George Matthews
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Industry | Government |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Part Time Office Worker |
| Location | Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I'm a working-class philosophy of the London suburbs and an armchair rebel-an introvert and a full time dreamer. Imaginative fiction, writing, cinema, music, dreams and class struggle are my reasons for living. |
| Interests | Books, SF, Weird Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Classic Horror, Gothic Horror, Imaginative Literature, J.G. Ballard, Social History, Left Wing Politics, Autonomous Marxism, Anarchism, Karl Marx, Situationist International, 1960's, London, Psychogeography, Strange Science, Cosmology, Writing Short Stories, Exploitation Films, Cult Films, Film Noir, Horror Films, Arthouse Cinema, Psychedelia, 80's & 90's Alternative Rock, Avant Rock, Avant Folk, Doom Metal, Black Metal, Erotica, Retro-Porn, 1950's & 1960's Trash, 19th Century Decadence |
| Favorite Movies | Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart Elephant Man, Come and See, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Blood Simple, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, If, Seven Samurai, Ran, Satantango, Werckmeister Harmonies, Videodrome, Dead Ringers, Cronenberg's Crash, Exterminating Angel, Belle de Jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Eyes without a Face, Once upon a Time in the West, Badlands, The Thin Red Line, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, In the Realm of the Senses, Chinatown, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Ring (Japan), A Tale of Two Sisters, Audition, Naked, Hana-bi, Sonatine, The Exorcist, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Seven, Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, Touch of Evil, Spirited Away, Blade Runner, Alien, Easy Rider, Three Colours Red, Performance, Don't Look Now, The Night of the Hunter, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Witchfinder General, The Wicker Man, The Beast, Immoral Tales, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Trip, Brazil, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, King of Comedy, Solaris, Stalker, Happiness, Forbidden Planet, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Them, Peeping Tom, The Innocents, Hammer Horror, Quatermass 2, Quatermass & the Pit, Black Sunday, Black Sabbath, The Masque of the Red Death, Suspira, Horror Films of the 60's & 70's, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Player, Kwaidan, Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, Sunset Blvd, The Battle of Algiers, Punishment Park, Hidden, Kes, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Haunting |
| Favorite Music | Acid Mothers Temple, Sunn 0))), Spacemen 3, Electric Wizard, Sleep, Hawkwind, Motorhead, 13th Floor Elevators, The Stooges, Can, Neu, Amon Duul II, The Cramps, My Bloody Valentine, Husker Du, Sonic Youth, Neil Young, King Crimson, Ash Ra Temple, Radio Birdman, Bardo Pond, Boris, Miles Davis, Funkadelic, The Sonics, The Seeds, Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, Syd Barrett, Loop, The Soft Boys, Robyn Hitchcock, The Kinks, Late 60's & 70's Rolling Stones, Billy Childish, The Velvet Underground, Stereolab, The Beach Boys, Surf, Garage Punk, Chocolate Watch Band, Link Wray, AC/DC, Joy Division, The Barracudas, Ramones, Klaus Schulze, Faust, Cluster, Harmonia, Big Black, Popol Vuh, The Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade, Mazzy Star, Julian Cope, Fugazi, Dead Kennedys, Om, Galaxie 500, Dinosaur Jr, Grateful Dead, Love, Pentangle, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Thin White Rope, Babes in Toyland, The Bevis Frond, MC5, Herbie Hancock, Fairport Convention, Black Sabbath, Espers, Six Organs of Admittance, Charalambides, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Hound Dog Taylor, The Saints, The Gories, Xasthur, Earth, The Modern Lovers, Wilco, The Flaming Lips, The Johnny Burnette Trio, Carl Perkins, Screaming Trees, Big Star, The Prisoners, Dick Dale, Gong, Jimi Hendrix, New York Dolls, R.L. Burnside, Jon Spencer, Silver Apples, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, Gene Clark, Johnny Cash, Steve Reich, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Minutemen, Ghost, Current 93, Les Rallizes Denudes, Terry Riley, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Black Mountain, Early Pink Floyd, Captain Beefheart, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Nadja, The Gun Club, Flamin Groovies, The Lovin' Spoonful, Sly and the Family Stone, Suicide, Fifty Foot Hose, The Turtles, Freakbeat, The Green Pajamas, Nuggets & Pebbles, Tropicalia, The Mojo Men, Sunshine Pop, African Psychedelic Funk |
| Favorite Books | The Voices of Time, The Terminal Beach, Vermillion Sands, Myths of the Near Future, The Drowned World, The Crystal World, The Atrocity Exhibition, Crash, High-Rise, The Unlimited Dream Company, Empire of the Sun, The Kindness of Women, Cocaine Nights, Super-Cannes, Millennium People, Re/search#8/9: J.G Ballard, J.G Ballard Quotes, J.G Ballard Conversations, A Scanner Darkly, A Storm of Wings, Viriconium Knights, In Viriconium, Light, The Jerry Cornelius Novels, Dancers at the Edge of Time, Gloriana, Mother London, The Oswald Bastable Trilogy, Colonel Pyat Novels, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Star Maker, The Sirens of Titan, Slaughter House 5, The Dispossesed, The Day of the Triffids, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood, Cold Print, Dark Feasts, Incarnate, The Influence, The Hungry Moon, Midnight Sun, The Grin of the Dark, Little Big, The Aegypt Cycle, Mythago Wood, The House on the Borderland, M.R. James, H.P. Lovecraft, Melmoth the Wanderer, Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Edgar Allan Poe, The Anubis Gates, The Book of the New Sun, Clark Ashton Smith, Hawksmoor, The House of Doctor Dee, Dan Leno & The Limehouse Golem, Jorge Luis Borges: Collected Fictions, The Magic Toyshop, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, The Bloody Chamber, The Passion of New Eve, Nights at the Circus, Don Quixote, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Fanny Hill, Great Expectations, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Devils, The Idiot, The Karamazov Brothers, The Name of the Rose, Delta of Venus, Midnight's Children, The Picture of Dorian Gray, New Grub Street, Catch-22, Atomised, Platform, The Arabian Nightmare, The Trial, The Castle, American Splendour, The Sandman Graphic Novels, Watchmen, From Hell |