Matt Morris

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Poet
Introduction has appeared in various magazines & anthologies, for which he's been nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net.
Interests anime, art, humor, literature, music, philosophy, poetry, politics, sports, & trivia
Favorite Movies 12 Monkeys, The 400 Blows, Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998), An American Werewolf in London, And Justice for All, Animal House, The Bad Sleep Well, Band of Outsiders, The Battle of Chile, The Big Lebowski, Big Trouble in Little China, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Blow Out, Bottle Rocket, Brazil, Capitalism: A Love Story, Charade, Citizen Kane, Clueless, The Cocoanuts, Dances with Wolves, Dazed & Confused, Dead Man, Dick, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Donnie Darko, Dreams (aka Akira Kurosawa's Dreams), Eight Men Out, Erin Brockovich, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Get Out, Ghost Dog, Good Fellas, Gothic, Grave of the Fireflies, The Great Dictator, Harlem Nights, Heavy Metal, Hidden Agenda, High Anxiety, Hot Fuzz, Hollywood Shuffle, Hoodlum, I Daniel Blake, I'm a Cyborg But That's OK, The In-Laws (1979), Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Killing Them Softly, Kingpin, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, A League of Their Own, Léon: The Professional, Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, The Long Riders, Made in USA, Malcolm X, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Mary Reilly, Matewan, The Meaning of Life, Millennium Actress, Mirai, Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Mullholland Drive, My Dinner with Andre, Mystery Train, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, O Brother Where Art Thou, Open Range, Othello (1995), The Ox-Bow Incident, Pale Rider, Pan's Labyrinth, Perfect Blue, Persepolis, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Plague Dogs, Plutocracy, Princess Mononoke, The Producers (1967), Pulp Fiction, The Rainmaker, Ran, Return to Oz, Rio Bravo, Room Service, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, The Running Man, Rushmore, Seven Samurai, Shaun of the Dead, Salvador Allende, The Shock Doctrine, Sicko, Snatch, South of the Border, Spirited Away, Super, Tatsumi, They Live, The Third Man, A Thousand Clowns, True Grit (2010), Uncle Buck, Unforgiven, Videodrome, What About Bob, Wings of Desire, Wyatt Earp, Yellow Submarine, Zombieland
Favorite Music Adam & the Ants, Ash, The Beatles, Frank Black/Black Francis, David Bowie, The Breeders, Cat Power, Chatmonchy, Cheap Trick, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Devo, The Dollyrots, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Dave Edmunds, Brian Eno, ELO, The Flaming Lips, The Four Tops, The Gits, The Guess Who, Richie Havens, Robyn Hitchcock, The Hives, Holst, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Humble Pie, The Insomniacs, Ian Drury & the Blockheads, Joe Jackson, Jethro Tull, Joan Jett, Kool & the Gang, Letters to Cleo, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gordon Lightfoot, Little Richard, Lovin' Spoonful, Meat Puppets, Melanie, Mink Deville, Mississippi John Hurt, Mott the Hoople, Mozart, Muddy Waters, The Muffs, Harry Nilsson, Nirvana, Pavement, Pink Floyd, Pixies, PUSA, Polysics, Rage Against the Machine, Rainer Maria, The Ramones, Red Bacteria Vacuum, Smokey Robinson, The Romantics, Shonen Knife, Simon & Garfunkel, Slade, Sly & the Family Stone, Sonic Youth, Steely Dan, Stephen Stills, Steppenwolf, The Stylistics, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, The Temptations, Ten Years After, They Might Be Giants, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Tom Tom Club, Traffic, The Tubes, The Turtles, The Vapors, Violent Femmes, The Wedding Present, Weezer, Stevie Wonder, The Who, X, Yes, Neil Young, Frank Zappa
Favorite Books Chinua Achebe, Ai, Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, Simon Armitage, John Ashbery, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Roland Barthes, Samuel Beckett, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Roberto Bolaño, Richard Brautigan, André Breton, Byron, Raymond Carver, Catullus, Raymond Chandler, Robert Coover, Julio Cortázar, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, W.E.B. DuBois, Alan Dugan, Paul Éluard, Russell Edson, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herb Gardner, Nicolai Gogol, Günter Grass, Barbara Guest, Robert Hayden, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Henry James, Richard Hugo, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Immanuel Kant, John Keats, Weldon Kees, Caroline Knox, Kenneth Koch, Robert Lowell, Richard Lovelace, Philip Larkin, Sinclair Lewis, Vachel Lindsay, Philip Levine, Gabriel García Márquez, Karl Marx, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marianne Moore, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, Pablo Neruda, Howard Nemerov, Flannery O'Connor, Frank O'Hara, Ovid, Benjamin Péret, Sylvia Plath, Jacques Prévert, Thomas Pynchon, Lola Ridge, Rainer Marie Rilke, Philip Roth, Muriel Rukeyser, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Schopenhauer, James Schuyler, Anne Sexton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Simic, William Stafford, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stevens, Mark Strand, May Swenson, James Tate, Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, James Thurber, Leo Tolstoy, Tsuboi Shigeji, Tristin Tzara, Kurt Vonnegut, Walt Whitman, Richard Wilbur, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf, Richard Wright, Dean Young, Howard Zinn, Louis Zukofsky