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Matthew

Disregard the facts in your pursuit of the truth.

About Me

Classical but not traditional; new yet familiar; recognizable and unknown. I make the best guacamole in Costa Rica. Some of the hats (stilllifenyc.com for hats) I wear: a teacher, a choreographer, a cyclist, a baker, a pescetarian (fish), a rigger (ropes), and I'm about 70% liquid. I prefer movies over television and books over movies. I'm 183 cm head to heel, 75 kg (I prefer metric).I want to bicycle from Seattle, WA (current home) to Brooklyn, NY (former home) in under 4 weeks in (August?) 2007. The route will likely pass Glacier Nat'l Park (NW Montana), The Badlands/Mt Rushmore/Black Hills (S. Dakota), Chicago, Columbus (most of my family can be found within 100 miles or so of Central OH, but watch-out for the Cycling Sluts of Columbus!), Philadelphia, NYC, and of course, much more.

My Interests

Cycling, swimming, volleyball, dance, bodies, the concept and history of history, knots, climbing, falling, travel, trees, honey, hats (www.stilllifenyc.com), water, Dec 21, 2012, gardening, cruelty to kittens, baking/cooking/food, disregarding gravity, the history of zero, and more. It varies....

I'd like to meet:

I change so I hope you'll be willing to too. Or if you wear a tutu- dancers show your love. Oh, and I'd love to meet people crazy enough to cycle from Seattle to BK (or any fraction of the way) this summer.

Music:

Hmm, quite a variety of things, really. I mean, we're spanning centuries here just to cover my favorites. There's a lot of really great music out there, and more all the time. Sure, you have to sift through an ever-expanding array of utter aural waste, but it's out there. As far as popular music goes, I like some of it- particularly pieces with positive, assertive, powerful content. What, you want a list of names?

Movies:

So so so many people think that they are video artists or film makers and so so so few people actually are, or at least are doing it well. I'm happy to see 4-5 things each year, and the fewer of them from the Hollywood giants, generally the better.

Television:

I have cable, at least for the winter. It's already starting to piss me off a little.

Books:

Food books, cookbooks, nonfiction, fiction, science-fiction... I read.

Heroes:

all the victims of the penal system, survivors everywhere, refugees, lovers, fighters, and the every-day crazy.