Matthew
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the secret to a long life is knowing when it's time to go
Male
28 years old
Hollywood, California
United States
Last Login: 7/2/2009
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Matthew's Interests
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| General | Troublemaking, concerts, theater, comedy, the internet, card games. | | Music | Dresden Dolls - Coin Operated Boy
A few bands I like a lot:
- Alabama 3 (A3)
- Ambulance Ltd
- Anne Summers
- Aqualung
- Auf der Maur
- Bad Religion
- Badly Drawn Boy
- Belle and Sebastian
- Black Box Recorder
- Brendan Benson
- Sophie Ellis Bextor
- Andrew Bird, (with or without his Bowl of Fire)
- Billy Bragg
- Jon Brion
- Bright Eyes
- Ruth Brown
- Mary Chapin-Carpenter
- the Cars
- Neko Case
- Tracy Chapman
- Chicks on Speed
- Clem Snide
- Patsy Cline
- Leonard Cohen
- Shaw Colvin
- Elvis Costello
- Noel Coward
- Dance Hall Crashers
- Marshall Crenshaw
- Decemberists
- Dead Kennedys
- the Delgados
- the Dixie Chicks
- Nick Drake
- Dressy Bessy
- Stephen Duffy
- the Eels
- Franz Ferdinand
- Neil Finn
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Flanders & Swann
- the Futureheads
- Ben Folds
- Fountains of Wayne
- the Golden Republic
- Har Mar Superstar
- John Wesley Harding
- Jolie Holland
- Buddy Holly
- Hot Club of Cow Town
- Hot Hot Heat
- Household Names
- Indigo Girls
- Interpol
- Iron & Wine
- Jem
- the Kaiser Chiefs
- Kander & Ebb
- the Killers
- the Kinks
- Kleenex Girl Wonder
- Kings of Convenience
- Ben Kweller
- the Ladybug Transistor
- Ben Lee
- the Legends
- Tom Lehrer
- Jens Lekman
- Sondre Lerche
- Little Jack Melody and His Young Turks
- the Magnetic Fields
- Aimee Mann
- Math and Science
- the Mayflies USA
- Nellie McKay
- Mando Diao
- Maximo Park
- Metric
- Morrissey
- Travis Morrison
- Mull Historical Society
- the New Amsterdams
- the New Pornographers
- AC Newman
- Nouvelle Vague
- Phil Ochs
- Of Montreal
- Old 97s
- Dolly Parton
- Peaches
- Michael Penn
- Sam Phillips
- Phoenix
- the Posies
- the Postal Service
- the Raging Acorns
- the Ramones
- the Real Tuesday Weld
- Damien Rice
- Josh Ritter
- the Sadies
- Saint Etienne
- the Scissor Sisters
- Billy Joe Shaver
- the Shins
- Michelle Shocked
- Elliott Smith
- the Smiths
- Stephen Sondheim
- Snow Patrol
- Squirrel Nut Zippers
- Stars
- Sufjan Stevens
- Stills
- Tarkio
- Teenage Fanclub
- Tegan and Sara
- Le Tigre
- the Trash Can Sinatras
- Travis
- Suzanne Vega
- Rufus Wainwright
- the Wannadies
- M. Ward
- the Weakerthans
- Andy White
- White Stripes
- the Zutons
... and any Scottish or Swedish rock.
