tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32843252011-04-21T19:15:02.622-04:00who watches the watchmen?the blog formerly known as mattyspacemattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comBlogger1081100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-1127100222056268992005-09-18T23:21:00.000-04:002005-09-18T23:23:42.060-04:00so, i've started a new blogoprise. mascot kills mascot, wherin i pick the winners of the weekly nfl contests based on whose mascot would win in a fight. this will be at least a weekly post through january, so if you've missed me, that's where to go.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-1095015415289701042004-09-12T14:56:00.000-04:002004-09-12T14:56:55.290-04:00"They are so notorious, why should we give them a name?"
Chicago Tribune | Doing hard time in monkey jailmattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-1064416979166930062003-09-24T11:12:00.000-04:002003-09-24T11:23:27.293-04:00right.
so i've been trying to sort out all the candidates for president, and everything, and was pretty sure about the doctor, but now comes this new guy, who i'm sort of ashamed to know not so much about, so i went to his website and saw some polling numbers, and started to wonder about the general. and i like his 100 year vision. and i like that he's a leader. and i like those numbers. andmattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-1059597318745154182003-07-30T16:35:00.000-04:002003-07-30T16:35:18.693-04:00this is a test post from the road. i am using my trusty treo to post this. let's see what happens, shall we?mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-1058291275011998362003-07-15T13:47:00.000-04:002003-07-15T13:47:55.043-04:00from theny times.:
"I think the American people continue to express their support for ridding the world of Saddam Hussein based on just cause, knowing that Saddam Hussein had chemical and biological weapons that were unaccounted for that we're still confident we'll find," Mr. Fleischer said. "I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-1058216903204382042003-07-14T17:08:00.000-04:002003-07-15T10:07:44.763-04:00ok. i decided to launch a new blog. for a few reasons. the other day something happened where i thought "i should write about this in my journal." then i thought, "i should start a new blog, where i have a support system in place, many of whom are dealing with the same things." so i did.
so here it is, ghost light, which will basically chronicle my journey as an actor in a brand new town. mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-1057182187263485712003-07-02T17:43:00.000-04:002003-07-02T17:43:07.166-04:00yes, yes, i know it's been a long time since my last post, but cut me some slack.
it has recently come to my attention that i am moving to a brand new city where i have spent a grand total of about 17 hours, including airport time. i will be moving to this city in approximately 7 weeks. in that seven weeks, i have to spend as much time as possible with my new york friends, pack a 1 bedroom mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-1055452775376857612003-06-12T17:19:00.000-04:002003-06-12T17:19:35.286-04:00have you seen these giant inflatable rats around the city?
the ones that look like this?
well, now there's one in front of play with your food hq.
apparently the contractors who have their offices on the floor above us use non-union labor. so the union puts up an inflatable rat. what the hell do i know about it? all i want is to enter my building without hearing: "rats are in the building!"
mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-1055452135401067642003-06-12T17:08:00.000-04:002003-06-12T17:08:55.316-04:00oooooh, pretty new GUImattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-953011592003-06-04T17:23:00.000-04:002003-06-04T17:23:52.160-04:00in answer to monday's question, which it seems nobody even read, much less ventured to guess, the number of taxis it takes to get to brooklyn from soho, at least on a rainy saturday night, is 3. this is a true story:
after the after-party for our friends' wedding, for which we traveled to the soho grand, down on west broadway, we hailed a taxi, which stopped for us right at the hotel awning. mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-952080522003-06-02T17:46:00.000-04:002003-06-02T17:46:24.623-04:00how many taxis does it take to get from soho to brooklyn?mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-950344372003-05-29T10:13:00.000-04:002003-05-29T10:16:45.000-04:00ok... i just had an honest to goodness good-things-come-to-those-who-wait experience.
my last show here at play with your food is june 18. there will be a month of work beyond that, training my replacement, but the last show is on the 18th, and that show has been scheduled to be the dumbwaiter by harold pinter. well, i like that play, and i know i'd be good in it, and i know that austin mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-948969112003-05-26T10:10:00.000-04:002003-05-26T10:10:41.190-04:00people keep saying the weather is so bad in chicago. well, to them i say, hey look at this page, then press back on your browser and look atthis page, and tell me again how the weather is worse.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-942744632003-05-13T12:54:00.000-04:002003-05-13T12:54:30.210-04:00man... here we are, well into may already. what happened?
seriously.
i mean, as pinky pointed out in conversation over the weekend, we only have a few free weekends before the big move. nearly everything is spoken for.
i'm busier at work than i've ever been, mainly because there's a huge restructuring in the offing, due in part to my imminent departure, and in part to some inter-office mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-935484112003-04-30T15:24:00.000-04:002003-05-02T12:57:31.000-04:00This weekend is it for Fashion.
Details are below.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-932016252003-04-24T17:44:00.000-04:002003-04-25T10:03:09.000-04:00last night i had an incredibly surreal experience.
the story actually starts yesterday afternoon, after the show at the NAC, when i received a message from the producer of a moderately successful showcase, currently playing in the west village. in the message she said that her show was rolling over into an off-broadway contract, and the actor who had played all the male roles in the showcase mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-928548452003-04-18T16:15:00.000-04:002003-04-18T16:15:01.543-04:00a new look for new times...
either that or the bloggergooglemachine ate my last template and killed a bunch of posts... besides it was past time for a change.
i'm suddenly very into this howard roarkian image to the left... and it put me in mind of the seminal comics work by alan moore: watchmen. this is the book (along with frank miller's brilliant dark knight returns), that i recommend to mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-926626022003-04-15T13:48:00.000-04:002003-04-15T13:48:45.920-04:00blogger eats poo.
i have tried republishing several times. i have tried updated the archive. i have tried updating the template. in the end, i am an unhappy bloggeroo.
damn you, blooger.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-926523972003-04-15T10:48:00.000-04:002003-04-15T10:48:50.483-04:00(It's a whole lot of politically incorrect fun. Easily offended need not apply.)
Pretense meets plain sense in Anna Cora Mowatt's 1845 satire: FASHION.
When it comes to fashion, how far can we go before we've gone too far?
Featuring Metropolitan favorites in surprising new roles, directed by Alex Roe.
April 10 through May 4
Thursday - Saturdays at 8:00 pm
Sundays at 4:00pm
Metropolitanmattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-919399212003-04-03T17:03:00.000-05:002003-04-03T17:37:33.000-05:00The Golden Age Project
"During the darkest days of the twentieth century, the art form we all love had its Golden Age. Millions of copies of individual titles sold and thousands of GI's got a taste of home and an escape from WWII by flipping open a comic book. Our heroes, both the four color ones and our troops, were respected and enjoyed the support of our nation.
In the spirit of 'The mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-911303952003-03-21T11:23:00.000-05:002003-03-21T11:23:40.093-05:00this link is not from the onion. i swear.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-906121092003-03-12T17:27:00.000-05:002003-03-12T17:27:30.530-05:00i've generally been feeling incredibly overwhelmed in my life -- so when my friend alex called me to put me in his newest production over at the metropolitan playhouse of new york, my first instinct was to say no, but then i realized that hey, i enjoy being in plays... no matter how overwhelmed i may feel. as alex explained, just because i've had a week and a half from hell doesn't mean that mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-897160312003-02-25T10:49:00.000-05:002003-02-25T10:49:28.060-05:00i am generally against mass forwarding of email... but this link was forwarded to me yesterday, and i am still happy about it.
mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-895019442003-02-21T11:02:00.000-05:002003-02-21T11:02:02.240-05:00ok. ryan, not charlie. this one, i got wrong. what can you do? mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-893184232003-02-18T13:20:00.000-05:002003-02-18T13:21:02.000-05:00i would just like it to be known that i called the joe millionaire "twist." when pinky and i watched the debacle last week, and the annoying butler guy said there was truth to the rumor that there was a twist, i said, and pinky will back me up, that the twist was, after joe told the girl he was poor, fox would give him a check for 1 million dollars. and, i was right. so there.
