Matt Journals Moved
Matt Journals Moved
i decided to move the non-war ones here seeing as how he's taken on a less war rantish side, and thought some ppl were missing out on it cause they thought it was all about war, it's about the music industry and life in general, lol but i'm sure most of you don't care anyways, but tough luck i'm posting them anyways
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
The worst thing about having a deficient immune system is that you pick up just about everything that you come in contact with. And it can really get on your nerves. There’s nothing worse than going to bed feeling fantastic and waking up feeling terrible, especially when you have shows coming up. To my stash of Zithromax I go.
I’ve received a great deal of e-mail about my 8 songs, 60 minutes entry the other day. And I’m glad to see that it got people thinking about music and what it means to them. There are still those that really don’t seem to get it and still equate being an artist with being lucky and fortunate, that it’s something you have to be grateful for and eternally grateful to those that allow you to make a living off of your artistic ability. I even received a number of e-mails telling me that I wasn’t artistically deep enough to even say such things.
I will fully admit that my past work definitely gives that impression and therefore must say in all honesty that it can be quite difficult to make that sort of statement knowing full well that I have had my hand in producing some very run of the mill music. For years I’ve known in the back of my head that I wasn’t really challenging myself, and it led me to have to make up for it in other areas. I suppose that’s why I started writing the manifestos all those years ago. I was thinking on it yesterday and realized that if you consider it culturally, why weren’t songs such as Born To Kill, Suburbia, The Inescapable Us, and Flight Recorder From Viking 7 ever singles on the radio? What makes them any less desirable than Hello Time Bomb or Load Me Up? And what does that say about music listeners? Maybe I just have never realized it before, but there’s a reason why bands produce all of this middle of the road stuff that’s always slightly derivative of their last effort and of a sound that makes people remember a time that somehow represented a better time in music. There must be a reason why bands like Linkin Park sell over a million records their first week out. And it can’t be because it is at all musically interesting or lyrically astounding, because their work is neither in my opinion. It’s because it’s safe, even if it gives the appearance of being rebellious or angry or adventurous. And that, in truth, is what people want. They want that sense that things stay the same. That what they like and enjoy isn’t left in the hands of some freaky artistic type. An entire industry has been molded around that very principle. For some reason I hadn’t considered that until just this morning.
And as I said before, what does that say about us culturally? If you look at classical music, which of course far surpasses 99.9% of modern music in its complexity, depth, scope, and sheer emotionality, it has survived for centuries as a force from which all other forms of music have sprung. That includes rock music. There is nothing, from a musical standpoint, that composers of that genre did not do and take to the extreme that rock musicians have even come close to matching. Not by a long stretch. All one has to do is go and listen to the works of Bartok or Rachmaninov to discover what a truly disturbed mind might sound like. Something that current angst-ridden and supposedly dark musicians of today attempt to pass off with their use of fashion and screaming lyrics that are, typically, of a high school mentality. It used to irk me. Now it really makes me laugh. I was driving home last night and heard that new Linkin Park song on the radio and listened to the words and I found myself laughing hysterically. Not because they’re funny mind you but rather because the Jerry Springer esthetic has found its way into mainstream music. The oversimplification of emotion to a kindergarten level, what I like to call K-Mart angst. In a time when we’re all looking to blame something or someone for why we’re not happy and what’s gone wrong with our lives, I can see why something that speaks as if it were the Hallmark of rock might be that popular. But as I’ve said, what does that say about us?
The Matthew Good Band broke up. One of the reasons on my part was the fear that I would be 60 and look back and realize that I didn’t at least try and do something that didn’t play into the hands of that complacency. Avalanche is my beginning. Actually, the last three tracks on Loser Anthems and The Man From Harold Wood was my beginning. And as time passes and people who work with me get used to the idea that there isn’t going to be a reinvention of Load Me Up, then I will do my very best to try and challenge myself to come up with something that speaks in a different language than that of what is on the radio. And perhaps, because of my past, they will even play it on the radio. All I can do is strive to accomplish that as best I can and to bring to light others that are attempting the very same thing (such as The Dears). And if it fails and it ends my career then I will be happy. Not because my career is at an end, but because when I’m 60 I will be able to look back and smile and say to myself that after all the records I sold doing it the wrong way, at least I did something that felt right. Even if it’s a failure commercially, how can that be anything but a resounding success?
