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About Me

Born in a cave deep in the forests of the ocean, I came into this world with my beard. Some said I was a freak. I said nay, I am merely a bear-child from the past. I could talk as well, obviously, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to say that.
(This is the part that's not made up) As I grew I decided early on that I wanted to be an artist. I also decided that I wanted to be lazy and play videogames all day. So pretty much that's what my life has been, videogames and artistry. Well, not really, I also play piano and guitar, watch films, and do other things. More recently it's also been about drunkenness, and even socialising, imagine that.
Now I'm at university studying to be an animator, and I have every intention of this being my career, because real jobs are shit, however much you get paid. Y'know what else is shit? Cooking. Also, washing up.

My Interests

Games, Movies, Music, Guitar, Piano, Comics, Art, Drawing, Writing, Reading, NHL

I'd like to meet:

A talking dog of some kind. Or any talking animal. Talking animals rock.

Music:

Mostly rock music for me, but I'm also a big film score fan. Favourite bands/artists include -
Our Lady Peace
Lifehouse
Breaking Benjamin
Incubus
Modest Mouse
Cold
James Horner
Hanz Zimmer
Scott Bradley

Movies:

I've got so many favourite films it hurts. But my favourite film ever, animated or nay, is Watership Down. Hell yes.
Y'know what? Screw it. Have a short list.

The Big Lebowski
Monsters Inc.
TMNT (1990 version)
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
A Goofy Movie
Return to Oz
Tom & Jerry (shorts)
Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies (shorts)
And many, many, many more. o_O

Television:

Farscape. The best damn TV show ever written in the history of mankind. It's a beautiful thing.
Also -
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Spongebob Squarepants
Rocko's Modern Life
The Mighty Boosh
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Books:

Watership Down - Richard Adams
Deadhouse Gates - Steven Erikson
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Burmese Days - George Orwell
Sonic the Hedgehog in Castle Robotnik - Martin Adams, which pretty much taught me how to write.

Heroes:

I don't really have any heroes, but I look up to a lot of artists and animators. Richard Elson, Richard Williams, Glen Keane, Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, Chuck Jones, Tex Avery etc. etc. There's a lot of great artists and animators that are better than me, basically.

My Blog

This is shite.

Anyone else keep getting a bunch of friend requests from "people" sporting some kind of shitty "4Uni" logo? Methinks some wankers are trying Myspace guerilla marketing. Anyways, it's pissing me off. I...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:33:00 PST

Bugs Bunny!

Man, we have to do either Elmer Fudd, Popeye, or Bugs Bunny for our next animation assignment. Sweet.I fucking love animation.Home this Friday (2nd or 3rd?), drink with me.
Posted by Matt on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:22:00 PST

DANGER: This Blog does Not Attempt to be Funny

Been back at uni for 5 weeks now, and it's still rather swanky. "Cooking" and washing up seem less of a chore, which is always good, plus I have shite loads of work to do at all times, which may soun...
Posted by Matt on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:07:00 PST

Gwarr!

And other noises. Hello, my friends. I am about to blog your sorry tits off, with this, my blog. It will be an exciting ride, a ride so exciting, your pants may become horribly full of various things...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 04:56:00 PST

The Return of the Blog

Things are swanky right now, finished my first year at uni and did well as far as I'm aware (this statement may or may not return to bite me in the ass, we shall see), so now I've got time to do vario...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:53:00 PST

Gophers of Plagiarism!

Golly gosh, in my mouth. I'm working on a new series of stupid comics that are slightly funnier than my last series of stupid comics that were not so funny all the time! This is all thanks to a great...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:13:00 PST

Animation is great, in a death inducing kind of way.

Hello! Yes! Good evening! What is going on in the life of Matt? Do you care? Of couse not! But I'm telling you anyway, such is the way of things. Pretty much very little's going on aside from animati...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:18:00 PST

Rebuilding in Process

Whoa-ho. That be the end of me and Char, right there. So now... now I must concentrate on not turning into a crazy depressed fun sapping machine of negativity again. How will I do this? I have no ide...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:01:00 PST

Broken Head Makey Me Go Crazy

Yes, I'm losing my mind, at a more accelerated rate than usual. Just been given a house load of new and exciting ICAs to be doing, and that means 4. All have to be in at around the same time, all are...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:53:00 PST

Animex

Whoa, I'm at Animex here at Middlesbrough, how swanky. Tis an animation and games festival, and it's like, swanky. Hell yes. Mark Walsh from Pixar was in today, on about making believable characters....
Posted by Matt on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 03:09:00 PST