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Matti

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About Me

I often feel weak and old, but I have strong bones and a heart of gold. And a box of wine...just in case, you know...you want to get drunk or something.

My Interests

Playing with skateboards, eating vegan food, passing out, long hair, phone calls, tattoos, boxes of wine, BBQ sauce, Iced tea, trips to Staten Island, playing music. Getting toys in cereal boxes. Folk music. Traveling. Videography. Long walks in foreign places/getting lost. Good conversations. Good times. Feeling young (trying to). Animal Rights. Being vegan, being (almost) healthy. Girls, girls, girls.

I'd like to meet:

The Oxy Clean guy. Vegans, vegetarians.

Music:

emmylou harris, ani difranco, peggy honeywell, built to spill, (old) modest mouse, fugazi, (old)jewel, bright eyes, Deb Talan, the new amsterdams, sarah mclachlan, social distortion, the cranberries, natalie merchant, counting crows, iron and wine. Guns 'n Roses, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, (old)metallica, Pantera, (old)misfits. NEIL YOUNG!!!

Movies:

My fucked up life would make one fucked up movie.

Television:

Family guy. And those shitty reality shows on VH1/MTV.

Books:

Reading is a real pain in the ass.

Heroes:

John Schultz. My friends. Here on earth, or up in the sky.

My Blog

Born dirt, die dirt.

Well let's just say I got bit by a rat last night.  And by last night, I mean the last time I slept...2 nights ago. I looked into my mirror with a 4 slit claw print on my face along wit...
Posted by Matti on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:20:00 PST

Chicago

Gets lamer and lamer everytime.  I used to live here.  Cool things used to happen.  Now it seems like a struggle to get someone to pick up their phone to go skate.  Nothing to look...
Posted by Matti on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:14:00 PST

Some thoughts on my love.

As I was walking to the library today (yes I go to the library like a smart kid) I was thinking about skateboarding.  About what it is to me, what it's not, and what it really means to be good at...
Posted by Matti on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:29:00 PST

So am I old???

So I'm up to 3 jobs now for the wintertime.  Everyday, I wake up and head to work.  Come home, drink a bunch and pass out.  It's become routine.  Kinda sad in a way, but the money ...
Posted by Matti on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:37:00 PST

So um...update...

I haven't written anything here in a while.  Maybe someone is out there reading this.  Here we go... I feel like I finally got my shit together.  I'm working 2 jobs (retail and barbacki...
Posted by Matti on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:58:00 PST

There is this girl.

And I can't get her out of my head. The sad thing...is that I don't know when I'll be lucky enough to see her again.I don't know what it is about her, but this doesn't happen often.This just in...she...
Posted by Matti on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:33:00 PST