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Matthew

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About Me

EVERYTHING FALLS APART
Once an experience is taken out of the real world it becomes a commodity. As a commodity the spectacular is developed to the detriment of the real. It becomes a substitute for experience."
- Larry Law, from Images And Everyday Life

The city lays you out. Anonymity
and burnt-out buildings are all
you can hope for. People will talk.

In the mountains there are velvet
pockets. In the mountains there
are still secrets. The grass is
greener. You may take this as
the romantic tilt of a girl born
concrete-breathed. You'd be wrong.

Bring me home to stone,
home to the first songs,
home to a grove trampled by deer
who were forced here by encroaching
suburbs. Home to stillness.

-J.S. Skolnik

My Interests

Adorning myself with powdered wigs and playing grab ass on the expansive lawns of the ruling classes,transgressive cinema,CLASS WAR,Harsh Noise contrasted against complete silence,live theatre, The Writers Almanac,country dark, Anarcho-syndicalism,learning the fine art of beekeeping, finding sensible and humane alternatives to capitalism, eating with my hands,Composting,Pinball, The MT. Royal Tavern,Supper Club (lets bring it back),Moral Panic,26+6=1,The Self-Education movement,X-Box 360, Belgian Ale,The Stuckist, w33d, Art, Gazing Balls,Leftist Politics,the wilderness, Self-Loathing, Jim Goad,The Zapatisas, Booze, Billiards, Anti-Social behavior,Tennis, Screen Printing, Wine,Cinema, Prison Reform, History, Baltimore Club, NYC, Brooklyn, SF, Porkopolis, MOBTOWN, Intentional Communities,Camille Paglia,Miranda July, Guy Debord and Public Nudity

I'd like to meet:

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DEEP END
Williamsburg in flames
The Severed Head of Damien Hirst
all lost souls
and...
Junky Republicans

and for a good conversation about beekeeping and child rearing....

Music:

SUPERCHUNK
LUNGFISH
THIS HEAT
U.S. MAPLE
LEVIATHAN
CRASS
Polvo
Whitehouse
Brainbombs
Pissed Jeans
Black Dice
Om
Jack Rose
Fear Itself
Muslimgauze

Buried at Sea
Black Flag

Movies:

COME AND SEE
No Country For Old Men
El Topo
Eraserhead
Control
This Is England
I Like Killing Flies
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Syndromes and a Century
King Corn
Tristam Shandy, A Cock and Bull Story
Rescue Dawn
Eastern Promises
Tokyo Story
Stardust
The Bridge
Superbad
Zodiac
The Bourne Trilogy
Murder on a Sunday Morning
The Simpsons Movie
Shadow of a Doubt
The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
Naked Lunch
White Dog
Kicking and Screaming
Color of Pomegranates
The Big Lebowski
Knocked Up
Winged Migration
Serenity
Blade Runner
Old Joy
Grindhouse
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Television:

WEEDS
Rescue Me
The Farmers Wife (An amazing multi-part series from Frontline on PBS)
Battlestar Galactica
The Sopranos
The Wire
Cheaters
Top Chef
X-Play

Books:

The Monkey Wrench Gang
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Company You Keep-Neil Gordon
Play It As It Lays-Joan Didion
Skinema-Chris Nieratko
Our Band Could Be Your Life
Y:The Last Man
Angry Youth Comix

Heroes:



or

Ben Weasel

Dr. Jack

and The Happy Hooker

My Blog

Top Jamz of 2006

In Alphabetical Order-Beach House-S/T (Carpark)Birchville Cat Motel-Our Love Will Destroy The World (PseudoArcana) Black Heart Procession-The Spell (Touch & Go)James Blackshaw-O True Believers (Import...
Posted by Matthew on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 01:12:00 PST

top jamz of 2005

top 15 in random order Konono No 1-Congotronics Lungfish-Feral Hymns Sunn 0))))- Black One Jan Jelinek-Kosmischer Pitch Bonnie Billy and Matt Sweeney-Superwolf Howling Hex-You Can't Beat Tommo...
Posted by Matthew on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 06:51:00 PST