And therein lies the difference between entertainers and artists.
I’ve received a great deal of e-mail about my 8 songs, 60 minutes entry the other day. And I’m glad to see that it got people thinking about music and what it means to them. There are still those that really don’t seem to get it and still equate being an artist with being lucky and fortunate, that it’s something you have to be grateful for and eternally grateful to those that allow you to make a living off of your artistic ability. I even received a number of e-mails telling me that I wasn’t artistically deep enough to even say such things.
I will fully admit that my past work definitely gives that impression and therefore must say in all honesty that it can be quite difficult to make that sort of statement knowing full well that I have had my hand in producing some very run of the mill music. For years I’ve known in the back of my head that I wasn’t really challenging myself, and it led me to have to make up for it in other areas. I suppose that’s why I started writing the manifestos all those years ago. I was thinking on it yesterday and realized that if you consider it culturally, why weren’t songs such as Born To Kill, Suburbia, The Inescapable Us, and Flight Recorder From Viking 7 ever singles on the radio? What makes them any less desirable than Hello Time Bomb or Load Me Up? And what does that say about music listeners? Maybe I just have never realized it before, but there’s a reason why bands produce all of this middle of the road stuff that’s always slightly derivative of their last effort and of a sound that makes people remember a time that somehow represented a better time in music. There must be a reason why bands like Linkin Park sell over a million records their first week out. And it can’t be because it is at all musically interesting or lyrically astounding, because their work is neither in my opinion. It’s because it’s safe, even if it gives the appearance of being rebellious or angry or adventurous. And that, in truth, is what people want. They want that sense that things stay the same. That what they like and enjoy isn’t left in the hands of some freaky artistic type. An entire industry has been molded around that very principle. For some reason I hadn’t considered that until just this morning.
And as I said before, what does that say about us culturally? If you look at classical music, which of course far surpasses 99.9% of modern music in its complexity, depth, scope, and sheer emotionality, it has survived for centuries as a force from which all other forms of music have sprung. That includes rock music. There is nothing, from a musical standpoint, that composers of that genre did not do and take to the extreme that rock musicians have even come close to matching. Not by a long stretch. All one has to do is go and listen to the works of Bartok or Rachmaninov to discover what a truly disturbed mind might sound like. Something that current angst-ridden and supposedly dark musicians of today attempt to pass off with their use of fashion and screaming lyrics that are, typically, of a high school mentality. It used to irk me. Now it really makes me laugh. I was driving home last night and heard that new Linkin Park song on the radio and listened to the words and I found myself laughing hysterically. Not because they’re funny mind you but rather because the Jerry Springer esthetic has found its way into mainstream music. The oversimplification of emotion to a kindergarten level, what I like to call K-Mart angst. In a time when we’re all looking to blame something or someone for why we’re not happy and what’s gone wrong with our lives, I can see why something that speaks as if it were the Hallmark of rock might be that popular. But as I’ve said, what does that say about us?
The Matthew Good Band broke up. One of the reasons on my part was the fear that I would be 60 and look back and realize that I didn’t at least try and do something that didn’t play into the hands of that complacency. Avalanche is my beginning. Actually, the last three tracks on Loser Anthems and The Man From Harold Wood was my beginning. And as time passes and people who work with me get used to the idea that there isn’t going to be a reinvention of Load Me Up, then I will do my very best to try and challenge myself to come up with something that speaks in a different language than that of what is on the radio. And perhaps, because of my past, they will even play it on the radio. All I can do is strive to accomplish that as best I can and to bring to light others that are attempting the very same thing (such as The Dears). And if it fails and it ends my career then I will be happy. Not because my career is at an end, but because when I’m 60 I will be able to look back and smile and say to myself that after all the records I sold doing it the wrong way, at least I did something that felt right. Even if it’s a failure commercially, how can that be anything but a resounding success?
And therein lies the difference between entertainers and artists.
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
“You should just shut your mouth and be happy. Stop talking about war and art like it means anything to most people because it doesn’t”.
-Excerpt from an e-mail received Monday, April 21st from J. Rossi of Toronto.
It’s a daunting task, sitting down to address all of this at once. But it seems that I should because this journal seems to be causing a great deal of confusion. So what the hell, I’ll give it a go.
