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matt

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About Me

i really try not to spend money.

My Interests

Communalism, egalitarianism, FREE, benevolent biotechnology (esp renewable + sustainable energy), photosynthesis, adventurously beautiful music, bookbinding, fountain pens, critical mass, vegans, garbage reclamation.

I'd like to meet:

beautiful tangled hippies, people who don't shave, bashful & humble poets, volunteers, music-exchange partners, dreadlock hairstylists, someone to teach me to skateboard without laughing at me, one with whom to bike around Berkeley/Oakland/SF's sidestreets to meet and chat instead of going to a bar or coffeeshop, people encouraging me to do art more, crisp prolific artists who never sell, people who want to write in a circulating journal collaboratively, people to read classical literature aloud with spacy music unravelling in the background, people who live in co-ops or communes but not condominiums, someone to teach me about the strange herbs and spices and beans at the Halal market, people who eradicate patriarchy from their language and demeanor.

I'm serious, strangers. send me a message and let's do one of those things.

Music:

PRIMARILY SPACE FOLK, ECSTATIC DRONE, SOMBRE-FUTURE POST-ROCK, AND HIGHLY-EMOTIONAL WORLD MUSIC.

TOP THREE: SYR, Tower Recordings / MVEE, Fursaxa

Skaters, Hala Strana, Kemmialliset Ystavat, Es, Six Organs of Admittance, Jack Rose / Pelt, Vibracatherdral Orchestra, Idyll Swords, Franciscan Hobbies, Ashtray Navigations, GHQ, Zaimph, Robedoor, Starving Weirdos, Peter Wright, Ben Reynolds, Rameses III, Roy Montgomery, Jackie O Motherfucker, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Cerberus Shoal, Secret Chiefs 3, Rachel's, Colleen, Gabor Szabo, Esquivel, dark symphonies by composers that were in mental turmoil (Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Mahler, etc), Classical Indian Ragas, Japanese Koto Music, Deep Banana Blackout, Phish.

I started making music: drone/moan pseudo-spiritual loops of me humming: Scriptures I Have Loathed .
Tell me what you think, honestly.

Movies:

Normal Love, Brazil.

Television:

I don't like TV. Instead here is my audioscrobbler "last tracks played":

Books:

Edward Dahlberg, Charles Baudelaire, Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar", RBF's "Critical Path", By Any Means Necessary: Outlaw Manifestoes & Ephemera 1965-1970.

Heroes:

R.Buckminster Fuller, The SF Diggers, Jack Smith, E.O.Wilson

My Blog

2005 Musical Retrospect

Best of 2005 (musically) This is tentative, and also not accurate, it's what I listened to in 2005, not necessarily released in 2005. Invisible Pyramid Elegy Box Set MVEE - Suncatcher Blossoms a ...
Posted by matt on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:35:00 PST

Space Folk Manifesto (tentative version)

050623 Space Folk Manifesto.   I have been using the phrase space folk ever since I first discovered the album, Furniture Music for Evening Shuttles by the Tower Recordings.  It seem...
Posted by matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST