May 2010
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Dweebs only plz!
My Friend Matt on the Wisdom of Online Love...
intelligencewhim:
Excerpts from a chat that we had today:
Matt Moment: dude, I trust the internet implicitly when it comes to matchmaking. Let the machines deal with it
Matt Moment: 7/14/2021…the day that E-harmony became self aware and the war began
Matt Moment: “We fixed your divorce epidemic. we solved your parenting issues, now we want what is ours!”
More astute commentary on his blog,...
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“Boys and girls and music. Why do they need gin?”
– the housekeeper in “It’s a Wonderful Life” after the guy asks if he can have gin on his graduation night.
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Comments on www.mattmoment.com now enabled.
Feel free to besmirch my character retro-actively (I’m talking to you marijuana activists).
Did I get paid to write an article for a Christian... →
YES!
http://www.giftedwomen.net/articles/20100524_3
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Movie Recommendations: Låt den rätte komma in
Oooh, a foreign film. Aren’t I sophisticated!
Thomas Alfredson’s Låt den rätte komma in (Let The Right One In) I have to preface the following with an admission as to why I initially listed this movie. Its title is a reference to a Morrissey b-side and Morrissey is my sun and my moon as far as musicians go. But, this is not as superficial as it seems. Just as we like to feel connected to...
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Total Recall
Here is a post from nightonearth.blogspot.com about the best times in my life so far. Thanks to Michael R. Hawkins for finally telling this story. I will cut and paste it here to save you a link, but visit his blog soon.
After my first band, Every Waking Moment, shit the bed because three-fourths of us came to the realization that our drummer was a psychotic, my good friend and EWM bassist...
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Is Biggie Smalls death a tragedy?
Today, Notorious B.I.G. would have been 38 years old. I’ve seen many posts about the “tragedy” of his death, a friend of mine even stated that “only the good die young” in accordance with Biggie’s birthday.
This makes me contemplate our ideas of the term “tragedy” and our broader concept on untimely death.
If a soldier dies at war, is it really...
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Film Recommendations: Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Coen Bros.’ “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” I think excellent art directs one, not just towards its own genre, but but also towards creativity in different mediums. Listening to a Smiths album may make you want to read an Oscar Wilde novel. Seeing a Warhol print may cause you to be curious about a Velvet Underground record. In the same way, seeing “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” sparked an...
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"Religion is the opiate of the masses"
On my way from the gym to Kroger the other day I was caught in VCU graduation traffic. The vehicle in front of me sported a bumper sticker with a famous quote by progenitor of communism, Karl Marx.
“Religion is the opiate of the masses”.
It dawned on me suddenly; this is the most outmoded philisophical proclamation I’ve ever read. Look around, people! Opiates are the opiate of...
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Wrist Rocket Demo UP!
Check it out!
Wrist Rocket Demo
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Movie Recommendations: There Will Be Blood
Possibly the greatest movie of our time.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood This movie struck me from the moment it started. I’ve heard those discordant violins used many times since this film, but I’ve never been effected by them like I was when they were played over that Anderson’s opening desert scene. It’s hard for me to really pin down why this movie is so worth seeing. The...
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde (via daveursillo)
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Emotional Porn
An interesting write-up in Christian magazine Relevant about the emotional dangers of the prevalent Romantic Comedy genre and it’s effects on our perceptions of real relationships. In a world where divorce is the norm, those of us who think marriage is a good idea need to start looking for some answers.
Writer Joel NaSmith says this:
There’s certainly a war against the prevalence of visual...
Write a very sad short story in three words or less. Here’s mine:
Atlanta to Detroit.
May 16th
@The Triple
3306 W Broad St. Richmond, VA 23230
10pm
w/
American Aquarium
Silversmiths
WatchScope the guy with the flag. Awesome.
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Thanks for the info dude...
So yesterday my wife and I stop at a 7-11 to get her a Slurpee. She was feeling achy from this whole pregnancy thing and, as we all know, Slurpees cure everything.
While I’m waiting in line, ice-bound beverage in hand, a massive pick-up truck flew into the parking spot next to our car in such a way that it blocked the driver’s side door from being able to open. A guy jumps out of the...
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Local No-Goodnik Quits. Good people rejoice.
Local super-villain Sam Moore has finally shut the doors of his headquarters, Club Velvet. I’m a little sad that a masked vigilante wasn’t spawned from this ordeal.
RTD reports:
“The strip club with the klieg lights in Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom had survived a government raid, the arrest and conviction of its owner for having sex with a minor, and a banner on the...
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Religion is so HARD!
Having switched my minor to Religious Studies, I have been in this Intro to Old Testament class thinking that Judeo/Christian theology is confusing.
Then I started reading this book on Krsna that I got from a monk in Carytown.
It’s like religious quantum physics. Kudos to you, devotees of The Supreme Personality of Godhead. I almost wish I had to read my Bible with four web browser windows...
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Movie Recommendations: The Dark Knight
I had to write movie recommendations for a film class. I thought I’d re-post them here.
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Everyone knows the disappointment of reading a book and being left wanting by it’s film adaptation. You take the time to read hundreds of pages on characters you invest in and are mortified when the film version does not do them justice. Now imagine that you’ve been...