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mattvan

you look like your sticky

About Me

simplicity is golden....

My Interests

booze, beers (both kinds) guitars, bass guitars, drums, lap steel, tiki, hawaii, hawaiian music, tattoos, pin-up girls, laughing, bartending, touring, not being home, playing music, rebuilding broken furniture, eating thai food, eating meat, gibson sg's, getting rid of 70's fender jazz basses in hopes for music man stingray basses, listening to jazz guitarists, my friends, my bands, the 1967 pontiac gto, how shit works the good ole' days, and and rock and roll.

I'd like to meet:

a hangover cure...or regina spektor....or david sedaris.

Music:

braid, jawbox, burning airlines, hey mercedes, elvis, the clash,wilco, uncle tupelo, son volt, robbie fulks, rftc, tal farlow, george jones, the mars volta, yes,led zeppelin, thin lizzy, the highlife, hepcat, elvis costello, nick drake, all, descendants, 50's hawaiian strings, xtc, squeez, pink floyd, the darkness, jeff buckley, badly drawn boy, ours, drexel, howards alias, captain everything, whippersnapper, flamingo el, qotsa, dave brubeck, junior brown, the rezillos, hardskin (thanks ben corrigan), frank sinatra, l.e.s.c., big d, kenny chesney, speedy west, jimmy bryant, nico, michael hedges, khaki king, pete yorn, n.w.a, bob seager, the beach boys/brian wilson, curtis mayfield/the impressions, alkaline trio, bob's country bunker, quicksand, helmet, primus, jaco pastorius, marcus miller, maceo parker, weather report, janes addiction, the cardigans, sol hoopii, hank sr., jr. and III, ween, boston, dismemberment plan, fugazi, ween, the futureheads, the jam, tears for fears, elliot smith, ted leo and the pharmacists, A.L.D, baitshop, grayling, scatter the ashes, oh yeah..i know i said this already but ROCKETFROMTHEMOTHERFUCKINGCRYPT!!

Movies:

bridge over the river kwai, outside providence, bill murray (anything), buffalo 66, i am trying to break your heart, cool hand luke, blue hawaii, porn, papillion, n.l. vacation, motel hell, mars attacks!, the shining, the hudsucker proxy, the burbs, monty python, eternal sunshine on the spotless mind

Television:

the simpsons, the family guy, forensic files, the weather channel, tlc, discovery, the history channel, mythbusters, iron chef, miami ink, medical mysteries, unwrapped, the food network. anything but mtv.

Books:

american guide to vintage guitars, the alchemist, them (jon ronson), the 50 greatest conspiracies of all time, fast food nation, the dictionary, a seperate peace, rand mcnally road atlas. the book of tiki, holidays on ice, old national geographics, old encyclopedias (pre 1940), old text books(pre 1940).

Heroes:

sambob nichol. john paul jones

My Blog

higher learning

"once you stop learning...you may as well be dead" archie van elslander i like to put it...."once you think you know everything.....you may as well kill yourself"  
Posted by mattvan on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:42:00 PST

novelty

the album by jawbox.......go buy it now.  i said NOW!!!  Its a shame kids cant play music like this anymore.     
Posted by mattvan on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:34:00 PST

a huge change in my life

the only thing i want to listen to is earth, wind and fire and toto.  smooth mellow jams for 2007.   
Posted by mattvan on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:59:00 PST

sunglasses....are you fucking kidding me

A 20-year-old man was shot and killed outside the State Theater in Detroit over the weekend, apparently over a pair of designer sunglasses, Local 4 reported. Someone outside the theater had a pair of...
Posted by mattvan on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:35:00 PST

j. robbins

he could crap on a cd and i would still think its the best thing since sliced bread.......brilliant fucker.
Posted by mattvan on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 02:43:00 PST