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matt_negative

sincerity, with a motive

About Me

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movie list
also, i think Neutral Milk Hotel's 'Two-Headed Boy' (parts 1 & 2) is the greatest song ever written and if you don't agree then you're not someone i want to hang out with.

My Interests

vegan stuff, cameras, the buffyverse, fixies/bicycles, kickball, my powerbook, ping pong, dogs (rescued pitbulls & greyhounds), cats, dinosaurs, media studies, critical theory, critical mass, critical friends, books, records, comics, movies, the cubs, npr, literacy programs, making fun of things i don't understand, acquiring phobias and inane obsessions, underachieving.

I'd like to meet:

david mintz (prince of tofu ), dismas & gestas, peter sotos, anyone residing in dante's sixth and ninth rings of hell, anyone with a heart of gold. also cool dudes, like the ones in my top 8.
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Music:

dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music dance music

Movies:

[modern] Herzog's Cobra Verde and Fitzcarraldo, Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World and Archangel, Ozu's Tokyo Story, Godard's Alphaville and Contempt, Bergman's Seventh Seal and Winter Light, Cassavete's Killing of a Chinese Bookie & Faces, Kar-Wai's Happy Together, Ray's Johnny Guitar, Antonioni's Blow Up & The Passenger, Belvaux, Bonzel & Poelvoorde's Man Bites Dog [contemporary] Closer (2004), Pieces of April (2003), Chinese Odyssey 2002 (2002), Buffalo 66 (1998), Goonies (1985), Crash (1996), LOTR Trilogy (2001/2003), Royal Tennenbaums (2001), Downtown 81 (1981/2000), Where the Buffalo Roam (1980), The Ninth Configuration (1980), 24 Hour Party People (2002), Red Dawn (1984), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) Adaptation (2002), Rock & Roll Highschool (1979), Donnie Darko (2001) [classic] the complete oeuvre of Buster Keaton, Lang's Metropolis & M, Vertov's Man with the Movie Camera, Eisenstein's The Strike, von Stroheim's Greed. film list with reviews i made for friends

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Books:

[fiction] every word written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Cortazar's Hopscotch/Blow-up and Other Stories, Bowles' The Sheltering Sky, Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel, Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, DeLilillo's White Noise & Libra, Burroughs' Junky, Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Indiana's Horse Crazy, Chernyshevsky's What is to be Done?, Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Roth's Zuckerman Cycle, Nabokov's Lolita, White's Requiem, Trocchi's Cain's Book, Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eggers' YSKoV and AHWoSG, O'Brien's At Swim, Two Birds [theory] Said's Orientalism, Baudrillard's Simulacra & Simulation, Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, Foucault's Lectures at the College de France, Barthe's S/Z, Derrida's How to Masterbate [sci-fi] Gibson's Pattern Recognition, Ballard's Complete Works, Asimov's Robots, Empire and Foundation novels, Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, Stephenson's Cryptonomicon [memoirs] Pamuk's Istanbul, The Journals of Andre Gide v.1-3, Clinton's My Life, Stahl's Permanent Midnight; and The OED

Heroes:

FDR, Archbishop Oscar Romero, Hot Mix 5, Joss Whedon, Klaus Kinski, Dr. Benway

My Blog

what i miss...

...the First Season of the O.C.What a totally awesome crew:...
Posted by matt_negative on Fri, 04 May 2007 09:13:00 PST

thanks thomas wolfe!

this is one of the best lines of prose i've read in an age. it's from Thomas Wolfe's 'Of Time and the River'. "It seemed to the boy that there was something sly and evil in their glances as they sat t...
Posted by matt_negative on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:56:00 PST

planet earth

SUCKS
Posted by matt_negative on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:18:00 PST

cubs lose opening day 2007

Chicago Cubs v. Cincinnati RedsL 1-5Carlos Zambrano totally blew it.Also, the Tribune sold them.I haven't found a good place in Brooklyn to watch the games. If anyone knows a bar in Williamsburg/Green...
Posted by matt_negative on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:55:00 PST

Lightning Bolt at 3rd Ward this saturday

I'm totally preparing to have my mind blown by Lighting Bolt this Saturday. Normally I don't get overly excited for shows or even go to them much (the only bands I intentionally saw last year were The...
Posted by matt_negative on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:14:00 PST

my dream about CocoRosie

I had a dream last night that I wrote a one-hundred (100) page review of the new CocoRosie album 'The Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn' and then registered the url www.onehundredpagereviewofthenew...
Posted by matt_negative on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:49:00 PST

The most important judicial ruling of the 21st century

The New York TimesAugust 18, 2006Judge Finds Wiretap Actions Violate the LawBy ADAM LIPTAK and ERIC LICHTBLAUA federal judge ruled yesterday that the National Security Agencys program to wiretap the i...
Posted by matt_negative on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:41:00 PST

hello

wow...back on myspace for five minutes and i'm already bored. 
Posted by matt_negative on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:34:00 PST

goodbye

I think I'm done with myspace. I just noticed that I've been a registered myspace user for exactly two years and one day, and though it's been amusing at times, it may be time to move on to other inte...
Posted by matt_negative on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:48:00 PST

2005 Top 10 Albums (and other stuff)

Top Ten Albums of 2005 01. The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree (4AD) 02. Cocorosie - Noah's Ark (Touch & Go) 03. The Fiery Furnaces - Rehearsing My Choir (Rough Trade) 04. Architecture in Helsink...
Posted by matt_negative on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:44:00 PST