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Matt

I am here for Friends

About Me

Maybe all this rock 'n' rollin' adds up to nothing but right now it's the only thing that keeps me goingAnd this road leads home if I turn the car around but for now I gotta keep on moving.

My Interests

music, friends, myself, baseball, books, road trips

I'd like to meet:

The Basilisk In Your Pasta

Music:

currently: good luck, paul baribeau, white stripes, hold steady, madonna, draco and the malfoys, bruce springsteen

Movies:

wes anderson, spike jonze, charlie kaufman, woody allen, alfonso cuaron, francois truffaut

Television:

entourage, the oc, freaks and geeks, wheel of fortune, jeopardy.

Books:

murakami, nabokov, salinger, fitzgerald, vonnegut, berman, tolkien, rowling

Heroes:

bradley, brian, nate, garrett, kate, andy, mike, brandon and tyler nicholas, paul and joe degeorge, alex svoboda, alex carpenter, my dad, my mom, darius wilkins

My Blog

ps.

Deleted that shit. All it took was Mike Fox, Kate Aubin, Nate Beane, and Red Sox postseason baseball and I'm on top of the world. New rule: no posting blogs when under the effects of food poisoning.Cr...
Posted by Matt on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:45:00 PST

more update

So, I quit my day job so I can work on music full time. Everybody but my mom approves. She yelled at me for about five minutes. I think the last time she yelled at me was about ten or fifteen years ag...
Posted by Matt on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:59:00 PST

update

Best best best summer of my life. Maybe the best six weeks of my life as a whole.I miss home a lot.I know I'll miss touring once I'm back home.I just watched a full lunar eclipse from my hotel in Las ...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:05:00 PST

drunk drunk

Yeah, this month is the one year anniversary of Andy's passing, and also the month Jess and I would've gotten married, and I guess I'm supposed to feel sad or something, but really, I feel pretty good...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:59:00 PST

Wizard Rock

Based on my current tour schedule, at least 60 of my days in 2007 will be spent playing a wizard rock show. And that doesn't even account for any shows I might book in the last four months of the year...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:08:00 PST

It's Never Too Late To Stop Planning Your Future

For a certain period of time in high school I ran with a crowd of earthy, punky, bookwormy folks who really loved Dead Poet's Society and joined an after-school social club with the same name. Togethe...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:27:00 PST

This one's for Chuck

Despite my recent discovery that Chuck Klosterman beat me to the realization that the last 20+/- years of popular culture have ruined contemporary romantic relationships for most people, I'm still goi...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:37:00 PST

short, personal.

Officially the most bizarre experience of my life: Speaking at the sentencing of the guy who killed my brother, holding eye contact with said murderer for four seconds, witnessing him getting led out...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:10:00 PST

I have standards!

Well, my intention was to write a new blog entitled "I'm so retarded!" and examine the paradoxical nature of that popular statement. However, I've decided that there's a more pressing issue to tackle,...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:24:00 PST

Why I Don't Believe In God

Of the many events I do not enjoy, talking about religion ranks near the top of the list. There are a few reasons for this: 1) I roomed with Ben Lawrence during my collegiate years, and at the time we...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:55:00 PST