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About Me

Every once in a while I catch a reflection of myself in a window and think, "That guy's CIA."

My Interests

Marxism, Video Games, Sci-Fi

Music:

Gang of Four, The Pop Group, M.I.A., Joy Division, The Clash, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Bold, Oneida, Prince, Slant 6, New Order, Born Against, Talking Heads, Chromatics, Glass Candy, Nomo, The Make-Up, Yaz, Au Pairs, X-Ray Spex, LCD Soundsystem, Psychedelic Furs, Fela Kuti, Fugazi, Out Hud, !!!

Movies:

Weekend, Masculin-Feminin, Man With A Movie Camera, Funny Games, Tron, E.T., Back to the Future, Slacker, Alien, Robocop, Brazil, Three Days of the Condor

Television:

Twin Peaks, Lost, The Office, The Twilight Zone, Three's Company, Gilligan's Island, Jericho, The Wire

Books:

Don DeLillo's Libra, I Don't Have Any Paper So Shut Up (or Social Romanticism) by Bruce Andrews, Rip It Up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds, everything by Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Kathy Acker, Thomas Pynchon, Kim Stanley Robinson, Philip K. Dick, Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Fredric Jameson, Rem Koolhaas, Mike Davis, Charles Bernstein, Thomas Frank, Ursula K. LeGuin's The Dispossessed, and Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein

My Blog

Anxiety Dream

Bewildering complexity / makes me wanna gag. Dream of bird people -- let's call them Asians -- haunts me throughout the day, despite the fact that it lacks a tagline. Nowhere to put it once I'm awake ...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:51:00 PST

Still Life w/ Hostages

There are burn marks. There are spots of light impressed on my field of vision. I let loose a wild burst of machine gun fire. There's glass everywhere. Chico tells me to clear out the hostages. He's t...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:49:00 PST

Oneida

So a few days ago I decided to visit the remains of the Oneida Community. Talk about contradictions! Oneida is often remembered as one of the most successful utopian experiments of the nineteenth cent...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:44:00 PST

Thoughts After Reading Franz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth"

For contemporary Western readers (and especially for those of us affiliated with the various worldwide anticapitalist movements that have emerged in recent years), perhaps the two most shocking compon...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:03:00 PST

Lost and Invasion

"Genocide Under the Cover of a Hurricane": it sounds like a headline from a radical publication outraged by the federal government's botched response to Hurricane Katrina. But in fact it's a line from...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 11 May 2006 03:29:00 PST

Jem Cohen's "Chain"

I caught Jem Cohen's new film Chain (2005) last night down at Hallwalls. The film is difficult to watch, focusing as it does on the most banal and monotonous of consumer environmentsbut it's also wil...
Posted by Matt on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 06:38:00 PST

"B" as in Boris. "B" as in Bored.

How is it that buildings turn me silent -- deactivate the assembly line -- quiet, you! Not another word! Notebook rising up around me like a prison. Guards on duty. Or is it just the schoolyear? Readi...
Posted by Matt on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 07:26:00 PST

Heart Attack

Transmission cut off at the source. Another example of clipped speech, halted or haunted, marked by a force that hurts. Bad timing, I suppose. But also a line that supports new branches of speech. The...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 07:06:00 PST

I behave like the dog. I growl at strangers. I dream of biting shoes.
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

TOP 40

Luck phenomenon. Purity guaranteed. Cacophonic is fun. I read that. Not "going on in my head." To distance. The water is somehow "pure" / (how reassuring). The correct response? And silent. World outs...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST