M @ t t // S p i r e - ProfilesArchive

About Me

i'm an artist and an alcoholic-socialist-vegetarian-feminist-agnostic. just not as militant as that sounds. (alcoholism is key) and i came dangerously close once to being mcguiver's son in law. seriously.

i'm also a bedroom musician blending my obscure mix of electronic, punk, and folk. you will hear it someday.

if youre interested in album art, i am redesigning my site soon but anyway, rates are essentially..
base price - $90
cd - $90
per page - $90
pretty simple.

i can also do flyers and postcards and posters and pretty much anything nonsexual that you so desire. $ex is more $$$$$$.

you should stop by my studio space sometime at the blue elephant on 5th and market st. we put on shows etcetcetc, sometimes live electrocutions.

My Interests

music, blatant hypocrisy, cutting innocuous things out of magazines and turning them into disgusting, ironic pieces of art, spontaneous fits of Kafkan paranoia at any given state of affairs. and i do from time to time succumb to the notion that a given chemical will bring upon great revelations/happiness

Music:

pretty much everything. and i mean that. i listen to music analytically, studying it for what makes it work. even if its a bullshit pop song.

perpetually spinning:

bright eyes - radiohead - the faint - nine inch nails - cursive - desaparecidos - flaming lips - ben kweller - marilyn manson - yeah yeah yeahs - azure ray - kidneythieves - muse - postal service - depeche mode - johnny cash - u2 - neutral milk hotel - smashing pumpkins - the cure

..to name the famous ones. I like anything innovative and sincere. Indie rock is typically both.

I like punk rock for the energy. Not much into rap but I like the innovation behind good hip/trip hop (ie turn OFF the radio, mainstream hiphop is the most cliched crap in existance). I like folk rock. I despise popular country, I swear to god they're fake down to that Southern draw, no one sings like that naturally..

Movies:

NETWORK. metropolis, pan's labyrinth, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the shining, the godfather, pi, requiem for a dream, lord of war, blade runner directors cut (dont ask), a mighty wind, best in show (dont ask). lost in translation. amelie.

Television:

hah. fuck tv. heres some endless entertainment. mattspire.deviantart.com
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wait i guess i need something related to TV right..

sorry no traditional art has been scanned by my lazy ass at this point in history

Books:

Kafka - most anything, particularly his short stories and The Castle
Ray Kurzweil - an amazing theoritician with whom i share many convictions on the nature of existence and the future, though often blindly optimistic. read Spiritual Machines or The Singularity is Near.
Plath - my soulmate; she wrote disturbing, surrealist poetry and put her head in an oven.
Camus - The Stranger. his philosophical texts.
Orwell - 1984
William Gibson - Neuromancer
Kundera - Unbearable Lightness of Being
t s elliot
noam chomsky
margaret atwood - oryx and crake
kurt vonnegut - slaughterhouse 5
nietzsche.. metaphysically anyway. he was something of an asshole to women and had weird views on war.

Heroes:

marcel duchamp, andre breton, and salvador dali.

My Blog

i could have been

i could have been the montage, the holy image of impossible love not the pulsing breath the beating wings, the bird flown into the stained glass window i am
Posted by M @ t t // S p i r e on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:03:00 PST

i am

the sexual neurosis of andre breton, the cordial nature of salvador dali, the paranoia of franz kafka, the blackness of sylvia plath, the frenzied insatiability of a withdrawal. artificial and represe...
Posted by M @ t t // S p i r e on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:41:00 PST

godhatesfags.com coming to frederick and MORE

Incidentally, in Frederick this Saturday... a) Blue Elephant Art Center is having the first art show for which I will be a member. b) In the Streets is occurring, an annual weekend-long festival which...
Posted by M @ t t // S p i r e on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:20:00 PST

blue elephant this weekend

The first show at the Blue Elephant for which I will be a formal member of the elephant is this and next weekend. May or may not have stuff in the show but my work will at least be in my room. There w...
Posted by M @ t t // S p i r e on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:32:00 PST

Hug a Vegetarian Day, mofos

That's right.
Posted by M @ t t // S p i r e on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:57:00 PST

atrocious photos of my artwork

here are utterly disgusting-quality photos of my traditional artwork complete with light glare, my own shadow, and so on they look like shit and are considerably better in person strangely i'm missing...
Posted by M @ t t // S p i r e on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:26:00 PST

my myspace got hacked

sorry about the bulletins and comments regarding hot sluts. to the contrary, i really dont have any advice to give you about hot sluts...i dont spend much time with any myself. my ebay was hacked rece...
Posted by M @ t t // S p i r e on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:09:00 PST

fixing me is like tuning a flute

not happening.
Posted by M @ t t // S p i r e on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:00:00 PST

this is familiar ground

Dm7 tempo 220. double-bass drum and a cymbal rush. fuck your food, eat your sex. there are no ghosts, but there is death.
Posted by M @ t t // S p i r e on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:15:00 PST

I now live in Alabama

...according to Myspace. Funny how the world can change while you're asleep.
Posted by M @ t t // S p i r e on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:13:00 PST