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Matt

it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive...

About Me



I found my layouts for Myspace on pYzam.com , but they also have really funny pictures !

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

If I were stranded on a desert island, I’d be okay as long as I had ‘Seventy Six Trombones,’ ‘All At Sea,’ ‘Walking In Memphis,’ ‘Mr. Jones,’ ‘New York, New York’ (Ryan Adams, not Sinatra), ‘I’m Shipping Up To Boston,’ ‘59th St. Bridge Song,’ ‘New York, New York’ (okay, I decided I needed Frankie, too), ‘Sympathy for the Devil,’ ‘Enter Sandman,’ ‘Positively 4th Street,’ ‘Take Your Mama,’ ‘Thunder Road’ (Live 1975-85 version), ‘Dock of the Bay,’ ‘Ants Marching,’ ‘Two of Us,’ ‘Shame on You,’ ‘Baba O’Reilly,’ ‘For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her,’ ‘Open All Night’ (Nebraska version) ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings,’ ‘Comfortably Numb,’ ‘Sweet Home Alabama,’ ‘Tangled Up In Blue,’ ‘Invisible Touch,’ ‘Open All Night’ (yeah, I’m gonna need the Live in Dublin Sessions Band version, too), ‘I’m From New Jersey,’ ‘Penny Lane,’ ‘Almost,’ ‘Call Me Al,’ ‘Sweet Baby James,’ ‘Pride (In the Name of Love),’ ‘Dead or Alive’ (unplugged), ‘Maggie May,’ ‘Kathleen,’ ‘Pinball Wizard,’ ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ ‘Rain King,’ ‘Sloop John B,’ ‘Born to Run’ (Chimes of Freedom version), ‘Born to Run’ (the album…oh, come on, you knew that was coming), ‘Say Goodbye,’ ‘Closer to Fine,’ ‘Twentysomething,’ ‘Disarm,’ ‘I Wanna Be Sedated,’ ‘Jersey Girl’ (the Tom Waits original…something about those razor blade vocals…), ‘Hey Jude,’ ‘Beautiful Day,’ ‘The Boxer,’ ‘I Want It That Way,’ ‘Boys of Summer’ (even though I know it’s a little sacrilegious…the Ataris cover), ‘Uncle John’s Band,’ ‘Tripping Billies,’ ‘Raining in Baltimore,’ ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’ (living on a desert island is kind of like being down the shore, right?), ‘Something in the Way She Moves,’ ‘Till There Was You’ (the Beatles version from Anthology).

Movies:

“‘Allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.’ ‘So what do we do?’ ‘Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.’ ‘How?’ ‘I don’t know. It’s a mystery.’”.....“‘Is this heaven?’ ‘No…its Iowa.’”.....“Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured the bandleader, that either his signature or his brains would be on the contract. That’s a true story.”.....“‘Ain’t gonna be no rematch.’ ‘Don’t want one.’”.....“If I’m wrong then we’re at war…God help us all.”.....“I do have a test today. That wasn't bullshit. It's on European socialism. I mean, really, what's the point? I'm not European. I don't plan on being European. So who cares if they're socialists? They could be fascist anarchists. It still doesn't change the fact that I don't own a car.”.....“Ray, when someone asks you if you're a God, you say ‘YES!’".....“We’re gonna need a bigger boat!”.....“I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. Years ago we had the church. That was only a way of saying - we had each other. The Knights of Columbus were real head-breakers; true guineas. They took over their piece of the city. Twenty years after an Irishman couldn't get a fucking job, we had the presidency. May he rest in peace. That's what [black people] don't realize. If I got one thing against [them], it's this - no one gives it to you. You have to take it.”.....“‘I want a guy who can play 36 holes of golf, and still have enough energy to take Warren and me to a baseball game, and eat sausages, and beer, not lite beer, but beer. That's my ad, print it up.’ ‘“Fatty who likes golf and beer.” Gee, Mary, where are you gonna find a gem like that?’”.....“I just slid my ticket across the bar and said ‘Sorry, guys, I gotta see about a girl.’”.....“’Why are you so good to me, Forrest?’ ‘You’re my girl.’”

Television:

The West Wing, Lost, 24, SportsCenter, JEOPARDY!, Monday Night Football

Books:

To Kill A Mockingbird, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Great Gatsby, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Heroes:

Newarkers, because despite the horseshit, so many of them keep breathing, working, and believing; Jackie Robinson, because the greatest qualities a person can have are the ability to stand up when something is wrong and the inability to give up; teachers, because they give so much so selflessly; Robin Williams, because sometimes a good laugh can change your whole world; John Irving, for teaching me how to use the semi-colon; Bruce Springsteen, because he calls out injustice with songs that are as beautiful as they are angry; Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Kennedy, for providing an example of leadership based not on desire for power but a desire to serve; Katie Thornton, for always telling me I'm making a mistake, letting me make my mistakes, and never saying 'I told you so' when I figure it out; and Pete Thornton, for running a Boys Club, raising a family, and teaching me that the only reason you really go to hell is for letting something that shouldn't be stand.

My Blog

Reinvigorating The Dream

Happy Martin Luther King Day!  What's your favorite MLK Day catchphrase?  I've always preferred "Honoring the Dream," because it sums up perfectly the way the day is treated in mas...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:36:00 PST

Happy Goosey Night!

So I took one of those blog quizzes called "What Kind of English Do You Speak?" and one of the questions was "What do you call the night before Halloween?"  I smiled to myself, remembering the mi...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:07:00 PST

liar paradox

"The ancient paradox goes like this: If the sentence 'This sentence is not true' is true, then it is not true, and if it is not true, then it is true.  I feel very lucky I am not stoned, because ...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:28:00 PST

no me gusto Geno's

I found an article on AOL this morning that just about clogged my arteries. Geno's, the famous South Philly cheesesteak stand, recently posted a sign that reads, "This is America: When Ordering 'Speak...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 07:11:00 PST

st. pat's

Tomorrow, Americans from all backgrounds will swim in seas of Guinness, Jameson's and Bailey's, (often all at once) to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.  Everyone will be Irish, and they will all wear...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:10:00 PST

lucky there's a family guy...

If anyone was wondering if I was in Heaven during Family Guy as Peter led the New England Patriots, my favorite football team, in a rousing performance of "Shipoopi" from The Music Man, my favorite mu...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:26:00 PST

Finally, Victory in Florida

The Florida Supreme Court ruled today that the state's school voucher program, which was championed by Governor and First Brother Jeb Bush, violated the state's constitution on the grounds that it inf...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:53:00 PST