s-crtv. watch mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-892567542003-02-17T14:57:00.000-05:002003-02-17T14:59:41.000-05:00so on saturday, we went to the rally that wasn't supposed to be a march but turned out to be a march, because, as we were reminded as we collectively took to the streets and threw traffic laws to the wind, "you can't stop the people when the people want to march." we also learned they were "our streets" when asked "whose streets?" we were instructed: "show me what democracy looks like," and we mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-892553462003-02-17T14:31:00.000-05:002003-02-17T14:33:48.000-05:00so the snow here is incredible.
i left the house slightly late this morning, and found over a foot of snow at my front gate, after trudging down to the subway, found, due to "inclement weather," that the Q express was not running. waited for 15 minutes, for a W (which should have been express but due to the "holiday weekend"* was running local.) on the W, and all is well, if a little snow. mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-890421062003-02-13T12:41:00.000-05:002003-02-13T12:41:39.000-05:00last night i saw daredevil more on the comics blog, soon. i saw it for free with my friend mike, who writes reviews for some webzine or other. anyhoo, short story: GREAT! probably a pretty good date movie -- although it is more violent than spider-man, to give a gauge.
more violent than daredevil is gangs of new york which we hopped into after DD. (2 movies for free! haHA!) worthy of a mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-886562622003-02-06T12:16:00.000-05:002003-02-06T12:16:47.000-05:00american idol.
i did not call it. i thought i had it pegged, based on a combination of what the american public did last year, and what they saw tuesday night. that was my mistake. charles and the one who's not as good as kimberly move on to the next round. i was certain it would be kimberly and the one with one name just like cher, but not as catchy.
see i forgot all about last week when wemattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-881689222003-01-28T14:02:00.000-05:002003-01-28T14:02:33.170-05:00IF you haven't read the 1/27/03 post on S-CRTV, do so before reading this one. it'll make a lot more sense that way.
so, in reading and responding to yeterday's comments, and re-reading the referenced post, i wanted to add some stuff:
the dating show while not scripted, is still just a cousin, like the talk show. and here's why: the dating shows (and talk shows) are one day events. that ismattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-881198872003-01-27T17:29:00.000-05:002003-01-27T18:05:15.000-05:00"if you think that's good, try some 'american idol' on for size... "
~black bekkah on 1/23/03 post, re: so-called reality tv.
yeah. while i enjoy american idol, the trash factor just isn't the same. and here's why:
so-called reality tv (S-CRTV) can be split into, as i see it, two categories:
1) game show
2) voyeurism
there are myriad variations on these two themes, and sometimes they cross mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-879168812003-01-23T15:47:00.000-05:002003-01-23T15:47:34.336-05:00"i got kind of jealous when Trista kissed the dolphin."
~ Ryan, one of the bachelors competing for the heart of The Bachelorette
lines like that are why i watch so-called reality tv.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-878585322003-01-22T15:40:00.000-05:002003-01-22T15:40:51.900-05:00thanks to all who sent/arrived with birthday wishes last week. i had a lovely time.
i haven't had much time to play with the new dvd player yet, but the dvds keep rolling in:
1. magnolia (yaaaaaaaaayyyyy)
2. some like it hot
3. a fish called wanda (a staple)
4. hedwig (on its way from amazon -- thanks to some gift certificating)
plus my brother has asked me what i want, and there's all the bazmattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-874347952003-01-14T15:46:00.000-05:002003-01-14T15:46:55.913-05:00ok.
the cat is out of the bag.
so. dual celebration (my birthday / our engagement):
moe's tavern
80 lafayette
at south portland
saturday jan 18
6pm to ???
duff is on tap.
moe is cool with bringing in outside food, so we'll probably order in around 6. but get there whenever you wish.
take the c to lafayette, you're a block away. g to fulton is two blocks away. 2345NQRW walking distance. mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-871224692003-01-08T13:19:00.000-05:002003-01-08T13:19:37.126-05:00well, well, well.
happy new year, boys and girls.
as predicted (well, hoped), i'm able to return to my blogging duties, a phenomenon i can chalk up to one thing, and one thing only:
my work ethic has gone to hell. day after day staring at a computer monitor has really shot me, as far as task completion goes. as the rm/l-p will tell you, multi-tasking has never been my forte, and now that i mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-851659292002-11-27T11:03:00.000-05:002002-11-27T11:05:04.000-05:00the thing is, i am just too busy to do this right now. sorry to leave you all in suspense about my life, but work is out of control, and it's all i can do to stay awake at home these days. it makes me sad to leave blogging (even if it is temporary...) but the guilt over not blogging is too much. see you next year sometime, i imagine. hard to know. hard to know. for what its worth bacchus mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-844253752002-11-12T12:26:00.000-05:002002-11-12T12:26:08.476-05:00not to toot my own horn(s), but... well, okay, i'm tooting. a little.
