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Avocado

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About Me

I'm attending the University of the Arts for graduate studies in painting. I'll have my MFA by the end of 2008 (if everything goes as planned). I love painting (of course), listening to music, seeing movies, etc. Right now I'm living with my grandparents, my mom, and my sis until I get out of school. I like being silly and I enjoy making fun of everything including myself!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Eddie Vedder, Jim Morrison, Sylvia Plath, Michael Stipe, Courtney Love, of course Kurt Cobain...

Music:

David Bowie, Pearl Jam, REM, The Velvet Underground, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Doors, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Pixies, Live, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Crash Test Dummies, System of a Down, Marilyn Manson, Neil Young, Stone Temple Pilots, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Jimi Hendrix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Distillers, Meat Puppets, Syd Barrett, Arcade Fire, Cat Power, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Leona Naess, Audioslave, G. Love and Special Sauce, Silverchair, Offspring, Bush, The Kills, Wilco, Cake, Spoon, The Raveonettes, Billy Corgan, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, Sigur Ros, Morningwood, Hot Machines, the Hush Sound, The Hold Steady...

Movies:

1. The Shining 2. Batman 66 (with Adam West) 3. A Clockwork Orange 4. Princess Bride 5. The Doors 6. Fight Club 7. Freddy vs. Jason 8. Phenomenon 9. Napolean Dynamite 10. Memento

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, WWE, Reno 911, Simpsons, Family Guy, Daily Show, Stella, Sports

Books:

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, and any Women's Utopian Literature.

Heroes:

Tom Waits, David Bowie, Andy Kaufman, PJ Harvey...

My Blog

New BLOG site

From now on you can see my blog at http://deingtheconstruct.blogspot.com or in Facebook notes.  Thanks for reading. Matt
Posted by Avocado on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:04:00 PST

I got Photoshop back!

George Washington on American Idol.  I love technology. Any guesses on what he's singing? Matt...
Posted by Avocado on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:39:00 PST

Today's History Lesson Is...

...Hilarious and depressing at the same time.  Here it goes...I was struggling to trudge through scholarly essays about conceptual art when suddenly i came upon one that thrilled me.  And h...
Posted by Avocado on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:19:00 PST

ART

HAhahahahaha...I finished putting in all the nails I need for my project .  It's taken me two weeks but I've done it!  And now I'm beginning to actually sculpt the Styrofoam instead of rely...
Posted by Avocado on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:27:00 PST

Solution to Life: Pretend You're in a Movie

Okay, so, today because of the evolution of self-consciousness, more people are painfully aware of how pointless their lives are than ever before.  Sure, subjectively you have your family and clo...
Posted by Avocado on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:30:00 PST

What's this life thing?

I started a babysitting job today that I'm going to do once a week.  I'm sitting with a 6 month old baby named Kyra from 10-5 every wednesday.  Kyra is a very happy and silly baby so she mak...
Posted by Avocado on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:41:00 PST

Willful Ignorance

"Willful Ignorance" seems to be a hot description right now. Just google it and you'll see what I mean. Liberals have recently championed the phrase as the best way to describe the Bush administration...
Posted by Avocado on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:51:00 PST

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

Random inquiries:Can one be emotionally tied to a subject and yet still be objective? Is the point of intellectualism solely to balance out the extremism of simplicity?eg. People used to beat their ki...
Posted by Avocado on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 06:45:00 PST

Research

What's one to think about Global Warming?  I guess the first thing one would have to do is research it before one could give an opinion of it.  But how do you research?  By reading maga...
Posted by Avocado on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:02:00 PST

The Goings are Good

This new phase i'm in with my art is really taking me to a whole new level.  Since i've been working with nails, styrofoam, and particle board I've found a fresh world of aesthetics, and it's my ...
Posted by Avocado on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:03:00 PST