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About Me

I am a hillbilly, born and raised in Kentucky. Lived in Indiana for a few years and am now a full-time Tennessean. I dig sex, monsters, and rock & roll. I am also a licensed reverend who likes to get down and dirty, though I prefer the title "preacher". Also, even though my name is Matthew I will answer to Fred.
My superpowers include: skill to make a mean omelet, the ability to see through bullshit, a knack for annoying even the nicest and most patient people, a knack for annoying assholes, being able to do hundreds of impressions that sound SORTA like the person they are supposed to emulate, being a walking warehouse of random trivia, and super geek talk.
My weaknesses include: girls in polkadots, amazing scotch (or, as I like to call it, "sip-tonite"), dangerous and rude hyenas, bullets, kisses, proving people right, being proven wrong, bad ankles, lousy knees, and super geek talk.

I would tell you more but, due to legal reasons, I cannot. Thanks.

My Interests

My top 20 interests are (in no particular order):
1. Bacon grease
2. good scotch
3. music - all of it
4. cryptic things/creepy things
5. being a left-winger w/an actual backbone
6. girls in black w/white polka dots
7. fark.com
8. skeeball!
9. cooking
10. dogs and cats and other critters
11. movies and film history
12. getting really stressed out
13. business casual friday, or, "biz cas fri"
14. books, articles, and things with words
15. Waffle House
16. watching the news
17. rappin' and rhymin'
18. playing guitar and tickling the ivories until they beg me to stop
19. my friends
20. helping the odd person out

I'd like to meet:

First off here is who I don't want to meet: stalkers, creeps, racists and ardent republicans (not that the latter would want to meet me either). And I really don't wanna meet any bullshitters. Some people know they are and some don't, but believe me I will know either way.

Music:

Paul Westerberg/The Replacements
David Bowie
Rolling Stones
Ramones
Elvis Costello and the Attractions/Imposters
The Clash
R.E.M.
Pixies
Brain Wilson (Beach Boys)
David Byrne/Talking Heads
Jerry Reed
Depeche Mode
The Beatles Billy Joel
Loretta Lynn
The Features
Prince
Nine Inch Nails
Daniel Johnston
Louis Armstrong (mainly the Hot 5s and 7s era)
Otis Redding
Devo
Iggy & the Stooges
Jimmy Cliff
The Shins
They Might Be Giants
Neil Young
Herb Alpert & the Tiujuana Brass
Willie Nelson
Jandek
Marshall Crenshaw
Sage Francis
Lucinda Williams
Nina Simone
Beck
Phil Collins
Bjork
Tribe Called Quest
Blind Willie McTell
Atmosphere
Tony Bennett
The Cars
The Misfits (Danzig era only)
Wu-Tang Clan
Django Reinhardt
WA Mozart
Johnny Cash
Warren Zevon
Morphine
Ennio Morricone
Robert Johnson
Allen Toussaint
Bee Gees
Fats Domino
Weezer
Guided By Voices
Randy Newman
Al Green
Thelonious Monk
Blondie
Muddy Waters
Wilco
Leonard Cohen
Billie Holiday
Emmylou Harris
Dave Brubeck
Hank Williams
Lou Reed/Velvet Underground
The Kinks
White Stripes
Buddy Holly
JS Bach
Bob Marley and the Wailers
John Coltrane
Dolly Parton
Tom Waits
Neil Diamond
Gram Parsons
The Libertines
Patti Smith
Wesley Willis
John Prine
Bob Dylan
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Modest Mouse
John Denver
Aretha Franklin
The Arcade Fire
Tom Jones
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs
The Clutters

I like lots and lots more people but these are all my favorites.
So there.

Movies:

Annie Hall
Stardust Memories
Hannah and Her Sisters
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Deconstructing Harry
Love & Death
And pretty much any other Woody Allen movie
Pink Flamingos
Female Trouble
Desperate Living
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Dr.
Holy Mountain
El Topo
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
John Carpenter's Halloween
The Wizard of Oz
Audition
Sorority House Massacre 2
Return of Swamp Thing
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original)
The Exorcist
Midnight Cowboy
World According To Garp
Amarcord
The original Star Wars trilogy
The Goonies
Clockwork Orange
Kentucky Fried Movie
Dolemite
The Human Tornado
Blues Brothers
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead (the original)
American Movie
Rock n Roll High School
Escape From New York
Babe
Mystery Train
Cannonball Run 2
Young Frankenstein
Rushmore
Royal Tenenbaums
Bottlerocket
The Big Lebowski
Evil Dead 1 & 2
Army of Darkness
Phantasm
The Shining
Big Trouble In Little China
Revenge of the Nerds
Bachelor Party
The Muppet Movie
Muppets Take Manhattan
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Godzilla Vs. Hedorah
Godzilla King of the Monsters
Bubba Ho-Tep
Jaws
Heathers
Grease
Godfather 1 & 2
Full Metal Jacket
The Princess Bride
Napoleon Dynamite
Casablanca
In the Heat of the Night
Brewster McCloud
The Good, the Bad, & The Ugly
Run Lola Run
The Seventh Seal
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Punch Drunk Love
Donnie Darko
The Silence of the Lambs
Young Frankenstein
Raising Arizona
Harold and Maude
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Man on the Moon
Amadeus
A Hard Day's Night
Amelie
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Kill Bill Volumes 1&2
Blood Diner
Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness
Stop Making Sense
True Stories
Ramones: End of the Century
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Dancin' Outlaw
Shadow of a Doubt
Strangers on a Train
Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Television:

