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Matt

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About Me

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My 1920's Name is:
Rueben Garvin What's Your 1920's Name?

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I am a Bloody Mary
...a fairly serious drinker, who's experimented a lot with different drinks; a drunk, but a stable drunk. I don't ever let my drinking get out of control. What Mixed Drink Are You?

My Interests

Making music, peace, and love.

I'd like to meet:

In any order: Dante Alighieri, Walt Whitman, Socrates, Ian Astbury, Thomas Mann, Tori Amos, Oscar Wilde, Black Elk, Sun Tzu, Paul Hewson, Salvador Dalí, Virginia Woolf, Alan Turing, Brian Eno, Billary Clinton, Harmodios and Aristogeiton, Stephen Morrissey, Paul Monette, Maynard James Keenan, Ulysses S. Grant, Tchaikovsky, Mary Shelley, Richard Riehle, Annie Oakley, Jim Morrison, Nero, Ennio Morricone, Roger Waters, Ian Curtis, Toni Morrison, Lord Byron, Dr. John Henry "Doc" Holliday, Beringer Saunière, Oprah Winfrey, William Blake, Judas Iscariot, and so many others...

Music:

Too much to list here. Mostly 80's Goth and 90's Britpop with a little bit of Gorecki, Beethoven, Pärt, Copland, and the Russian 5 thrown in. Don't forget the Sons of the Pioneers!!!

Movies:

The Worst Witch; Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story; Tombstone; The Decline of Western Civilization; Caligula; Hero; Fight Club...

Television:

Sister Wendy, Atlas HD, VH1 Classic, old episodes of Kung Fu.

Books:

Ah.. so many. Right now I'm reading Ruiz' The Four Agreements, Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and Living Zen by Robert Linssen.

My Blog

I'm a Beauty Mark!

I was just revamping my old bio at work and while searching for some of my band history I surfed on over to Joy Shannon's page. She decided to call her live act, "Joy Shannon and the Beauty Marks," w...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:52:00 PST

I'm overfloatin' now... alone!

Throwback to the 90's... Overfloater on the rotating iTunes box. Did a lyric search, and the lyrics are incomplete! Looked on about 15 sites, and all they've done is copied each other's lyrics!!! ...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:36:00 PST

Blogthings and birthrights...

Well, so I missed putting up something educational about Dia de Los Muertos yesterday. I was busy working, going to band practice, and trying to stay awake. I'll just say that it is my favorite holi...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:31:00 PST

Happy All Saints' Day

CHAPTER IV7. In those years, when I first began to teach rhetoric in my native town, I had gained a very dear friend, about my own age, who was associated with me in the same studies. Like myself, he ...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:18:00 PST