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mateo

it's all over as soon as we ride up Troy's bucket

About Me

my name is matt

i'd rather hum

i am sometimes from the country
http://www.pendletonoverground.com

My Interests

anticipation, music, reading/writing, psychology, audrey hepburn movies, hudson hornets and commadores (1949-53), gibson SG's, moserites, trains, thrift stores, yard sales, coffee cups, computers, cool people, wheat thins, Chaos theory, entropy, twenty questions, cooking people breakfast, avocado on crackers with lime, and vodka tonics with calamansi

I'd like to meet:

audrey hepburn or anyone who can talk about entropy

Music:

currently in rotation as of 7.14.07 ... The Ventures, Stars of Track and Feild, Aphex Twin staples ... Doc Watson, Elliott Smith, Pete Krebs, Manu Chao, The Ventures, Neil Young, Matthew Ryan, Radiohead, The Pet Shop Boys, Damien Jurado, Dwight Yoakam friends' bands... Baj, Beirut, Hoptow, JD Kindle, Junior Private Detective, Kieskegato, Kind of Like Spitting, Paul Collins Dance Machine, Point Juncture WA., System and Station

Movies:

Amelie, Pi, SLAM, Roman Holliday, Charade, Ghost Dog, Being There, Elling, most woody allen films

Television:

austin city limits, nova, scientific american, Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes)

Books:

currently reading
- Bowerman and The Men of Oregon - Kenny Moore
- The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes - Jamyang Norbu
recently finished and would recommend
- If The Buddha Came To Dinner - Hale Sofia Schatz
- Middlesex - Jeffery Euginides
- Blowing My Cover: My Life As a CIA Spy - Lindsay Moran

recently finished and would not recommend
- Rite of Passage - Lisa Johnson (various)

favorites
- Chaos (James Gleick)
- Stories of Happy People (Lars Gustafsson)
- Dharma Bums & Big Sur (Jack Kerouac)
- The Tales of King Arthur (Most Translations)
- The Circus of Dr Lao (Charles G. Finney)
- No Such Thing As A Bad Kid (Charles Applestein)

Heroes:

merlin

My Blog

lucky for me - I have the rad mobile

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38879
Posted by mateo on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:31:00 PST

the rad mobile

i wanted to share with you, my friends, a brief history of my car - the rad mobile. in the style of nick nash, it will be a photo blog because words alone can't quite wrap themselves around the amenit...
Posted by mateo on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:36:00 PST

bring lawrence to oregon fund

good morning to all of you. hopefully your late-winter-showing-signs-of-spring morning is as beautiful as mine.for those of you who don't know, last summer i started the bring lawrence to oregon fund....
Posted by mateo on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:41:00 PST

ya'll can pay up

i started working for the state yesterday - and in typical government fashion i'm enjoying my first of many three day weekends. so yep, ya'll're payin' my salary now. i'm working for the department of...
Posted by mateo on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 06:08:00 PST

hang your head

so ... friday i went to dinner with good ole peter and milo. we ate sushi... but not just any sushi. it was elite sushi... 1337 sushi to be more specific. 1337 NE Broadway, Portland, OR sushi.on my wa...
Posted by mateo on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:26:00 PST

touch my cape

I am now officially moved in to my new house. To all of my Portland friends who have not seen me much, expect to shortly. I'll probably have a house warming party in a few weeks, probably on a wednesd...
Posted by mateo on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:06:00 PST

where am i now...

... portland mostly, though i'm hoping i can find a way to spend a little more of this summer in eastern oregon. i'm working for a contractor here doing some really basic framing / drywall. its easy h...
Posted by mateo on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:01:00 PST

smooth opperator

i feel like moonwalking up and down the coast and to help everyone else share this feeling i posted my moonwalking man [see current profile pic]. he is sticker size so please find some sticker paper a...
Posted by mateo on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 10:22:00 PST

painted hero

tonight i think i'm going to watch my new movie. its going strong three years now and i still haven't gotten over my dwight yoakam kick. "Country star Dwight Yoakam makes his leading roll debut a...
Posted by mateo on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 06:56:00 PST

we are the echoes of eternity echoes of eternity echoes of eternity

well... i haven't posted a blog in a while. i guess i will do that now, since i can log on to myspace, but the only functions i can currently use are the browse and blog functions. cancel the apocoly...
Posted by mateo on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:27:00 PST