It has always interested me, how we equate certain things. How having an opinion means that you are automatically arrogant or believing certain things to be sacred means that you consider others to be somehow lesser beings because they do not. And how do such things reflect on people’s perceptions of happiness? If we question, if we demonstrate behavior that is outside the norm of what is considered happy then to most that means that we are not happy. Rather, that we are juxtaposed to the current definition of happiness. Which is strange considering that everyone’s idea of happiness is completely different.
Am I a happy person? For me, and this of course is simply my opinion, happiness in the modern sense is a fallacy. It’s a commercial, a cigarette add demonstrating how one looks when they’re having a good time. To think that we can be completely happy is incorrect because without its opposite we have no measure for what it can truly be and feel like. Happiness would be nothing without unhappiness, and so both are obviously needed to create equilibrium. I have always thought that coming to terms with the existence of that equilibrium is something that leads to an inner peace, an understanding of ones self, knowing that at no point in ones life are all the questions answered and all the hardships overcome. Only in death, our natural conclusion as a natural process, are those questions answered for us. And by that I am implying that they are answered by that process and not for us by some omnipotent force or being. Nature teaches us that lesson while we are alive. It tells us that there must be a balance between all things because without such balance our environments are adversely effected. It applies to the ozone layer just as it does the physical and mental well being of people. You are born, you live, and you perish. That process happens to all living things and there is nothing that can or should be done to alter it. There is a reason for it, just as there is a reason for feelings of unhappiness. If there weren’t then we would not possess them. They exist within us so that we might recognize their opposite and appreciate it perhaps. Perhaps we have both simply because all natural things consist of winters and summers alike.
So you really have to ask yourself how you define your own happiness and not how it is defined by our society, be it through advertising or entertainment. I have always been of the mind that to be sold who you are and what you should be is equal to committing suicide. The willful abandonment of ones self to outer influences without considering the consequences is a terrible thing. Even worse is when individuals who have allowed it to happen thrust their version of happiness on others. It is obvious that it is done primarily because misery loves company, but I’ve personally always found it completely bizarre how those who don’t go along with it are always turned into the witches and warlocks that end up being burned at the stake. We have become far too comfort oriented and worry considerably about status, for example. The basics of life are, after all, quite simple really.
Do I worry about culture? Yes, I do. We live in a society that produces very little of cultural worth. But what is worse is that we have grown accustomed to that. We champion our minimal efforts as if it’s easy to keep replacing ourselves with bigger, better versions. And really, this is simply not the case. The arts suffer in our society. Our cultural identity has become about how quickly we can find something other than what we adored not five minutes beforehand. And in such a climate there simply is no room for any real growth. Our culture has become expendable for the sake of our own laziness and slow decent into a sublime ignorance. Simply put, it is easier to do nothing than try.
If you take such a mindset and apply it to world events it easy to see how you can influence a population to believe in half-truths. It isn’t all that much of a stretch to see how people might simply see and believe what is easiest because they don’t want to inconvenience themselves or interrupt their journey towards that pre-packaged happiness that supposedly everyone wants. In fact, it’s rather obvious how multitudes of people might simply chose to blindly follow without asking any tough questions because rocking the boat seems like such an unpopular and difficult thing to do. Everyone has to lie on his or her deathbed and face his or her life in the end. The only real question you have to answer is “whose life did you live? Yours or one that resembled everyone else’s?”
So then go and be happy for you and no other. For in the end you have only yourself to answer for the wasting of it.
-Excerpt from an e-mail received Monday, April 21st from J. Rossi of Toronto.
It’s a daunting task, sitting down to address all of this at once. But it seems that I should because this journal seems to be causing a great deal of confusion. So what the hell, I’ll give it a go.
It has always interested me, how we equate certain things. How having an opinion means that you are automatically arrogant or believing certain things to be sacred means that you consider others to be somehow lesser beings because they do not. And how do such things reflect on people’s perceptions of happiness? If we question, if we demonstrate behavior that is outside the norm of what is considered happy then to most that means that we are not happy. Rather, that we are juxtaposed to the current definition of happiness. Which is strange considering that everyone’s idea of happiness is completely different.
Am I a happy person? For me, and this of course is simply my opinion, happiness in the modern sense is a fallacy. It’s a commercial, a cigarette add demonstrating how one looks when they’re having a good time. To think that we can be completely happy is incorrect because without its opposite we have no measure for what it can truly be and feel like. Happiness would be nothing without unhappiness, and so both are obviously needed to create equilibrium. I have always thought that coming to terms with the existence of that equilibrium is something that leads to an inner peace, an understanding of ones self, knowing that at no point in ones life are all the questions answered and all the hardships overcome. Only in death, our natural conclusion as a natural process, are those questions answered for us. And by that I am implying that they are answered by that process and not for us by some omnipotent force or being. Nature teaches us that lesson while we are alive. It tells us that there must be a balance between all things because without such balance our environments are adversely effected. It applies to the ozone layer just as it does the physical and mental well being of people. You are born, you live, and you perish. That process happens to all living things and there is nothing that can or should be done to alter it. There is a reason for it, just as there is a reason for feelings of unhappiness. If there weren’t then we would not possess them. They exist within us so that we might recognize their opposite and appreciate it perhaps. Perhaps we have both simply because all natural things consist of winters and summers alike.
So you really have to ask yourself how you define your own happiness and not how it is defined by our society, be it through advertising or entertainment. I have always been of the mind that to be sold who you are and what you should be is equal to committing suicide. The willful abandonment of ones self to outer influences without considering the consequences is a terrible thing. Even worse is when individuals who have allowed it to happen thrust their version of happiness on others. It is obvious that it is done primarily because misery loves company, but I’ve personally always found it completely bizarre how those who don’t go along with it are always turned into the witches and warlocks that end up being burned at the stake. We have become far too comfort oriented and worry considerably about status, for example. The basics of life are, after all, quite simple really.
Do I worry about culture? Yes, I do. We live in a society that produces very little of cultural worth. But what is worse is that we have grown accustomed to that. We champion our minimal efforts as if it’s easy to keep replacing ourselves with bigger, better versions. And really, this is simply not the case. The arts suffer in our society. Our cultural identity has become about how quickly we can find something other than what we adored not five minutes beforehand. And in such a climate there simply is no room for any real growth. Our culture has become expendable for the sake of our own laziness and slow decent into a sublime ignorance. Simply put, it is easier to do nothing than try.
If you take such a mindset and apply it to world events it easy to see how you can influence a population to believe in half-truths. It isn’t all that much of a stretch to see how people might simply see and believe what is easiest because they don’t want to inconvenience themselves or interrupt their journey towards that pre-packaged happiness that supposedly everyone wants. In fact, it’s rather obvious how multitudes of people might simply chose to blindly follow without asking any tough questions because rocking the boat seems like such an unpopular and difficult thing to do. Everyone has to lie on his or her deathbed and face his or her life in the end. The only real question you have to answer is “whose life did you live? Yours or one that resembled everyone else’s?”
So then go and be happy for you and no other. For in the end you have only yourself to answer for the wasting of it.
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
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at least someone reads his stuff! i think most people either don't give a fuck or are to lazy to read the entire thing"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
godamn matt, it's just a one liner from some smart ass...then you wrote a freaking novel to argue against it... 
and i love it!
Whenever death may surprise us,
let it be welcome
if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear
and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Nobody's gonna miss me, no tears will fall, no ones gonna weap, when i hit that road.
my boots are broken my brain is sore, fer keepin' up with thier little world, i got a heavy load.
gonna leave 'em all just like before, i'm big city bound, your always 17 in your hometown
let it be welcome
if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear
and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Nobody's gonna miss me, no tears will fall, no ones gonna weap, when i hit that road.
my boots are broken my brain is sore, fer keepin' up with thier little world, i got a heavy load.
gonna leave 'em all just like before, i'm big city bound, your always 17 in your hometown
CBC-LONDON - Washington falsified evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to justify invading the country, the United Nation's chief weapons inspector has suggested. Hans Blix made the comments in an interview with BBC Radio. Parts of the interview were released hours before Blix was to address the UN Security Council. He is hoping to convince member states to allow his team of weapons inspectors to return to Iraq. The inspectors left Iraq shortly before the U.S. military attack started. Blix said weapons inspectors had "no great difficulty" proving documents that passed U.S. and U.K. intelligence were fake. "Who falsifies this?" asked Blix. He also accused Washington of undermining the efforts of the weapons inspectors in order to gain support for the war. U.S. Republican Congressman Peter King flatly dismissed Blix's allegations and accused him of manipulating evidence. American troops have found no hard evidence of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. There have been reports from Iraqi scientists that ingredients for the weapons do exist and have been buried.
So what do you think it’ll be? Personally, I’m going with heart failure.
So what do you think it’ll be? Personally, I’m going with heart failure.
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
Odin wrote:Read the first one, found it amusing.
Started reading the second one, can't continue reading as soon as he talked about happiness.
No wonder I used to like his writing when I was 17.
You don't like Matthew Good anymore?
or what is it about his idea of happiness that offends you, more importantly?
because he's completely correct.
::livejournal::
<font color="#CCFFCC">spent and sighing with a look in your eye
spent and sighing with a look on your face like
sweet revelation</font>
<font color="#CCFFCC">spent and sighing with a look in your eye
spent and sighing with a look on your face like
sweet revelation</font>
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I liked this quote the best:
Do I worry about culture? Yes, I do. We live in a society that produces very little of cultural worth. But what is worse is that we have grown accustomed to that. We champion our minimal efforts as if it’s easy to keep replacing ourselves with bigger, better versions. And really, this is simply not the case. The arts suffer in our society. Our cultural identity has become about how quickly we can find something other than what we adored not five minutes beforehand. And in such a climate there simply is no room for any real growth. Our culture has become expendable for the sake of our own laziness and slow decent into a sublime ignorance. Simply put, it is easier to do nothing than try.
so true, so true
Do I worry about culture? Yes, I do. We live in a society that produces very little of cultural worth. But what is worse is that we have grown accustomed to that. We champion our minimal efforts as if it’s easy to keep replacing ourselves with bigger, better versions. And really, this is simply not the case. The arts suffer in our society. Our cultural identity has become about how quickly we can find something other than what we adored not five minutes beforehand. And in such a climate there simply is no room for any real growth. Our culture has become expendable for the sake of our own laziness and slow decent into a sublime ignorance. Simply put, it is easier to do nothing than try.
so true, so true
"I wrote on my palm before I went to have it read to see if she would read that too."- Mitch Hedberg
matt is very observive at least, at most he's a genius, you decide
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
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"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
Somewhere right now The Hawks are giving each other high fives. Having laid low, they’ve finally got what they wanted. A new face for the tired old monster.
When I was young my family used to go a campground just south of Bellingham Washington every summer. It was fantastically fun. We met people from all over the States and Canada, swam in the ocean, and dove for crabs. Back then it seemed to me that we were the same. When I walked into Fred Meyer it seemed it wasn’t all that different from walking into Safeway at The Como Lake Village. After all, we were all people of the Pacific Northwest, those that went largely unheard in the grand scheme of their respective governments. We shared a bond and a unity that almost seemed to transcend our nationalities, one that made us the same because of geography. It’s hard to explain in truth, but for those of you reading this that are from the area, you’ll know what I mean.
In the 1960’s my father applied to join the US Air force. His desire was to be a navigator on an airplane. At he time he was engaged to my mother, who wasn’t all that fond of the idea (not to mention my dad’s mum, who completely detested the idea). Due to my father’s place of birth, that being India, he was placed on a very long list. By the time the Air force got back to him he and my mother were married and he had landed a good job. So it never came to be. That’s how close my brother and I came to growing up on a variety of US Air bases. Ironically, my brother would marry a beautiful young woman from Maine who was born on the Island of Midway and who had spent a great deal of her life living in various countries because her father was in the US Navy.
It’s strange how similar we are in some respects but how completely different at the core. As I got older I began to see myself more as a Canadian and less as someone from the Pacific North West. I began to realize that there were differences between the ideologies of our two nations and we as Canadians stood to lose a sense of our own identity because of the never ending, cross border onslaught of US media and opinion. I watched us go from having a stronger dollar in the 70’s to becoming the US whipping boy during the Mulroney era. There has been a silent war waged against us for decades. One that has gone unnoticed by us. It is waged every time we turn on our radios, every time we turn on our televisions, and every time we turn on our computers.
From the BBC today- Mr. Powell says the US is reviewing its relationship with France American Secretary of State Colin Powell has said France will suffer consequences for having opposed the US over the war with Iraq. He said the US would be reviewing all aspects of its relations with France in light of its decision to veto any UN Security Council resolution authorizing war against Iraq.
