Matthew Damascus Archives • Ink 19

Peter Murphy
- Music Reviews
- July 6, 2006
Unshattered (Viastar). Review by Matthew Damascus.
Laibach
- Music Reviews
- November 12, 2004
WAT (Mute Records). Review by Matthew Damascus.
Dixie Witch
- Music Reviews
- June 29, 2004
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Dixie Witch
- Music Reviews
- June 7, 2004
One Bird Two Stones (Small Stone Records). Review by Matthew Damascus.
Will The Last One To Leave Turn Out The Lights?
- Bladejob
- January 15, 2003
Matthew Damascus kills Bladejob dead with a single stroke. Plus, aesthetic lamentations for a wrestler? Que?
I Guess Nothing Really Changes
- Bladejob
- September 21, 2002
Matthew Damascus shakes his head and mutters dark curses against the phony gay wedding angle on Smackdown, and then marks out over the Axl Rose comeback.
Back So Soon?
- Bladejob
- September 9, 2002
Is that Bladejob? Where did you come from? How about that WWE? How about that “HLA”?

Bertrand Burgalat
- Event Reviews
- May 1, 2002
Bertrand Burgalat with AS Dragon at The Metro Club in London, UK on March 23, 2002. Concert review by Matthew Damascus. Photos by Heather Lorusso.
Fundamentally Useless
- Music Reviews
- February 26, 2002
Canfield Black (Four Track Demos) (self-released). Review by Matthew Damascus.
Bad Pills
- Print Reviews
- February 11, 2002
Dying of leukemia, Sverre H. Kristensen endeavoured to make the cute little funny animals in his final comic, Bad Pills suffer just as much as him. Matthew Damascus thinks he was successful.
Josh Sullivan Comics
- Print Reviews
- January 28, 2002
Ink 19 Columnist and comics wunderkind Josh Sullivan is at it again, with the tenth issue of his self-published Josh Sullivan Comics. Matthew Damascus takes a look.
Contrasting Views of People Living Within an Artistic Lifestyle
- Screen Reviews
- January 28, 2002
Ex-"rock & porn" kingpin Matt Zane makes a stab at legitimacy with his new documentary, Contrasting Views of People Living Within an Artistic Lifestyle. Matthew Damascus fails to see the "Artistic" part.
Velveeda Singles and Seconds
- Print Reviews
- January 14, 2002
Matthew Damascus isn’t afraid to let you know that he reads porn comix like Velveeda Singles and Seconds… not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Maybe Rocky Doesn’t Suck (After All)
- Bladejob
- May 16, 2001
An oddly optimistic look at the (timely) mainstream crossover appeal of the Rock, courtesy of “Bladejob”. Yes, yes, but The Mummy Returns is still a piece of shit!

That Night Of Nights
- Bladejob
- March 31, 2001
The by-no-means definitive guide to centering your whole April 1st around, yes, Wrestlemaniaaaaaaa! A “Bladejob” exclusive.
Some Girls Are Bigger…
- Bladejob
- March 5, 2001
Perhaps Ziggy could play guitar, but there were many things he could never
dream of doing. Like wrestle, for instance. A mostly, really, probably true Bladejob investigation on Akira Hokuto.
Twenty Lightbulbs (Of Hope) For 2001
- Bladejob
- January 16, 2001
List-Mania is running wild all over Bladejob. Shudder in terror as
Matthew Damascus struggles to pick out the bright spots for wrestling
in 2001.
Bastard Obligatory Year-End List Mania Now
- Bladejob
- December 30, 2000
It’s time for Bladejob to dole out dubious year-end honors for the
“best” that Wrestling had to offer in 2000. Objectivity and common sense
went right out the window…
Goddamn! What A Disturbing Triple H Video!
- Bladejob
- December 3, 2000
Goddamn! What A Disturbing Triple H Video! That really kind of says it all,
doesn’t it? Matthew Damascus critiques the cinematic techniques of a
villain’s intro video in “Bladejob”.
Michiku Pro
- Screen Reviews
- November 20, 2000
Easily the best Japanese women’s pro-wrestling site on the net. "All Purpose …

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