the displeasure of watching fi...
Posted by Thingy-a-Me Matt on Sun, 20 May 2007 11:50:00 PST

Pinch Punch 1st day of the month

So hello againI've just read James Gunn's latest and blog and it's made me realise why bloggin' is a good thing. Go and check it out now if you can (it's dated 1st May and he's in my top friends list ...
Posted by Thingy-a-Me Matt on Tue, 01 May 2007 01:36:00 PST

Hot Fuzz, Spain, iPods and such

Sorry it's been ages since I've blogged, but I've been rarther busy and a bit crap (as per usual).But seeing as Battlestar has just finished and I've got Life on Mars paused on the Sky+ (up on the big...
Posted by Thingy-a-Me Matt on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:26:00 PST

Heroes

OK, so I've not read much about it but Louise downloaded (on recomendation) the entire first part of Series One of 'Heroes'.Oh My, it's awsome. Kind of "Unbreakable" meets "Seven" meets "X-Men", but w...
Posted by Thingy-a-Me Matt on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 03:31:00 PST

The rain in Spain...

So in the winter in Spain it still reaches about 20 degrees in January and doesn't rain that much -or so it seems to me.How do I know this, well from Monday to Wednesday I was in the Costa Del Sol doi...
Posted by Thingy-a-Me Matt on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:56:00 PST

Happy Boxing Day

So Xmas day has been over for about an hour and this is the first time in the last couple of day's I've been online to say merry 'whatever you celebrate'.So my day went well, thank you for asking.Lots...
Posted by Thingy-a-Me Matt on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 05:06:00 PST

Monsieur Cineva Vol 1 (test run) out now!!!

OK, so I should be posting this under my Monsieur Cineva profile (and I will) but I thought I'd post it here first.So seeing as loads of people have asked me to do a mix CD based on the music I play a...
Posted by Thingy-a-Me Matt on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:41:00 PST

Awesome!!!

The Tragically Hip - "Lonely End Of The Rink"This is an awesome track, my favourite at the moment - check it out on my page (or on The Hip's along with 3 other tracks). I'm hoping to have the CD in ti...
Posted by Thingy-a-Me Matt on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:32:00 PST

Blame Canada!

The Trailer Park Boys movie is number one at the Canadian Box Office - yeah, way to go. Hopefully we'll get it over here at some point, but I'm sure I'll see it first on an import DVD.I got the new Ba...
Posted by Thingy-a-Me Matt on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:00:00 PST

We can do it... (and more)

So, as many people know, I'm not the biggest fan of the majority of the UK's film producers as they don't make films I'd like to see. Now I know we need a spread of films to appeal across the masses, ...
Posted by Thingy-a-Me Matt on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:10:00 PST