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Matthew Rodriguez

selling candy making green backs, yeah we be rich

About Me

ill answer your questions if you answer my questions
A real cartoonist is a contradiction. Its usually someone who sees life realistically and has a sarcastic view of all the hypocrisy and insanity in the world, yet he draws in a really happy lively, funny style.

this one time i went to bagdad and somebody threw a rock at our car .




Click the snow mans nose

things i like to do and make:
1. chandeliers and shadows
2.nocturnal doodling on pipes and hydrants
3. grumpy candy corns
4. raccoon robbers and gamblin' squirrels
5. abandoned dollhouses and antique furniture
6. animation and personification
7. lite brites and old food packaging
8. wild life photography
9. food faces and rock piles
10. rainbow monsters and color pallete boogie monsters

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My Interests

Jeet Kune Do and Puppets

I'd like to meet:

drawers, doodlers, animals that fly, film makers that want to start a gang with me

Music:

tom waits,kid koala,Leonard Cohen,Elastic waste band,Carl stalling orchestra, louie armstrong, Johnny Cash, Rolling Stones,Bob Dylan,. i like a bunch of other bands , but i usually just like one song by other bands .

Movies:

1.(punch drunk love) reminds me of me and my sisters alittle bit, 2.Conspirators of pleasure(czeckoslovian movie that will make you smile ,3.Enter the dragon 4.eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. 5.Gummo 6.edward scissor hands 7.city of god

Television:

curb your enthusiasm( this guy that created seinfeld ,makes this show, his name is larry david and he stars in the show as himself,i love him cause we agree on everything)

Books:

the lorax and other lessons by dr suess

Heroes:

bruce lee, dr.suess,bob clampett, the people that made betty boop cartoons, hunder twasser, tom waits and his vocabulary

My Blog

portland is pretty in june

i was in portland for 8days installing a show at the motel gallery . they were very nice to me. click the word nice and look at the perdy pictures...
Posted by Matthew Rodriguez on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:58:00 PST

those who mind dont matter

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because thosewho mind, Dont matter and those who matter dont mind."I was raised by dr.seuss, 2 sisters,1mom, and an all girls brownies squad .That means Dr.seus...
Posted by Matthew Rodriguez on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:19:00 PST

its cold out side you cant leave

i wrote this song for elizabeth when she was periwinkle blue.sing this in a louie armstrong voice."LOUIE VOICE" do it"wwwwwwweeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllllllllcannnnn i get alittle stand up bass mucked...
Posted by Matthew Rodriguez on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:06:00 PST

read my interview in the chronicle

Matthew Rodriguez makes front-page news of this week's Chronicle!
Posted by Matthew Rodriguez on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:26:00 PST

I was born at the cathedral of junk

"matthew Rodriguez used to live on 4422 lareina dr" i was born in my parents 2 bedroom house in south austin, by a bunch of hippy house wives in 1977.They buried my placenta in the front yard by the m...
Posted by Matthew Rodriguez on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:39:00 PST

the police got mad at me in newyork, they call me the doodla

    http://www.woostercollective.com/2006/05/matthew_rodriguez_a t_mf_gallery.html...
Posted by Matthew Rodriguez on Tue, 30 May 2006 02:05:00 PST

nov 5th unicorn themed art show at bolm studios

my good freind ian shultz is putting on this berry funny smile day. its a group art show called "will there ever be a rainbow" its a unicorn theme art show.with prizes and games.  the openin...
Posted by Matthew Rodriguez on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:34:00 PST

www.flickr.com/photos/rodriguez

i got a generic web page   www.flickr.com/photos/rodriguez
Posted by Matthew Rodriguez on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

june 16 2005 7pm to midnight

gallery lombardi is reopening june 16 with a show called mulligan stew. mulligan stew is a stew train hoppers make. All the hoppers waiting for the train must bring one item to put in the stew, or ...
Posted by Matthew Rodriguez on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

april 2nd late night pirate party

this is a conversation i heard while bird watching this morning. two crows where talking with gangster voices and they had no idea i was listening . heres what they said. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH man i du...
Posted by Matthew Rodriguez on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST