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Interested In:
Friends, Activity Partners
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Member Since:
Jun 2003
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Hometown:
Cedar Falls, Iowa
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Company:
Creative Realities, Environments.com, WETA Workshop
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Matthew's URL:
http://profiles.friendster.com/582682
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Other education:
Kansas City Art Institute, Brighton Polytechnic, Yale University School of Art
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College/University:
Yale University, Attended 1992 - 1994, Class of 1994, Master's Degree, MFA, Sculpture
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Occupation:
Interactive Designer / Musician / Artist / Writer
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What I enjoy doing:
Interactive Design, Typography, Songwriting, Music Theory, Melancholia, Poetry, Conceptual Art, Punk Rock, No Wave, Complex Sensual Wines, Smoky Single Malt Scotch, Radical Politics, Liberation, Zen Buddhism, Mysticism, Independent Film/Video, Existentialism, Stargazing, A Good Cup of Tea, Parenting
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Favorite Books:
Haruki Murakami, Daniel Clowes, Rimbaud, Samuel Beckett, Proust, Ibsen, Artaud, Dostoevsky, The Brontes, Oscar Wilde, Anne Sexton, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Genet, Neruda, Anais Nin, Kathy Acker, Deleuze & Guattari, Roland Barthes, Lao Tzu, Po Chu-i, Wang Wei
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Favorite Movies:
Dead Man, Mulholland Drive, ALL Miyazaki films, Wings of Desire, La Dolce Vita, Down by Law, Heavenly Creatures, Dangerous Liasons, Children of Paradise, Solaris, Ran, Il Gattopardo, The Spirit of the Beehive, LOTR, The Orkly Kid
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Favorite Music:
Serena-Maneesh, Low, Hula, Sigur Ros, Jeremy Enigk, Elliott Smith, Legendary Pink Dots, Sonic Youth, Will Oldham, Cat Power, Kristin Hersh, Nick Drake, John Cage, Yoko Ono, Miles Davis, Patti Smith, Television, The Contortions, Crass, Minutemen, Roni Size, Chopin, Gillian Welch
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Favorite TV Shows:
I used to love tv when my life was without culture, excitement, or drama. It has since fallen from favor, although I do love spongebob squarepants.
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Zodiac Sign:
Pisces
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About Me:
I'm complex--mysterious, kind, intellectual, fun-loving, light-hearted, responsible, silly. I love subtlety, detail, and complexity, whether discussing Proust, the hairstyles of the Merovingian kings of old, or the theoretical basis of the animatronic aesthetics of Chuck E. Cheese. I love New York City. I am a fulltime single dad. My 9 year old daughter is sensitive, creative and brilliant. I'm currently teaching interactive design and art history in the Midwest.
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Who I Want to Meet:
stoic sensualists, literary assassins, great composers, long-winded art theorists, rancorous raconteurs, tone freaks, cursing painters, gorgeous reverb-soaked appregiators, avant garde echelons, fluxus battalions, wild-eyed anarchists, ostracized aristocrats, fallen comrades in the dustbin of history, besmirched moral crusaders, hopelessly neurotic fidgeters, Parisian dandies and flaneurs, anti-intellectual intellectuals, writers of nonsense verse, hallowed muses, simpletons and drunkards, has-beens and was-oncelers, before-their-timers, organ grinders, toymakers, image breakers, candy takers, critics & fakers, pookahs.
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rock. Because in the immortal words
of Jack Black, you're not hard core,
unless you live hardcore. And you
dude, are most definitley hard CORE!
Yeah!
I find it agonizing that we live on
different coasts. So much tea we
could be drinking, so many little
literary/Zen encounters we could be
having...
but then, what is a little thing thing
like time and space to a couple of
sages like us, huh?
at once a sponge of useless data
and a warehouse of profundity. Never
settling for the mundane, he
continually sets out on new
adventures. He is the King of
Slapstick, the Prince of Nerds and
the best of friends.
and admired the past few years,
Matthew might just be the one I've
liked the most. He is earnest,
genuine, and open to life and love in
a way that escapes most human
beings, even the best ones. He
gives and gives, asks and asks,
dares and dares, and somehow
never loses sight of what those
around him might be dreaming also.
His is truly a rare heart: eager,
inspired, empathic, worldly, infinitely
delicate and ferociously alive. Merely
to meet Matthew is a gift. I only wish
it had happened sooner.
years -- no, ages -- ago when he was
creating a potion that could cure ills (and it
did) -- a hidden talent of his. His other
talents are numerous and broad, and
always tempered with a philanthropy that
can best be described as an ocean. An
ocean of philanthropy -- can you even
imagine that there's such a thing? Well,
there is, and it is Matthew. And he doesn't
think he's God or anything, or even know
that he is an 'ocean of philanthropy', he's just
fun and smart and creative and interesting
as hell -- straight up, no chaser. That's just
how it is.
a great dad, a good friend, an honest
person. If only he could get over his
chronic shyness so that more people
could get a taste of his loveliness.
He's very lively in writing, though.
we were 15. he has been probably the
biggest influence on me. we shaved
eachother's heads and played in a punk
band thru high school. he used to jump
out of cars at stoplights and i thought
that was really cool even tho i would
yell at him about it. we wrote poetry
and tried to blow eachother's minds.
he made me tons of comp tapes since i
was poor and never had money for
music. he paid my way for every show
that came to town. i owe my fantastic
teenagehood to matthew. without him, i
probably would have ended up in the
back of a camaro smoking marlboros and
listening to motley crue for the rest
of my life. instead, i ended up in the
back of a van smoking turkish specials
listening to the jesus and mary chain.
high school. I remember spending
summers at the Wilson Family Home. The
house was huge and always smelled of
food. At any given moment, there were
at least three kids running around the
house. Sometimes they were Wilson kids
and sometimes they were not (as Mrs.
Wilson ran a daycare center out of
their home.) We would drink Blue
Cosmic Juice and watch "Dr. Who" in the
basement. Matthew is an intelligent
and kind hearted spirit. No matter how
much time passes and no matter how our
lives change, I feel honored to call
him my friend.
grad school at Yale. He's very smart, literate,
sensitive, and creative. He would be a great
catch for one very lucky duck of the straight
yet not narrow female persuasion. He taught
me guitar chords. He's punk rock on the deep
and cellular level. He's "metrosexual"! (you
know that new word that the media is
promoting to describe straight-but-sensitive
males, apparently a new marketing niche.)
He really did read all the books he listed on
the favorite authors section. He own 50
different translations of Lao Tzu. He is very
easy going and everybody likes him...So
email him!