Matt Heckler

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Musician
Location Glenwood, Illinois, United States
Introduction I am a twenty-three year old writer, student, and musician from the south suburbs of Chicago. I am studying to be a history professor, while playing in my folk band New Test Leopard and indie rock band Kiote. I am a minor political activist and a science fiction geek, and like to write reviews about books and other media. I am also currently working on my first science fiction novel, under the working title 'The River Runs Backwards.'

If you are a self-published sci-fi writer and interested in having me review your stuff please drop me an e-mail at progressmakesperfect (at) gmail.com.
Interests History, film, art, music, literature, photography, politics, news, philosophy, atheism, video games, comic books, science fiction geekdom
Favorite Movies American Splendor, Big Fish, Citizen Kane, Dead Poets Society, Death to Smoochy, Empire Records, The Fly, Gangs of New York, Garden State, Ghost World, Good Night and Good Luck, Good Will Hunting, House on Haunted Hill (With Vincent Price), In the Name of the Father, Moscow on the Hudson, No Country for Old Men, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Shaun of the Dead, Sideways, Slapshot, Star Wars, V for Vendetta, What Dreams May Come
Favorite Music Chet Baker, The Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Andrew Bird, The Frames, Frank Black, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, The Decemberists, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, The Grates, Heatmiser, Mary Lou Lord, The Minders, Modest Mouse, Morissey, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Quasi, R.E.M., Corrina Repp, Screeching Weasel, Sleater-Kinney, Elliott Smith, The Swell Season, Tarkio, TV on the Radio, Tom Waits, The White Stripes, Wilco, Yo La Tengo
Favorite Books "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" By Philip K. Dick, "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, "Crime & Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Howl and other Poems" by Allen Ginsberg, "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway, "The Trial" by Franz Kafka, "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers, "1984" by George Orwell, "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn, "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson, "Breakfast of Champions" by Kurt Vonnegut, "The Importance of Being Ernest" by Oscar Wilde