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Self-Styled Second Banana

Gimme that old time religion

About Me

Matt Nelson Five Life Lessons To live By:
1) Don't be ugly.
2) Do what you will because you will anyway.
3) Never lie.
4) Punctuality is a must.
5) If someone offers you gum, take it.

My Interests

Summer

I'd like to meet:

Kevin Spacey

Music:

"Hang on, little tomato. Stay on the vine until you're fat and juicy. Then we'll pluck you and boil you in secret bubbling spices and turn you into ketchup."

-- Hunt's Ketchup ad

Books:

Can't Remember: The Matt Nelson Autobiography, by Matt Nelson

Heroes:

Clarence Darrow

My Blog

The Lumberjack Breakfast

Leah's in town for the weekend and the other night I made the biggest mistake in a while. After work, I went over to Liz and Tamar's to hang out with them and Leah and Matt Murray, who just moved into...
Posted by Matt Nelson on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:35:00 PST

Carving turkey with the Kims

Yesterday I got a phone call while I was at work and my dentist from back home has invited me to his Thanksgiving Dinner! I'm more than excited. My dad went in for a cleaning the other day and Dr. Kim...
Posted by Matt Nelson on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:33:00 PST

Farewell, Deathtrap

The other night Liz and Tamar came to see Deathtrap and it was a great show, everyone was excited and we had a full house. Afterward we had a cocktail party in the back room with the audience, cast, a...
Posted by Matt Nelson on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:08:00 PST

Suicide Bridge

Yesterday Liz and I spent our afternoon carving pumpkins and drinking pumpkin ale. It was great and the jack o'lanterns look great after dark. I did a little more research on our Halloween plans and i...
Posted by Matt Nelson on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 05:41:00 PST

Halloween Plans

Tonight I went to see The Departed with Liz, Minh, and Jeff DePaoli actually. Jeff got to town a week or so ago and still has no idea where anything is (which makes the fact that Minh and Liz and I we...
Posted by Matt Nelson on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:24:00 PST

Jim Train by A.M. Homes

Last night I was working at Grauman's and some guy was walking by me in the lobby and then stopped and pointed at me. "Deathtrap," he said and waited to see if he'd pegged the right guy. And I just no...
Posted by Matt Nelson on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:05:00 PST

Being Sick Is Proof There Is No God

Yesterday was a lousy day. I've been sick now for a couple of days and yesterday it reared up to the point that I went straight home and slept, missing Studio 60, which broke my little heart. When I c...
Posted by Matt Nelson on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:01:00 PST

After The Gold Rush

Today was Daryl's birthday and I went to Air Conditioned after work to buy him a birthday drink. I got to meet some other cool people though, like a woman who worked as a paramedic in Virginia saving ...
Posted by Matt Nelson on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:54:00 PST

Friday night in Alhambra California

Tonight's show went well (there were some people who actually thought, because of my bogus program bio, that I was actually blind) and after the show, we all went over to Al's to drink whiskey and pla...
Posted by Matt Nelson on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 02:01:00 PST

Deathtrap

Gearing up for another performance tonight. I think Tamar is coming either tonight or tomorrow night, which will be cool. Though, I'm trying to warn whoever comes that it's maybe the smallest theater ...
Posted by Matt Nelson on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:51:00 PST