Matt Neil Hill

@mattneilhill

Dad/Husband/Writer/Tsundoku practitioner. He/him. Words in Stories of the Eye, The Mad Butterfly's Ball, Saturday Mourning Television, Vastarien, and others (links in 📌). Trans rights are human rights. Fuck TERFS/Nazis/A.I. and all their apologists.

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Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· 28d

Two amazing book mail days in a row! Thanks for getting these out to me so quickly, @kekw-writer.bsky.social, and for signing them 🤗 Going to dip into these once I've finished Hookland Fragments Vol. 1 - it's a very good week for the Weird

Two books by Kek-W, "Unnatural Science" and "The New Abnormal," both resting on a beaten up old green Chesterfield sofa

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· 28d

Haven't had much chance to dip in yet, but the absolute best book mail arrived today. I had to miss the talk that forms the core of this beautiful @hookland.bsky.social artefact, and it's wonderful to have it now, along with various other elements and influences of England's finest lost county 🖤

The cover of Volume One of David Southwell's Hookland Fragments. A black and white cover featuring the linocut artwork by Maria Strutz, entitled "Bone Bear." The image shows a large bear juggling what look like multiple femurs as well as a human skull, and what appears to be the skull of Mari Lwyd at its feet.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Jun 21

I have a very long way to go finding/shelving all my books after a house move, but these were the first up

My collection of Kathe Koja books, including the original Dell Abyss paperbacks, a couple of signed Centipede Press hardbacks, a signed first edition hardback of Skin, a signed hardback of Christopher Wild, the Under the Poppy and Dark Factory trilogies. My favourite author, hands down.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Jun 15

Oh, I love this 🤗

My first name, spelled out using aerial shots taken by NASA of various types of terrain

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· May 23

This is my favourite version, courtesy of @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social 😁

Laptop sticker from Weirdpunk Books that has the well known sleep paralysis demon picture - a small and gleefully sinister moustachioed demon perched on a fitfully slumbering white woman's chest - with the text SLEEP PARALYSIS BUT THE DEMON KEEPS ASKING IF RANDOM BOOKS ARE SPLATTERPUNK

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· May 19

Oh, how I long for the day when I can retire this meme 😮‍💨

A frame from The Simpsons where Homer is waving his fist angrily while draping his other arm around a very tired and defeated looking Apu's shoulder and saying "Apu, if it'll make you feel any better, I've learned that life is one crushing defeat after another... until you just wish Flanders was dead" except I've replaced "Flanders" with the words "everyone involved in Gen AI."

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· May 19

post an actor or actress that starts with the letter L (first or middle or last)

Laurent Lucas as Marc Stevens in Fabrice du Welz's film Calvaire (aka The Ordeal), beaten and covered in blood, his hair cropped and shaved unevenly. He is wearing a floral dress beneath a padded red coat. His clothes are wet and dirty, his expression one of exhausted curiosity.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· May 10

Oh, COME ON!!! Immediately made me think of these two:

From Viz magazine, Buster Gonad and His Unfeasibly Large Testicles. A black and white cartoon drawing of a man with testicles so grossly enlarged that he is forced to carry them around in a wheelbarrow. He is saying, "Hi folks!"

Randy Marsh from South Park, in the episode where the town's menfolk microwave their testicles until they're swollen/cancerous enough to require transport in a wheelbarrow (as seen here) so as to be able to qualify for medical marijuana.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· May 6

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Apr 27

I'm struggling to think of a Health Secretary in the last 20+ years the NHS *has* been safe with, but this goes tenfold for Streeting. Alt text added to original image.

An image of Wes Streeting against an orange background, his hands raised with his palms facing the camera, looking (as he always does) like an odious, smug, oily little cunt. The words THE NHS IS NOT SAFE WITH THIS MAN have been added to the image.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Apr 23

Pretty good chance I'll be asleep before the President's plane crashes, but I'm giving my favourite Carpenter film an airing anyway

Blu ray of John Carpenter's Escape From New York, with Kurt Russell managing to look simultaneously camp and butch.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Apr 23

Birthday presents from my 5yo son, who, I think it's fair to say, has very much nailed the core elements of his father's personality.

Two books. Left to right, a Robot Journal and Sketchbook with lots of cute robot drawings on the cover, and Daddy Fartypants by Emer Stamp and Matt Hunt, the cover of which shows a large brown daddy bear surrounded by an even larger green cloud of fart gas, standing next to his bear son who has an compound expression of slightly strained amusement and tolerance.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Apr 22

Anyone familiar with Stewart Lee's Top Gear routine will know how I mean this.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Apr 16

WTF does this mean?!

Big red bar just beneath my Bluesky notifications with a "!" in an even redder circle and the words "Rate Limit Exceeded" alongside.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Apr 10

Right, when are submissions for the Turner Prize again?

The word SEA below an arrow, written/drawn in the sand by an idiot (me), helpfully pointing the way to the very noticeable sea. 5 y.o. son not overly impressed. Which is, frankly, to his credit.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Mar 30

Now playing:

The Dredd OST CD by Paul Leonard-Morgan. The word DREDD in blood red all caps across an image of Karl Urban as Judge Dredd holding his Lawgiver pistol, most of him (including his face) obscured by shadows.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Mar 29

Double billed these two last night, looking for a vibes boost on a short story I managed to finish today. Far from completely happy with the ending, but I think I can do something with it 🤞

Steelbook blu ray cases for Kill List and The Wicker Man.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Mar 27

Now playing

Goat's self-titled 2024 album. A heavily shadowed masked figure against an abstract background of black, white, yellow, green, and red.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Mar 27

Woo-hoo!!! Anything higher than 0% would've worried me, to be honest. Fuck Tech Bros, man.

Screenshot of my results for an online "Are you a Tech Bro?" quiz.

"You are not a Tech Bro.

"0% agreement with tech bro ideas."

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Mar 24

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy

Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall pulling very silly faces indeed

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Mar 24

I absolutely devoured this book, and was more than a little devoured by it in return. A work of great power and beauty from @emptywrites.bsky.social

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Just now

The Winnowing Draw by Michael Tichy

Michael Tichy's The Winnowing Draw is a weird/horror Western of broad scope and heartbreaking details. A story of murderous men chasing murderers, chasing creatures from nightmares and legends, and, ultimately, chasing their own ghosts, all of them watched - and fed - by a dark, timeless, hungry presence beneath the earth.

I was already a big fan of Michael's simultaneously bleak and beautiful stories, but The Winnowing Draw has cemented that completely. He has a great talent for writing about the harsh beauty of nature, and the

harrowing terrain of the journey West is a character in itself here.

His other speciality is cataloguing the ways in which violent, amoral men drive themselves ever deeper into darkness on the road to Hell. Without wanting to give too much away - this is a book to experience with as few preconceptions as possible - no character is untouched by the violence of either the land itself or their fellow travellers, or indeed the violence they perpetrate themselves.

There are very sensitively handled threads in the book about the genocide perpetrated on Native Americans, as well as a trans character who plays a living link to both the dead and the magical creatures who populate the hidden corners of the land the white men seek to destroy and remake in their own hollow image.

The writing style suits the time period perfectly, and there is a sense of lean, rugged poetry about it throughout.

What an incredibly impressive novel this is, and doubly impressive for being the author's debut at this length. I look forward enormously to whatever Michael comes up with next.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Mar 21

This one always terrified me, and that was regular sized 😬

Hartley Hare, the mangy puppet from British kids' TV show Pipkins.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Mar 21

Why are all (celebrity) AI enthusiasts essentially Cypher?

Joe Pantoliano as Cypher in the original Matrix film (a bald white man with a kind of Old West variation on a Van Dyke beard, dressed here in an expensive looking t-shirt and dinner jacket, an out-of-focus glass of red wine on the table in front of him). You know, the collaborator willing to sell out what's left of the human race for a delusion of comfort.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Mar 19

Image of Tony Benn speaking in Parliament with the text "If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people."

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Mar 19

If you see this, share a #randomshelfie (or two) #booksky

Bookshelves filled predominantly with Poppy Z. Brite and Thomas Ligotti volumes, along with some Matthew M. Bartlett, Jon Padgett, Ted Klein, and Roland Topor.

Bookshelves filled with (top to bottom) Influx Press - lots of Joel Lane reissues - and Dead Ink books, Kathe Koja, Zoe Gilbert, Laura Van Den Berg, Michael Blumlein, Misha, Keith Rosson, Gemma Files, Michael Cisco, Kurt Fawver, LC von Hessen, Cormac McCarthy, Philip K. Dick, Mikhail Bulgakov, Shirley Jackson, and Richard Matheson.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Mar 11

Yes, I'm religious. I believe in the Holy Trinity (both versions).

Promotional still from the Preacher TV series. Sitting outside the Preacher's church are, L to R, Tulip O'Hare (Ruth Negga), Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) and Cassidy (Joe Gilgun).

I feel like the way the characters are placed here (different to the second image) is reflective of the way the TV show (with its significantly less asshole-ish than the source material Cassidy) unfolds as it goes on as a love story between Tulip and Cassidy where an often absent (and significantly more of an asshole than in the original comic books) Jesse stands between them.

The final panel from the Preacher comic books, drawn by the much missed Steve Dillon, the Polaroid photo of Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy that they have taken on a night out. They look happy, not knowing what lies ahead. In this picture, again reflecting the differences between source material and adaptation, Tulip is between the two men (Jesse's hand is on her shoulder), as if a wedge between their otherwise solid friendship.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Feb 18

Obviously not the main role he'll be remembered for, but I always loved the quiet dignity and empathy Robert Duvall brought to Prendergast in Falling Down. A man with no less shit thrown at him than D-Fens, but not broken by it.

Robert Duvall playing opposite Michael Douglas in the movie Falling Down. Duvall is dressed in off the peg Police Detective jacket and striped tie, Douglas in black army surplus gear.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Feb 10

An image of the Wes Streeting column in the Guardian with the headline "Ignore the smears: I was never a close friend of Peter Mandelson. And I fully understand the lessons we must learn" with the words "Hey, Peter! Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now!" scribbled across it in red ink (a quote from American Psycho, with Peter replacing the name Paul in the book/film).

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Feb 10

Age verification? I remember (and still mourn the loss of) Pacers, FFS

A stock image of the 1970's spearmint chewy sweet Pacers. Two dark green oblong outer wrappers with Pacers written on them in white, the foreground one has been torn open to reveal a scatter of wrapped sweets in either white or pale green paper with three dark green lines on them.

Matt Neil Hill@mattneilhill· Feb 1