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matt-a-tat-tat

Nobody pushes THIS wookie around.

About Me

.. Optimistically cynical, subconsciously hums, jokes about everything. I like ordering foods whose name I can't pronounce. I get antsy about staying inside on a nice day. I can remember names of character actors on 80s sitcoms but forget names of people I just met. I constantly need new music. I'm pretty good at building things I don't know how to make.

My friend Flickr

My Interests

games, art, music, movies, concerts, biking, giant monster wrestling, finding weird shit in chinatown, getting lost.

I'd like to meet:

people with an evil sense of humor who like to hatch hare-brained schemes.

Music:

David Bowie
Pixies
Blur
Pulp
Roxy Music
Bjork
Air
Flaming Lips
Stereolab
Devo
Prince
Of Montreal
Arcade Fire
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
Boards of Canada
Brian Eno
DJ Shadow
Fiery Furnaces
Gorillaz
Heart (official Barracuda/Magic Man addict)
Interpol
Iggy Pop
Jackson and His Computer Band
Ladytron
Louis XIV
T.Rex
My Morning Jacket
New Pornographers
New York Dolls
PJ Harvey
Pavement
Queen
Rollerskate Skinny
Sigur Ros
Smiths
Spirtualized
Spoon
Suede
Super Furry Animals
Supergrass
Ted Leo
The Cars
The Modern Lovers
X

Movies:

Blade Runner, Spaghetti Westerns, Chinatown, LOTR, Hitchcock movies, Old-School Epics

Television:

WONDER SHOWZEN, 24, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, South Park, The Daily Show, Project Runway, Upright Citizens Brigade, MST3K, Strangers With Candy, Kids in the Hall, Seinfeld

Books:

Dune, Breakfast of Champions, The Satanic Verses, Chuck Palahniuk books, Philip K. Dick stories, Bradbury, Asimov, classic sci-fi, Vonnegut and Rushdie are my biggies at the moment.

Heroes:

Greedo and Prince

My Blog

Don't count a carnosaur out

Well it appears reports of T-Rex's demise have been greatly exaggerated. I got a call tonight that he reappeared, skinnier and dirtier but still purring. He had been living under the house hunting r...
Posted by matt-a-tat-tat on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:51:00 PST

The city's the safest place

I sent two of my cats, T-Rex and Yoda, to go live with my ex-girlfriend in Washington state.  She had originally picked them out and since she finally had a stable place she was living and I was ...
Posted by matt-a-tat-tat on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 11:14:00 PST

First rule of kickball

Don't slide into third base with shorts on. My leg looked okay at first, then it bled neon pink predator blood, then weird orange liquid, then it turned into the raspberry patch you see in the pictur...
Posted by matt-a-tat-tat on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:55:00 PST

Coconut Rum and Fig Newtons

aren't doing a very good job of keeping me awake.  At least this new Belle and Sebastian album sounds pretty good.   note to self: next time in the Caribbean, buy more coconut rum.  It ...
Posted by matt-a-tat-tat on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 06:50:00 PST

my memories of the bahamas

A drunk Bahamian drags me into an alley, tells me how much he loves his white brothers, hugs me, shows me his belly to let me know he isn't lying about losing 70 pounds and then has me hold his coke w...
Posted by matt-a-tat-tat on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:08:00 PST

what's missing in modern music...

...is the sweet saxophone solo.  What happened to those??  You really knew someone was laying on the soul when the sax solo made it's appearance.  That's the time for the singer to sway...
Posted by matt-a-tat-tat on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:04:00 PST

Pixar needs viagra


Posted by matt-a-tat-tat on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Evil Wizard, Dear Reader

Well, "The Nippler" has been put on hold for now, due to our belief that extraneous amounts of our bad acting would have ruined it. It was too dialogue heavy and relied too much on the police procedu...
Posted by matt-a-tat-tat on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

guard your nipples

I forgot to mention this in my last post, but initial work is underway on a new motion picture I'll be appearing in. It's a little film about two cops tracking down a deranged psychopath who removes ...
Posted by matt-a-tat-tat on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Super Dreads

I saw a guy on the subway today with dreadlocks in his hair. To be more specific he had all his hair assembled into 3 mighty dreadlocks sprouting from his head. Each was about 2 inches in diameter. It...
Posted by matt-a-tat-tat on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST