Matt
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"I'm not a writer, but I play one for TeeVee"
Male
39 years old
FREDERICK, MARYLAND
United States
Last Login: 12/2/2008
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Matt's Interests
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| General | Keeping two (yes, two) four-year-olds out of trouble. Collapsing from exhaustion (did I mention the two three-year-olds?). Lazily copying bits of my resume into a myspace profile. | | Music | I'm a creature of my era, essentially the mid-late eighties, early nineties techno-pop, punk and grunge before it morphed into ersatz hair-metal (not that, circa 1985, I didn't listen to my share of hair metal while cruising in my friend Keith's Chevelle). Nowadays, I have no idea what the kids today are listening to, unless they're three and it's Dan Zanes and Laurie Berkner (truth be told, I kind of dig Dan Zanes). Most of the musicians you'll find on my friend list are local sorts from in and around Knoxville, TN. Look 'em up, they're all worth a listen - even Rus, the freak. | | Movies | Can't watch as many as I once did (unless the umpteenth viewing of Pixar's Cars counts.)Generally speaking, I'm fond of John Ford and John Houston. Orson Welles (or is that too obvious, mostly the ten-minute tracking shot at the open of Touch of Evil) Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant can scarcely go wrong in my book. Nor can the Coen Brothers, although I tend to hear crickets chirp when I mention that, of their canon, Miller's Crossing is my favorite. | | Television | Lately, nuthin but noggin', sprout and the goddamn disney channel (I have nightmares where the Higglies pop open and their innards fall out - sort of a Snowden/Yossarian moment). | | Books | Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel for the boys. Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene. Twain and Tom Wolfe (what can I say, I'm a sucker for white suits). Hammett and Hemingway when I'm feeling hard boiled(re: Hammett refer above to Miller's Crossing). When drunk or disorderly: Henry Miller and McCarthy (Cormac, not the commie-chaser). I read a lot of history, although I prefer it with a novelist's eye for narrative: Shelby Foote and Johns Toland and Keegan come to mind (not that Keegan's ever written a novel, but I'd certainly read it if he did). For guilty pleasure I prefer Patrick O'Brien and an obscure sixties sci-fi author with the unlikely name of H. Beam Piper. Oh, and one of these days, I'll get around to reading a couple of those noir writers mentioned in that Times review - and more Faulkner. As a southerner, I'm sad to say I like the idea of Faulkner more than I'm fond of the work itself. | | Heroes | Murderers, they pay the mortgage.
And Paul Winfield, (RIP) whose voice remains forever in my head, reciting every damn word I write. |
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Matt's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Body type: | 0' 0" | | Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio | | Children: | Proud parent | | Education: | College graduate |
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Matt's Networking
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Film - Production - Producer
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Screenwriting experience includes episodes of the animated series Gargoyles, ExoSquad, Wing Commander Academy, NASCAR Racers, Street Fighter, GI Joe Extreme, Mummies Alive and Stargate Infinity for clients such as Saban, Dic and Universal
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Television - Production - Producer
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Critically acclaimed writer of more than eighty hours of television programming with credits covering a range of subjects and genres: true crime, action-adventure, architecture and design, home improvement, historic preservation and technology.
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Publishing - Writer - Journalist
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regular contributor of features, news pieces and commentary for Metro Pulse, Knoxville’s alternative weekly, Covered downtown revitalization and historic neighborhoods for both Knoxville Magazine and Knoxville Homes and Living
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Matt's Companies
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Jupiter Entertainment
Knoxville, TN US
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Metro Pulse
Knoxville, TN US
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About me:
Recovering redneck and unabashed geek. In theory, I write clever crap all day long, but am too tired at this point to come up with anything original, so let me crib this bit from a cover letter I found lurking on my hard drive: For ten years as a writer for both broadcast and cable television, I’ve specialized in telling good stories in a variety of narrative genres: action-adventure,historical documentaries and true-crime. How good? Consider what The New York Times had to say about
A&E’s City Confidential, the series I’ve worked on for
the past five years:
“I wouldn’t necessarily describe watching City
Confidential as a guilty pleasure. It’s too self-aware
for that. Its modest budget, and sensationalism, don’t
disqualify it from being not only entertaining but,
sometimes, meaningful, mining the lives of the
tortured and forgotten in the manner of certain noir
or hard-boiled writers like Thompson, David Goodis and
Charles Williams. My ideal viewing companion would be
William Faulkner. I can imagine "Mr. Bill," as many citizens of his hometown of Oxford, Miss., still refer to him, taking a long sip of sour mash whiskey, pointing at the television set and drawling, "I might could have used that bit in
..Sanctuary.' "
-“Murder, for the Sheer Fun of It,” NYT,
March 30, 2003
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Who I'd like to meet:
"I’m gonna get the Duke, and John Cassavetes,
and Lee Marvin, and Sam Peckinpah, and a case of whiskey,
and drive down to Texas..."
"Asshole" by Dennis Leary
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