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Matt

i wasn't born, i was found on a train

About Me

i do stuff, i go places, i meet people.

My Interests

Alliteration, Beatz, Building/s, Cleaning, Consciousness, Cooking, crack heads, Croquet at night, Digging, Dorking out, Elevators, Empiricism, Ex-Girlfriends, Fastidiousness, Fire, Getting mail from my friends, Half Floors, Hammocks, India, Inspiration, Laughing, Making out, Me, Mexico, Nerdy girls, Non Sequiters, Obscenity, Painting, Piracy, Popcorn, Pot, Puppetry, Quantum Physics, Sculpting, Secret Compartments, Smiles, Team Work, Time, Truth, Tubing, Visiting friends far away, Walking, Whiskey, Writing letters never sent, Yard work, Yoga, You

I'd like to meet:

the hoity-toity hoi poloi

Music:

Devon Angus, The Arcade Fire, The Arctic Monkeys, Bach, The Back Porch Majority, The Bananas, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Blonde Redhead, David Bowie, Bushwick Bill, The Business Lady, Busdriver, Chicago, Client, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Deerhoof, Donovan, The Doors, Dr. Tooth and the Electric Mayhem, ELO, Eminem, The First Edition, Foreignor, The Four Eyes, The Frenchmen, Marvin Gaye, The Gerbils, Goblin, Joel Goulet, Grandaddy, Bernard Herman, Hod Hulphers, The Islands, Jim & the Indian, Journey, The Kinks, The Knightmares, Knock Knock, Ladytron, Love, The Lovemakers, Ludacris, The Mars Volta, The Steve Miller Band, Modest Mouse, Ennio Morricone, Mos Def, Nar, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Outkast, Pets, Pinback, The Polyphonic Spree, The Pretty Things, Quasi, Radiohead, Rasputina, Otis Redding, Reggaeton, Rolff the Dog, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Shellac, The Shins, Elliott Smith, Spoon, Stereo Total, Cat Stevens, The Strokes, tATu, th'is, Toto, The Unicorns, Tom Waits, Wolf Parade, The Wu Tang Clan, The Zombies

Movies:

Paul Anderson, John Carpenter, Chevy Chase, James Coburn, Wes Craven, David Cronenberg, George Cukor, Keith David, Johnny Depp, Ruggero Deodato, Philip K Dick, Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Clint Eastwood, David Fincher, Cary Grant, Jim Henson, Katherine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Ironsides, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, Delroy Lindo, Myrna Loy, David Lynch, Helen Mirren, Bill Murray, Trey Parker, Todd Phillips, Harold Ramis, James Remar, Adam Rifken, George Romero, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, William Shakespeare, Neil Simon, Lee Van Cleef, W.S. Van Dyke, Paul Verhoeven, Noel Von Joo, John Waters, Peter Weller, Bruce Willis, James Woods

Television:

buffy, surgery, commercials

Books:

fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, reference, language dictionaries, books with pictures and without, y'know, guys like...Dante Aligheri, Roland Barthes, George Battaile, Ray Bradbury, Mihail Bulgakov, Roald Dahl, Jared Diamond, Philip K Dick, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Michel Foucoult, William Gibson. Nicol Gogol, John Gribbon, Dashiell Hammett, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Frank Miller, Henry Miller, Alan Moore, Chuck Palahniuk, Dorothy Parker, Plato, Maurice Sendak, Peter Shaffer, William Shakespeare, Sophocles, Jonathan Swift, Jim Thompson, JRR Tolkein, Leo Tolstoy, Virgil, Voltaire, Virginia Woolf and many more

Heroes:

Indiana Jones, Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Batman

My Blog

last days in the incan empire

it is my last night here in cuzco, tomorrow i will be tyravelling for 18 hours back up north through lima, through san salvador and on to san francisco. it has been a whirlwind trip, less than two wee...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:35:00 PST

i saw the world trade center fall...

...on this guy. he was changing movie posters in one of those glass advertising cases they have at intersections and the poster for the new oliver stone movie came loose and it tumbled down on his hea...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:22:00 PST

Saturday, May 6th, 2006

I went to Dolores Park to celebrate Soles 25th birthday, armed with a rock box, most of a flask of Ancient Age whiskey and some CDs.  Al and I made sausages, while smoking tons of weed.  I a...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 08 May 2006 07:39:00 PST

a treatise on dirt vol 2

digging can be clandestine and inquisitive.  that which needs burying needs a hole dug within which to bury it.  and what untold treasures have been sought, found and await discovery through...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:48:00 PST

monster trucks, hedda gabler and some old fish

  On Saturday, at the UCSC experimental theater, I saw Hedda, the revision of Hedda Gabbler.  It was very sixties; set in purgatory, after Hedda killed herself at the end of the Ibsen play, ...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:26:00 PST

a treatise on dirt vol. 1

after painting houses for the past few months it was a welcome relief to hear jesse tell me there was alot of digging to do up in marysville. i had been away on a mini vacation visiting friends and fa...
Posted by Matt on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 09:11:00 PST