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Matt Crowson the Turtle

...Lenny viewed life as a four-letter word... - Paul Krassner

About Me

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2750906/
www.crowsontheglobe.com
http://www.youtube.com/matthewlcrowson
i am trying to NETWORK with as many like-minded people on Myspace as possible...
so please dont be offended if i try to add you as a friend without writing an email first...
i am just trying to do a lot in a short time...
that is all...
Brandon "Rage" Ellis rocks my socks and got my website up so everyone can keep tabs on me.
(click on the link below)
i have been sober since August 20, 2003...
i have been writing since i was eleven years old - in the sixth grade...
i write to live, otherwise i think i will wither away inside and be of no use to anyone...
i read something new every day...
i have 2 older sisters, 3 younger brothers, and a younger step-sister i have never met...
i am the Godfather of Ivy Jr.'s two beautiful little boys.
I am the "honorary" Godfather of Brandon's beautiful little girl, and Erica's two beautiful little boys
i live and die for my family and friends, and kill if need be...
I search for the things that make me cry - to remind me I am still alive.
Ivy, III (6 years old) and Milo (3 1/2 years old) 25 April 2007
Boy would his mother be pissed...

My Interests



NETWORKING - TRAVEL - MUSIC - TATTOOS - NETWORKING...
LSU FOOTBALL !!!
Most anything can catch my attention at times... The curse of being a hyperactive child... Go A.D.D. !!!
At the moment: I am writing as usual... painting houses... planning my next trip... deciding where I want to move next... looking for great books to read... etc.

I'd like to meet:



People that make me strive to be more creative.... And anyone that needs a best friend or a worst enemy...

"Penny, Coghlan, Jarrod, Crowson"
FDR Monument, Washington D.C.
June 2006

Music:

Sublime, Elvis Presley, JAMES BURTON, Frank Black... DAVID AMRAM--One of the greatest composers of our time -- and quite possibly the nicest, coolest person I have ever met.

"There are two types of music... Good music and bad music..." --Ray Charles (now, please bear with me... i dont know the exact quote, but you get the picture)

I own and enjoy most every type of music... I saw the Pixies in concert at Austin City Limits 2004... Greatest fucking live show ever!

