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You know you’re getting lazy with the blog when you’ve not posted in so long that logging in presents you with a unfamiliar WordPress interface. Yeesh. So, what’s gone on?
In the last several months I’ve done trailers for Operation: Anchorage and The Pitt expansions to Fallout 3. This was one of the first times I [...]
Filed by matt at March 23rd, 2009 under Gaming, Life, Music, Work
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It’s not TOO often that my loving girlfriend recommends a CD I really like. It’s not her fault, I’m just kind of hard to please. But in the last few weeks she’s knocked not one but TWO out of the park—two CDs I’d never heard of that I love.
The first is the raw-yet-polished Scottish indie [...]
Filed by matt at November 29th, 2008 under Music
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Yeah, I do that a lot.
In the last month and a half I’ve:
Driven across the country with a car full of stuff and landed at my parents’ house.
Successfully locked down a job at Bethesda Softworks, a videogame company.
Lost my iPhone on the Metro.
Hunted for an apartment in DC, found one, and moved in with my [...]
Filed by matt at June 12th, 2008 under Concert, Life, Music, Work
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While nothing has hit me hard enough to justify a full review since Boxer, I have been listening to several other albums in the last few weeks that deserve mention.
The Hush Sound – Goodbye Blues – Precious indie-pop kids grow up a bit and release a stronger, more forward album that maintains the infectious piano-driven [...]
Filed by matt at March 27th, 2008 under Life, Music
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When we were born, we were blank slates. We yearned for essentials—food, sleep, care. The extent of our dreams was limited only by what we didn’t know, and in our sponge-like state we soaked up everything around us. Being an adult was a goal that, like everything else, we acquired. By the time we knew [...]
Filed by matt at March 3rd, 2008 under Music
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So I was watching this really terrible movie, and while the credits were rolling this song came on, and I went “Boy that sounds a lot like Camera Obscura” and then they got down to the “here’s the music we used in our movie and its credits” section and sure enough, it was by Camera [...]
Filed by matt at February 6th, 2008 under Life, Music
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Two big ones: Andrew Bird and Juno.
Andrew Bird: Saw him play live at the Orpheum on Friday night. I actually almost missed the show. I got distracted talking to friends and didn’t remember until an alarm went off on my iPhone (inexplicably) at 8—when the show was starting. In any event I booked it to [...]
Filed by matt at December 9th, 2007 under Concert, Movies, Music
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After the last MONO show I went to, I realized I had managed to acquire quite a large amount of merchandise from a band I wouldn’t even put in my top five, just because I’d seen them live. I walked away from that show owning three studio albums on CD, a t-shirt, a tour DVD, [...]
Filed by matt at November 1st, 2007 under Music
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In the last two weeks I’ve:
Become obsessed with Andrew Bird’s album Armchair Apocrypha.
Listened to the new Coheed and Cambria (verdict: enjoyable, but not mind-blowing).
Been to Amoeba Music for the first time.
Fluctuated between “money” and “no money” in terrifyingly rapid succession.
Bought Beautiful Katamari.
Gotten drunk.
Moved to Hollywood.
I guess that last one is the most important.
Filed by matt at October 22nd, 2007 under Life, Music
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I’ve recommended a lot of albums to a lot of people in my time, but I believe (and I’m prepared to go on record as saying) this is the first time that a recommendation of mine has driven someone into a state of childlike fear. Score one for me, or perhaps Boards of Canada.
Filed by matt at October 10th, 2007 under Life, Music
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