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matthew

what do you do when the music stops

About Me

I feel as if I'm deviating farther from the mainstream on a daily basis, but not necessarily to the land of tattooed women with angular haircuts. I'd like to go to that land, but I fear the cigarette smoke.

My Interests

Lamenting that Billie Joe Armstrong had released four full length records by the time he reached my age.Lamenting that Jonathan Safran-Foer had written Everything Is Illuminated by the time he reached my age.Pacing around my room, Record shopping, cleavage, blatant honesty.

I'd like to meet:

Tattooed women with angular haircuts who don't smoke. Or actually, women with angular haircuts who don't have tattoos. Or just women who don't think they know everything about me within a moment of meeting me.

Music:

Choosing 20 artists at random from my MP3 playlist that represent my tastes: Comus, Hella, Bright Eyes, Brian Eno, 764-HERO, Thrice, Amadou et Mariam, Kanye West, My Morning Jacket, Meat Puppets, Comets on Fire, Sebadoh, Violent Femmes, Patsy Cline, Rogue Wave, Guns n' Roses, Moist, The Black Keys, Thunderbirds are Now!, Magnetic Fields

Movies:

Wings of Desire, Hitchcock, Film Noir, anything that doesn't make me fall asleep, the Godfather, Good Night and Good Luck, Casablanca, Clerks, Oldboy, Far From Heaven, Douglas Sirk, Billy Wilder, Pulp Fiction, Woody Allen, 24 Hour Party People, Waking Life

Television:

Degrassi (both the old episodes and the new episodes), My Name is Earl, Freaks and Geeks, Simpsons, Robot Chicken, Wonder Showzen, South Park, The Best Week Ever, Beavis and Butt-head

Books:

Kafka, Dave Barry, Alan Moore, Daniel Clowes, Chuck Klosterman, Confederacy of Dunces. I'm reading Middlesex right now and I like it quite a bit.

Heroes:

Villains