Hello, Allow me to introduce myself’

My name is Matthias Carolos.  I am 35 years old and I am a second-generation Greek-American.  My parents are from a village called Serres in the town of Komotini, Greece.

I have attended many colleges here in the Southern California area and lived in many cities/towns/provinces in the United States.  Indeed I am a bit nomadic but I feel that it has enhanced my writing abilities as well as my ability to observe the world and it’s people with a keener sense of intuition, compassion and fearlessness.

I think of myself as an open-minded American male whilst also holding fast to the Greek traditions that seem to do a person well to remember and follow.  I can be an ass at times; slightly (but only slightly) chauvinistic.  My level of chauvinism is proportional to how much I am getting laid at the time.  It’s very complicated and yet not complicated at all.

I love writing.

I love being a writer.

I love all that writing (and reporting) the truth brings out in the world. (Did I mention that Salman Rushdie and Bob Woodward are my heroes?  Hmmm, it appears I did!)

It is a privilege to write for MyWeekMagazine.  I love what our good friend Scott Zensen started and I dig that Dave Sawyer is keeping it alive.

I am here to make you laugh, think and squirm in your chair.  I will write about the lighthearted as well as the serious.  After all, a chameleon never limits himself/herself to any particular color; why limit yourself if you don’t HAVE to?

I’m going to stick with “lighthearted” for now.  I’d hate to have you despise me straight out of the gate.

I am taking a survey of musicians here in San Diego as to your Musical New Years Resolutions for 2010.  Personally, mine will be to hit the 25-lb. dumbbells more often so my biceps will bulge properly (if and) when I hit the stage for a little singer/songwriter angst-ridden performance.  I’m committed to the hammer curl, the concentration curl and a limited number of Budweiser curls.

You may not consider this a musical resolution, but it is.  So there.

Share your resolution with the masses or kittens will die.  You don’t want kittens to die, do you?

Send your resolutions to me via mattcarolos@yahoo.com and then read about yourself in MyWeek Magazine.  (You can read about other people too but really, what fun is THAT?)

Folk You,

Matt (Your Literary Chameleon)