Matt refused to call himself a medieval LARPer, he instead kept referring to it as “my hobby” or “training” but would never explain what he was “training for” he would just say “you never know when you’re gonna need it” (“it” was swordsmanship skills)

Matt would also reference his skills as a “hacker” whenever computers came up and how it was so cool, like a scene from The Matrix, in that he would say “it’s just like in The Matrix” but what he really meant was that he would guess friends passwords and post on their MySpace

Matt was convinced that if you record a movie from the projection window, as long as you do it in small parts and not one long recording it’s fine (its not). When the management found out about this, every employee was required to sign a sheet acknowledging that it’s not ok

Matt used to harass the FedEx guys about "getting a real job" even though he and I made minimum wage at $5.15, until one day the FedEx manager sent him a letter accusing him of harassment, and the theatre had to ban him from accepting film dropoffs

When “Hostel” came out it was a big deal, the media and parents went out of their way to demonize it, and we had to keep track of people’s ages entering the auditorium it was shown in. Matt couldn’t be trusted with this because he would let kids in to the movie to “toughen up”

In a moment of rage, Matt broke the projection office chair, and getting another one would have been impossible, so he spent two hours “repairing” it with the small toolset we had for the projectors, and when he sat down it collapsed further, sending him into the wall of reels

when King Kong was delivered, it was so much film it required a second platter to sit on, so you had to spool it from one to the other using a tall stick with a roller on the top, Matt stood there and watched the film silently on the stick instead of on the screen it was on

Matt used to crush Red Bull as often as he could, but then he would get the shakes real bad, and one time while handing a woman her family’s entire order of chicken and personal pizzas he instead just sort of flung it at her, hitting her square in the chest harder than ever

we had just one real manager and two teenage assistant managers, so it was easier to cover up screw ups rather than to try and fix them, I remember I cut a movie out of order, so Matt was like “I’ll fix it” and instead of fixing it he just ran different previews for 20 minutes