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matt

clouds taste metallic

About Me

Recklessly optimistic.

Recent Music Listenings:

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My Interests

listening to music, seeing music, collecting music, civil liberties, writing, film, international politics and economics, books, walking, cities, talking to strangers, bonfires, found art, conversations in kitchens, driving at night, frozen pizza, the periodic table of elements

I'd like to meet:

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, Diagoras of Melos, and Jeff Mangum

Music:

Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel, the Beatles, Radiohead, Broken Social Scene, Flotation Toy Warning, Ulrich Schnauss, Nick Drake, Animal Collective, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Thee More Shallows, Johnny Cash, Sigur Rós, Clinic, My Dad vs Yours, Kid Koala, Múm, the Mountain Goats, Manual, Aphex Twin, the Beta Band, Mount Eerie, Carissa's Wierd, Do Make Say Think, the Silver Mt. Zion, Explosions in the Sky, the Flaming Lips, the Unicorns, Under Byen, Exploding Hearts, Micah P Hinson, Stereolab, Velvet Underground, Xiu Xiu, the Wind-Up Bird, Guided by Voices, the Magnetic Fields, British Sea Power, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, the Avalanches, Air, Komëit, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cairbou, Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson, Youth Group, My Bloody Valentine, Larsen, Vashti Bunyan, the Baptist Generals, Sunset Rubdown, Midlake, Grizzly Bear, Mono, the American Dollar, 3-Hur-El, the Capstan Shafts, Gowns, José González, Grand Archives, A Hawk and a Hacksaw

Movies:

American Beauty, the Royal Tenenbaums, Schizopolis, Adaptation, Me and You and Everyone We Know, A Scanner Darkly, Good Night and Good Luck, Match Point, Thumbsucker, Children of Men, Koyaanisqatsi, Das Leben Der Anderen, Amélie, Pan's Labyrinth, Je T'Aime Paris, The Falling Man, Why We Fight, The Life Aquatic, Salesman, American Movie, Waking Life, Little Miss Sunshine

Television:

The Office, Six Feet Under, Lost, Arrested Development, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Curb your Enthusiasm, Black Books, John Safran vs God, the Young Ones, Futurama, Extras, Mr Show, Da Ali G Show, Rome, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Frontline, Extras, Flight of the Conchords, British House of Commons - Prime Minister's Questions

Books:

A Heart-Breaking Work of Staggering Genius, Watership Down, Life of Pi, Atlas Shrugged, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Lullaby, The Corrections, Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death, Sirens of Titan, Suite Francaise, The Secret History

My Blog

a man with the wrong number keeps texting me pt. 3

Sep 8, 2007 3:17:15 PMDave says he stranded his phones dead. Cant charg it till laterSep 13, 2007 2:04:36Man ur bros doin dirt bad right now. Texted me 52 times in the past 24hrs. I dont respnd n he S...
Posted by matt on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:10:00 PST

a man with the wrong number keeps texting me pt. 2

Aug 31, 2007 10:56:54 AMMy friends man got locked up at santa rita jail. U think u can post one out there?Aug 31, 2007 2:00:32 PMU know i luv u. If u my kid and my bro wouldn have issues or b stressin...
Posted by matt on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:59:00 PST

a man with the wrong number keeps texting me

Aug 13, 2007 9:27:30 AM Happy Bday O.G.!! Come thru 2nite, we'll blow a pound!! :-) Aug 20, 2007 9:15:52 AM i mite b at medi-cal all day 2day shoot the phones to this number, this weekend i got one of...
Posted by matt on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:13:00 PST

excuse me

i got my shoes shined yesterday and still today i walked into several people on the sidewalk because i was looking at them.
Posted by matt on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:21:00 PST

there must be something wrong with my eyes, i can't take them off you


Posted by matt on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:10:00 PST

such a dirty look in the eye

i try again to guess lyrics written by dean wells of the capstan shafts.the capstan shafts - kiss-you advocacyhow is your hair so cleanwant to hide up those dirty thoughtshow is your face so nicewhen ...
Posted by matt on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:06:00 PST

a conversation i had with a man in a wheelchair on the sidewalk

man in a wheelchair: hi, how are you? me: good, how are you? man in a wheelchair: blessed by god.
Posted by matt on Tue, 29 May 2007 10:20:00 PST

well stranger things have come to be

i'm looking for a teapot. it can't just be any teapot. i'm looking for the right one. it has to be a certain shape. and make great tea. i love tea, but i'm saving myself for this teapot....
Posted by matt on Tue, 08 May 2007 09:20:00 PST

eezy peezy lemon squeezy

i am not ready for an adult's life. i will get myself killed. last tuesday, explosions in the sky were in town. got home after work and looked to change clothes. my laundry has sat undone f...
Posted by matt on Sat, 05 May 2007 09:00:00 PST

i don't know what you're talking about, love but it sounds good.

underneath: ER in under 30 minutesyour sweet voice breaks my heart....
Posted by matt on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:12:00 PST