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Matthew Hatthew

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About Me

"He took the lighter out and looked at it. A cunning gleam came in to his one open eye as he looked at the lighter. The gleam was not sane."
-Dashiell Hammett The Glass Key

I have finished all of my course work for grad school at Brooklyn College. All that's left is my thesis. ...and finding a job.
Also: I make stupid jokes that I still find funny the 537th time. I love bourbon and bacon. I own over a dozen Aloha shirts. I'm an uncle.
I am generally well-liked by mothers, wives, gay men, dogs and babies.
I also own a 2004 Shadow Aero 750 called Bruce.

My Interests

Booze. Bits of trivia to satisfy the history geek in me. Riding my motorcycle and not dying while doing so. Figuring out how to destroy the mice in my wall without destroying my wall in the process.

I'd like to meet:

David Morris.And William Shatner.

Music:

JAZZ: Swing, big band, be bop, hard bop, west coast cool, and modern derivations thereof; not so into free bop, free jazz, lite jazz (ugh), and a lot of the Spyro Gyra/FourPlay-type pap.
ELECTRONICA: Oh, lesse, Cinematic Orchestra, Mouse on Mars, Olive, Eighteenth Street Lounge, Om Records, NinjaTune, und so weiter.
ROCK: -a-Billy, 1950s/Sun Records type stuff, stuff that makes me want to wrench on something with a beer in my hand. Otherwise it's a relatively new reintroduction for me as I'm still sick and tired of classic rock, but lately I've been listening to Detroit Cobras, the Darkness, The Hives Dethklok. And, of course, The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack.
LATIN: not so much on the salsa or bachata tip, but more into the Brazilian thing, bossa nova, samba, and modern stuff like Bebel Gilberto, Cibelle, etc.
COUNTRY: More on the Western side of things, less the Nashville style. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and so on.

Movies:

Yes, please. Let's get there early so we can get good seats.

Television:

O Idiot Box! Why must you tempt me so, with your flashing lights and your promise of a world where thinking is not necessary...

Oh, you mean what shows. Gotcha. Mythbusters, Lost, Heroes, Hustle, $ Good Eats.

Books:

Henry Miller is my favorite author. Right now I'm reading whatever my current assignment is for grad school. Actually, I should be doing that right now so...

Heroes:

de la haba
And this guy: Tazered Drunk

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Also: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck & Alton Brown. And Gordon S. Wood.

My Blog

I broke my arm.

My fiancee is a snowboarder. She didn't get to go last year so she was eager to hit the slopes. This past weekend was the only available time for both of us, so, as a sort of Valentine's gift, she t...
Posted by Matthew Hatthew on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:56:00 PST

I need help with my philematology homework.

Kissing: fast factsScience World, Feb 7, 2003 * The science of kissing is called philematology.* A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories measuring energy-producing potential of food).* Kissing releases ...
Posted by Matthew Hatthew on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:59:00 PST

My food allergies

If any of you have ever shared a meal with me, or tried to plan a meal I would be eating, you're aware of my seemingly endless list of food allergies. Many of you can recite the list with me. Well, in...
Posted by Matthew Hatthew on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:38:00 PST

2006

Some of my friends hated 2006. I've realized I, personally, do not. But a lot of shite happened. In no pertikler order:I made up missing undergrad credits, then started grad school at Brooklyn Coll...
Posted by Matthew Hatthew on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:56:00 PST