matt
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | They call it Employability |
| Location | somewhere in the middle, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I have carefully avoided any unnecessary responsibility for as long as is humanly possible in any one life time but find myself set upon from all sides by those who would change this for their own ends.I am constantly unsure of what everything means and am still trying to work out what it means to be an adult and really do hope that life begins at 40.I am guilty of the infuriating crime of answering questions, with a question and sometimes delight in playing Devils Advocate. I can be a bit magpieish sometimes and will covert shiny things, then rage against the consumer world. I can be moved to tears by the smallest of things, the simplest acts of human kindness and the beauty of the hidden behind the everyday one minute and disinterested and dismissive of everything the next,positive then negative. I am well aware of the duality in me and am sure at some point I was a cat. I am also a firm believer in celebrating the ridiculous in everything we do... |
| Interests | thinking, drinking tea, gaming, reading, trying to write things, watching plays, staring at things, really laughing, going up hills with other square pegs, looking at the stars, looking at the sea, beaches in winter, things I can imagine to be something else, Jung, Taoism, crisp clear winter days when the frost stays in the shadows all day, autumn fog, open fires, candle light, perfecting the art of doing nothing, being offstandinish until I'm sure, not being grown up in a grown up way, daydreaming, frowning, rooting out people who take themselves too seriously, spouting clap trap, not accepting things I'm told to, watching peoples' faces when they're shopping, riling against all types of paper work, not being serious, being very serious, entertaining the idea that the world around me may well be an illusion, some poetry, very old churches, pretending to be other people in electronic worlds, wondering why things are, trying to understand philosophy, Fable 2, being playfully scornful of popular culture, sometimes not so playfully, old books, old Fortean times, old comics, anywhere there are books and old things to look at, people, how we do things, regardless of how we see ourselves and what we think we are like, not doing DIY... |
| Favorite Movies | Love and Death, Sleeper, take the money and run, Saving Private Ryan, Good Will Hunting, The Dear Hunter, Pulp Fiction, Annie Hall, Withnail and I, A bridge too far, fight club, being john malkavich, the empire strikes back, twelve monkeys, dumb and dumber, little miss sunshine, catch22, platoon, to kill a mocking bird, The Royal Tannenbaums, The Shawshank Redemption, Donnie Darko, .....I can't decide! |
| Favorite Music | Tom Waits, Van Morrison(when he's good) Joni Mitchell, Ricki Lee Jones, the voice of Mr Mcaloon, Steeley Dan, late 40's early 50's jazz and Be Bop, angry folk music, Funk, john martin, james taylor, rage against the machine, I am Kloot, ...it changes |
| Favorite Books | too many to mention, geek love, Bukowski, On the Road, The Fall by Camus, Pratchett's Disc World, the meaning of things by ac grayling, Steinbeck, Clive Barker, Dorothy Parker, Robert E Howard, Robert Rankin, The Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, V for Vendetta, Spike Milligan, Hitch Hickers Guide, Simon Armitage, Thom Gunn, Slvia Kantaris, Gary Larson, 48, World War Z, Steven Ambrose, I am Legend, Richard Yates, the dark tower, the brief history of the dead, the last will and testament of Gideon mack, the daemon, ......so does this. |
Unlike a dog, how can a turtle ever be naked?
I don't know about it being naked but I know it moves...