matt stawski

chasing cows.

2010-02-20T01:02:00.000-08:00

here's a funny story. so we were on set in piru, ca. shooting an alkaline trio music video. it was on the top of a mountain opening, a beautiful and dangerous car ride to the top. there were some black cows grazing up the side of the mountain during most of the shoot. during one of the short breaks on the shoot, the cows came closer and closer to the band's instruments that were set up. we all noticed the cows coming closer. then, they started running at the band equipment, 4 of them, in a weak sort of stampede. i ran back at them, screaming. they turned around running, i was victorious saving the shoot, and alkaline trio's equipment.

top ten albums of 2009.

2009-12-20T14:03:00.000-08:00

in no particular order...

Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today...
Donkeyboy - Caught In A Life
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Cast Spells - Bright Works and Baton
The Used - Artwork
Sophie Milman - Take Love Easy
The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below
Gallows - Grey Britain
Metric - Fantasies

iphone photos: vegas, detroit, seattle, portland, san francisco, orangevale, la (backwards in order)

2009-10-28T13:17:00.000-07:00

mattstawski.com

2009-09-25T15:35:00.000-07:00

my new website is live!

mattstawski.com

life updates coming soon!

knock knock.

2009-09-17T02:43:00.000-07:00

still here! just busy. i'll have a good life update soon.

working on the new train video, putting on the finishing touches.

check out the new all time low video i did for "damned" here...

ATL DAMNED MYSPACE LINK

matt.

new videos.

2009-07-29T14:20:00.000-07:00

check out a couple videos i just finished. great times all around. super busy, wrapping up the post on the second all time low video for "damned", and trying to move into a warehouse space downtown. until next time...

listen.

2009-05-22T22:42:00.000-07:00

great new song, ambitions by donkeyboy. some band from norway. pumped to hear more.

donkeyboy's myspace

tchaikovsky doo-wop

2009-03-27T15:55:00.000-07:00

found a really interesting clip of music today, listening to some tchaikovsky, in his waltz from serenade in c op 48, a hint of doo-wop.

click here

it's about 8 seconds in, pretty amazing how that repetitive, love-desperate, motown, doo-wop, happy-go-lucky sound translates from the late 1800's to the 1960's to even pop music of today.

cheers. you genius, you.

comics/books/music.

2009-03-21T17:02:00.000-07:00

if you're into comics, pick up alan moore's new short trade, "light of thy countenance". it may just change your life.

"in your dotage when familiar phrases bedded deep within the undermind float of their own volition to the surface, these catch-penny litanies much more familiar to you than your mother's voice shall surely be the last words that you speak, the mantra that your dying lips attempt to splutter to posterity.

'there he goes...
he's feelin' his...
cheerios...'"

-passage from "light of thy countenance" by alan moore

just finished a few books, both pretty good..."the yiddish policemen's union" and "the great gatsby". if you haven't read any michael chabon, i'd first recommend "the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay.
i just started upton sinclair's "the jungle" for my first time, pretty excited.

finally, make sure to pick up propagandhi's new album "supporting caste". it's amazing as usual for them. here's a link to a full live set from last month in australia, great sound and video, definitely worth an hour or so of your time.

propagandhi live

worlds' end.

2009-03-09T02:47:00.000-07:00

"Perhaps a city is a living thing. Each city has its own personality, after all. Los Angeles is not Vienna. London is not Moscow. Chicago is not Paris. Each city is a collection of lives and buildings and it has its own personality."

"So?"

"So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams. That is where I believe we have come. We are in the dreams of the city. That's why certain places hover on the brink of recognition; why we almost know where we are."

"You mean that we're asleep?"

"No. We are awake, or so I believe. I mean that the city is asleep. And that we are all stumbling through the city's dream."

Exerpt from "The Sandman: Volume Eight - Worlds' End"
Written by Neil Gaiman

a slice of time 1.

2009-03-03T22:21:00.000-08:00

four to six pm somewhere outside of los angeles.

wells western.

2009-02-25T00:55:00.000-08:00

new song i did today, with a little help from orson welles.

click here.

i wrote a cheesy doo-wop song.

2009-02-24T00:29:00.000-08:00

right here.

slumdog millionaire/watchmen.

2009-02-18T01:59:00.001-08:00

epic.
i thought this was an interesting juxtaposition. got your opening night ticket yet?

read the book. see the movie. in 3d.

2009-02-12T01:58:00.000-08:00

The cat yawned slowly, carefully, revealing a mouth and tongue of astounding pinkness. "Cats don't have names," it said.

"No?" said Coraline.

"No," said the cat. "Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."

one of the best comic book panels of all time.

2009-02-11T18:38:00.000-08:00

cape fear (1962).

2009-02-10T02:06:00.000-08:00

gregory peck and robert mitchum are unstoppable in this one, way ahead of it's time. see it.

let the right one in.

2009-02-04T01:02:00.001-08:00

elvis.

2009-02-01T13:47:00.001-08:00

art/san francisco 2/other.

2009-01-30T17:53:00.000-08:00

san francisco.

2009-01-29T22:22:00.000-08:00

hiking/banana stand/other.

2009-01-19T00:31:00.000-08:00

audrey and gregory. roman holiday. great scene.

this is where countless quirky scenarios unfolded in "arrested development". right behind me was where the banana stand was.

of course we bought frozen chocolate/nut dipped bananas.

malibu hiking. santa monica mountains.

vegas/other.

2009-01-12T14:50:00.000-08:00