On June 2nd, 2019 I ran the San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon. In doing so I completed my goal of running twelve marathons in twelve months. Since my very first marathon in 2009 I’ve averaged three to four marathons a year. But I got it in my head that I wanted to hit a …
Ode to the Iliotibial Tract
A poem I wrote a few years ago, inspired by my many years of long distance running… O’ IT Band, O’ IT Band, Right now life just ain’t that grand. You’re too tight, you’re too sore, Makes it hard to run out the door. Run real fast, up a hill, Back down again, what a …
Goodbye Hannelore, and say Guten Tag to German Cinema…
It was with profound sadness that earlier this week I learned that Hannelore Elsner had passed on. More than a few of my fellow Americans might think to themselves “Who?” The truth is, if you aren’t German or a Germanophile, you have probably never heard of Hannelore Elsner. Elsner has appeared in many of my …
Alex is Missing – An Excerpt from my Punk Play!
This is an excerpt from my alt-underground play Alex is Missing, a play about four crusty clubbers looking for their missing friend in the underground world of the concrete jungle, as they wade through wage workers, drug dealers, crazy parents, and all of the other underground chaos that makes up their lives on the edge. …
Quotes from my novel Crash Shadow: A Tale of Two Addicts
Various quotes from my novel Crash Shadow: A Tale of Two Addicts, available on Amazon.com in print and Kindle form… “You are a stupid bloke,” declared Paul. “Why?” scraped straightlace. “Because skinheads smoke dope.” “What?” “I forgot the industrial band’s name.” “Greenway’s band. I forgot their name though. Something about a hamster.” “You can talk …
Ode to a Crappy Gym
On Friday March 29th 2019, at 8 PM, a 24 Hour Fitness in downtown Berkeley, California, will shut down for good. The owner of the building where that branch of 24 Hour Fitness resides is not renewing their lease, apparently. I am a 24 Hour Fitness member, and my membership was at that club. I …
See them play! I know a lot of Musicians.
Most of my friends are musicians, whether they’re doing it for fun or are professionals or made it big. Here’s a compilation of my friends rockin’, jammin’ or just strummin’ at various locales. All of these are videos I personally recorded at various shows and events. Heartless Folk at 924 Gilman, shredding in December of …
Twenty Minutes
A snippet From my novel-in-progress What The Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko? She heard music again as she was coming back from the corner store. The far off sounds of punk music. It was old school thrash. It was most likely coming from the same apartment that had been playing The Misfits …
My three novels – Why I wrote them and what they’re about
The Falling Circle was my first novel, but I’ve only recently published it. I went through it and cleaned up many of the “first novelist” idiosyncrasies of the work and put it up on Amazon. The Falling Circle is a novel about being down and out in the concrete jungle. Many books address this issue, …
Graffiti – An excerpt from my novel The Falling Circle
This is an excerpt from my recently published novel The Falling Circle, available for Kindle and in paperback on Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Falling-Circle-Jeffrey-Matucha-ebook/dp/B07K7NVKBW/ Graffiti Preston stood in the hallway, contemplating his new home. He stood by his bedroom door, studying the front door. The front door actually had a working doorbell that rang in the kitchen. Functioning …