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The Matty

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About Me

I'm far too busy with my artsy urban lifestyle for these friend networks. But if I must sum up how cool I am in a sound bite... Pulse Pounding Boredom abounded and hark! for there was a multitude of yawns from the heavens, "For in you is all that I am," said the spider to the fly. And thus was the mystery of life revealed unto the doomed. Does that make me sound pretentious? TELL ME!!!! I NEED YOUR APPROVAL!!!www.mattclarkartist.com

My Interests

People Watching, dumpster diving, Good art, muppets,World Travel, Football (not the American kind), Japanese pop culture, keeping people at a distance to perpetuate my delusions of grandeur and pouring my soul out in text form onto a web page that no one will ever look at.

I'd like to meet:

You... unless you complain a lot. Complainers should leave me alone. Oh and these guys. I want to meet these guys... ..

Music:

The Decemberists, The Dresden Dolls, Gnarls Barkley, The Pixies, MF Doom, Wilco, Dj Shadow, Madlib, Muddy Waters, Bonobo, Bikini Kill, Dangermouse, The Protomen, Talib Kweli, Charles Mingus, Digable Planets, At the Drive In, Boards of Canada, Nina Simone, Lali Puna, Pavement, Curtis Mayfield, Beck, James Brown, Tom Waits, Pavement, The Perceptionists, Arcade Fire, Amon Tobin, Pulp, RJD2, and Linda Mabbs just to name a few. And did I mention Pavement?

Movies:

Office Space, Shortcuts, Yojimbo, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Akira, Miller's Crossing, A Lifeless Ordinary, Sin City, Battle Royal, Leon, Bras Cubas, The Commissar, The Corporation, The Neverending Story, Unbreakable, Chinatown, and of course R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet

Books:

Slaughter House 5, The Corporation; Crime and Punishment; Catch 22; Manufacturing, Consent Goodnight Moon; No Logo; One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish; The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy; The Veldt, The Pearl, anything by Hemingway, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and On the Campaign trail '72, And lest we not forget the Good Book.

Heroes:

Mom, Richard Hunt

My Blog

proper etiquette when you're assaulted in a cab

So here's a funny question. What IS the proper etiquette when someone attempts to assualt your cab driver for making an illegal manuver and cutting them off at 3:30am? I'm going home from Rififi and a...
Posted by The Matty on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:15:00 PST

After Easter reflections

Inundated with religious dogma a thought has occurred to me. Jesus died for our sins. Sins that we would have been punished for otherwise. Obviously god would have been the one to punish us (its in...
Posted by The Matty on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:14:00 PST

Season Final,y Pt. 1 Uncle Traveling Matt Returns Home

Fear and Loathing in Auckland International Airport: Well I have had an amazing time here in the land of new zeas but I guess it is time for me to return to the Commercial Abyss from whence I came.&nb...
Posted by The Matty on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:10:00 PST

THis ones gonna be quick

Just thought I would tell this story before I come home. So I went with these two american girls to trravel around for the last days of my stay here.  And they took me to an airfield and forced m...
Posted by The Matty on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:55:00 PST

Drifting out to sea.

I have received a number of frantic e-mails wondering if I am alright (thanks to those of you who cared enough to wonder).  I'm fine no thanks to the British.  Lousy Limeys never helped nob...
Posted by The Matty on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 02:30:00 PST

I'm so sick and tired of beautiful beaches

I mean really doesn't this country haveanything to offer besides hundreds and hundreds of pristine white sand beaches teaming with hot German chicks in Bikinis (really though why German.  I mean ...
Posted by The Matty on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 11:00:00 PST

Getting home from the police station

Well it is appearantly not a legal activity here to stay the night on all but one of the 150 islands in the Bay of Islands.  After one night at a camp site I set back out ing th mornig.  I h...
Posted by The Matty on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 08:39:00 PST

Whats up down under

Ta da My magical journey is under way.  Somehow I left less then 48 hours ago but its Saturday.  Mysteries of the IDL!!!  So not much to go on about except that I'm okay. As flying is a...
Posted by The Matty on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:38:00 PST

Grimace: The Mystery of our time

Well Bored here at work I have managed to unravel the mystery of Grimace and in the process learned something not at all surprising about McDonald's characters.  McDonald's stole them!!!  A...
Posted by The Matty on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:20:00 PST