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Matt/Johnny

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About Me

My name on the instant messenger is Lametastic. I like arty stuff, and arty people, especially the indie-rock kind, or close to it. We're like an army or something. I come from a faraway land of blazing deserts and crazy cattle!I was recently a salaried "test engineer" for an Irish company that makes cell phone games. I truly mean that.In first grade, I seriously suggested to my teacher that "a wheelchair with a bazooka on it" might be an invention people would take interest in. At the time, I couldn't believe she scolded me for being "silly" as a result of this.I have a varied, elaborate accent, if it can be called that, with diverse influences--and I promise that none of them are an affectation.I'm the only person I know who'd base a character on a combination of George Plimpton, James Spader, Robert Downey Jr. and a green, animated klepto raccoon. It just seems like a great idea.
I Am A: Chaotic Neutral Human Druid/Bard (2nd/1st Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength-13
Dexterity-12
Constitution-13
Intelligence-12
Wisdom-16
Charisma-11
Alignment:
Chaotic Neutral A chaotic neutral character follows his whims. He is an individualist first and last. He values his own liberty but doesn't strive to protect others' freedom. He avoids authority, resents restrictions, and challenges traditions. A chaotic neutral character does not intentionally disrupt organizations as part of a campaign of anarchy. To do so, he would have to be motivated either by good (and a desire to liberate others) or evil (and a desire to make those different from himself suffer). A chaotic neutral character may be unpredictable, but his behavior is not totally random. He is not as likely to jump off a bridge as to cross it. Chaotic neutral is the best alignment you can be because it represents true freedom from both society's restrictions and a do-gooder's zeal. However, chaotic neutral can be a dangerous alignment because it seeks to eliminate all authority, harmony, and order in society.
Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.
Primary Class:
Druids gain power not by ruling nature but by being at one with it. They hate the unnatural, including aberrations or undead, and destroy them where possible. Druids receive divine spells from nature, not the gods, and can gain an array of powers as they gain experience, including the ability to take the shapes of animals. The weapons and armor of a druid are restricted by their traditional oaths, not simply training. A druid's Wisdom score should be high, as this determines the maximum spell level that they can cast.
Secondary Class:
Bards often serve as negotiators, messengers, scouts, and spies. They love to accompany heroes (and villains) to witness heroic (or villainous) deeds firsthand, since a bard who can tell a story from personal experience earns renown among his fellows. A bard casts arcane spells without any advance preparation, much like a sorcerer. Bards also share some specialized skills with rogues, and their knowledge of item lore is nearly unmatched. A high Charisma score allows a bard to cast high-level spells.
Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be? , courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)

My Interests

Bartcop, Wolfenstein 3D nostalgia, music, film, romance, lightsaber duels in otherwise terrible Star Wars films of recent years, beating up Star Wars geeks with my sci-fi posse, dancing maniacally at clubs, doing impressions of Henry Rollins/Michael Stipe/Tom Cruise/Rivers Cuomo/Vincent Gallo/Jesse Ventura/Clint Eastwood/Morrissey/Ian Curtis/Layne Staley/Regis Philbin, showing off on instruments, stalking celebrities, screenwriting, acting, telling people all about my film/music ideas, finally beginning to fully form those ideas in some way, gunkata, using odd metaphors to describe people/things/events, FX pedals, my favorite actress(?), writing lyrics, writing stories, DJing, fighting the current NYC Rock n' Roll scene to the death, politics when they're more intriguing than frustrating, planes, submarines, ships, tanks, thievery, doing the "Body Snatcher Shriek," voting in the nude, NOT talking about Straight Edge, giving the silent treatment to Collective Soul fans, cutting newspaper/magazine articles into perfect squares, Vision of Disorder album covers, D and D online name generators, posting surveys on Myspace until people delete me from their list, kissing

I'd like to meet:

