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Matt

About Me

Some stuff I like is to the left. As you can see, I like making lists of stuff I like.

I just finished my final year at Lancaster University, and...I have no idea what to do next.

My Interests

Obscure music, canonical literature, witty/pretentious/edgy films, travelling, drinking and dancing, wasting my life on internet sites such as this...you know, the same as every other student.

Music:

The obligatory band list...

Jimmy Eat World
Death Cab for Cutie
Explosions in the Sky
The Postal Service
Sigur Ros
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Fugazi
Jawbreaker
Modest Mouse
Led Zeppelin
The Velvet Underground
R.E.M.
Weezer
The Kinks
Red House Painters
Jeff Buckley
Iron & Wine
Miles Davis
The Shins
Rilo Kiley
Kings of Convenience
Air
Slint
Yo La Tengo
The Magnetic Fields
Architecture in Helsinki
My Bloody Valentine
The Smiths
Pixies
Pulp
Sufjan Stevens
M.I.A.
Beck
Four Tet
Aphex Twin
Elliott Smith
New Order
Joy Division
Le Tigre
Camera Obscura
LCD Soundsystem
Belle & Sebastian
Gang of Four...

I think you get the idea by now.

But wait! There's more .

Movies:

The Shawshank Redemption
American Beauty
Forrest Gump
Pleasantville
X-Men
Spider-Man
The Matrix
Star Wars
JFK
Requiem for a Dream
The Downfall

Television:

The Simpsons
The Sopranos
Freaks & Geeks
My So-Called Life
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Lost

Books:

The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Underworld - Don DeLillo