Matt

Screenwriter/Corporate Bitch

Film, Theater, Reading, Writing, Live Music, Acclimation To New Environs

A Prayer for Owen Meany, Underworld, The Corrections, Anything by Graham Greene, The Great Gatsby, Adventures of Cavalier & Klay

Dr. Strangelove, Breaking the Waves, Goodfellas, City Lights, Rushmore, Mulholland Drive, In the Mood for Love, 8 1/2, Hannah and Her Sisters

Tom Waits, New Pornographers, Magnetic Fields, Ike Reilly, White Stripes, Beatles, Pixies, Smiths, Radiohead, Mike Merz (for the sounds he makes and the sounds he's found)

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Buffy (RIP), Sopranos

I don't know about this. You know, I'm looking over this
whole profile and I really don't feel like I've got my
finger on the pulse of my generation. I feel like I'm
lacking in hip irony, casual detachment... a certain jeune
ce qua. (There's another thing I'm lacking -- a working
knowledge of French.) I mean look, I like The Smiths,
Hannah and Her Sisters, Charlie Chaplin, Fitzgerald... So
now I'm wondering -- on the pulse of which generation IS my
finger? Maybe, like, the folks who grew up in the '40s.
Cause I like, you know, radio shows and black & white films
and Peggy Lee and Fred Astaire and big band and Cary Grant
and Jimmy Stewart... so yeah. I don't know. I have no
idea where my finger is. No idea at all.