Matthew Sweet
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Watched Fassbinder's Third Generation tonight, to honour Udo. A Baader-Meinhof farce in which the protagonists have the same shagpile carpet as Petra von Kant and the action is punctuated by captions quoting dirty stuff found on toilet walls in west Berlin. An evening well spent.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Watched Fassbinder's Third Generation tonight, to honour Udo. A Baader-Meinhof farce in which the protagonists have the same shagpile carpet as Petra von Kant and the action is punctuated by captions quoting dirty stuff found on toilet walls in west Berlin. An evening well spent.
Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
And a K9 comput-aaaaa
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
And a K9 comput-aaaaa
Installing our show Liberation Radio at the Index Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm. Opens Friday. Here’s a picture of the kitchen. indexfoundation.se/exhibitions/...
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Installing our show Liberation Radio at the Index Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm. Opens Friday. Here’s a picture of the kitchen. indexfoundation.se/exhibitions/...
On Sergelstorg baht ‘at
November 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
On Sergelstorg baht ‘at
All Souls night in Skogskyrkogården
November 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
All Souls night in Skogskyrkogården
Pickled in time like gherkins in a jar
October 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Pickled in time like gherkins in a jar
On Radio 4 at 4pm. Hurrah for primary sources! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
October 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
On Radio 4 at 4pm. Hurrah for primary sources! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Victorianists! Stand by your beds.
October 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Victorianists! Stand by your beds.
Anyway one thing led to another
October 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Anyway one thing led to another
Well, @Waterstones is offering 25% off online orders of the paperback of The New Forest Murders. OCTOBER25 is the code. Easier to crack than the one its hero and heroine must solve. www.waterstones.com/book/the-new...
October 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Well, @Waterstones is offering 25% off online orders of the paperback of The New Forest Murders. OCTOBER25 is the code. Easier to crack than the one its hero and heroine must solve. www.waterstones.com/book/the-new...
We’re not in south London anymore Toto
October 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
We’re not in south London anymore Toto
Oh no. Sometimes the obituaries just seem to come in like waves. Generations pass, I suppose. The water gets closer.
October 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Oh no. Sometimes the obituaries just seem to come in like waves. Generations pass, I suppose. The water gets closer.
Well thank you *very* much, Sophie Scott-Brown, Rachael Wiseman, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, Fergus Butler-Gallie and Sudhir Hazareesingh for coming on to FreeThinking to discuss the Good Life. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
October 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Well thank you *very* much, Sophie Scott-Brown, Rachael Wiseman, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, Fergus Butler-Gallie and Sudhir Hazareesingh for coming on to FreeThinking to discuss the Good Life. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Said goodbye to an old friend today. Stood at the lectern in the c.14th church and did my reading. He was born in the village, lived here, died here. Seems an amazing achievement.
September 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Said goodbye to an old friend today. Stood at the lectern in the c.14th church and did my reading. He was born in the village, lived here, died here. Seems an amazing achievement.
The most beautiful sight in the world
September 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The most beautiful sight in the world
Intense meeting in Stockholm today
September 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Intense meeting in Stockholm today
Chrissie White was a Kylie fan
September 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Chrissie White was a Kylie fan
Just reading about the novelist Kate O'Brien - the favourite of Laura in Brief Encounter. This was taken in 1926.
September 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Just reading about the novelist Kate O'Brien - the favourite of Laura in Brief Encounter. This was taken in 1926.
Weird to see Express clickbait about the death of Christopher H Bidmead.
September 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Weird to see Express clickbait about the death of Christopher H Bidmead.
here's the proper one
September 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
here's the proper one