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Matthew

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I live in Charlotte. I do the music at Watershed . I play music. I love Jesus. I love my wife. I love coffee. I love food that is unhealthy. I don't like to admit that I actually like pop music. I spend too much time playing video games. I don't like the White Stripes. I would love to meet you.

My Interests

music, my lovely wife, God, and you

I'd like to meet:

Your mom for a nice candlelit dinner.

I read this the other day:
"God cannot be related to without continually digesting the uneasiness and pain that are experienced by looking, squarely and honestly, at how the weakest members in our society are faring and how our own lifestyle is contributing to that. This is not something that a few liberation theologians, feminists, and social justice advocates are trying to foist on us. This is not a liberal agenda item. It is something that lies at the very heart of the Gospel and which Jesus himself makes the final criterion for our final judgment....bluntly put, we will go to heaven or hell on the basis of giving or not giving food, water, clothing, shelter, and justice to the poor..." -Ronald Rolheiser, The Holy Longing

"So if you don’t love it, if you’re not having fun doing it, you don’t really love it, you’re going to give up. And that’s what happens to most people, actually. If you really look at the ones that ended up, you know, being “successful” in the eyes of society and the ones that didn’t, oftentimes, it’s the ones [who] were successful loved what they did so they could persevere, you know, when it got really tough. And the ones that didn’t love it quit because they’re sane, right? Who would want to put up with this stuff if you don’t love it?" -Steve Jobs

Here's a picture of my new lady:

Some of the drummers I like to listen to:
Stewart Copeland
Carter Beauford
Mark Trojanowski (his early stuff w/ Sister Hazel is cool)
John Blackwell
Josh Freese

and of course....

Filling in on drums for Paul Hermosa (not as cool as Ed and Buddy's drumming):

Heroes:

Jesus
Jack Bauer
Your mom