Timothy Hutton(to participate in my hilarious plan to make him an android,) the author of the "Plains, Trains and Plantains" Oedipus essay, Zooey Deschanel, Don Cheadle, Kirsten Dunst, Chinese vets of the Korean War, Vin Diesel, Alan Moore(to see if he's actually human,) David the Gnome. Oh, and don't forget the mighty(and appallingly underrated) David Gedge:

Music:

ABBA, Alice in Chains, the Amps, Articles of Faith, Ataxia, Autolux, Bang! Bang!, the Beatles, Bella, Big Black, Black Flag, Blake Babies, the Breeders, Butthole Surfers, Christian Death, the Cure, The Damage Manual, the Damned, Dead Kennedys, Depeche Mode, Devo, Dinosaur Jr, Duran Duran, Echo and the Bunnymen,the Effigies, Embrace, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, the Fall, the Frogs, Fugazi, Genesis(Peter Gabriel era,) Juliana Hatfield, Husker Du, Joy Division, Kasm Society, Killing Joke, King Crimson, Kraftwerk, Ladytron, LARD, Lemonheads, Lightning Seeds, Malcolm McLaren, Meat Puppets, Metallica(you know which albums!) Ministry, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Mojave 3, Mortiis, Mudhoney, My Bloody Valentine, Naked Raygun, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Obituary, Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark, Pailhead, Pet Shop Boys, Pink Floyd, the Pixies, the Police, the Popguns, Public Image Ltd., Pulp, R.E.M., Replacements, Residents, Revolting Cocks, Ride, Rites of Spring, Rogers Sisters, the Rolling Stones, Rudimentary Peni, Rush, Sleater-Kinney, Slowdive, Sonic Youth, Soul Asylum, Stone Roses, Los Straitjackets, Suicide, Sugar, the Smiths, Talking Heads, Throwing Muses, Velvet Acid Christ, the Ventures, Voivod, the Wake, Wedding Present, Ween, Weezer, the Wipers, Wolfenstein 3D soundtrack(genius in midi form,) :wumpscut:, Yes, Neil Young.

Movies:

Altered States, Brick, Black Christmas, Transylvania 6-5000, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Sin City, Buffalo '66, Cellular, Ghost World, Spider-Man series, 12 Angry Men(1957), Drop Dead Gorgeous, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi, Marx Brothers, the Hard Way, Charlie Kaufman, John Hughes, Cameron Crowe, A History of Violence, Magnolia, Blade Runner, Better Off Dead, High Fidelity, Crash, Equilibrium, Body Snatchers, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead 2, Assault on Precinct 13, Escape from NY/LA, the Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Bullitt, Cabin Boy, Battle Royale, Office Space, Hard Boiled, American Beauty, Ordinary People, Scum, 3:10 To Yuma, eXistenZ, Schizopolis, They Live, Dr. T and the Women, Chopper, Hard Eight, Secretary, Bring it On, Q the Winged Serpent, Remo Williams, Virgin Suicides, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Being John Malkovich, the Limey, Alphaville, H.O.T.S., Sky Captain, Instrument, American Splendor, Ricochet, the Dead Zone, Magnum Force, Dirty Harry, Aces High, the Invisible Man, Silence of the Lambs, Married to the Mob, Pitch Black, Chronicles of Riddick, other movies not directed by Wes Craven

Television:

Admit it: you love TV. The Office, The Mighty Boosh, Funland, Sledge Hammer!, Battlestar Galactica, Boston Legal, Heroes, Kids in the Hall, Mr. Show, Doctor Who, Seinfeld, Star Trek(Original and The Next Generation,) Six Feet Under, Conan, Daily Show, 24, the Shield, SNL(though only up to when Ferrell left,) Happy Tree Friends, Get a Life, Invader Zim, the Gong Show, Wild Record Collection, Knight Rider, Home Movies, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the Brak Show, Monk, MASH, the Alternative, We Are the '80s, Gilmore Girls, Numb3rs, the Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Firing Line, Veronica Mars