2 Live Crew, 2 Pac, 311, 4 Non Blondes, Aerosmith, AFI, Against Me, Al Green, Alison Krauss, Alkaline Trio, ANTARCTICA VS. THE WORLD, Anthrax, the Aquabats, Arlo Guthrie, Atmosphere, ATOMIC BLONDE, Bad Religion, Badly Drawn Boy, Barrington Levy, the Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Ben E. King, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, Ben Harper, Ben Kweller, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Billie Holiday, Billy Block, Bjork, Blackalicious, Black Crowes, Black Eye Peas, Black Francis, Black Sabbath, Black Star, Blind Melon, Blondie, Bloodhound Gang, Blue Oyster Cult, Blur, Bobby Darin, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Bodycount, the Bouncing Souls, BRADLEY, the Breeders, Brent J. Dickey, BRIAN MARTIN, Bright Eyes, Brothers and Sisters, Buddy Holly, Busta Rhymes, Butthole Surfers, Cake, the Cardigans, Carl Perkins, the Cars, CARTER, Cat Power, Charles Thompson, CHRIS ALEXANDER, Chris Thomas King, Christina Aguillera, Chuck Berry, the Clash, Coldplay, COMMON CURTIS, Corn Mo, Counting Crows, the Cranberries, Credence Clearwater Revival, the Cure, Cyndi Lauper, Damien Rice, the Darkness, Dave Matthews Band, DAVID AMRAM, David Bowie, Dead Kennedeys, DEAD ON, Dean Martin, Death Cab For Cutie, the Decendants, Deee Lite, De La Soul, Depeche Mode, Devendra Banhart, Digital Underground, Dilated Peoples, Dinosaur Jr., DIRTFOOT, Dishwalla, Django Reinhardt, DJ LADY FINGAZ, DJ NOCTURNA, DJ QUICKIE MART, the Donnas, the Doors, Dr. Dre, Dropkick Murphys, DUANE "D.J." JARVIS, Duran Duran, the Dwarves, Dwight Yoakam, Dynamite Hack, the Eagles, Easy-E, Edie Brickell, the Eels, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Eminem, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Eric Drew Feldman, Eryka Badhu, ESTEREO, Etta James, Eurythmics, Everclear, Eyes Adrift, Faith No More, Fiona Apple, Fishbone, the Flaming Lips, Fleetwood Mac, Flogging Molly, Foghat, Foo Fighters, Fountains of Wayne, Frank Black, Frank Black & the Catholics, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Franz Ferdinand, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Gangsta Folk, George Gershwin, George Jones, Ghetto Boys, George Clinton, Gillian Welch, Gladys Knight and the Pips, G. Love & the Special Sauce, Goldfinger, Gorillaz, Green Day, Guns N Roses, Hall and Oates, Hank Williams, Sr. and Jr. and III, Harry Conick, Jr., Harry McLintock, Heather Nova, Heart, Helmet, HIGHTOWER, Huey Lewis and the News, Hum, Ice Cube, Imogean Heap, THE INFINITE DIVISION, IO, Ira Gershwin, the Jackson Five, James Brown, JAMES BURTON, Janet Jackson, Jeff Buckley, Jeff Healey, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jet, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Buffet, JIMMY COUSINS TRIO, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Jurassic 5, KENTUCKY PROPHET, Kim Deal, KING HIPPO, KRS One, Kris Kristoferson, Lagwagon, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, Less Than Jake, Letters to Cleo, Link 80, Lisa Loeb, Little Richard, Live, the Living End, Liz Phair, LL Cool J, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Longfellow, Lords of Acid, LOSING ANNA, Louis Armstrong, Ludwig van Beethoven, Luscious Jackson, Madonna, the Mad Caddies, Madness, Marcy's Playground, Marilyn Manson, Marvin Gaye, Matisyahu, Mazzy Star, Meat Puppets, MEDIA DARLING RECORDS, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Mel Torme', MERIWETHER, Merle Haggard, Metallica, Michael Jackson, the Mighty Mighty Boss Tones, Miles Davis, the Misfits, Missy Elliott, Modest Mouse, the Moody Blues, Mos Def, THE MOVERS, My Morning Jacket, Naughty by Nature, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, No Doubt, NOFX, Norah Jones, Norman Blake, Notorious B.I.G., NWA, Oasis, the Offspring, Old 97s, OLIVER'S ARMY, ONE WANTS, Operation Ivy, THE OVERHEAD PROJECTORS, Pantera, THE PAPER CHASE, Pat Benetar, Patsy Cline, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Pennywise, A Perfect Circle, Peter Gabriel, Pharcyde, THE PICTS, PILLAGE PEOPLE, Pink, Pink Floyd, the Pixies, PM Dawn, the Pogues, Polyphonic Spree, Portishead, the Postal Service, Primus, Prince, Public Enemy, Q-Tip, Queen, Queen Latifa, Queens of the Stoneage, the Ramones, Rachel Yamagata, Radiohead, Rah Digga, RAISED UNDER REAGAN, Rancid, Randy Travis, Ray Charles, Rebekah Del Rio, Red Hot Chili Peppers, REDSHIFT, Reel Big Fish, the Refreshments, Richard Wagner, Rick Springfield, Rise Against, Robert Earl Keen, Robert Johnson, Roger Miller, The Rolling Stones, the Roots, Roy Orbison, Run DMC, Rufus Wainwright, Salt N Pepa, Sam Cooke, Sarah McLachlan, Save Ferris, Semisonic, the Sex Pistols, Shania Twain, Sheryl Crow, Smashing Pumpkins, Sneaker Pimps, Snoop Dogg, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, SOUND&SHAPE, Spacehog, SPARKELY V, SQUINT, STATUESCRYBLEEDING, Stevie Wonder, Sublime, Tears for Fears, Ted Leoand the Rxs, THAO NGUYEN, They Might Be Giants, Tippa Irie, the Toadies, Tool, a Tribe Called Quest, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Tom Waits, Too Short, Tori Amos, Townes Van Zandt, Travis Tritt, Twisted Sister, TYLER READ, Ugly Kid Joe, the Vandals, the Vines, U2, Walken, Warren Zevon, Waylon Jennings, Ween, Weezer, WENDY COLONNA, WEREWOLF: THE LEGENDARY 80'S COVER BAND, the White Stripes, the Who, Wilco, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Willie Nelson, Woody Guthrie, Wu Tang Clan, theYeah Yeah Yeahs, ZACK THE ROOKIE

Movies:

I love movies.... I can honestly spend every waking hour of every day watching movies... I have lots of favorites, but I will watch ANY movie just to say I watched it... But first and foremost... the Goonies!!!

Grandma's Boy is one of the funniest movies ever!!!

Television:



"Mom and Me"

"Kay's Virgin" by me

Books:

