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Matt

I am here for Friends

About Me

despite my better judgement, i've become a cat person.i've learned that O.P.P stands for "other people's parents."i have a UMich raincoat with a long and beautiful history.i am no longer Duke of the Road.i have a strange love of frogs.chocolate lava cake is my narcotic.i develop crushes easily.i freckle easily.i have a thing for 3's (which sounds much dirtier than it actually is).some albums with one-word titles of which I never tire: Grace, Dummy, Gish, Geogaddi, Chrome, Maxinquaye, Fakebook, Simpatico, Meddle, Doolittle, Loveless, Rounds, Cedars, Spiderland, Endtroducing, Disintegration, Mezzanine, and Mutations.i have a soft spot in my heart for Madder Rose, Jeff Tweedy's voice on "Red-Eyed and Blue," and The Catherine Wheel's Adam and Eve (which will ALWAYS remind me of winter).and "there's a magpie in China can turn a hedgehog over and kill it."

My Interests

the empty bottle, guitarrorism/guitarmistice, lit, tangents, tea w/ honey, mix CDs, travelling, night drives, quackery, hoaxes, words, fugue, writing, rhyme, all night diners, cryptograms, losing time, board games, hands, daguerreotypes, sepia tone, lists, tracing curves.

I'd like to meet:

A concert friend, a drinking buddy, a traveling companion. Bands to interview. Sexual iconoclasts. Witty, wonderful women with writer's block. People who like to people-watch. Curious parties. Sushi chefs. People who like the name Madria. People who have heard of Ern Malley. Other people who've seen the ill-fated Lynch-Frost show "On the Air." Bluegrass musicians. The duck people (not to be confused with Howard). Someone who wants to pick a Soul Calibur fight. That woman with the "Death Cock" hat.

Music:

currently listening to: Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Blueberry Boat, 69 Love Songs, Spiderland, The Kinks, The Modern Lovers, Buster Poindexter, Sonic Nurse, Vandermark 5, Pink Flag, The Album Leaf, !!!, Antics, Tago Mago, Controller.Controller, Cyann & Ben, Espers, Tarentel, Tangiers, Franz Ferdinand, Ghost, Les Savy Fav, Mclusky, Metric, PJ Harvey, ...

Movies:

The Decalogue, Closely Watched Trains, Vernon FL, Aronofsky, Kaufman scripts, American Splendor, Fight Club, LOTR, Greenaway, Indiana Jones(s), Lost in Translation, Wes Anderson, Beautiful Girls, Kicking and Screaming, All About Eve, The Apartment. Currently: The History Boys, Once.

Television:

on the jukebox at the Gold Star

Books:

Don Quixote, A Hero of Our Time, A Natural History of the Senses, The Journal of Albion Moonlight, Joyce, A [Zukofsky], The Aspern Papers, Street of Crocodiles, Plath, Kafka, Calvino, Borges, Berrigan, Cortazar, Garcia Marquez, Hejinian, Ern Malley, Abe. Currently: Austerlitz (particularly pp. 121-140), 33 1/3 series (favorite albums), McSweeney's 13, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Fatalist, The Return of the Real, The Art of Travel, Stitch, Best American Poetry 2004 (guest edited by Lyn Hejinian), It's My Clitoris, Not the Sphinx.

Heroes:

federico garcia lorca, leonardo da vinci, bruno schulz, bill murray, bill hicks, joseph cornell.

My Blog

A Goddamn Shame

After a thoroughly shitty week at work, I'm usually looking for some kind of purgative to cleanse my system - if all else fails, a drink from the River Lethe, conveniently available on tap several blo...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:31:00 PST

Twin Cities

These trains are veins pushing back the working dead  galvanic souls conducted by electric threads. In cities of ink drawn by loose-lipped pens we sit and drink all the oxygen. These sagging ...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 08:36:00 PST

Long Pour

It's been an awfully long time since I've written anything here - haven't tried to force something out just for the sake of writing, although some part of me wishes that I would if for nothing more th...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:30:00 PST

time for a meme

Recent discoveries: 1. If Roscoe Village was a person, he'd be my friend. We'd have a few beers, talk about the kids, and watch Twin Peaks marathons together. 2. Maybe it's just the tequila t...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A Conversation Through Music, Part II

Wilco - At Least That's What You Said Clearlake - The Mind Is Evil Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes The Constantines - Insectivora Superwolf - My Home Is the Sea Bright Eyes - Lua Star...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

this needs to be documented

Logged in to my Friendster account today and saw this completely ridiculous list: Popular searches in my network 1. private school rankings 2. prada MV515 3. how to get over a breakup...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

What death robot are you? (You know that's right, Megatron)

Which Colossal Death Robot Are You?Brought to you by Rum and Monkey...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

to all of the plagiarists in BioSci 10110

insert chorus of "Bring It On" by Organized Konfusion.
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

simple statement of the obvious

seeing zumanity with your parents is not a good idea.
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Millimeters Mercury

Ladies and Gentlemen. A band I love very much - Millimeters Mercury - will soon be calling it quits. They play two more shows in Chicago before they disband and go their separate ways to grad school...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST