This fake teaser trailer for The Red Men movie by Shynola makes me want to write all day and all night, to bring more of this world out.
Grant Morrison
by Matthew De Abaitua •
My brief appreciation of Grant Morrison, based on my interview with him in the early Noughties, an interview I spent mostly halfway up a step-ladder and wrapped in the American flag.
Judging a very short story competition
by Matthew De Abaitua •
The glorious Hilobrow.com are running a very short story competition, for which I am acting as a judge. Readers are invited to submit a short-short (250 words maximum) story about a troubled/troubling superman or -woman. Closing date is 5pm EST on Monday February 15th.
What was Drug Porn?
by Matthew De Abaitua •
I was being fitted for my wedding suit when Raymond called. I told him that it wasn’t a good time to talk, that I had a tailor attending to my inside leg on a hot day. Raymond ignored me and said: “You promised me that, if I ever really needed it, you would move heaven…
Will Self on Matthew De Abaitua
by Matthew De Abaitua •
Ahead of our gig at the Brighton Komedia, Will Self gives an interview to the Brighton Argus about depression and his co-performer Matthew De Abaitua
Will Self’s Lugubrious Monday
by Matthew De Abaitua •
Will Self and Matthew De Abaitua prepare to perform Lugubrious Monday at Komedia in Brighton
Kibbo Kift & The Usable Past
by Matthew De Abaitua •
Continuing the series of excerpts from my essay on the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, due to be published in The Idler in 2010. A prehistoric track stretches across 250 miles from the Dorset coast to the Norfolk Wash. For over five thousand years, people have walked or ridden this trail. The first section we…
Hilobrow – John Carpenter
by Matthew De Abaitua •
Few cultural scraps are as redolent of lo-fi VHS genre pleasures than a movie trailer with JOHN CARPENTER’s (born 1948) name above the title and his own analog synth score. Carpenter’s breakthrough was Dark Star (1974), a wiseass repudiation of 2001: A Space Odyssey’s intergalactic awe. Bits of the movie’s code can be discerned in…
The Future Human: Advertising at the Frontiers of Consciousness
by Matthew De Abaitua •
I will be performing some of my theories and research in the areas of neuroscience and advertising at this event on February 10th at The Book Club in London. Performing, not presenting: don’t come expect brain surgery, at least not from me. That will be supplied by the experts on the rest of the bill.…
Jonny Mugwump’s Weird Tales For Winter
by Matthew De Abaitua •
Starting on midnight of the 25th January, Resonance FM will be broadcasting a series of specially-commissioned collaborations between writers and musicians, Weird Tales For Winter, curated by the incomparable Jonny Mugwump and including my own collaboration with the West Norwood Cassette Library, entitled The Dinner Party Wars
