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About Me

All Paintings and Drawings on this site are Copyright 2008 Matt Mims All Rights Reserved. These are all original paintings and drawings created by me. If you have any questions about them feel free to contact me.I have another site with more pictures of my paintings and drawings here:

My Interests

I like to Paint.

Music:



Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Neil Young, Hank Williams, Leonard Cohen, Bob Marley, WEEN, Bob Dylan, Saul Williams, Okkervil River, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Townes Van Zandt, Joe Strummer, Mark Lanegan, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Tim Hardin, Reverend Horton Heat, Mike Ness, Social Distortion, Misfits, Tiger Army, the Cramps, the Decemberists, Tarkio, John Lennon, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Elvis, Roy Orbison, the Flaming Lips, Conway Savage, Hank III, Refused, Jimi Hendrix, Bad Religion, Atmosphere, Sage Francis, Bright Eyes, Neva Dinova, Rancid, Operation Ivy, Buck 65, Dead Kennedys, Agnostic Front, Henry Rollins (spoken word), the Broadways, Tenacious D, Lars and the Bastards, Sublime, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Woody Guthrie, the Clash, Ramones, Jeff Tweedy, the Descendents, Palace Brothers, Palace Music, any Will Oldham moniker, Andrew Bird, Mount Eerie, Tom McRae, Gus Black, Elliott Smith, Daniel Johnston, Neutral Milk Hotel, Spoon, Blanche, Devotchka, the Arcade Fire, Morrissey, the Smiths, Broken Social Scene, Devendra Banhart, Frank Black, the Pixies, Billy Bragg, Specials, Steve Earle, Marty Robbins, Buddy Holly, Minor Threat, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, Joe Henry, Calexico, Vic Ruggiero, Stephan Smith, Jolie Holland, White Stripes, the Quakes, George Harrison, Nick Drake, Wayne "the Train" Hancock, Gillian Welch, Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams, Lost Patrol, Wilco, Flogging Molly, Propagandhi, Suicide Machines, Calexico, Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, the Aggrolites, Westbound Train, Seeed, Peter Tosh, Buju Banton, Desmond Dekker, Mad Lion, Junior Reid, Damian, Kymani, Stephen, and Ziggy Marley, Wailing Souls, Toots and the Maytals, Upsetters, Jimmy Cliff, Half Pint, Bargain Music, Ziggens, Slightly Stoopid, Seu Jorge, John Butler Trio, Black Flag, NOFX, Pennywise, Naked Aggression, Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Public Enemy, NWA, BDP, Horrorpops, the Vandals, Guttermouth, AAA, AFI, ALL, Subhumans, AC/DC, Dropkick Murphys, Citizen Fish, Exploited, Beck, Fishbone, Slackers, Hepcat, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, Allman Brothers Band, the Doors, Black Sabbath, Beastie Boys, the Mars Volta, At the Drive In, TV on the Radio, Isobel Campbell, M. Ward, L.B. Shortbus, Iron and Wine, the Helpers, Cat Power, Cat Stevens, Marianne Faithfull, Rilo Kiley, Otis Redding, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, the Birthday Party, Pj Harvey, Pharcyde, Jurassic 5, Soul Position, RJD2, Cody Chesnutt, the Black Crowes, Chris Robinson, Alice in Chains, Jerry Cantrell, Violent Femmes, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, RHCP, Les Claypool, 88 fingers louie, Weezer, Modest Mouse, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Motorhead, Transplants, Lightnin' Hopkins, Son House, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Radiohead, Jack Johnson, H.R., Bad Brains, All real Punk Rock, Reggae, and Old Country. Any music that has heart. The list goes on but that's all i can think of now...

Movies:

Clockwork Orange

Television:

the eyes are the groin of the head

Books:

I like to Draw. Anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Charles Bukowski, Saul Williams, Henry Rollins, Nick Cave, Chuck Palahniuk, Anthony Burgess, Irvine Welsh, I haven't read a whole book in a while. I'm too lazy. Johnny Cash's autobiography... der.

My Blog

MIMS VIDEOS

So i decided to delete my video pagei thought having multiple pages would be funbut it wasn't it was just annoyingso here you go:these are some of the videos i made in video art last semesterlove emor...
Posted by MIMS on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:48:00 PST

MIMS buttons

i have 1" MIMS face buttons for sale!!!!black and whitebuy one and support your favorite artist; )i don't have an online shop yetso message me on here if you're interested. or here: [email protected]...
Posted by MIMS on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:39:00 PST

ribbon of darkness

Ribbon of darkness over meSince my true love walked out the doorTears I never had beforeRibbon of darkness over meClouds are gatherin' o'er my headThat chill the day and hide the sunThat shroud the ni...
Posted by MIMS on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:26:00 PST

for Crissy


Posted by MIMS on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:13:00 PST

little man

Sure as fire will burnThere's one thing you will learnThose things you have cherishedAre things that you have earnedLuck is when opportunityMeets with preparationAnd the same is true for every generat...
Posted by MIMS on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:28:00 PST

waste of paint

I have a friend, he is made mostly of pain. He wakes up, drives to work,and then straight back home again. He once cut one of my nightmares out of paper.I thought it was beautiful, I put it on a recor...
Posted by MIMS on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:37:00 PST

everywhere i go.... it rains on me.

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Posted by MIMS on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:14:00 PST