Christine just called the Ottawa venue and the girl she spoke to said the show was guaranteed to go ahead and there are 25 tickets available for it at 1pm from the students' union.
Sounds good, but I'll wait and see what happens before stopping worrying.
The Matthew Good Appreciation Thread
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
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Axtech
- Oskar Lifetime Achievement Award: 2004
- Posts: 19796
- Joined: 3/17/2002, 5:36 pm
- Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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The fact that Px, Rx and Mx were all having drinks last night makes me very happy, because it means Mx is feeling better.
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Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
"Robbo" - © Alex (happeningfish)...^5 ^5 v v
Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
"Robbo" - © Alex (happeningfish)...^5 ^5 v v
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Axtech
- Oskar Lifetime Achievement Award: 2004
- Posts: 19796
- Joined: 3/17/2002, 5:36 pm
- Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Now Matt just needs to get his people on rebooking the Kingston show. Screw Waterloo, they already have two shows. 
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Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
"Robbo" - © Alex (happeningfish)...^5 ^5 v v
Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
"Robbo" - © Alex (happeningfish)...^5 ^5 v v
I was just rushing here to post the good news.
Looks like I'm not the only reader of Raymi and Px's blogs
Looks like I'm not the only reader of Raymi and Px's blogs
"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
Some guy just got all mad at me and left a big comment on my friends blog over Matt. I had a huge comment on various reason's why this years Juno's were shitty, and brought up the fact that "Matt hasn't picked up an award from the Juno's in years". This guy who didn't even read anyones earlier posts, or checked either of our sites (mine has a get well soonish comment for matt,and my friend has to lyrics posted.) So he goes into this hissy fit about how Matt is on tour right now, and he was playing a show in Kingston when the Juno's were one so he coudln't pick up his award.
Matt didn't win an award this year, he wasn't playing in Kingston, the person seems to have no idea about teh boycott, and ignored several clues that maybe we're just a smidge big fans.
"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
*wonders where she can read Sean's blog (and his friend's)*
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
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Axtech
- Oskar Lifetime Achievement Award: 2004
- Posts: 19796
- Joined: 3/17/2002, 5:36 pm
- Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Contact:
Okay
So
No Kingston show rescheduled (and it's been announced that there won't be one).
sooooo
I just bought tickets to the Montreal show and now Krista, her boyfriend and I are going. Still figuring out how we're getting there and where we're staying, but otherwise it's a-go!
We're hoping that her boyfriend will be able to drive us, and if not we'll have to get bus tickets and find a place to stay the night. I'll know for sure tonight, though.
So
No Kingston show rescheduled (and it's been announced that there won't be one).
sooooo
I just bought tickets to the Montreal show and now Krista, her boyfriend and I are going. Still figuring out how we're getting there and where we're staying, but otherwise it's a-go!
We're hoping that her boyfriend will be able to drive us, and if not we'll have to get bus tickets and find a place to stay the night. I'll know for sure tonight, though. - -
Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
"Robbo" - © Alex (happeningfish)...^5 ^5 v v
Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
"Robbo" - © Alex (happeningfish)...^5 ^5 v v
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Axtech
- Oskar Lifetime Achievement Award: 2004
- Posts: 19796
- Joined: 3/17/2002, 5:36 pm
- Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Contact:
Sweet, he was able to get the night off work, so now we're going and he's driving for sure!
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Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
"Robbo" - © Alex (happeningfish)...^5 ^5 v v
Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
"Robbo" - © Alex (happeningfish)...^5 ^5 v v
Who's taping all this tour!??!?!?!
*Panic*
*Panic*
"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
for Robbo 
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
Soozy wrote:*wonders where she can read Sean's blog (and his friend's)*
Sorry for several reasons I haven't made it public to CMer's. A) I use it as a writing space and given the fact that my writing is no where near the calibur (sp?) of many other CMer's, I feel like a late-bloomer in the locker-room. B) It's often very personal and I would feel weird sharing it with you CMer's, mostly because the Sean on here is only one facet of who I am.
Who knows maybe soon though, it is a public blog, I just haven't given out the link to CMer's, but I'm getting more confident all the time.
"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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Axtech
- Oskar Lifetime Achievement Award: 2004
- Posts: 19796
- Joined: 3/17/2002, 5:36 pm
- Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Just got home! amazing amazing amazing show.
I'll give a better write-up some other time when it's not 5:30 in the morning and I haven't spent 8 hours on the road.
But here's a breakdown
- Krista's boyfriend Emory was driving us. We got about an hour away from Kingston when his car (which he just bought from a friend on Friday) broke down. We were lucky enough to get off the highway and pull into the driveway of someone who happened to be a mechanic. He told us the engine was absolutely fucked. We thought we were going to end up missing out on yet another show, but a group of Krsita's friends were on their way to the show, and they were just passing the place where we pulled off when we called them, so they took us the rest of the way (unfortunately Emory had to stay with his car, have it towed, etc).
- We got there and met Raymi before we went inside. She's actually really nice. Later she found us inside to chat for a bit before the show
- We ended up being FRONT ROW CENTER
- Melissa was great, and an absolute cutie. She kept looking down and smiling at Krista and I. After her first song she looked down at us and (into the mic) asked "Can you guys see up my skirt?! I just realized that!!" (we couldn't, and we laughed and told her that). And when she saw Krista had a camera she did a little pose for her. At one point during the show she was off to the side of the stage and we saw her and we waved and she smiled and waved back. Later she was at the merch table and we met her. She recognized us and said that it was nice to have some smiling faces in the front row (I guess she's used to mostly vapid stares being the opening act).
- Matt was simply amazing. Very very very funny. A great setlist, amazing vocals, very passionate and into it.
Setlist:
Avalanche
Tripoli
Generation X-Wing
In A World Called Catastrophe
Hopeless
She's In It For The Money / Sort of a Protest Song
Can't Get Shot In The Back (If You Don't Run)
Fated
Prime Time Deliverance
Strange Days
So Long Mrs Smith
Load Me Up
Apparitions
Encore:
Hurt
The Fine Art of Falling Apart
Alert Status Red
The Boy Came Home (new one I didn't recognize at all - this is the name someone used for it on the Near Fantastica board)
It's Been A While Since I Was Your Man
- At one point during the show I had a mid-concert conversation with Matt about the Kingston show. Krista kept trying to shout that we had come from Kingston, so when he had asked if anyone was there from BC and when no one answered, I shouted that we were from Kingston. "Kingston's not in BC .... oh! right. Who said they're from Kingston?" (and I waved my hand --- right under his nose) "Yeah, sorry to anyone from the Kingston show. I was pretty sick, exhaustion, and I passed out - that wasn't fun." and I said something like "Are you feeling better now?" and he said "Yeah yeah yeah, I'm much better now" (or something like that ... I was kind of stunned at the time so I don't remember exactly what he said ... hopefully it was bootlegged).
- At the end of the show, Krista managed to grab the setlist off the stage. Matt came out to sign stuff later, so she got it signed. Then she gave it to me!
I kept asking her if she was sure, but she said she'd just lose it or something. I'm going to get it framed some time this week
- We met Matt and I talked to him for a short short short bit. Raymi (who was organizing the fans outside the bus) said that he'd meet us and sign stuff "but no pictures because he's ... Matt Good" While on the bus Matt said that he wasn't doing the picture thing because he wasn't feeling too great. I liked Raymi's reason better. He signed another postcard for me and I shook his hand.
- Raymi told us to stick around afterwards and later invited us to go to a strip club with her and a few other people (not Matt, though). As fun as that would have been, the people we were with were tired (and not as into Raymi as Krista and I ... mostly Krista), so we opted out (although Raymi kind of ended up wandering off in a different direction with Melissa and some other girl).
I'll have more to say later
I'll give a better write-up some other time when it's not 5:30 in the morning and I haven't spent 8 hours on the road.
But here's a breakdown
- Krista's boyfriend Emory was driving us. We got about an hour away from Kingston when his car (which he just bought from a friend on Friday) broke down. We were lucky enough to get off the highway and pull into the driveway of someone who happened to be a mechanic. He told us the engine was absolutely fucked. We thought we were going to end up missing out on yet another show, but a group of Krsita's friends were on their way to the show, and they were just passing the place where we pulled off when we called them, so they took us the rest of the way (unfortunately Emory had to stay with his car, have it towed, etc).
- We got there and met Raymi before we went inside. She's actually really nice. Later she found us inside to chat for a bit before the show
- We ended up being FRONT ROW CENTER
- Melissa was great, and an absolute cutie. She kept looking down and smiling at Krista and I. After her first song she looked down at us and (into the mic) asked "Can you guys see up my skirt?! I just realized that!!" (we couldn't, and we laughed and told her that). And when she saw Krista had a camera she did a little pose for her. At one point during the show she was off to the side of the stage and we saw her and we waved and she smiled and waved back. Later she was at the merch table and we met her. She recognized us and said that it was nice to have some smiling faces in the front row (I guess she's used to mostly vapid stares being the opening act).
- Matt was simply amazing. Very very very funny. A great setlist, amazing vocals, very passionate and into it.
Setlist:
Avalanche
Tripoli
Generation X-Wing
In A World Called Catastrophe
Hopeless
She's In It For The Money / Sort of a Protest Song
Can't Get Shot In The Back (If You Don't Run)
Fated
Prime Time Deliverance
Strange Days
So Long Mrs Smith
Load Me Up
Apparitions
Encore:
Hurt
The Fine Art of Falling Apart
Alert Status Red
The Boy Came Home (new one I didn't recognize at all - this is the name someone used for it on the Near Fantastica board)
It's Been A While Since I Was Your Man
- At one point during the show I had a mid-concert conversation with Matt about the Kingston show. Krista kept trying to shout that we had come from Kingston, so when he had asked if anyone was there from BC and when no one answered, I shouted that we were from Kingston. "Kingston's not in BC .... oh! right. Who said they're from Kingston?" (and I waved my hand --- right under his nose) "Yeah, sorry to anyone from the Kingston show. I was pretty sick, exhaustion, and I passed out - that wasn't fun." and I said something like "Are you feeling better now?" and he said "Yeah yeah yeah, I'm much better now" (or something like that ... I was kind of stunned at the time so I don't remember exactly what he said ... hopefully it was bootlegged).
- At the end of the show, Krista managed to grab the setlist off the stage. Matt came out to sign stuff later, so she got it signed. Then she gave it to me!
I kept asking her if she was sure, but she said she'd just lose it or something. I'm going to get it framed some time this week
- We met Matt and I talked to him for a short short short bit. Raymi (who was organizing the fans outside the bus) said that he'd meet us and sign stuff "but no pictures because he's ... Matt Good"
While on the bus Matt said that he wasn't doing the picture thing because he wasn't feeling too great. I liked Raymi's reason better. He signed another postcard for me and I shook his hand.
- Raymi told us to stick around afterwards and later invited us to go to a strip club with her and a few other people (not Matt, though). As fun as that would have been, the people we were with were tired (and not as into Raymi as Krista and I ... mostly Krista), so we opted out (although Raymi kind of ended up wandering off in a different direction with Melissa and some other girl).
I'll have more to say later
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Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
"Robbo" - © Alex (happeningfish)...^5 ^5 v v
Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
"Robbo" - © Alex (happeningfish)...^5 ^5 v v
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Oh my god, Matt Good played CAFE CAMPUS? That's HILARIOUS.
When I saw him last year he played at an actual venue, not a piece of shit student drunk-hole. WTF is going on here?
PS. you were like two blocks down the street from me. way to visit
When I saw him last year he played at an actual venue, not a piece of shit student drunk-hole. WTF is going on here?
PS. you were like two blocks down the street from me. way to visit
awkward is the new cool
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Alex you should have joined them!!
^5 on Strange Days...who called it.
Sounds like so much fun but i can imagine when the car broke down you were...not again!!!
thanks for the review
^5 on Strange Days...who called it.
Sounds like so much fun but i can imagine when the car broke down you were...not again!!!
thanks for the review
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