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Matt

Mmmmm, smells like a cupcake with boobies...

About Me

Graphic Designer/Animator/After Effects Artist (you can see my demo reel here ), part time web designer, semi-retired musician. I'm generally a nice considerate guy without being a pushover (after all these years I think I've finally found a pretty good balance there), I have two cats and two dogs (check my Blog for more about them). I have an aquarium too, had a bunch of fish but my stupid Gourami kills just about anything I put in the tank with him. I also tend to be a bit of an insomniac, so if you see me online at around 7-8 in the morning, I'm probably up late, not early :)

AIM - mcmgrafix

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My Interests

Tattoos (two full sleeves, both sides of my chest, and working on a full back piece. Go say hello to The World Famous Greg James too, world class tattooist and all around good guy, he's the one who did all my artwork), music, guitars, animation, collecting musical instruments (guitars mostly), art...

I'd like to meet:

Unconventional conventionalists...

Music:

I love everything from Goth/Industrial, Britpop, Power Pop, 80's, to Rockabilly and old funk. As far as bands go, here's a few: Queen, Bowie, The Beatles, Jellyfish, Suede, Doves, Jon Brion , Mellowdrone , Bleu , Ben Folds , Brendan Benson , Lollipop Factory, Beck, The Shazam , Myracle Brah, Super Furry Animals, E.L.O., L.E.O. , Pink Floyd, Siouxie & The Banshees, The Cult, Radiohead, Remy Zero, Cheap Trick, Garbage, Powder , Mansun, Robbie Williams, Thrill Kill Cult, Sneaker Pimps, Ian Brown, Supergrass, NIN, Marilyn Manson, Gary Numan, Devo, Jesus & Mary Chain, XTC, Crystal Method, Massive Attack, Depeche Mode, The Damned, Andrew WK, old Van Halen, Michael Penn, James Brown, The Paladins, The Blue Hawaiians, The Blakes , Butch Walker , Marvelous 3, Sugarbomb, Rooney , Oscar Lopez, Classical Music, Movie Soundtracks, just about anything really.

Movies:

Boogie Nights, Magnolia, City of Lost Children, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Velvet Goldmine, Punch Drunk Love, Hudsucker Proxy, Amelie, Shawshank Redemption, Dark City, anything by Pixar, Goodfellas, Scarface, The Godfather 1 & 2, and many, many more...

Television:

Sopranos, Chappelle Show, Punk'd, Home Improvement shows, WW2 documentaries on the History Channel at 3am

Books:

Chuck Amuck, The Art of Happiness, almost anything about music, art, or animation...

Heroes:

The Dalai Lama, Chuck Jones, Friz Freling, Tex Avery, Frank & Ollie , Alton Brown , Brian May, David Gilmour, and Brian Wilson for going back 37 years later and finally finishing Smile, and last but certainly not least, Johnny Fucking Gordon!!!

My Blog

See ya Rowdy...

Meet the sweetest, friendliest, most affectionate cat ever:She died today. She was about 17-18 years old, so I knew it was going to happen eventually, but it still hurt like fuck. She just really dete...
Posted by Matt on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:40:00 PST

The pond is pretty much finished...

Pretty much all that's left is to do a little landscaping around the edges and add a few more plants. Once it's been running for a few weeks I'll need to drain all the water out, refill it, and then I...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:00:00 PST

I'm sure most of you that know me thought this would never actually happen...

After three years of talking about doing it, the koi pond is finally almost finished. I still need to finish up the rock work, but as of yesterday the waterfall is running and everything seems to be w...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:57:00 PST

New addition to the family...

A '29 Ford Roadster has been my dream car ever since I got the Hot Wheels version when I was a kid. Sure, that one was black with red/yellow flames on it, but yellow with black pinstriped flames suits...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:29:00 PST

My back is finally finished...

Started in around September of 2003, finished it all up on 5/25/2006Sure I'm biased, but I really think Greg did a fantastic job with it all, and I think it was well worth all the crap I had to endure...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:27:00 PST

Happy Birthday.

Well, my Dad would have been 80 years old today (May 31, yesterday by the time I end up posting this). Missed it by three weeks, not that some silly milestone would have made any difference.I'm pretty...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:12:00 PST

Well, it happened...

My Dad passed away this morning. Thankfully he just kinda slipped out in his sleep and didn't suffer much at the end. I don't really feel like writing anything else at the moment, but I just wanted to...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 09 May 2006 11:38:00 PST

Fuckin' blisters...

I hadn't been playing much guitar lately, so I finally pulled one off the wall and wailed around on it this morning. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised at how fast my chops came back to me, I ha...
Posted by Matt on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:10:00 PST

Some photos from New Years in New Orleans

Got back last night from N'Awlins, had an amazing time as always. That really is one of the greatest cities on the planet. If there's any city that will be able to bounce back from a disaster like the...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:30:00 PST

Fun with Photoshop...

I was goofing around with Photoshop and started tweaking around certain features of people just to see what sort of bizarre results I could get. It's a fun way to pass the time, so if anybody has any ...
Posted by Matt on Sun, 23 Oct 2005 04:47:00 PST