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About Me

I'm doing this great cleanse. It makes you shit purple and rocks come out of your dick. You should try it!

Please check out my music page: myspace.com/mattpipermusic

My Interests

Love experiencing music, playing guitar (nylon string, steel string, resonator, 12 string, electric with or without gobs of fx) and piano/synth as well as computer music. Also play bass (electric and acoustic fretless), banjo, ukulele, as well as a few other odds and ends. Love improvising for hours with other musicians. Love nature, the desert, the ocean, stars, wild critters, long trippy conversations, deep connections with other sentient beings, the moment opening up and blooming and expanding and overwhelming and exciting...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with cool vibes & consciousness-expanding attributes...

Music:

Major influences: Miles Davis, Stravinsky, Beatles, Zeppelin, 60's-70's Herbie Hancock, Pink Floyd, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, King Crimson... Also love Erik Satie, Steve Reich, Radiohead...Currently listening to a lot of Smokey and Miho, Laura EscudÃ©, RD, Nalepa, David Last

Movies:

The Last Picture Show, almost anything by Ingmar Bergman (especially The Passion of Anna), Solaris (Tarkovsky), The Ice Storm, Dogville, Donnie Darko

Television:

Real Time w/Bill Maher, Daily Show, Battlestar Galactica, South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, 24, (the new) Doctor Who.

Books:

Ramayana (translated by William Buck), Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein, almost anything by William S. Burroughs, also really dig Alan Watts, especially recordings of his lectures. (Ok those aren't books but thar be no "recorded lectures" section.)

Heroes:

John Lennon, Miles Davis, William Burroughs

My Blog

It's all good

Ever since seeing this quote on my friend Josephine's blog space, I think of it every time I hear the phrase "It's all good."--------------"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know that he is happy. It'...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:52:00 PST

God

I wish I could believe in God. I wish that I could pray, and that I could actually realize the thing that I prayed for. But I believe that I am the whole universe, or at least that the "I" who i...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:38:00 PST

Hiking in Japan

Finally, I am posting a scant few pictures from my recent trip to Japan. The first one (with the big head) was taken in Kyoto (included here to orient you to the fact that we're in the Orient). The re...
Posted by Matt on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:39:00 PST

Reflections Tree

Memorial Day weekend, end of May 2004, I spent 3 days at a California desert party called Reflections. It was one of the best times I've ever had. I took this picture one morning. By the way, proceeds...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:59:00 PST

Beautiful Quote

I found this on someone else's page and wanted to share it: You don't need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Don't even listen, simply wait. Don't even wait. Be qui...
Posted by Matt on Sat, 01 Oct 2005 01:26:00 PST

Desert Dinosaur

While hiking in Joshua Tree earlier this year, I snapped a picture of my wife. Directly after my having taken her picture, she looked at the big rock right next to her head and was a bit startled and ...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Thus sayeth the Lord!

Here's some shit that's actually in the Bible which one would assume is seldom brought up in Sunday school, nor included in church-related promotional materials. I was perverse enough to research and ...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST