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Matt DeFilippis

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I've been working for bands since 1989. Now I work for a band called Drive-by Truckers. I've been in Athens for 8 years. I moved here from Virginia. Sweet Virginia. I have the best wife in the world and the best cats too. I like to read.

My Interests

Travel, History, Music, Music History

I'd like to meet:

Gore Vidal, Salman Rushdie, Bruce Springsteen, Muhammad Ali, Larry McMurtry

Music:

The Boss, The Band, The Man in Black, Eddie Hinton

Books:

My favorite authors are Hunter S. Thompson, Gore Vidal, Larry McMurtry, Salman Rushdie, and Leslie Marmon Silko. I also love Faulkner, Twain, Michner, Lamour, Puzo, Robbins, Rice, Wolfe, and countless others.Books i've read lately: The Lemon Tree, Flight, Politicide, Vengence, The Shia Revival, When the Light Goes,My wife gave me an autographed copy of a limited edition "Burr", by Gore Vidal. Thanks wife.

Heroes:

Aaron Burr, Muhammad Ali, Hunter S. Thompson, my dad, Honest Abe, Pullo