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Matt

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About Me

Kansas...Arizona...Kansas...Arizona..Fucking whatever. I've been known to use electrical tape and napkins rather than a band aid. I have the sleep patterns and back of a 70 year old man, the vocabulary of sailor, and the fashion sense of a serial killer. I have a knack for saying the wrong thing and laughing at inappropriate times. I have a weakness for movies involving the discovery of an abandoned ship, space or otherwise....

My Interests

Music, Movies, Noise, Circuit Bending, Self Pity, Self Depreciation, Anger, Spilling the blood of stupid people, kitties

I'd like to meet:

Mark Mathis....God of all Weathermen, the kid who threw the scissors, the gun safety guy, clumsy Fraiser, drunken ex sorostitutes, homeless pimps, happy hindus, the members of Hurra Torpedo, and a reunited Jawbox

Music:

Mule/Reelfoot/PW Long, Heavy Vegetable/Thingy/Rob Crow, Drive Like Jehu, Rocket From the Crypt, Hot Snakes, Shellac of North America, Scroat Belly/Kirk Runstrom/Grain and Demise/Split Lip Rayfield, Clutch, The Coctails, June of '44, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Fire Theft, Slint, Hammerhead, Shudder to Think, Seam, Braid, Ex Models, Richard Buckner, Kiss it Goodbye, Unsane, Dillinger Escape Plan, 90 Day Men, Jawbox, The Dismemberment Plan, Grand Buffet, Nelly McKay, that.dog, William Elliott Whitmore, Lifter Puller/the Hold Steady, and of course Goblin Cock

The Hold Steady - "Chips Ahoy!"

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, Four Rooms, Raising Arizona, Dirty Work, Rock n' Roll Nightmare, Tarantino, Kevin Smith, ect. ect.

Television:

I don't watch much TV these days. In the past, I enjoyed the Simpsons, Family Guy, Strangers With Candy, Action, ect.

Books:

The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukazawa, Cosmos, The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection From the Living Dead, stuff by Phillip K. Dick, Steven King, and some other stuff, but I'm too lazy to get up and look at the bookshelves right now.

Heroes:

Preston W Long, my father, the mighty L.G, that Jesus guy was pretty cool, and Bob Saget.

My Blog

58. Funny

In a world full of Dane Cook and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, there are still a few people out there who know funny.... Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Louis CK. ...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:55:00 PST

57. Genius or Annoying?

Battles features one of my favorite drummers and favorite guitarists, but I still can't decide if it's brilliant or annoying. Either way...I can't seem to stop listening....
Posted by Matt on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:05:00 PST

56. Courage

Comedian Bill Burr versus an unruly, booing crowd of 10,000 in Philly....most impressive... width="425" height="350">..>...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:15:00 PST

55. I just realized....

I can trace the time I stopped making a huge effort to see live music to around the time the Jesus Lizard broke up. Can you think of a band out there today that would continue the show after the sing...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 11 May 2006 08:17:00 PST

54. I've been 'tagged' in some sort of quirky thingy.

Ok...6 quirks.1. I have a ridiculous prework morning routine that must be followed lest my entire day will be ruined. If I eat my cereal before I feed the cat it would be a disaster.2. I can't leav...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:15:00 PST

53. Action!

In an ongoing effort to support things in the world of entertainment that are actually good, I want to tell the world (or at least the 5 people who may read this) that Action is finally out on DVD. U...
Posted by Matt on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 04:21:00 PST

52. I don't know who this Of Montreal band is....

Nor do I care, but they seem to draw a massive crowd of dudes that can't take a punch. In the words of my girlfriend, "I could beat up every guy here!" I probably should have hung around to see what...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:11:00 PST

51. Actual Conversation Between Target Employees...

"Dude, I saw this baby the other day...he was wearing a helmet with all these Christmas stickers on it. He was stylin'...hahahahahaha." "hahahahahaha...Wait...Was it, like, one of those medical he...
Posted by Matt on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 08:05:00 PST

50. Hold Steady!

Jesus Christ...what a show. The Hold Steady was an incredible journey to a time when music was good. Craig Finn took me back to the days of David Yow, PW Long, and Ralph Reichert..when you were just...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 05:56:00 PST

49. A day off.

So far my crash landing in the desert has been a flurry of work, work, work. I'm currently truckless, and will remain so for the next two weeks until the morons at Reliance manufacturing get their sh...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:52:00 PST