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Matt

Far From Casanova

About Me

I am currently selling jewellery and watches (don't get me started on watches) for a big national jeweller, while I look for a job working in radio. After all I did do my masters in radio, and I was on NSR far too long with my show Forward Motion , I still write a blog based on the show whilst I look for a new station to do the show for. If you want to hear some of my radio stuff it is here on my other account . While the dubstep documentary I made is here I also spend my time buying trainers and clothes, books and CD's, and of course heading out to the likes of Heavyweight on a night. And if I just wanna chill it has to be listening to the radio...or putting a good CD on.I also contribute to a blog that focuses entirely on that great tradition of pun based hair salon names Curl Up and Dye And meanwhile if you want some literature in your life visit Q Classics

My Interests

Listening to music through both speakers and headphones; drinking coffee at home, in shops, on the street, wherever; day dreaming; photography, in other words trying to figure out why I can't take pictures I like; buying clothes and trainers; dandyism; watching the world go around, watching girls go by; reading and writing; being a tad to narcissitic and shallow for my own good; going to WHQ or somewhere else where the beats are bootiful...and finally but not least just wandering around aimlessly, well if you have nothing better to do you can do that or sit and read blogs.

I'd like to meet:

anyone I can get on with...I won't bother with a huge list of famous/infamous people

Music:

Just about anything goes...but mainly electronica, dub, grime, dubstep, hip hop, rap, IDM, post-rock, and much more besides....so if you want artists for examples guess I gotta say Vex'd, Kode 9, DMZ, Skream, Plastician, Mark One, Dizzie Rascal,Roll Deep, Kode9, Sixtoo, Prefuse 73, TTC, Wasteland, DJ /Rupture, Aphex Twin, Dabrye, Squarepusher, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Mogwai, Wiley, M.I.A, Diplo, Roots Manuva, Buck 65, Beans, Airborn Audio, Anti Pop Consortium, Vast Aire, Portishead, the Guillemots, Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack, Mike Patton, Lukid, Bjork, Shackleton, Appleblim, ...guess you could say I like to lie in the poppies in the leftfield.

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Amelie, City of God, Talk to Her, Blue Velvet, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, My Wrongs..., High Fidelity, Baise Moi, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Gia, Girl Interrupted, Twin Peaks, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Y Tu Ma Tambien, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, Apocalypse Now, Fight Club, American History X, Ghost World, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Bowling for Columbine, Lost in Translation, Buffalo Soldiers, Elephant, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, The House of Sand and Fog, The Constant Gardener, Bad Education

Television:

QI; Absoloute Power; Scrubs; Bremner, Bird and Fortune; Casanova; Blackadder; The Culture Show

Books:

Luke Sutherland - Venus as a boy; Michel Houellebecq - Atomised; Hari Kunzru - Transmission; Haruki Murakami - Dance, Dance, Dance, Norwegian Wood; Ray Loriga - Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore;Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; Siri Hustdvet - What I Loved, Blindfold; Gwendoline Riley - Sick Notes; Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park, American Pyscho; Chuck Pahlniuk - Lullaby, Diary, Choke; Helen Walsh - Brass; Henry Miller- Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Black Spring, Crazy Cock; Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere, American Gods; Michael Moore - Stupid White Men, Dude Where Is My Country; Paul D. Miller - Rhythm Science; Don DeLilo - Underworld; Douglas Coupland - All Families Are Psyhoctic, Hey Nostradamus; Max Barry - Jennifer Government; Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Marabou Stork Nightmares; Charles Bukowski - Ham on Rye; Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Naomi Klein - No Logo; George Moniboit - Captive State; Natacha Merritt - Digital Diaries; John Fante - Bandini Quartet; Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal - Tourism; John Peel - Margrave of the Marshes; Nick Taussig - Love and Mayhem;

Heroes:

Do I need any? ..

My Blog

Goodbye City Centre

So I'm moving back to my parents this weekend, kind of glad, had enough of the flat now...though admittedly I'd rather not be losing the independence of having this place.In other news I have had to d...
Posted by Matt on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:22:00 PST

Work hard, play hard, look hard...

So whats new in the world of Matt, I'm using a new computer as the good old sharp finally died on its arse. Also dead are my amp, replaced like for like, my DAB Tuner's LCD screen which means that I c...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:39:00 PST

Lullabies would be unexpected

To castigate my soul, to chastise myself would bring no rewards just a broken memento of half a man already broken. Sometimes I have been so critical of my failings, and have fallen into the trap of t...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:03:00 PST

Update on the Forward Motion Blog

Forward Motion Blog Updated
Posted by Matt on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:03:00 PST

Prat

Apparantally refers to the buttocks, I thought it refered to how I felt when I'm trying to come across cool to a gorgeous girl. 
Posted by Matt on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:50:00 PST

As if you wanna know

despair is not a new word, in fact  its quite an old word, yet I know it all too well. Thank you 
Posted by Matt on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:04:00 PST

yeah I need a subject...bollocks

Its great to see the summer sun out and shining strong, unfortunately I can feel my days passing away far too quickly and well I have to say I'm feeling at a low ebb. I seem to have very few people I ...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:22:00 PST

Just because I'm feelin sorry for myself

I hate being single and not knowing how to speak to girls I like...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 10 May 2006 03:51:00 PST

I'm gonna rip open your head Miller

I sometimes wonder what I should do with myself, I can't explain what I feel to anyone and the anxiety that the chance of her fallin for me causes is what leads me through the woods towards a black bl...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 04:17:00 PST

Sometimes this boy isn't as angelic as he may seem

I feel right now that I've fallen into a hell hole that I'm not used to, that being behaving like a typical bloke, something that I always thought that I'd never do. I feel like I have done wrong to s...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 02:19:00 PST