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Matt

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About Me

I'm 6'2", 200lb, heterosexual man cruising a pink scooter through the streets of Atlanta. Studied rhetoric and teaching myself computer coding. Liberal, but reasonably. Three cats.

Any press is good press: Where I Work (for free)

My Interests

Politics, Rhetoric, Contemporary Philosophy, Language Theory, Trivia, Baseball, Atlanta Braves, Crossword Puzzles, Sudoku, Intelligent Women, Jogging, Poker, Birdwatching, Competitive Eating, Art, Zoos, Botanical Gardens

I'd like to meet:

These people: Best of Craigslist.com

There are some seriously bizarre yet funny people out there

Music:

In NO Particular Order (would that be a good name for a band?): Bob Dylan, Eels, The Stone Roses, Beatles, White Stripes, Paris Combo, Fiona Apple, Beulah, Tilly and the Wall, Devotchka, Ok Go, Gogol Bordello, Paul Simon, Goldfrapp, No River City,Flogging Molly, Against Me, Noir Desir

Movies:

Casablanca, Cabaret, Godfather, Miller's Crossing, The Aviator, Singing in the Rain, Raising Arizona, The Maltese Falcon, In a Lonely Place, To Have and Have Not, The Third Man, Reservoir Dogs, American Movie, My Brother's Keeper, Unzipped, Patton, The Sound of Music, Schindler's List, Ed Wood, Slingblade, The Breakfast Club

Television:

Braves on TBS, Sex in the City, Arrested Development, Stargate: Atlantis, This Week with George Stephanopolous, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Fox News Sunday, Family Guy, Frontline, Nightline, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, CBS News Sunday Morning.
And since they don't have a seperate radio listing: This American Life, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Car Talk, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?

Books:

High Fidelity, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Catcher in the Rye, Historical Ontology, Paradise Lost, His Dark Materials, The Communist Manifesto,

Heroes:

My Mom, My Dad, My Grandparents, Ian Hacking, Kenneth Burke, Stephen Toulmin, Anyone who can kick George W Bush in the nuts, Whoever changed Condi Rice's hairstyle from that awful UFO thing to what it is now, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzche, Bobby Cox

My Blog

Gin Joint Race Boycott

I have apparrently and unwittingly been the cause of a boycott of the local illegal bathtub gin speakeasy.Yesterday I'm downstairs with Linda and Mama and Melvin and since it is her birthday I give Ma...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:10:00 PST