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matt-I-muffins

Don't mistake weather for climate...

About Me


I like Organic Chemistry and Molecular Biology!*
My main interest is the structural biology of proteins, peptides, and peptide mimetics
I like to rock out!*
*more information available on request

My Interests

Bass, Reggae, and Bio-organic Chemistry. Dobro, Banjo, and Pedal Steel. Vintage Fender Basses and Guitars, Tube Amps, Dogs, Volkswagons! Diesel Engines especially ones runing on Biodiesel or WVO, Mountain Biking, Pickin' Bluegrass, Turtles, Backpacking, Road Biking, Camping, Politics, HTML/php, Jamming & etc...How do you like the new profile color? Astronomers at Johns Hopkins University summed the wavelengths of the visible light emitted in the universe and this is what they came up with: "cosmic latte" It's hex code #FFF8E7.

I'd like to meet:

you

Music:

Yes!
I play in a band called Peace Officer although we're currently on hiatus.
I like to play and listen to a lot of music.
My bands of the moment are: CAKE, Seeed, the Clash, and Manu Chao.
and these guys rock!

Television:


kill it

Books:

I've liked:
A people's history of the united states (essential reading for everybody)
The Milagro Beanfield War (need to read the rest of the trilogy...)
all Vonnegut (they're all one book anyway?)
Wicked
The Botany of Desire (and about a bazillion other pop-science books)
Chomsky (READ IT!!)
The Time Traveller's Wife
A Prayer for Owen Meaney
Jitterbug perfume (!!) & the rest Tom Robbins (except HAIFP... you're not really sure about that one)
Wealth and Democracy (Kevin Phillips, the most interesting/disturbing yet boring book ever written)
Dark Alliance (Gary webb, ditto)
Christopher Moore (central question in one of his books: what if Jesus knew Kung-Fu?)
Extinction (Raup)
Parable of The Sower and The Parable of the Talents (Octavia Butler, not the bible)
j. am. chem. soc.
j. pept. prot res.

Managing Your Rock Band...

My Blog

A new addition to the family!!!

Her name is Luca!
Posted by matt-I-muffins on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:34:00 PST