"carnal rawness"
"creepily sensual"
so come see it already, because there're only two weeks left, and word's aspreadin'.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-838326112002-10-31T12:27:00.000-05:002002-10-31T12:43:59.000-05:00ok. i read dooce and unsecret chamber of secrets regularly. there's a whole lot of dog talk with these girls, and well, a thory started to brew in my evil little brains. i wanted to do a taste test. (a look test actually, but the metaphor's lost, so, i'm goin' with taste test.) just look at these pooches:
1
2
i defy you to tell me which dog belongs to whom. the rm/l-p and i have theorized mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-838319702002-10-31T12:13:00.000-05:002002-10-31T12:13:32.086-05:00buy bush a playstation2.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-836842992002-10-28T17:36:00.000-05:002002-10-28T17:56:29.000-05:00it's that time again, kids:
matty's in another greek play at the metropolitan. this time, instead of playing everybody else, he's playing the title role. (don't you love it when people talk about themselves in the third person, all super-villain like?)
this play has thrills, chills, angry gods, and women who want to get naked. plus, (--don't let the jpg fool you--) i shaved my head. how's mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-832963782002-10-21T09:52:00.000-04:002002-10-21T09:52:57.760-04:00
we ARE somebody!mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-831348622002-10-17T16:57:00.000-04:002002-10-17T17:02:00.000-04:00okay, two of the biggest satirists in print run simultaneous stories on the ridiculous smokescreen the government is trying to employ. do they really and truly believe that we can't see through it?
this week's doonesbury has been a treat. (in a "no not really" kind of way). here're the past two days:
and then there's the onion:
Bush On Economy:'Saddam Must Be Overthrown'
yeesh.
mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-830331102002-10-15T17:47:00.000-04:002002-10-15T17:47:10.603-04:00is there a god?
an absolutely mesmerizing read.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-828506952002-10-11T13:49:00.000-04:002002-10-11T13:49:59.703-04:00from comics' bad boy, mark millar:
"Hi-ho, hi-ho! It's off to war we go!
"Yes, it's just fifty five minutes until Christopher Reeve's 50th birthday as Tony Blair shows the House of Commons 101 damnations against Iraq. Why are we even HAVING this debate? Gulf War 2 is the most exciting thing to happen in years and finally puts George W on the map when it comes to world super-powers taking on mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-828466062002-10-11T12:11:00.000-04:002002-10-11T12:11:10.230-04:00so i went to my brother's wedding last weekend, and contrary to the prevailing wisdonmm that the many parents in attendance would make things a living hell, it went off quite nicely. the new wife is a journalist for the seattle post-intelligencer, which, i shit you not, has a giant blue globe atop its facade, a la the daily planet. this is the kind of thing that makes me love seattle. the sortmattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-823196642002-09-30T12:49:00.000-04:002002-09-30T12:53:15.000-04:00nice time at chewy's
chili, beer, corn bread, and cake.
hope the car's okay.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-823195822002-09-30T12:47:00.000-04:002002-09-30T12:47:23.170-04:00fun times at the karaoke bar on saturday. songs sung included:
Love Shack - B52s
How Deep is Your Love - BeeGees
Send in the Clowns - Sondheim
The Logical Song - Supertramp
Careless Whisper - George Michael
Walk Like an Egyptian - Bangles
Real Slim Shady - Eminem
Happy Birthday
Angel of the Morning - ?
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
1999 - Prince
Nothing Compares 2 U - ibid.
Lady is a Tramp - mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-820945892002-09-25T10:14:00.000-04:002002-09-25T10:14:08.846-04:00this is how busy i've been at work... it's been two weeks since my last post, and i haven't even thought about posting until right now. and this sad little thing is all i've got time to do. sad, sad, sad.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-814745482002-09-11T17:30:00.000-04:002002-09-11T17:32:18.000-04:00my favorite dog eat dog moment of recent note:
Q: what is the largest nation in the americas, in terms of area?