For more, and to find out what I've been listening to lately, check out my audioscrobbler profile. | | Movies | Bringing Up Baby, the Big Sleep, Arsenic and Old Lace, Last Night, Death and the Maiden, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Love Actually, Shaun of the Dead, Monster in a Box, Capturing the Friedmans, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Closer, Roger & Me, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue, Being John Malkovich, Under the Tuscan Sun, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, High Fidelity, No Man's Land, Talk to Her, The Girl on the Bridge, A Mighty Wind | | Television | The Colbert Report, Project Runway, South Park, Roseanne, Mama's Family, Golden Girls, Strangers with Candy, I Love Lucy, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the Nanny, Ellen, the Office, Trigger Happy TV, Murder She Wrote, Footballers' Wives, Extras, Little Britain, Hell's Kitchen, Paula's Home Cooking ("You might not believe it, but the best ingredient for this dish is butter/cream cheese/mayonaise/lard..."), Blockbusters (any 70's game show with a senile, incompetent host, really, but especially Bill Cullen "a-ga-ga-ga-ga!"), Wings of Faith, AKA the Old Peoples' Gospel Sing (OPGS). | | Books | Anne Lamott, Spalding Gray, Billy Collins, Sarah Vowell, J.D. Robb, David Foster Wallace, Bailey White, Katha Pollitt, Tom Stoppard, Nick Hornby, Chuck Palahniuk, Cintra Wilson, Alice Sebold, David Hare, Dave Eggers, Mary Roach, David Sedaris, Patricia Cornwell, Jonathan Kellerman, Stephen White, Gore Vidal, Sparkle Hayter, Aimee Bender, Roald Dahl, Ariel Dorfman, Jeff Lindsay | | Heroes | Tristan Tzara, Guy Debord, all the anonymous crimethInc agents. |
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Coachella, Under the Radar, Filter Magazine, Elliott Smith Fans, Aimee Mann, Hollywood Boys, Beulah Fans Unite, Elvis Costello
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Matthew's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Gay | | Hometown: | Fairmont, West Virginia | | Body type: | 5' 9" / Slim / Slender | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Atheist | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | I don't want kids | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Troublemaker |
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Matthew's Schools
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West Virginia University
Morgantown, WEST VIRGINIA
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Political Science and Philosophy
Clubs: West Virginia Economic Justice Coalition, West Virginia University Animal Rights Coalition, WVU Free Speech Consortium, WVU Improv, U92
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About me:
Recent college graduate, moved to Hollywood in hopes of selling out. Grew up in the hills of West Virginia, but came to California by way of London, which is where I'd most like to be. Utterly fanatical about music, and relatively obsessed with good books, politics, coffee, theater, and comedy.
Ryan: i love that the image you project in your
photos
Ryan: is LIGHT YEARS away from reality
Matthew: what image is that??
Matthew: i'm almost smiling in my new pic. =)
Ryan: badass, hardcore...etc
Matthew: i am too a badass!
Matthew: also, hardcore.
Ryan: you should be wide-eyed, laughing and
holding a lollypop and a balloon
Ryan: at disneyworld
Ryan: with your mom
Ryan: in a little lord fauntleroy suit
Ryan: and curls
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Who I'd like to meet:
I've been told recently that my profile makes me sound a little bit cranky. So, in an effort to soften my Myspace image, I'm adding a list of things that make me really happy:
- Puppies.
- Music. (I guess that may be evident...)
- Tivo. I mostly just use it to record shows from 1987 (Mama's Family, Murder She Wrote, the Golden Girls) with the occasional doc thrown in for good measure.
- Vegan cheesecake.
- Most anything British.
- Kitsch.
- Cinnamon. Most spices involved in making chai, actually. But especially cinnamon.
- Defamer and Stereogum. How much do I wish I were these guys?
- Radical politics.
- Theater. Plays, musicals, I love it all. Give me some Sondheim or Porter or Kander and Ebb and I'm happy.
- The internet. Damn, that was a good idea.
And now, back to the usual old crankiness:
My biggest pet peeve is when people complain about boredom. People who have the whole internet at their fingertips, and the whole world outside their door!! If you're bored, get off the internet and go do something constructive!
That said - who would I like to meet? Fellow troublemakers, adventurers, Anglophiles, concert-hounds, dog lovers, castaways and cutouts.
People I wouldn't like to meet:
People who send lots of friend requests but no clever messages.
People who say they like Linkin Park, Ashlee Simpson etc. "of course.". There's nothing inevitable about this. You need help.
People who have pictures of themselves with cats. I've got nothing against cats, mind, I just think this is usually a bad sign.
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