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Matthew

Mellotron.

About Me

http://www.matthewaustin.net
http://del.icio.us/deletedXscene
http://www.last.fm/user/deletedXscene

My Interests

Music:

Okkervil River
Iron & Wine
Mountain Goats
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Aloha
Clem Snide
Six Parts Seven
St. Vincent
The National
Joan of Arc
Saturday Looks Good to Me
Flashpapr
The Lawrence Arms
Husker Du

Movies:

Ed Wood
24 Hour Party People
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Science of Sleep
Notorious
Vertigo
Citizen Kane

Television:

Brass Eye
The Office
Reno 911!
Father Ted
The Simpsons
Twitch City
Kids in the Hall
Get Smart
Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Books:

Kurt Vonnegut
Haruki Murakami
Thomas Pynchon
Arthur C. Clarke
Chuck Palahniuk

My Blog

Animal Collective

I stayed up way too late last night to watch Animal Collective's somewhat underwhelming performance of "1" on Conan. Not that it's not a good song, but it seemed like they were all set up fo...
Posted by Matthew on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:31:00 PST

I Palindrome I

The interview with Achewood creator Chris Onstad is at the Onion AV Club here. What's gotten me really excited is his mention of a Great Outdoor Fight trade paperback that fleshes out the story and le...
Posted by Matthew on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:36:00 PST

Dayton dream

I had a dream about visiting JR in Dayton. Somehow I was able to do this after work but before having to pick up Kristin. Also I havea truck. So I go to Gem City Records but he's on the phone with the...
Posted by Matthew on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:34:00 PST

No Country for Old Men

The trailer for the Cohen brother's adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel is up. I haven't been this excited to see a movie in a long time, though I'd like to read the novel first. Right now I'm in ...
Posted by Matthew on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:48:00 PST

Harry Potter

Five episodes into a seven movie series, the actors and production style of the Harry Potter films have settled into a comfortable style. Given the transitional nature of Harry Potter and the Order of...
Posted by Matthew on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:31:00 PST

Gravity's Rainbow

It took almost exactly two years (how's that for symmetry) but I completed Thomas Pynchon's dense tome this morning. It all kind of makes sense, past the monster Adenoid, the attacking octopus, the sh...
Posted by Matthew on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:13:00 PST

Boy with a Coin

I haven't even logged on to Livejournal since right before we moved last week. Thankfully all of our crap is in the new place and so far the commute is actually shorter (we'll see what it's like when ...
Posted by Matthew on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:40:00 PST

The got Kells on they ringtone

Right before I left for Italy I burned 2 albums onto one CD-R from Joe, who has disappeared off the face of the earth but is probably due to his crazy girlfriend. Anyways, they were by Commander Venus...
Posted by Matthew on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:13:00 PST

Dio

Some days just call for some Dio.
Posted by Matthew on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:52:00 PST

links-a-plenty

Blogotheque does this awesome thing with having bands coming through Paris do a little busking and walking around playing some songs. Sets by Islands, I'm From Barcelona and Hidden Cameras made my day...
Posted by Matthew on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:28:00 PST