A: um, *long pause*, (to rival contestant who chose her to answer this question) i hate you so much right now, *longer pause*, um, um, (to her gang in the "dog pound," for whom she needs to answer this question correctly) don't hate me, don't hate me, um *long pause*, um, okay, okay, mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-814740512002-09-11T17:19:00.000-04:002002-09-11T17:19:24.500-04:00you know how you go away from your everyday life for a while, on vacation, for example, and when you come back from your vacation or respite, or whatever, you find it hard to get back into the swing of things, maybe because you come back to a pile of backlogged thiungs you should've been doing while you were gone, which is why you went away in the first place, that is, to get away from the stuff mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-811069112002-09-03T17:03:00.000-04:002002-09-03T17:03:04.470-04:00phew.
back at long last to the land of blog.
it's good to be back. but sad to be off vacation. as the rmlp pointed out, we ate quite a lot of wisconsin treats on our sojourn, and not a lot else. so now i'm on some kind of torture diet. i mean, it's not really torture, i guess, but no ice cream and no bagels is bad enough, (no wheat and dairy at all, really) without adding the insult of no mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-802419572002-08-14T15:07:00.000-04:002002-08-14T15:07:34.126-04:00blog nazis, take note:
the semi-annual midwestern sojourn begins tomorrow.
there will be no updates to mattyspace until the sojourn ends.
merry summer, all.
mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-801884092002-08-13T11:45:00.000-04:002002-08-13T11:46:17.000-04:00the good people over at punch it, chewy posted some inspirational words last week:
go for the best
it is nearly impossible to remain discouraged for long when your goal is compelling enough. if you're discouraged, the answer is not to scale back your dreams, but rather to expand them to the point where you cannot help but be pushed forward by them.
the challenges, the obstacles, the mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-801863912002-08-13T10:51:00.000-04:002002-08-13T11:36:12.000-04:00blog nazis
you know who you are. oh, yes, you know. with your pernicious attempts to subjugate the blogging community by mandating the length between posts.
"jam on toast, it's time to post," my ass.
*anthemic music starts, under*
i'll post when i'm flim-flarmin' good 'n' ready to. and not a minute sooner. and blogeroos everywhere will thank me for my courage and fortitude. for mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-799433502002-08-07T13:12:00.000-04:002002-08-07T13:12:48.906-04:00here's an interesting update. the guy may have been a foot fetishist, but at least he did write the article. and yours truly made the cut. hmmm.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-799428052002-08-07T12:58:00.000-04:002002-08-07T12:58:31.236-04:00the beautiful weather of late has had me torn. it really is amazing, and i spent my lunch hour in bryant park, yesterday, as per usual; but it also reminds me of another just-as-beautiful day last september, and i get all nervous. not that kind of nervous where i think it's going to happen again, but just a little anxious, i guess.
i really need a vacation. i'm getting one next week, and i mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-799424822002-08-07T12:50:00.000-04:002002-08-07T12:59:16.000-04:00why are all tv movies so damn bad? last night i had the severe misfortune to fall upon widows. this movie was car-wreck bad, that is, it was so gruesome you couldn't help but watch. well, i could help it but the roommate/life-partner couldn't. which meant i could either leave the room, or suck it up, and dive headlong into pop-culture.
brooke shields turned in easily the most wooden mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-798617112002-08-05T17:45:00.000-04:002002-08-05T17:45:11.843-04:00compliments of the folks over at mcsweeneys (link above):
A C T U A L L Y H E A R D O N
T H E N E W Y O R K S U B W A Y /
N E V E R H E A R D O N
T H E N E W Y O R K S U B W A Y .
BY JOHN PARSLEY
- - - -
Actually Heard:
"You all got legs, help a brother with one leg out."
"Come on man, that's my head you're hitting."
"Merry fucking Christmas."
