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Matthew

A corpse floating in the black water of a basement among the trash and rusting ductwork.

About Me

He stood in a livingroom partly burned and open to the sky. The waterbuckled boards sloping away into the yard. Soggy volumes in a bookcase. He took one down and opened it and then put it back. Everything damp. Rotting. In a drawer he found a candle. No way to light it. He put it in his pocket. He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world.

My Interests

avoiding middle age by running around the world playing rock music, selling Capitalism the rope to hang itself, being in close proximity to my better half, flying into a rage for no good reason, watching movies, speaking german, eating Korean BBQ, eating in general, naughty stuff, sleeping, maintaining a really dated fashion sense, trying to figure out whether we're ever going to be free or if I should just blow my f*cking brains out now, www.collectiveliberation.org , www.war-times.org, www.homestarrunner.com, www.fat-pie.com

I'd like to meet:

The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black volume of the universe.From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Music:

For fun, I'm gonna cut out all the bands that I just listen to, and list only the bands that heavily influenced my music/guitar playing: Polvo, the first 5 U2 albums, INXS up until and including KICK, Archers of Loaf - here and there - like a junkshop with many treasures, Prince's Purple Rain, Tears for Fears' Songs From the Big Chair, Security era Peter Gabriel, American Don era Don Cab, Slint's Spiderland, Faraquet/Medications, Silian Rail, Brainiac, Unwound up until and including Repetition, At The Gates' Slaughter of the Soul, Laddio Bolocko, Neurosis, Fugazi, Circus Lupus' SuperGenius, Chet Baker, Jesus Lizard, A Ten O'Clock Scholar, Sweep the Let Johnny, Chavez, Charles Mingus' live @ the Bohemian, Rye Coalition pre-AC/DC, June of '44/Shipping News, Mousetrap's Lover, Del Rey, Maserati, Pinback, Lymbyc Systym, Toe, Nine Days Wonder's With Euphoria, From Monument to Masses, The Mass, TURKS, Dim Mak Records, Crucial Blast Records, Monotreme Records, Audiolith Records, Catune Records, Golden Antenna Records

Movies:

I've finally begun a DVD library of my favorite directors. It includes every feature length film (and many shorts and early films) by: David Cronenberg, Michael Haneke, Tom Tykwer, David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, and Stanley Kubrick. I'm thinking of adding Park Chan Wook, Andrei Tarkofsky, Danny Boyle, & Francois Ozon. Used dvds are hella cheap on amazon.

Books:

Whiteness of a Different Color, The Road, Langenscheidt's German English Dictionary, The Audacity of Hope

Heroes:

Robin, Bertrand Russell, Karl Marx, Third-World National Liberation Movements, Francis Bacon, David Cronenberg, my bandmates, my friends, Joey DeMaio