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About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorI used to work as the head of the postroom in a large regional brewery in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Do not believe all this nonsense about being unable to organise a piss-up in a brewery. It's all lies. Greene King parties are legendary. I have since moved to London for reasons that include a lady and the sense of ennui that was gradually consuming me in my former quarters. Now I am looking for a job, an activity that I dislike intensely for all the hoops that have to be jumped through, and which my current lack of employment reveals that I have so far been 100% unsuccessful in. I blame the ludicrous innefficiency of the capitalist model for this failure, or something.I also used to play bass in a band called The Khe Sanh Approach. It was named after a Vietnam war-era flying technique for transport aircraft. We made the most truly extraordinary row. We called it war disco and we liked it, even if you didn't. You can check us out on our still-functioning Myspace page at www.myspace.com/thekhesanhapproach. Or not. I'd hate to imply that you weren't a fully self-determining human being.I am also a total news junkie and will mainline BBC News 24 for hours on end, given the opportunity.I also have a Livejournal, which I use to write more political and current affairs based stuff in than I do here. It's at www.livejournal.com/yalson.I read incredibly quickly. I once read To Kill A Mockingbird from cover to cover in eight hours. Hey, it's not very interesting, but it's true.My parents are both from the East End of London, and as a result it was decided that I should be a West Ham United fan before I was even born. This is a hard thing to lay on an unborn child, but I think I've taken the responsibility fairly well.I am the Prince of Hedgehogs.My dog's got no nose.

My Interests

Post-punk, aircraft nose art, old American cars, Fender basses, military technology, carbon fibre, vinyl records, newspapers, herons, robots etc.

I'd like to meet:

Gifted children who have taken solace in a narcotic netherworld after being driven mad by pushy parents. Lady truckers. Disbarred barristers. Fencing instructors. Professional cake decorators. Notorious rakes grown rich on the proceeds of illegal duelling. Female librarians who, under the dowdy exterior, are passionate beauties just waiting to be awakened. People with cool hair but no common sense. Ex-convicts. Alan Hansen. Herons. The usual, really.

Music:

Adam and the Ants, Laurie Anderson, The Auteurs, .....And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Birthday Party, Black Box Recorder, Blondie, The Buzzcocks, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Clash, The Damned, Dead Kennedys etc. Anyone can just recite their record collection, y'know.That said, warped, fluffed or not, this is possibly the greatest single ever. And it was written by a group with a combined age of about 12.

Movies:

I don't really watch enough films to warrant talking about them.

Television:

BBC News 24, Dr. Who, QI, Have I Got News For You?, Blackadder, Monty Python, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Two Posh Old Men, The Professionals, The Sweeney, Freaks And Geeks, the ITV version of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett in it, the ITV version of Jeeves And Wooster with Fry and Laurie in it, random documentaries, various other bobbins on satellite, yadda yadda yadda.....

Books:

Iain (M.) Banks, Joseph Conrad, Hunter S. Thompson, William Gibson, Douglas Coupland, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Patrick Hamilton, William Boyd, Douglas Adams, Evelyn Waugh, JG Ballard

Heroes:

Luke Haines, John Peel, Hunter S. Thompson, Chris Morris, Joe Strummer, Debbie Harry, Muhammad Ali, John Carlos and Tommie Smith, Gilles Villeneuve, Peter Cook, John Harrison, Bill Hicks, Nick Leeson, Pierluigi Collina, Peter Hook, Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott, Shane Warne, Charlie Brooker, Bear, Looshkin

My Blog

Cross-site confusion.

Is anyone else having trouble signing into Facebook? I can get the sign-in page, but it won't go anywhere from there and comes up with a an 'Error on page' message in the bottom-left corner. Meh...
Posted by Matt Yalson on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:55:00 PST

What fresh madness is this?

'Tom' has apparently said that my account has been 'phished' and that I can't post anything else until I change my password. I am very suspicious of this. How does he know that my account ...
Posted by Matt Yalson on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:34:00 PST

Errr, how would YOU introduce this one?

If ever it were in doubt, here is a charming story that proves there's nowt queer as folk. I particularly love the guy's indignation at having been thrown off where he says, "we've got bus passes".&nb...
Posted by Matt Yalson on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:35:00 PST

For FUCK’S sake...

Earlier on, while I was making dinner, I had the TV on in the living room. Watchdog was on. In their normal, overly-dramatic, clod-footed way, they were investigating things. One of ...
Posted by Matt Yalson on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:01:00 PST

Targeted Advertising.

Note: I started this earlier and then came back to it just now. In the intervening time, I completely forgot the thread I had built up for it. As a result, I have finished it as best I cou...
Posted by Matt Yalson on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:57:00 PST

Im back, but Im mainly watching.

I've been away from Myspace for ages, as I have no internet at my flat, despite enormous efforts, and I can't get it at work, either. I get back and there are a million or so friend requests in my inb...
Posted by Matt Yalson on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:51:00 PST

"The motorcade sped on....."

After over three years and more gigs and scrapes than I care to mention, The Khe Sanh Approach are to cease operations. Tom and Rich are off to university in September and before that Tom want...
Posted by Matt Yalson on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:58:00 PST

Plotting.

Long time, no post. I've been unable to write a post on here for ages, as I haven't had my own access to Myspace since I moved into my own flat some time ago. This never used to be a worry,...
Posted by Matt Yalson on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:05:00 PST

Sandinista!

Product to flog again. I've been away or busy for most of Christmas, though, so this is the first chance I've had to knock something together for the big, homecoming Priors gig. Sandinista, Man...
Posted by Matt Yalson on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:54:00 PST

Intentionally Left Blank.

The Assassination Of Bobby Kennedy. Quite an amazing image, this. Bobby Kennedy was actually in the kitchens of a hotel when he was shot by a Palestinian called Sirhan Sirhan. He was bein...
Posted by Matt Yalson on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:31:00 PST