"Two Dura-gizers, one mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-796481182002-07-31T13:15:00.000-04:002002-07-31T13:15:23.126-04:00i had been waiting to post this week until i had the new york observer so as to prominently display my witty and exciting retorts to questions about women's unkempt feet in new york.
unfortunately, the online edition has no listing of any kind of foot-related man on the street article, and i fear that will hold true for the print version as well. in fact, i now trust that i was indeed duped. mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-793173612002-07-23T17:03:00.000-04:002002-07-23T17:05:08.000-04:00i often go to bryant park on my lunch hour, to read, relax, take in a little sun, and c. it's a generally happy time for me, that hour of bryant parkitude, and i really enjoy the quiet of being away from my insane boss and extremely insane clientele. but every once in a while, new york intrudes on my sojourn, and yesterday was one of those whiles.
i was sitting in one of those little green mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-789871532002-07-15T16:23:00.000-04:002002-07-15T17:17:37.000-04:00i wasn't kidding when i said i was extra busy last week, as in every night of the week, and so it was nice to just sit down at home this weekend, and not have to do anything. so i finally got some of that coveted resting time, and boy was it nice.
[**extreme run-on sentence alert**]
you know what else is nice? getting up early on a saturday morning. the rm/l-p and i rose near 9am, and spent a mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-787007992002-07-08T17:00:00.000-04:002002-07-08T17:00:12.700-04:00how come the minute i finish a big project, instead of gaining time, i become even more busy?
all of a sudden, i'm busy as a goddamn bee. sure it's fun stuff (except for laundry tomorrow, blecch!), but what i want to do is sit down and read some comic books. is that so wrong?
i am excited about tonight's outing tho'... road to perdition with mike. it pays to have a friend who reviews moviesmattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-785164582002-07-03T14:03:00.000-04:002002-07-03T14:09:45.000-04:00today i had my first brush with terrorism since september. terrorism, i think, or maybe just idiocy.
i got out of the lovely subway at 47th street, as i do every morning, with just enough time to stop at deli plus for some overpriced breakfast. first i stopped in at an omnipresent mcdonald's (this one on 7th ave between 46 and 47...) to use a fee-free atm (being a member of the actor's credit mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-784694052002-07-02T13:10:00.000-04:002002-07-02T13:13:40.000-04:00more television straight from the mind of david foster wallace.
the newest get-married-in-front-of-60-million-of-your-closest-friends (i.e.: on TV) reality show is this: Bachelorettes in Alaska. 5 women looking for love, go to a small town in Alaska and date the locals, from whom they will presumably gain a life-partner. i shit you not with this. there are contests for doweries, there are mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-783207492002-06-28T13:59:00.000-04:002002-07-01T12:19:04.000-04:00i was asked recently, by the roommate/life-partner, to post more regularly. so. here we go.
with all the talk about the seperation of church and state i have a follow-up question: why must schoolchildren recite the pledge at all? isn't this a country that embraces freedom of choice? as in, i choose to live here, but not to pledge my allegiance out loud in front of the world because that's mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-782746952002-06-27T12:48:00.000-04:002002-06-27T12:48:24.340-04:00comments. i finally got 'em. i feel like a real bloggerite.
bloggerer?
bloggeroo? mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-779829072002-06-20T11:47:00.000-04:002002-06-20T11:52:46.000-04:00ah. the roommate/life-partner has joined the revolution.
life is good, friends. very good.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-772894792002-06-03T11:28:00.000-04:002002-06-03T11:28:50.576-04:00i think i'm going to try to employ some old school curses and exclamations. i'm sick of "goddammit" and "fuck" all the time. howabout:
"blast!"
"curses!"
"drat!"
"great scott!"
"holy cats!"
the roommate/life-partner often employs "nuts!," which i enjoy.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-772893242002-06-03T11:24:00.000-04:002002-06-03T11:24:27.323-04:00tony round-up:
okay. the show with the best director, the best book, and the best score (which means best music AND lyrics) is not the best musical? how can that be?
likewise, how can michael mayer possibly smile that big for that long?
cutting off elaine stritch? forty years without a tony, they create a category for her, they profile her on 60 minutes and they CUT OFF HER SPEECH??? oh mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-770773312002-05-28T17:02:00.000-04:002002-05-28T17:03:11.000-04:00so what if out of the eight or nine hours i spend at work every day, i only work for about three of them. i'm not getting paid enough to care.
who would have thought i would utter the above about a theatre related job? jesus. what has it come to? sort of sad, i think. but that's what happens when you sit at a desk all day. don't get me wrong, i wouldn't go back to waiting tables, nossir,mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-766262952002-05-16T13:44:00.000-04:002002-05-16T13:44:04.393-04:00bored bored bored.
