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Matterson

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

My name is Matt and the only reason I'm here is because every other person on the face of the planet came here to congregate except me. So I conformed. Yay me.

My Interests

for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

I'd like to meet:

no one really.

Music:

Jon Brion at the Largo, baby.

Movies:

Kubrick, Tarrantino, David Lynch, Cronenberg, the Cohen Bros., Tony Scott, Terry Gilliam, Charlie Kaufman. Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Quills, Sex, Lies and Video Tapes, Secretary, Bottle Rocket, The Big Lebowski, Adaptation, Fear and Loathing, Kevin Smith, Oldboy, Ichi the Killer, Wes Anderson, almost any movie with zombies in it, and on and on and on -- God, of lists, I pray to thee.

Television:

Dexter (Not the laboratory, the serial killer), South Park, Arrested Development, King of the Hill, Simpsons, Seinfeld, B5, Farscape, The Invisible Man (Oh, how much I miss you), Carnivale, The Office, Rome, the original Star Trek for all it's hilarity, the Young Ones... I'm so cool, I don't even hate television.

Books:

Way too much shit to list here:

Word filled books of personal taste: To Reign in Hell, The Time Traveler's Wife, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Mark Twain, the Catcher in the Rye, Anita Blake novels, hhmmmmm, Terry Goodkind before he ruined it all, Terry Brooks, Terry Pratchet -- Every goddamn Terry that's written a fantasy novel. Stephen King, especially the Dark Tower and all related works.

Picture books: Love and Rockets, A History of Violence, Blankets, Understanding Comics, Maus, A Contract with God (Eisner, baby), Ghost World, Like A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron (Pretty much all of Daniel Clowes graphic novels), Ultra, Sandman and anything by Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller's the Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen (Alan Moore ftw), 1000, Tricked and anything else by Alex Robinson, It's a Bird, Nobody Knows by Yoshitomo Nara, Osamu Tezuka, Akira, Peter Kuper, Can't Get No, JTHM...

My Blog

myspace envy

I want you to like me, okay? But don't just like me, envy me and say, "my god, I wish I knew the insights of this individual." Pay homage to my image like some cardboard, godlike bowling trophy. Welc...
Posted by Matterson on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:31:00 PST