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About Me

An incredibly ancient 24 - officially mid-20s; vaguely neurotic; not-so-vaguely geeky; listless yet directionless; disturbingly predisposed towards pontificating; propensity for using elaborate words when mundane ones will suffice - all of which are pretty useful for being a freelance journalist.
And supposedly, I'm both the Hulk:
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Which, I guess, makes me a very angry geek. Beware.
This just in: I am Optimus Prime! Only without the dying.

Find out which Transformer you are at LiquidGeneration!
And I can take a whole mess of five-year-olds in a fight.*
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*Note - this is entirely theoretical. Thus far.

My Interests

Assorted geekery - comics, video games, movies, anime, manga, tokusatsu, etc. I consider myself something of a polyglot, with rudimentary-to-fluent understandings of English, French and Japanese. I intend to learn Korean at some point too.

I'd like to meet:

Artists. Specifically, aspiring comic book artists. Besides being a freelance journo, I'd love to break into comics. Unfortunately, my own artistic skills rank somewhere around, if not below, those of a retarded squirrel. At any one time, I probably have a dozen ideas I'm scrambling to get down on paper but no-one to draw them. I'd probably be looking to either self-publish or work through a local comics production group I'm part of. If interested and able, please drop me a PM through MySpace.

Music:

Barenaked Ladies, Reel Big Fish, Melissa Etheridge, Black Lab, Jeff Buckley, Phantom Planet - and the like....

Television:

HEROES!!! - Best show being made right now! Also, The 4400, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Farscape, Red Dwarf and, somewhat guiltily, The O.C.

Books:

Far too many comics to list - and yes, they do count as books. Practically anything by Alan Moore, for example, will be of far higher literary value than most of the top sellers in Waterstones.Otherwise, recent favorites have been Wicked by Gregory Maguire and Fat Land by Greg Critser. Mostly though, I read Victorian-era literature - Verne, Wells, Haggard, etc.

My Blog

Surprising movie enjoyment of 2007 so far...

...is Hairspray. It's a fun, uplifting film with really catchy songs. I ended up enjoying it far more than I thought I would. Go see it, it'll probably surprise you.No, I'm not gay.
Posted by Matt Kamen on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:02:00 PST

Arse Raped (Metaphorically)

Just found out that I'm needed to work next Sunday, July 22nd because my colleague's family are having a final prayer ceremony for their recently passed father. Normally, I'd be fine with that. Proble...
Posted by Matt Kamen on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:57:00 PST

New column up!

My weekly column at Mania.com is up, this week looking at Nintendo's recent sneaky change to their European privacy policy. Enjoy!
Posted by Matt Kamen on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:15:00 PST

New column up at Mania.com

My new column is up at Mania.com, reporting on an event at the Japanese Embassy in London that covered the history and international spread of manga.(Not sure if I'll go back to regularly posting link...
Posted by Matt Kamen on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:02:00 PST

New column name!

After some deliberation, It Came From The UK! is the new name for my weekly column at Mania.com - thanks to those who helped me decide on a new title! This week's column is up now. Enjoy!...
Posted by Matt Kamen on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:14:00 PST

Name my column!

No, that's not innuendo, you sick bastards!My weekly column for Mania.com, formerly Cinescape.com, has been titled 'UK Cine' up until now - a pun on the website it's hosted on and the content of the c...
Posted by Matt Kamen on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:21:00 PST

HAAAAIIIIIRRRRCUUUUUTTTTTT!!!!!!

As one of my online friends screamed when they saw the below photo:Yes, I've had a haircut. I look awesome.Right?...
Posted by Matt Kamen on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:28:00 PST

The Working Phone and the Quest for the Poster

Yes, I have a working phone again! It's amazing (and a little scary) how familiar I've become on it, and text messages in particular. Not having a landline, my mobile has become my near-primary method...
Posted by Matt Kamen on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:44:00 PST

No phone

In case you've not caught me on MSN over the last week or so, my mobile phone is currently non-functional, defunct, damaged, useless; a bit on the broken side really. If you've sent me a text message ...
Posted by Matt Kamen on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:53:00 PST

Perchance, to dream?

I finally got to sleep at 10pm last night, by which point I'd been awake for 38 and a half hours straight. I slept until about 7:30am this morning, a meagre 9.5 hours slumber. Weirdly, the more tired ...
Posted by Matt Kamen on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:06:00 PST