BORED!mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-765763572002-05-15T10:45:00.000-04:002002-05-15T10:45:05.366-04:00i've given in. sigh.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-765109092002-05-13T18:00:00.000-04:002002-05-14T11:11:18.000-04:00"With great power comes great responsibility"
--Ben Parker, to his nephew Peter.
I saw the film last night. for me, it really lived up to the hype... so far beyond the hype/reality ratios of the first batman film, or the x-men (let's not get started on hype/reality of films like episode 1 and this weekend's soon to be disastrous episode 2). i was impressed on so many levels, not the least of mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-763546552002-05-09T15:52:00.000-04:002002-05-09T15:55:30.000-04:00today i had the honor to work with austin pendleton. from the fucking muppet movie! sometimes i hate my job, but then a day like this happens and it makes it all worthwhile.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-760542172002-05-01T17:50:00.000-04:002002-05-01T17:54:41.000-04:00too long, i guess. julia cameron would be disappointed.
i wish i had realized when i made the commitment to write more that i was about to get incredibly busy, and by all rights, should be writing less. damn. that's what i get for being shortsighted.
anyway. i am starting to feel like a terrible fanboy. part of me, a big part, is regretting that i misremembered the fact that free comic mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-757810132002-04-24T16:52:00.000-04:002002-04-24T16:52:59.023-04:00still tired. and somewhat
uninspired. and now that dooce
is gone, sad she's fired.
mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-754738932002-04-16T15:29:00.000-04:002002-04-16T15:29:53.230-04:00lemme tell ya.
i'm still tired.
oof.
looking forward to starting work on the new play.
also looking forward to getting into shape.
particulary interested in getting some fucking SLEEP!mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-752953632002-04-11T15:37:00.000-04:002002-04-11T15:37:22.123-04:00i am tired.
bone-dragging, don't want to get up? try i CAN'T get up kind of tired.
this added to depression is making me slothful. round and slothful. this, i don't like. makes me sad. so i joined the the gym. except i don't go to the gym, because i'm TOO TIRED.
ooh, this depression thing makes me mad. i am thankful to be starting a project on monday. yay. the clouds will lift, the mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-752155542002-04-09T15:56:00.000-04:002002-04-09T15:56:56.206-04:00so.
i spent three weeks of reading time on harry potter's first three years at hogwart's.
sure, all the people had said, "hey, it's great, you'll love it," and c., and i figured, "hey, yeah, i bet i will," and i finally sat down and read the first one, and loved pretty much every minute of it. i really had the greatest time, and moved directly to the next. when the roommate/life-partner told mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-751664052002-04-08T11:59:00.000-04:002002-04-08T11:59:28.236-04:00yay!
Junior High Pants launches her own site.
hip! hip!mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-751663192002-04-08T11:56:00.000-04:002002-04-08T11:57:15.000-04:00ooooooooh!
y'know what gets me mad. acupuncture bashers. i here paste a reply i wrote to a usenet post (actually totally off-topic in a comics board, but whatever...):
wow.
[pretty much totally OT run-on-sentence alert]
4000 years of chinese medicine. the most populous society on the planet. i guess it doesn't work after all, especially if 30 years of western researchers (feeling their mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-750869272002-04-05T17:02:00.000-05:002002-04-05T17:02:30.320-05:00i'm thinking very seriously about writing a book -- non-fiction -- a book that has yet to be written. when i say this, i mean that the area i mean to cover has been well covered, over and over, and, in some cases brilliantly so; but i plan to cover it from an angle that is so obvious it makes me blush to know a) it hasn't been done before and b) i haven't done it yet.
anyway. i make this mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-113911852002-04-02T18:00:00.000-05:002002-04-10T10:48:27.000-04:00okay.
so i've found a new and exciting hobby that feeds my geekiness and underground-hip factor both at once. comic-book collecting.
