I paint. Look at it here: mattblanksart.com .Also, I'm in this Of Montreal video, which is cool. I'm the big, Bacchus motherfucker chucking the little guy. (apparently my only "general interest" is self-promotion. I'm cool with that.)
Boston, Junior Boys, Basement Jaxx, New Order, Ratatat, LCD Soundsystem, the Knife, Yacht, Rod Stewart, most Yacht rock (doobies, mcdonalds, logginses, halls and oatses) Daft Punk, Annie, Hot Chip, XTC, Arthur Russell, Linda Ronstadt, MIA, T.V. on the Radio, the Go! Team, T.Rex, Supertramp, the Cure, BLOW, Zap Mama, I'm all about Blood, Sweat, & Tears AND Chicago (despite what that fuck Rudy says) Cornelius, Depeche Mode, Fleetwood mac, Kylie Minogue, The Jesus and Mary Chain, the Avalanches, Feist, Kate Bush, Smog, Steely Dan, Joanna Newsom, Television, Os Mutantes, Broadcast, ABBA, the Smiths, Sigur Ros, Frank Zappa, Devotchka, Joy Division, Blondie, Foreigner, Asia, Journey, Kansas, Toto, Styx. I can seriously fuck up some 3 Dog Night.
The Outsiders, Reds, Night of the Hunter, Battle Royale, Do the Right Thing, Badlands, Coal Miner's daughter, The Apartment, all Christopher Guest stuff, most of Dario Argento, The Ice Storm, The Legend of Billie Jean, Mr. Smith goes to Washington, anything by David Gordon Green, John Waters, Billy Madison, The Iron Giant, Wet Hot American Summer, Borat
Heroes, Flight Of The Conchords, The Wire, Sifl and Olly, The Sopranos, That's So Raven, Twin Peaks, Arrested Development, The Avengers (the ones with Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee); I fucking hate LOST (just wanted to throw that in)
The Elegant Universe-Greene; The Ice Storm-Moody; Barrel Fever-Sedaris; Wind Up Bird Chronicle-Murakami; The Book of the Dun Cow-Wangerin; Autobiography of Red-Carson; The World That Jones Made-K. Dick; His Dark Materials-Pullman; American Gods-Gaiman; David Boring-Clowes; Jimmy Corrigan-Ware; Persepolis-Satrapi; Harry P.-Rowling; I, Tina-Tina Turner & Kurt Loder; ANYTHING by alan moore
Jim J Bullock, Elton John, Divine, Charles Nelson Reilly, Paul Lynde, Anderson Cooper, Ed Koch, Neil Patrick Harris, Freddy Mercury, Lance Bass, Peter Lorre, Marlon Brando, t.r. knight, Arthur Russell, Stephen Merritt, Liberace, Fred Schneider, Merchant/Ivory, Ziegfried/Roy, Langston Hughes, Charles Laughton, Rock Hudson, George Takei, Montgomery Clift, Oscar Wilde, Emo Phillips, Walt Whitman, Graham Chapman, J. Edgar Hoover, Scott Thompson, the brady bunch dad, Francis Bacon, Cole Porter, Tchaikovsky, Truman Capote, Vito Spatafore.............................