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Matthew

Set the controls for the heart of the sun...

About Me

Englishman, living in Jock-land, much to the natives' consternation. You probably won't like me - I'm didactic and puritanical. Feel free to talk to me anyway.. I don't actively try to be an asshat, or anything, so I'll probably like you.

My Interests

Flying , Drawing &c , Guitar, Music in general, Films, Books...

I'd like to meet:

The chaps who stole my offside hubcaps... We need to have a quiet word on the matter.

Music:

Well.. I have a few hundred CDs listed alphabetically by artist (I'm a virgo) and then again chronologically by album (year of the rooster), and a few of the larger clusters are found at AC/DC, Tori Amos, Beatles, Beck, Belle & Sebastian, Bowie, Captain Beefheart, Clash, Clapton/Cream, Cure, Dead Can Dance, Di Meola (with Mclaughlin and De Lucia), Dire Straits (CD rock forever), The Doors, Dylan, Eels, Ben Folds, Free, Genesis (the EARLY STUFF, goddamnit! PROG!), Gentle Giant, Gong, Greenday, Harmonium, Hendrix, Idlewild, INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, Iron Maiden, LED ZEPPELIN, Magma, John Martyn, Mercyful Fate, Metallica, Joni Mitchell, Thelonious Monk, Mr Bungle, The Music, Nirvana, No Doubt, Perfect Cirle, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Portishead, P.U.S.A., Prodigy, Queen, Radiohead, R.A.T.M., R.E.M., Rolling Stones, Roots Manuva, Simon/Garfunkel, Smashing Pumpkins, Specials, SPRINGSTEEN, Sting, Tenacious D, U2, Van Halen, TOM WAITS, The Who, Yes, and Zappa. Then there's the classical and whatnot, and the eclectic bits of vinyl... So.. lots.

Movies:

Grosse Pointe Blank, Withnail And I, Wayne's World, Master And Commander, Star Wars, Life Aquatic, Lost in Translation, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Amelie, Delicatessen, Cite des Enfants Perdus, Fight Club, Lord Of The Rings, Time Bandits, damnit... ANYTHING by Gilliam, except Bros. Grim... Anything by Tim Burton... Kevin Smith's entire works... shamefully, i'm also fond of anything John Hughes... Shaun of the Dead - zombiedom in general... Kill Bill, Donnie Darko, Gattaca, Serenity... loads.. ooh.. and Ghost Busters and Back To The Future and.. and.. shit

Television:

Anything with Muppets. The A-Team. Airwolf. Duckula and Danger Mouse. Battlestar Galactica. Firefly and the like...

Books:

Dune, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Complete Works of Shakespeare, Songs of Innocence And Experience, Master and Commander, Lord Of The Rings, Sharpe, Anything by H.S.T (the good, late, doctor of journalism)... etc etc

Heroes:

Wellington, J. S. Mill, Hunter S. Thompson, Danger Mouse

My Blog

Litany

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Posted by Matthew on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:23:00 PST