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About Me

Everything secretly terrifies me.

I'm a grad student at U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and I'm either studying linguistics or pretending to well enough for them to continue my fellowship.

I enjoy imported beer, comics on the intertron, and ludicrous stereotypes.

You may or may not contact me via AIM or Yahoo (judasburrito) or check out my other blog at matt.pa-rado-x.com/blog

My Interests

Achewood, Eating, Drinking, Idling, German, Linguistics, Hindi, Collecting Beer Glasses by Theft or Skullduggery, Skullduggery in General, Being Up to No Good, Chicanery, Knavery, Wickedness, Shenanigans &c.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who doesn't fucking like Chuck Pahlaniuk.

Bono, so I can spit on him. Spit.

Music:

Placebo, Queens of the Stone Age, Sneaker Pimps, Metric, Foo Fighters, NIN, A Tribe Called Quest, Redman, EPMD, Mos Def, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, Cake, Soundgarden, Radiohead, Flogging Molly, Scooter, The Prodigy, Kidneythieves, and shitty Eurotrash House.

Movies:

Closer, Snatch, Traffic, Swingers, The Departed, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Chasing Amy, The Big Lebowski, Waiting for Guffman, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, The Godfather I & II, Bottle Rocket, Office Space

Television:

The Sopranos, Iron Chef, Arrested Development, Curb, Da Ali G Show, The Office, Reno 911, Flight of the Conchords

Books:

Grendel (John Gardner), Baudolino (Umberto Eco), A Wild Sheep Chase (Haruki Murakami), Candide (Voltaire), Fury (Salman Rushdie), Demian (Hermann Hesse)

Heroes:

Just for one day.

My Blog

WTF other blog

hey so i got this other blog. i might still post here sometimes, but it looks like lean timez ahead for the myspace blog. anyway.other blog: http://matt.pa-rado-x.com/blog/THAT IS ALL...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:51:00 PST

also available in: cheddr n' bacon

oh godwhy did i think i could put a story that i wrote up hereit's about a dream and it's the worst kind of high-school pap ever. jesusanyway, i read it and then removed it.&n...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:01:00 PST

SYNTAX TIME

what the hell blogging all at like noon instead of midnightwhat the hell is thatanyway i stayed up till approaching the hour of six this morning reading the godfathernot very well-written but for a fa...
Posted by Matt on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:27:00 PST

NEW YEARS RESOLUTION: 1280x1024 LOLZ

new years resolutions 1 never disappoint sarah 2 start saving money 3 stop smoking 4 eat better 5 spend more time on school today i ate BLTs for dinner (with a caesar salad) and i bought them with mo...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:50:00 PST

default

i've taken a midnight subfreezing constitutional on the porch bear with me so in middle school all i wanted to be was a high school student, driving around in a car and eating fast food like it was a...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:11:00 PST

boy howdy

i got an immunization today and after being violated by that needle i didn't feel like being productive so i just watched a lot of shows on my computer i even forgot to go out drinking tonight my lif...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 10:49:00 PST

POUND SIGN MOTHERFUCKER

i feel like ruining something. me.
Posted by Matt on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:10:00 PST

contextualize and discuss

this pretty much sums up how i feel right now i guess a little more calm though less explosion more malaise it's well on midnight and i still haven't done tomorrow's homework and i'm going to wai...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:55:00 PST

impresiones

while walking back from the laundry room i composed a poem **A Ghetto Potpourri** by Matt Garley Sharp sting, the scent of malt liquor and burning beef a man stands on the balcony; his hat backward...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:01:00 PST

LION TATTOO

i decided for my next tattoo i'm gonna get a lion tattoo LION TATTOO shits yes maybe over christmas break boy howdy so i was making some various adjustments to an image i found on the internets a...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:28:00 PST