I love to read... I will go without sleep for a couple of days just so I can finish a book... I will read ANY book from cover to cover... for the knowledge--and fodder for discussion...
Christopher Moore: start with "Lamb", and "Fluke", technically, all his books are incredible.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: again, all his books are incredible... "Cats Cradle", "Breakfast of Champions", "Bogombo Snuff Box", "Slaughterhouse 5", etc.
Jerry Stahl: "Permanent Midnight", "Perv: A Love Story", "Plainclothes Naked", "I, Fatty"
Nick Hornby: "A Long Way Down", "About A Boy", "High Fidelity", "How To Be Good", "Speaking with the Angel"
Tom Robbins: "Another Roadside Attraction", "Skinny Legs and All", "Gitterbug Perfume", "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues", "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas", etc.
Jonathan Safran Foer: "Everything is Illuminated" (good movie, too!), "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close".
Douglas Adams: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" really awesome!!
David Amram: "Vibrations", "Offbeat".
Jack Kerouac: "The Town and the City"(his greatest work, in my opinion), "On the Road", and any of his other works.
John M. Barry "RISING TIDE: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America"
Ray Bradbury: "Fahrenheit 451", "Something Wicked This Way Comes", (really, everything he has written is great)
Charles Bukowski: "Hollywood", "Ham on Rye" or any of his books and/or poetry - very interesting guy
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky: "Crime and Punishment", and "The Brothers Karamazov" (timeless masterpieces)
Philip K. Dick: "The Man in the High Castle"
James Dickey: "Deliverance" - the book the movie was based on... the book was so well written, i was biting my nails the last 10 pages or so
Ernest Hemmingway: all of his work is incredible
Aldous Huxley: "Brave New World"
Garrison Keillor: "Lake Wobegon Days" and all his other books
P. F. Kluge: "Biggest Elvis"
Harper Lee: "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Madeleine L'Engle: "A Wrinkle in Time", "A Wind in the Door", "A Swiftly Tilting Planet", "Many Waters", etc.
Jimmy A. Lerner: "You Got Nothing Coming: Notes from a Prison Fish"
Jeff Noon: "Vurt", "Pollen", "Automated Alice"
George Orwell: "1984", "Animal Farm", "Down and Out in Paris and London"
Chuck Palahniuk: "Fight Club", "Lullaby", "Choke", "Diary"
Edgar Allen Poe: all of his works
J.D. Salinger: "Catcher in the Rye", "Franny and Zooey", "Nine Stories"
Charles M. Schulz: all the Peanuts books
David Sedaris: "Me Talk Pretty One Day", "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" all his books and poetry
Shel Silverstein: all his books and poetry
John Steinbeck: "Of Mice and Men", "The Pearl"
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: "Hell's Angels"
John Kennedy Toole: "A Confederacy of Dunces"
Irvine Welsh: "Filth", "Trainspotting", "Marabou Stork Nightmares", "Porno"
Comic Books / Graphic Novels
Frank Miller: "Batman: Year One" (the recent Batman movie was based on this book), "Sin City", "Ronin"
Warren Ellis: "Transmetropolitan", "Global Frequency"
Robert Crumb: "American Splendor" good movie, too [the American Splendor movie was based on the life of Harvey Pekar(writer) and his collaboration with Robert Crumb(artist)]
Jhonen Vasquez: "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac", "Squee"
Harvey Pekar: "American Splendor" good movie, too [the American Splendor movie was based on the life of Harvey Pekar(writer) and his collaboration with Robert Crumb(artist)]

Heroes:

My father. Polly Addison (my Nonny). Nathan and Loc Crowson. James Wise, Jr.

My Blog

Highland Area Partnership

Highland Area Partnership http://www.myspace.com/highlandareapartnershipREMEMBER...We' re trying to get the word out about our new MySpace page. To do so, we're asking for your help. Please tell all o...
Posted by Matt Crowson the Turtle on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:14:00 PST

the New York Times

recently, i made the 'Big Time', sort of...Tuesday, May 20, 2008, the following two page article appeared in the New York Times:http://www. nytimes. com/2008/05/20/movies/20shre. html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=sh...
Posted by Matt Crowson the Turtle on Mon, 26 May 2008 01:25:00 PST

Kat

awesome new pics of my niece Kat!!!-until next time......
Posted by Matt Crowson the Turtle on Fri, 23 May 2008 02:21:00 PST

Katherine Adele Coburn

It is my distinct pleasure (i am really excited about this!!!!) to introduce you to the newest addition to the Crowson Family!the beautiful, wonderful momma, Adele.and the proud poppa, my brother Nath...
Posted by Matt Crowson the Turtle on Thu, 15 May 2008 08:17:00 PST

Matt Crowsons Insane Birthday Bash

Hosted By: Matt CrowsonWhen: Wednesday Apr 16, 2008 at 8:00 PMWhere: my houseask meShreveport, Louisiana|19 71104United StatesDescription:Matt Crowson Click Here To View Event-until next time......
Posted by Matt Crowson the Turtle on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:16:00 PST

haha, i made it!

haha, i made it!i'm 30, bitches!!!!!!-until next time...
Posted by Matt Crowson the Turtle on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:17:00 PST

Dirtfoot w/ Shotgun Party

for the first time ever in Shreveport, LA, come see the amazingSHOTGUN PARTY from Austin, TX!!!!!!!www.myspace.com/shotgunfiesta this is a must see, cannot miss show!Hosted By: DirtfootWhen: Saturday ...
Posted by Matt Crowson the Turtle on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:36:00 PST

more from the 339

enjoy:and last, but not least! until next time......
Posted by Matt Crowson the Turtle on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:01:00 PST

Sushi Saturday, the Body Electric and Sunday breakfast

Saturday Feb 16th, 2008.Orie, Tuna and I met Ben Norton, Elaine and Kelly at Sushiko (on the Boardwalk) to have sushi for dinner.then we went to the Body Electric to give Sizer, Lance and Venus our le...
Posted by Matt Crowson the Turtle on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:44:00 PST

the 339 Boys video blog

the following is an assortment of debauchery that takes place at the 339 house.enjoy!a few seconds of me carrying Balls around party 1 party 2 party 3 party 4 ...
Posted by Matt Crowson the Turtle on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:42:00 PST