Being that we share the longest undefended border in the world with the United States and also refused to support their invasion of Iraq, I wonder how long it will take for them to review their relationship with us. And when that time comes, what will it really matter? The United States is looking to have a pissing contest with whomever is willing, knowing full well that they’ll find a way to win it no matter the tactics. So let the baby play. Turn off your televisions and your radios. It’s time we ignored the baby and concentrated on the fact that through all of this we have been adults
When I was young my family used to go a campground just south of Bellingham Washington every summer. It was fantastically fun. We met people from all over the States and Canada, swam in the ocean, and dove for crabs. Back then it seemed to me that we were the same. When I walked into Fred Meyer it seemed it wasn’t all that different from walking into Safeway at The Como Lake Village. After all, we were all people of the Pacific Northwest, those that went largely unheard in the grand scheme of their respective governments. We shared a bond and a unity that almost seemed to transcend our nationalities, one that made us the same because of geography. It’s hard to explain in truth, but for those of you reading this that are from the area, you’ll know what I mean.
In the 1960’s my father applied to join the US Air force. His desire was to be a navigator on an airplane. At he time he was engaged to my mother, who wasn’t all that fond of the idea (not to mention my dad’s mum, who completely detested the idea). Due to my father’s place of birth, that being India, he was placed on a very long list. By the time the Air force got back to him he and my mother were married and he had landed a good job. So it never came to be. That’s how close my brother and I came to growing up on a variety of US Air bases. Ironically, my brother would marry a beautiful young woman from Maine who was born on the Island of Midway and who had spent a great deal of her life living in various countries because her father was in the US Navy.
It’s strange how similar we are in some respects but how completely different at the core. As I got older I began to see myself more as a Canadian and less as someone from the Pacific North West. I began to realize that there were differences between the ideologies of our two nations and we as Canadians stood to lose a sense of our own identity because of the never ending, cross border onslaught of US media and opinion. I watched us go from having a stronger dollar in the 70’s to becoming the US whipping boy during the Mulroney era. There has been a silent war waged against us for decades. One that has gone unnoticed by us. It is waged every time we turn on our radios, every time we turn on our televisions, and every time we turn on our computers.
From the BBC today- Mr. Powell says the US is reviewing its relationship with France American Secretary of State Colin Powell has said France will suffer consequences for having opposed the US over the war with Iraq. He said the US would be reviewing all aspects of its relations with France in light of its decision to veto any UN Security Council resolution authorizing war against Iraq.
Being that we share the longest undefended border in the world with the United States and also refused to support their invasion of Iraq, I wonder how long it will take for them to review their relationship with us. And when that time comes, what will it really matter? The United States is looking to have a pissing contest with whomever is willing, knowing full well that they’ll find a way to win it no matter the tactics. So let the baby play. Turn off your televisions and your radios. It’s time we ignored the baby and concentrated on the fact that through all of this we have been adults
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
I've been reading these since day one from the NOC site, and I can't say he has ever uttered a word that wasn't intelligent, and most of the time he is right
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
Endymion wrote:Odin wrote:Read the first one, found it amusing.
Started reading the second one, can't continue reading as soon as he talked about happiness.
No wonder I used to like his writing when I was 17.
You don't like Matthew Good anymore?
or what is it about his idea of happiness that offends you, more importantly?
because he's completely correct.
His views on happiness is only true in the realm of reality. I used to believe that, and I used to believe that heaven cannot exist.
I haven't read the journal that Clumsyboy just posted.
Ok, first of all. Matt commented on how Linkin Park giving the appearence of rebellious, which is entirely true, it is safe and accessible. Then he started going on and talk about if we want to discover a truly disturbed mind we should listen to Bartok and Rachimaninov. Just who the hell does he think he is to compare himself to Bartok and Rachimaninov? Matt's music is elevated from the average radio crap we hear, but is that something to be proud of? Obviously if you lower yourself and compare your music to Linkin Park you're gonna be satisfied by the results. But then again, it's his music, he can do whatever he wants, his arrogance is not the part that bothers me.
Second, his views of happiness. If I was 17 I would say that's profound, that's true, and to a certain degree it is indeed true. But the thing is he's 31 years old, I would expect a person that's 31 years old to come up with something more profound and creative than that. But that's still not what I'm trying to get to.
He started his journal by an excerpt of an email. Then I started to think, he's been doing this for around 10 years, using excerpts of emails to make his point more convincing. Somehow I'm starting to doubt the validity of these emails. Matthew Good is a marketing genious, there is an audience out there that needs a person like Matt Good for quality music above the radio-friendly average, they need the persona of Matt Good who is rebellious and unconventional. Matt Good knows this, in the age where anti-pop becomes popular he's merely a product of this trend, only he started doing it earlier. His readings enjoy reading the excerpt of email and deluded to believe that, "yeah I'm smarter than this person". I'm not sure if Matt genuinely believes in this, I used to think this way, I used to think he's the most earnest musician in the industry.
Avalanche is an outstanding album, Matt Good is a great artist in every way. His writing is unique, he is indeed analytical and observant. I must give credits when credit's due. But his social commentaries are no more plausible than the average arrogant radio DJ, except the fact that Matt Good has die-hard fans, the DJ doesn't. If some DJ says the same things Matt said he'll be bashed, if Matt says this his fans would nod in solemn agreement. In his journal he commented on rock music. I went to his show in April 11th, after hearing Avalanche I thought he wanted to elevated himself from the average rock band he used to be. I expected a seated venue (I had no idea what the setup Kool Haus was until I got there), I expected something other than guitar, bass, drums and keyboard, I expected a religious musical experience and not a rock show. He delivered a rock show, a tight one indeed, but a rock show and I was dissapointed by it. Matt Good is a rock musician, nothing more than that, perhaps I just expected too much from him.
I will continue to listen to his music, At Last There's Nothing Left To Say will remain on my book shelf, but I just can't see Matthew Good as I used to any longer. I shall remove my title as a "Matt Good fan".
Al's emails put a smile on my face, even though all they say is "You've got a private message!"
hmmm it seems something has greatly changed you view of matt, something that you may not being telling us, but none the less, i would hardly comepare matt to a radio DJ, come now, lets not exagerate
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
I received this e-mail from Becky this morning. Take a look, funny stuff…
Just sitting here in Boston watching UPN's - Celebrity Justice show and they were talking about "Celebrity Liberals" ie: Dixie Chix. They show websites regarding these "Celibrals" and the name Matthew Good appears on the tv screen while they are scrolling through the website.
http://www.thefontman.com/celebrity_lib ... cklist.htm
Thanks Becky. That provided me with a good 15 minute laugh. Cheers
Holy shit, if you read that blacklist and Celibrals list it's freaking full of people
Just sitting here in Boston watching UPN's - Celebrity Justice show and they were talking about "Celebrity Liberals" ie: Dixie Chix. They show websites regarding these "Celibrals" and the name Matthew Good appears on the tv screen while they are scrolling through the website.
http://www.thefontman.com/celebrity_lib ... cklist.htm
Thanks Becky. That provided me with a good 15 minute laugh. Cheers
Holy shit, if you read that blacklist and Celibrals list it's freaking full of people
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity and incumbency" - George W. Bush in Sweden unaware that a live TV camera was still running.
It’s a nice day outside and I live in Canada. The Canucks are looking all right and there’s time yet for the Gunners to do something with the three in hand that they have (though it’s looking bleak). I have my health and those problems that I do have I can manage well enough until I’m old enough to take on a few more. I have plenty to complain about, the state of the world is rife with possibilities, but I’m not in the mood today. Jennifer brings me tea in bed and I’ve got a couple weeks off to catch up on some sleep and maybe even try and read something.
It’s sunny outside. And George Bush isn’t my president. What more could one ask for? Well, that the rest of the world could be in the same position I would imagine. That would be nice. Company is good on days like today, along with a few laughs. We need more days like today. A lot more
It’s a nice day outside and I live in Canada. The Canucks are looking all right and there’s time yet for the Gunners to do something with the three in hand that they have (though it’s looking bleak). I have my health and those problems that I do have I can manage well enough until I’m old enough to take on a few more. I have plenty to complain about, the state of the world is rife with possibilities, but I’m not in the mood today. Jennifer brings me tea in bed and I’ve got a couple weeks off to catch up on some sleep and maybe even try and read something.
It’s sunny outside. And George Bush isn’t my president. What more could one ask for? Well, that the rest of the world could be in the same position I would imagine. That would be nice. Company is good on days like today, along with a few laughs. We need more days like today. A lot more
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month