Musicy Post

I’ve been randomly following KEXP’s top albums of the year, and I think that my favorites are generally convential and mostly along the lines of what they’re playing. So instead of putting out my playlist for the month (which somewhat embarassingly includes both Kanye West and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy) I will write some albums [...]

Mi Casa Es Su Casa

So I finally outed my secret house-buying project this week to a bunch of friends and family. Witnessing my own sister and brother-in-law’s horrible time selling their townhouses over the last few months (Sorry Jamie) I naturally assumed it would be a great time for old Matt to buy. I figure that with my history of [...]

Mark Your Calenders

Next month SIFF Cinema is showing a “French Crime Wave” series that includes 2 of my favorite movies “Rififi” and “Le Circle Rouge”. Gretchen bought me a pass to the whole thing for Christmas, and I recommend at least coming along with me on Friday, January 16h to see the double feature of Rififi and [...]

Arlington Adventures

I have been up in Arlington a lot lately, and this afforded the following text exchange with Travis yesterday concerning the mystical Pedeltweezer’s a hybrid Chinese Food and Pizza place we have discussed on a couple of occasions.
From: Matt Selby
To: Travis Phelps
Message: Dude i am going to pedeltweezers watch for flickr documentation
I was all about [...]

Jackie Z!

I’m not sure if this is a good trade, but I at least know that Jackie Z is one creative motherfucker. He engineered a 3 team trade trade that brought the M’s 7 dudes!
Of course, he had to trade 3 players (Plus a random 2B) I definitely have a fondness for to get it.
JJ Putz: [...]

Your Song Sounds like My Song

Not that I’m sure I care, but Joe Satriani is suing Coldplay about their shitty Viva La Vida song, and while I only know Satriani from when I subscribed to Guitar World when I Was 14, and hate Coldplay for somehow thinking that they are some huge band that isn’t exactly the same as Travis, [...]

Again?

I should have known layoffs were coming at Real when they stopped stocking kleenex last week and I had to start blowing my nose on random scraps of paper.
I survived our new holiday tradition yet again.

Shortcake!

Item #1: I’m helping Troy print some t-shirts for the mustache bash on Saturday, which means that I’ll be in a printing mood and ready to do some more crows stuff. If you have a specific thing you want the crow printed on then let me know before Friday so we can hook up and [...]

It never ends!

Axl Rose is suing Dr. Pepper because pretty no one could use their shitty website on the 23rd. I couldn’t get the damn thing to load for 20 minutes, and then hit the submit button about a dozen times before I gave up.
The best thing to come out of all of this for me personally [...]

An idea

So for whatever reason I found myself sitting on the john reading ‘The Economist’ the other day. Now let’s get this straight, I was given a free subscription to The Economist, and I think its kind of boring and irritating, but I ate some ice cream on thanksgiving and had some time to kill. So [...]