Books:

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, War of the Worlds, the Invisible Man, the Time Machine, Catcher in the Rye, the Outsiders, The Demolished Man, A Specter Is Haunting Texas, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Philip K. Dick, H.G. Wells, Stan Lee comics, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, the Preacher, Asimov, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Chopper, A.E. van Vogt, Al Franken, Frank Miller, Douglas Adams, Alan Moore, Harlan Ellison, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft

Heroes:

Dwight Schrute, Chuck Barris, Philip K. Dick, Martin Atkins, Bartcop, Evan Dando, Harlan Ellison, Steve Albini, John Turturro, H.P. Lovecraft, Douglas Adams, Colin Baker, Kim Deal, Black Francis, Isaac Asimov, Peter Hook, Chris Squire, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi, Woody Allen, Yuri Gagarin, Groucho, Harpo, Kevin Shields, Steven Soderbergh, Kurt Russell, Chris and Bob Elliott, Audie Murphy, Ian MacKaye, The Doctor(from Doctor Who), Spider-Man, Venom, Snake Plissken, J Mascis, B.J. Blazkowicz, Raymond Collishaw, Keith Levene, Rene Fonck, David Gedge, Nick Blinko, Adam Worth, Simon Gallup, Billy Bob Thornton(who makes me slightly less ashamed to be a Southwesterner,) Terry Zwigoff, Rod Serling

My Blog

Work has begun...

Today I had my first day working for Upstart Games. It was a nice, relaxed atmosphere, and we're to continue learning some things tomorrow. My assignment for the night was to simply familiarize myse...
Posted by Matt/Johnny on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:41:00 PST

Too close for comfort

Not exactly a way of "celebrating" my 100th blog, but it's a bit surreal to be happening: Adam and Jessica got in a scooter accident Thursday night and weren't too far from being killed, the way I se...
Posted by Matt/Johnny on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:13:00 PST

A mishap

WKUK were pretty good tonight, but I'd seen most of the sketches they did. A new Batman sketch was a very welcome addition and I'll just stop there in case anyone reading this has a chance to see it ...
Posted by Matt/Johnny on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:18:00 PST

Someone forgot something...

I have a story typical of my dad, but I thought my readers might appreciate it.I'm talking on the phone with him about half an hour ago when he asks if I've been to Philly(this isn't the joke, even th...
Posted by Matt/Johnny on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:16:00 PST

Tonight

I haven't been to see the Whitest Kids in ages, so I think I'll do that tonight, especially considering the far warmer than usual weather we're currently having. I think it may even be above freezing...
Posted by Matt/Johnny on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:29:00 PST

Forgot to mention my karaoke thing

Funny how after that blurb of mine about the silliness with the Journey song I failed to mention the blast I had singing Radio Free Europe at that same bar. They didn't have a good selection, but tha...
Posted by Matt/Johnny on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:27:00 PST

New York reconsidered

Even though Terrence still isn't here after nearly two hours, I think this is a worthwhile project. I'm sort of thinking through my fingers right now while I wait on him to get here for jamming.Point...
Posted by Matt/Johnny on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:06:00 PST

Not-so-spring cleaning

It won't really take that long, but there's gotta be some more cleaning done in this apt tomorrow(translation: my brother's spent time here in the past week and everything magically started looking l...
Posted by Matt/Johnny on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:17:00 PST

Alan Shore: Deity?

I recently got into Boston Legal, and am pissed a bit that I keep missing it, especially since last time it was because I was feeling so drained I set the timer record for six minutes instead of sixty...
Posted by Matt/Johnny on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:07:00 PST

The ultimate cliche

...would be to sing "Don't Stop Believin'" at a karaoke bar. I sometimes rail against people who are technically hipsters that call other people hipsters, and maybe I'm a bit tired of the term itself...
Posted by Matt/Johnny on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:02:00 PST