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Matt Miranda

Where would you go/ if the gun fell in your hands?

About Me

I'm just trying to create something that I can be intrinsically, unabashedly proud of.
My blog: http://www.allthebusses.blogspot.com/

OMFG OMFG OMFG! .. width="425" height="350" ..eventually everyone gets theirs.

My Interests

journalism
biking
small business management
sailing(i teach it to kids)
political science
sociology
psychology
pouches
writing
making patches and whatnot
slam dancing
whole milk
going to shows
apocalyptic literature and film
zombie movies
planning for the end of the world
screen printing
DIY
jammin' econo
urban warfare
reconstruction
history
peak oil theory
epedimiology
photography
eating fish
music recording
fishin'

I'd like to meet:

Tim O'Brien.

Music:

Indie, Experimental, Punk, Hardcore, Post Rock, Jazz, a tiny, tiny, tiny little bit of Crust and Metal

What I'm Listening Too Alot Lately:
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Live bootlegs, Black Ox Orkestar, anything klezmer, Foxhole, Esmerine.

Best Bands Ever Conceived:
1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
2. Husker Du
3. Minor Threat
4. The Agenda
5. Formaldehyde Junkies

Honorable Mention:
A Silver Mt. Zion
Mission of Burma
The Hives
The Arcade Fire
Low

Other Stuff:
7 Seconds
Adolescents
Agent Orange
Arcwelder
Arctic Monkeys
Any Last Words
At The Drive In
Auf Der Mar
Aufstand
Baby Guts
Bad Religion
Bad Brains
Behind Enemy Lines
Bikini Kill
Black Flag (Pre-Rollins)
Bloc Party
Blue States
Bonquisha & Company
Broken Social Scene
Bruisers
Buzzcocks
Caustic Christ
Chaos UK
Chronic Seizure
Christian Club
Chaotic Mess
Civil Disobedience (First 7")
Code 13
Common
Conflict
Cro Mags
Cursed
Damage Deposit
Dead Boys
Dead Kennedys
Demented Are Go!
Deadline
Death Cab for Cutie
Death From Above 1979
Death In Small Doses
Dick Dale
Dillinger Four
Discharge
Disrespect
DJ Shadow
Do Make Say Think
Elliot Smith
Explosions in the Sky
F-Minus
Flipper
Friendly
Fujiya and Miyagi
Fugazi
Ghastly Ones
Germs
Gnarls Barkley
Government Issue
Half Life
Hellbillys
Hole
Holst
Horrorpops
I Object!
Infest
Ikara Colt
Imperial Leather
Iron Cross
Jack Off Jill
James Brown
Kidneythieves
Klingonz
L7
Ladytron
Listen Up!
Low
La Peste
Mestral Tramps
Modest Mouse
Minutemen
Misfits
Miskreants
Mum
Naked Raygun
Negative Approach
Neurosis
Nausea
Negative Trust
Nekromantix
Nirvana
No Warning
NRA
Peaches (Even though most of the lyrics make me profoundly uncomfortable)
Pere Ubu
Placebo
Provoked
Queens of the Stone Age
Reagan Youth
Red Menace
Resisted Discipline
Richard Hell
Rites Of Spring
Royal Crown Revue
Shirkers
Smart Went Crazy
Shudder To Think
Sparta
SSDecontrol
State of Alert (SOA)
Sonic Youth
Stray Cats
Subhumans
Saccharine Trust
Sunny Day Real Estate
System of a Down
Silversun Pickups
The Arcade Fire
The Avengers
The Bryon Gill Trio
The Holy Ghostriders
The Mojo Spleens
The Noisettes
The Meteors
The Partisans
The Replacements
The Roots
The Skinnys
The Soviettes
The Subways
The Teen Idles
The Untouchables
Tragedy
TV on the Radio
Tom Tom Club
UK Subs
Verbal Abuse
Ventures
Veruca Salt
Vitamin X
Wire
X
X-Ray Spex

The Only 6 Emo Bands that deserved to exist:
1. Rites of Spring
2. At the Drive In
3. Placebo
4. Sparta
5. Towers Thick Walls
6. My Bloody Valentine

Worst Bands Ever, IMO:
1. My Chemical Romance
2. Grateful Dead
3. Taking Back Sunday
4. Spin Doctors
5. Slipknot
Honorable Mention: Mindless Self Indulgence (believe me, bitches DON'T want you, they want your image), Underoath, Avenged Sevenfold, Four Letter Lie (are you kidding? are you FUCKING KIDDING?!)

Movies:

Zombie Movies, Sci-Fi.
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Night of the Living Dead
Hotel Rwanda
Dawn of the Dead
Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now
The Postman
American Beauty
City by the Sea
Red Dawn
Fight Club
Snatch
Aliens
Tank Girl
Brick
Metropolis
Full Metal Jacket

Television:

SciFi baby.
Battlestar Galactica (New Series)
Star Trek
24
Arrested Development
Scrubs
Doctor Who
Band of Brothers

Books:

The Long Emergency
The Things They Carried
Ishmael
All Quiet on the Western Front
1984
Brave New World
Steal This Book
Silent Spring
Spy Thrillers
Grisham
Ludlum
All The President's Men
Thinner
High Fidelity
Anything Klosterman.
First Person Plural
Death of a Salesman

Heroes:

My dad
Paul Wellstone
Hunter Thompson
Doctor Cox
Tom Johnson.

My Blog

Collapse

Unified Theory for the Collapse of Western Civilization....and we saw the four horsemen. And they were not as the prophecies foretold. ...
Posted by Matt Miranda on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:16:00 PST

Of Desolate Motorways

There is beauty in the most unexpected places.It's all around us. We pass it by every minute of our lives. There's beauty in a street deserted at one in the morning, as a light snow falls silently ove...
Posted by Matt Miranda on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:46:00 PST

The Hill (first few pages of the novella i'm trying to write)

I'm only posting this because I need people's opinion on whether I should continue with it or not. It's hard work.The HillMatt MirandaA man sat on a high bluff, overlooking the skeletal remains of wha...
Posted by Matt Miranda on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:21:00 PST

Albums Everyone Should Own, PTII

The Arcade Fire - FuneralYo La Tengo - Prisoner of LoveLow - The Great DestroyerArctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not The Agenda - Articulation 7"
Posted by Matt Miranda on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:20:00 PST

Albums Everyone Should Own, Part 1

Here's my list of epic albums i think everyone should own. I can burn them for you.Formaldehyde Junkies - Are a Total Wreck 7"Minor Threat - Complete DiscographyHusker Du - LandspeedrecordHusker Du - ...
Posted by Matt Miranda on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:27:00 PST