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matt g

This one's for posterity.

About Me

My life is not nearly as idiosyncratic as I sometimes imagine. I am, in many respects, indistinguishable from the astounding mass that is the human race. Now, there are some peculiar features that lend an air of uniqueness to the phenomenon of my existence. Upon closer scrutiny, however, these are shown to be mere phantasms that only concretize my intuitive notion of the natural unity of all persons.

My Interests

Feeling guilty, waking up early, drinking tea and reading, unity and solidarity, iconoclasm, cloudy days, that girl on the bus, running in the park, used book stores, symmetry, consistency, proportion, watching movies, writing poems, eating rice, living and dying well.

I'd like to meet:

City dwellers, South Grand folk, Tower Grove persons, artists, music lovers, rap heads, movie watchers, revolutionaries, socialists, hippies, food eaters, coffee drinkers, liberals, activists, humanists, perennialists, tennis players, runners, rappers, b-boys, b-girls, free thinkers, philosophy nerds, conversationalists, nice people, et cetera. I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 so hot that hades cant fuck with it, cuz they mom and they sister and girl in love with it

Music:

Pep Love, Phonte Coleman, One Be Lo, Jean Grae, Mr. Lif, Common, Outkast, Latyrx, Talib Kweli, Living Legends, RZA, Nas, Blackalicious, 2Mex, LMNO, Desperacidos, Gang Starr, Beatnuts, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Jay-Z, Brother Ali, The Grouch, Zion I, Aesop Rock, Postal Service, Mars ILL, Little Brother, De La Soul, Beastie Boys, Brand Nubian, Promoe, Sufjan Stevens, Coldplay, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Lil Wayne, Rebel's Advocate, Jos One, Terrible Telly, Drumk, A Oneder, Murs, MxPx, Pennywise, Five Iron Frenzy, Public Enemy, Looptroop, Elliott Smith, Dead Prez, Casual, Cam'ron, Future Shock, Esoteric, J-Live, Atmosphere, J Dilla, Ludacris, Enya, Shai, PM Dawn, Mos Def....

Movies:

I Heart Huckabees, Boiler Room, Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring, Love Actually, Fight Club, Alfie (sorry), Jerry McGuire, The New World, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Equilibrium, Royal Tennebaums, Igby Goes Down, Edukators, Lost in Translation, About a Boy, Amores Peros, Almost Famous, High Fidelity, Amelie... documentaries about radical movements, The Corporation, etc.

Television:

The Weather Channel, Charlie Rose, Iron Chef, Conan O'Brien, Darts on FSN

Books:

Jaroslav Pelikan - The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine Volume 3: The Growth of Medieval Theology (600-1300), Henry David Thoreau - Walden, Ahrundati Roy - The Ordinary Person's Guide to the Empire, Noam Chomsky - Profit over People, Naomi Klein - NO LOGO, Thomas More - Utopia, Jean Jacques Rousseau - On the Origin of Inequality, Various Sages - The Upanishads, The Huey P. Newton Reader, Leo Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilych, Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth

Heroes:

Henry David Thoreau, Huey P. Newton, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Arundhati Roy, Frantz Fanon, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Peter Abelard, William Lloyd Garrison, Tim Wise, Malcolm X, Evo Morales, Eugene Debs, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Abid Qureshi, John Brown, W.E.B. Dubois, Jesus, people who stand for something, those whose alter their lives based on principle, people with flaws who still try hard, those who are nice to others, people who have to fight through every day, anyone whose life makes me re-evaluate my own.

My Blog

Christmas thought

For the past year of my life I've been reading material on issues such as poverty, indigenous movements, social justice, foreign policy, etc.  My interest in these matters is still primarily theo...
Posted by matt g on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:39:00 PST

efficacy of femininity in the industry of advertising

i couldn't hold out any longer...just signed up for match.com.those live-action ads of girls checking their accounts just waiting for mr. right led me to the conclusion: i AM mr. right. so, ladies... ...
Posted by matt g on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:14:00 PST

Places I'm Moving To

Based on the jobs I'm applying for right now, here is the list of my possible locations come fall 2007:1.  Seattle (ha), making coffee2.  San Jose, teaching CC3.  San Diego, teaching CC...
Posted by matt g on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:42:00 PST

Today I change my life

    Today I change my life.Tomorrow I revert back to old.Yesterday I foresaw it all.All this time I think it's wrong.In truth it's a matter of education.My trial is error but my error i...
Posted by matt g on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:02:00 PST

So I downloaded Firefox...

    .... and I realized my myspace page is downright ugly.  I mean pictures are shifted in, the text starts at random places, the entire profile is a huge eyesore.  Then I thi...
Posted by matt g on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:56:00 PST

Both Amusing and Disturbing

I was walking home from work last night/this morning, circa 12:45 AM, when an individual from the other side of the street attempted to get my attention.  It is not uncommon to be asked for chang...
Posted by matt g on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 04:04:00 PST