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the.matt.francisco

The tyrant dies and his reign ends. The martyr dies and his reign begins.

About Me

"Everybody knows, everybody knows, everybody knows, you only live a day, but it's brilliant any way." -Elliott Smith.I am twenty-three years old and recently graduated from Samford University in Birmingham, AL. I loved it there and am in a slight state of existential crisis trying to figure out what the next step of my life will be. I'm planning on spending the summer at Fort Walton Beach and then road-tripping cross-country with my girlfriend Erin, but who knows? For now, I am feverishly clinging on to any semblance of stability in my life while conjuring images of grandiose, undeniably great dreams for my life when I am hounded by family & friends who ask where I'm headed. This is the dawning of a great and glorious age, the likes of which have never been seen on any stage. For now, I'm tired of chasing my dreams... I'm just gonna ask where they're going and hook up with them later.

My Interests

general tomfoolery

I'd like to meet:

D.B. Cooper. Soren Kierkegaard. John Donne. Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Music:

Elliott Smith, The Beatles, Sufjan Stevens, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Derek Webb, Ben Folds, Beach Boys, Nickel Creek, The Format, Robert Randolph, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Emily Wells, Fleet Foxes

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, There Will be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Hot Fuzz, Swingers, Braveheart, Tombstone, The Usual Suspects, Zoolander, Raging Bull, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, GodFather Parts I & II

Television:

The Office, LOST, Boy Meets World, Arrested Development

Books:

Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, They Shall Know Our Velocity!, Desiring God, An Ordinary Man, Fear & Trembling, The Sickness Unto Death, A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Heroes:

John Donne, John Denley, MLK, Gandhi, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Emile Zola, Soren Kierkegaard

My Blog

Talking to Max last night

Max came over after I had been at J. Porn because he wanted to get some American music from me, and he stuck around to hear Alyson & I practice for the Vision Meeting the next day. Afterwards, we ...
Posted by the.matt.francisco on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:55:00 PST

How It Is that the Soul Doesnt Escape the Body When the Heart Falls Through the Floor

In a fit of unbearable boredom, I meandered my way through the stores of a mall somewhere in South Florida between Panama City and Orlando, aimlessly killing time before I had to meet up with a crew o...
Posted by the.matt.francisco on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:25:00 PST

Living the Impossible Dream

Armed with my journal, my worn bible, and my perhaps dangerously-more-worn-appearing copy of Blue Like Jazz, I sat down on a bench in Homewood Park, just a few miles away from Samford, to contemplate ...
Posted by the.matt.francisco on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:56:00 PST