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Matt

I am here for Dating, Friends and Networking

About Me

I've lived in Chapel Hill since Feb 2006. I work from home and travel most weekends. My job is boring, so I won't go into it much. I am a contractor at GE Transportation and work in the Technology Services Group. Almost everything I do outside of work is centered around live music. I travel alot to see my favorite bands. Recently I saw Broken Social Scene in Asheville and I'm planning on doing Jam Cruise and Langerado. My major hobby is recording the bands I go see, mainly Perpetual Groove. I recorded pgroove's Surround Sound tour for sale on disclogic.com. Disclogic has since gone out of business. I also did a few instant live type recordings with Get Live on the Surround tour. I currently run the pgroove message board (Talking in Place) and I archive all pgroove recordings. I have a special project again at Amberland this year called AmberNET. We will be setting up a private network and making the entire pgroove archive available in lossless and itunes format to the festival attendees.

My Interests

music, technology, music, gadgets, music, movies, camping. Alltho I haven't done ANY hiking or whitewater rafting since before college, I still consider them an interest.

I'd like to meet:

people

Music:

The Flaming Lips, Broken Social Scene, The Go! Team, Sufjan Stevens, My Morning Jacket, Brazillian Girls, Perpetual Groove, The Slip, SeepeopleS, Secret Machines, Brothers Past, Beck, Umphrey's Mcgee, Benevento/Russo Duo, Talking Heads, Tenacious D, The Band, Modest Mouse, The Arcade Fire, The Postal Service, Wilco, Wolf Parade, Andrew Bird, Gorillaz, The Beta Band, Thievery Corporation... ..

Movies:

bottle rocket, bittersweet motel, life aquatic, BIG LEBOWSKI, old school, Ray, The Fearless Freaks, kill bill, no direction home, rock star, shawshank redemption, army of darkness, sideways, billy madison, happy gilmore, royal tennenbaums, the last waltz, mallrats, chasing amy, dogma, clerks, lord of the rings, so many more that i can't think of

Television:

Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, Rome, Deadwood, Sopranos, Family Bonds, Family Guy, Lost, Survivor, Chappelle's Show

Books:

Angels and Demons, any John Grisham book

Heroes:

Wayne Coyne, Mike Gordon, Bill Maher, my mom and dad.Trey Anastasio

My Blog

House Closing Tomorrow

I'm finally closing on my new house tomorrow.  I have a final walk through at 10am, then the closing at 10:30.  I'm not that excited yet because I still have a lot of painting and other thin...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 10 May 2007 06:27:00 PST

Jam Cruise Thoughts

It's very hard to put Jam Cruise (or any music cruise, I can't leave Xingolati out) to words.  It's one of those vacations of a lifetime and I am lucky enough to be able to afford one per year an...
Posted by Matt on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:08:00 PST

Asheville!

I had a great weekend.  Pgroove played one of their best shows of the year the second night.  Perry's dad and brother sat in on Turn Back the Hands of Time, I think it set a great vibe for t...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:11:00 PST

Neko Settles In

Neko is the runt of the litter and was the most quiet and shy out of the 4 remaining when I picked her up.  She came home and spent most of the time sleeping.  Her energy level was definitel...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:11:00 PST

My New Puppy - Neko

I am adopting a puppy from Save Them All Animal Rescue (Staar) out of Greensboro.  Most of their animals are pulled from high kill urban shelters where many only had a few hours to live.  Th...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:36:00 PST

Wakarusa 2006

Here are my pics and a few short videos.  (keep your volume down, the audio is too loud on some)http://www.mdolian.com/gallery2/v/Wakarusa2006The festival was great.  The cops harassed alot ...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 03:49:00 PST

Amberland After Thoughts

It took me a while to gather my thoughts after this past weekend.  There were so many great moments musically and among fans that it is hard to recall every single one of them.  This year Am...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:01:00 PST

Amberland

Amberland is this weekend and myself (along with a couple hundred others) could not be more excited.  For anyone not familiar, Amberland follows the phish festival format.  It will be only p...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 22 May 2006 09:34:00 PST

Wakarusa

Due to a change in plans, i'm hitting Wakarusa instead of Smilefest.  I don't know why I never considered Wakarusa until recently, but the line up is pretty good.  I'm kind of tired of jamba...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 08 May 2006 08:11:00 PST

At War With the Mystics

I just wanted to post the lyrics to the Yeah Yeah Yeah Song off the new Flaming Lips album, At War With the Mystics.  I think the lyrics are pretty self-explanatory, very simple and convey their ...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:37:00 PST