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Matt

"Look into your heart." "What heart?"

About Me

I'm a thief. I'm a liar. There's my church, I sing in the choir. I'm a million different dinosaurs and a bunch of nonsense. I'm also a crap factory, according to my parents. I like real, authentic things. In a world of dehydrogenated cheese and artificial everything, I enjoy purity: real butter on my pancakes and in my frying pan, bacon, eggs, whole milk, tables made out of real wood, not artificial ikea crap, hard wood floors and cold cold nights, Marlboro cigarettes and big malt milkshakes, green green grass and cold cold water, old .78's and deep, southern blues, big, banging, pulsing, sweating dance halls where the kids dance so hard their shoes wear thin and their heads burn hot, black and white films with scratchy, poppy sound and millions of rickety imperfections, the salt water in the sea and the stars in the sky.

My Interests

See "About Me"

I'd like to meet:

Terrence Malick, Steven Soderbergh, Mary Pickford, Eleanor Roosevelt, Malcolm X, Audrey Hepburn, Kate Blanchett, Robert Mitchum, Robert Johnson, Benicio Del Toro, Martin Scorcese, Tupac, Robert DeNiro, JD Salinger, Jesus, God, Muhammed, Buddha, Bigger Thomas, Alexander Hamilton, The Four Tops, and you!

Music:

Ramones, Misfits, Trail of Dead, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, the Minutemen, Black Flag, Tommy Johnson, Propaghandi, Elliott Smith, Velvet Underground, DJ Shadow, DJ Muggs, GZA, RZA, Wu-Tang, Mos Def, the Beatles, Wilco, Nirvana, Scott Joplin, The Doors, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Beach Boys, Talking Heads, Radiohead, Silverchair, Moby, the Weakerthans, Coalesce, Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, American Football, Moby, Rancid, the Cars, Op Ivy, Sex Pistols, Blonde Redhead, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop

Movies:

Freaks!, Wild Strawberries, Big, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Frailty, Being There, Harold & Maude, No Country for Old Men, Being John Malkovich, Being There, Basquiat, The New World, The Thin Red Line, Badlands, Goodfellas, Miller's Crossing, The Big Lebowski, Blood Simple, The Aviator, Fight Club, The Usual Suspects, Out of the Past, Reservoir Dogs, Detour, Raging Bull, Apocalypse Now, Annie Hall, Solaris, Better Off Dead, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, the Godfather, French Connection, the Exorcist, Traffic, Boogie Nights, Mean Streets, Faces, Shadows, Rushmore, Memento, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange, Lolita, The Killing, The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society, Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees, Henry Fool, JFK, Malcolm X, Night of the Hunter, Taxi Driver, the Abyss, Parents, On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Man Bites Dog, Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, Anything by Gus Van Sant, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, P.T Anderson, Terrence Malick.

Books:

A Farewell to Arms, Nine stories, Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, I Know This Much is True, The Great Gatsby, All Quiet on the Western Front, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Native Son, Something Happened, Raise High the Roof Beams and Carpenters.I looked in her eyes and put my arm around her as I had before and kissed her. I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight. I was still angry and as I held her suddenly she shivered. I held her close against me and could feel her heart and her lips opened and her head went back against my hand and then she was crying on my shoulder.Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Heroes:

Superman, Terrence Malick, Harrison Ford, JD Salinger, David Lynch, Marlon Brando, Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Robert DeNiro, Steven Soderbergh,

My Blog

there’s a bluebird in my heart (Bukowski)

there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm too tough for him,I say, stay in there, I'm not goingto let anybody seeyou.there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I pur whisk...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:55:00 PST

live to the nation

Here it comes, ladies and gentlemen, tonight we're going with thoughts and feelings. Sometimes my mind is like a vast desert with one cactus and a cow skull and then other times it's noisy and crowde...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:33:00 PST

preschool rock

When I was in preschool, my friend Timothy and I spent alot of time trying to dig a small, white rock out of hard dirt. We must have picked and scraped around that rock for two years, at least it fel...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:01:00 PST

I get...

eaten by the world...and weird fishes.  Don't you fraud me over, world.  I got alotta truth to give ya.    
Posted by Matt on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:47:00 PST

Headlines

The bar fiends drink and talk and smile and talk and talk and yakkity yak yak. How many times can you say the same thing every day of your life over and over and over and not get tired of it? Oh, ju...
Posted by Matt on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 02:17:00 PST

your hands...

Your hands make me feel like a man, My hands feel you as a woman, And no one understands, no one understands Late at night, we turn in bed I hold your soul close to my head And no one understands No o...
Posted by Matt on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:45:00 PST

Something happened...

If it hasn't happened to you yet, it will. If it has, it will happen again. Your deepest secret, darkest fears, painted in broad strokes across the walls for all to see. One of these days, when you...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:38:00 PST

take an exit

It was 115 degrees in the Valley. Four people went down with heat-related deaths; an air conditioner goes out at a retirement home, a fuse blows, something happens...and you're out. Hell, my AC went...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:51:00 PST

dead man hiding

He can probably fool most people. I can see how he does it; carrying groceries or flowers. He was dead beneath his skin, all grey and rotting and falling apart. The smell of the death crept through...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 23 May 2006 12:19:00 PST

girl bait - a lesson in trolling

I was lonely.My friends went to Catalina. I took care of their dog. I asked them what I should do with the dog. They said I should take it for walks. Girls love little dogs, they said. You instan...
Posted by Matt on Sat, 20 May 2006 03:08:00 PST