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Matt

Mondo Nice

About Me

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My Interests

Hand claps! Spending time with family and friends, Tower Records, Reading the Sunday New York Times, Penguin Classics, Criterion Collection, Playing the drums, Playing the piano, Mocha frappuccinos

Music:

Smashing Pumpkins, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Ennio Morricone, The Cure, Billy Corgan, Fiona Apple, The Beatles, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex, The Bad Plus, Blue Merle, D'Angelo, The Association, Cannonball Adderley, The Detroit Experiment, Gordon Lightfoot, Cat Stevens, Frank Sinatra, The Lovin' Spoonful, Jag Star, Limbeck, The Beach Boys, Joni Mitchell, Eric Dolphy, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Pietro Mascagni, Limbeck, Supertramp, REM, The New Amsterdams, Third Eye Blind, Saves the Day, Telepopmusik, Royksopp, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Chamberlin, McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, Ahmir Thompson, Herbie Hancock, Blink 182, Grant Green, Led Zeppelin, Jason Mraz, Charlie Parker, The Postal Service, Guster, The Rolling Stones, The Start, VHS or Beta, Watashi Wa, Zwan, Koop, Thelonious Monk, Secret Machines, I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business, Pitty Sing, Art Tatum, Cafe Tacuba, The Polyphonic Spree, Outkast, Motion City Soundtrack, Travis Barker, The Roots, Clint Eastwood, M83, Bloc Party, The Early November, Bob Dylan

Movies:

Million Dollar Baby, Rocky, The Godfather, The Apartment, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Scent of a Woman, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Raging Bull, The Bucket List, The Odd Couple, Mystic River, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Breaking Away, The Big Sleep, Cop Land, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America, Dirty Harry, About Schmidt, The Deer Hunter, Buffalo '66, My Fair Lady, Up in Smoke, The Game, Panic Room, Fatal Attraction, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Brian's Song, First Blood, Glengarry Glen Ross, Insomnia, Meet the Parents, It's a Wonderful Life, The Fortune Cookie, Meet the Fockers, The Jerk, Le Notti Bianche, Bringing out the Dead, Philadelphia, Bananas, North by Northwest, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Big, Dumb and Dumber, Rocky II, Five Easy Pieces, The Graduate, Hoosiers, Rudy, A Great Day in Harlem, Blue Note: A Story of Modern Jazz, Heat, The Insider, In the Line of Fire, Mean Streets, The Outlaw Josey Wales, School of Rock, Wonder Boys, Kramer vs. Kramer, Planes Trains and Automobiles, The Shawshank Redemption, Shopgirl, Unforgiven, To Kill a Mockingbird, Driving Miss Daisy, Two Bits, Scarface, Donnie Brasco, The Terminal, The Aviator, Napoleon Dynamite

Television:

The Cosby Show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Motormouth, Sanford and Son, Pimp My Ride, The Bernie Mac Show, TCM, IFC, The Golden Girls, Inside the Actors Studio, Punk'd, Three's Company, The Andy Griffith Show, Hogan Knows Best, Home Improvement, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Tommy Lee Goes to College, Drake and Josh, The Wonder Years (I forgot about that show, Maribeth!)

Books:

Biographies of Clint Eastwood, Robert De Niro, Sergio Leone, Blinking with Fists, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Anna Karenina, Civilizations, Great Expectations, Born Standing Up, All-Music Guides, Art Blakey's Jazz Messages, The Great Gatsby, Slaughterhouse Five, Is There No Other Way, What Type Am I, Sun Signs, Angela's Ashes, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Tao Te Ching, Madame Bovary, The Power and the Glory, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Big Sleep, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dubliners, Pure Drivel, The Pleasure of My Company, Shopgirl

Heroes:

My parents