[now i collected as a kid: daredevil and gi joe mainly... though where those issues are now, i only wish i knew. i'm back on the dd wagon but am having trouble getting back into this new totally acclaimed wildly popular version of joe. why? who knows?]
geek mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-111481192002-03-26T16:14:00.000-05:002002-03-26T16:16:06.000-05:00what is up with copping moulin rouge's style for not one but both opening bits, while having the audacity to snub baz luhrmann as director. thank you whoopi for your admission of this oversight, if for nothing else on sunday's tortutous night of televisionary idiocy. cirque du soleil? what? britney spears follows catherine deneuve? are we in a fucking david foster wallace novel? let's not evenmattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-107324062002-03-14T09:36:00.000-05:002002-03-14T09:36:07.110-05:00hey texans, i had this dream last night that i was in your home state. having never actually been there, i can only chalk it up to y'all. i was in some restaurant, so i ordered a bottomless mug of the doctor and then mysteriously saw an old friend of mine from ca. hmmm.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-106652212002-03-12T14:28:00.001-05:002002-03-14T09:40:57.000-05:00last night, i watched them light up the night sky, and had a lovely inverse company meeting. upon my home-return, i received nyu's deepest regrets that they couldn't offer me admission for the upcoming academic year. i accept the line about "this is not a reflection of your talents," and now, i move on.
this, as you may well imagine, causes me no end of disappointment, which, in turn, is mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-106651912002-03-12T14:28:00.000-05:002002-03-12T14:28:17.833-05:00nyu ny
you sack of idiot clowns!!!
i mean, whatever.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-105255332002-03-08T11:13:00.000-05:002002-03-08T12:44:44.000-05:00the fossil record speaks for itself. i'm consistently confused by the die-hard so-called scientists who refuse to open their minds to the possibility that dinosaurs gave rise to birds, and so, did not completely die out; rather they live on, in an evolved state, mind you, as birds. there is far more evidence than that cited in the article: dr. robert bakker's incredible book on the very subjectmattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-102323642002-02-28T13:40:00.000-05:002002-02-28T13:40:23.616-05:00look, everybody, go to dooce.com and read her archives. for my money it's the greatest blog out there. no offense to all you other bloggers. she just lost her job which makes me sad, but well, she is awesome.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-102319322002-02-28T13:27:00.000-05:002002-02-28T13:27:05.966-05:00KISS? KISS? what? what? KISS?
how i hate to see them go.
what will i do now?mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-100045832002-02-22T10:42:00.000-05:002002-02-22T10:42:22.716-05:00i'm so excited
and i just can't hide it (oooh!)
olympic fever!!!mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-100044952002-02-22T10:39:00.000-05:002002-02-22T10:40:30.000-05:00talk about glory!
how about sixteen years old,
with a gold medal?mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-98502012002-02-18T11:04:00.000-05:002002-02-18T11:04:52.196-05:00canada's happy...
smiling, as they should, restored.
but, um, the russians? mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-98501802002-02-18T11:01:00.000-05:002002-02-18T11:01:11.786-05:00Q on holiday
schedule: waiting waiting, hmmph!
Must I be at work?mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-98501632002-02-18T10:59:00.000-05:002002-02-18T10:59:51.190-05:00olympic fever
gold silver bronze (cheating judge)
all weekend longmattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-96834342002-02-13T10:56:00.000-05:002002-02-13T10:56:26.373-05:00here come da judge, oh
the cheating lying shame-full
judge. never skate. yikes.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-96480722002-02-12T12:38:00.000-05:002002-02-12T12:38:19.000-05:00Ichthyosaurus
Old--quite old--fishosaurus,
Couldn't keep it down.mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-96134052002-02-11T13:31:00.000-05:002002-02-11T13:31:52.000-05:00you have got to be kidding!mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-94922332002-02-07T17:42:00.000-05:002002-02-07T17:49:36.000-05:00i'm confused... cops think
it's a bomb, so COPS blow it
up? ain't that the point?mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3284325.post-92004852002-01-30T12:38:00.000-05:002002-02-07T17:45:43.000-05:00So he wants to build
the USA Freedom Corps...
Cap' and Bucky there?mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03881590564228309718noreply@blogger.com