The Office
Simpsons
Law and Order (all 30 of them)
Boston Legal
Almost anything on PBS
News shows
The Daily Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
and, of course, Mama's Family

Books:

*A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
*The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar wilde
*The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
*Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
Everything by Hunter S. Thompson
*Curious George Flies a Kite by H.A. Rey
*God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
*Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Okay anything by Vonnegut
*Nine Stories by JD Salinger
*A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
*Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
*Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
*Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
*Pure Drivel by Steve Martin
*Without Feathers by Woody Allen
*The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
*Getting Even by Woody Allen
*Kick Me by Paul Fieg
*The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
*Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
*Human All To Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
*Brain Droppings by George Carlin
*The Epileptic Bicycle by Edward Gorey
*The Curious Sofa by Edward Gorey (actually Ogden Weary)
*Songbook by Nick Hornby
*The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
Not to mention anything by Dr. Seuss! You're never too old for his work.

Heroes:

The O.G.'s

Have to mention also Benjamin Franklin, Charlie Watts, Bill Clinton, Woody Allen, Brian Wilson, and that guy that faced off the tank in Tinanmen Square, among others

And R.I.P. Hunter S. Thompson, Joe Strummer and Nina Simone

My Blog

Life Is Worth Losing

This will be short. My computer's running slow and I don't have on any pants.Everybody lost a great old guy today. George Carlin isn't just my favorite comedian, he helped to totally reshape my thinki...
Posted by Danger Disco on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:38:00 PST

A Mockingbird in the twilight of infamy.

Do you ever lock eyes with strangers and get zapped by some kind of, I don't know, feeling of understanding? Maybe a tinge of kinship or commonality? Sure you do ... some of you, at least. I just got ...
Posted by Danger Disco on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:05:00 PST

Life kicks my ass again.

Well, here comes another crude raving. Stop now if you don't want to hear my closest approximation of what it is like to be a loathesome "bleeding heart". But it goes without saying, either by god's w...
Posted by Danger Disco on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:54:00 PST

November 1st.

Well here we are kids. It is the first of the next to last month in a year that has been (for me, anyway) alternately rotten and wonderful. Also sometimes it was best colored in that grey ar...
Posted by Danger Disco on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:48:00 PST

They were quiet now, but not for long.

What have we here? October came and has nearly gone and I just about missed it! Note to self: better pay attention next time, Jack. Failure to do so may cost you your life. But here we are, 10/24...
Posted by Danger Disco on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:51:00 PST

Jorb well done!

Hey kids! So I was offered a job in Franklin today and I decided to accept it. Should it all work out, beginning next week I will be working for a health care office as a liason for their clients. The...
Posted by Danger Disco on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:45:00 PST

The Top Ten And Not Much Else!

Hey kids! I don't have much to report ... then again perhaps I do, but maybe now is not the time. But I figured I could at least post one of my semi-semi-annual top ten list of things from the last we...
Posted by Danger Disco on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:00:00 PST

Final Fark Party Reminder!

Hello friends. This is just a brief reminder to those interested that tomorrow night I will co-hosting a party w/my friend Amy (fark handle: Skyrish) an official Fark gathering at the Flying Saucer. F...
Posted by Danger Disco on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 06:28:00 PST

I Die.

Yikes, what a morning! Or is it the afternoon? Is time actually relevant when you're so viciously hungover that it wouldn't matter what minute of what hour of what day of what month of what year ...
Posted by Danger Disco on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:25:00 PST

Watch your speeding, rube!

So I was tooling down White Bridge Rd this afternoon when I found myself in a school zone. While the rest of us law abiding (well, except when noone's looking in my case) citizens dutifully puttered a...
Posted by Danger Disco on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:40:00 PST