All Things MG
- Alex
"We are fading into the background, we are backing into the foreground..."
Matt Good is my hero. What, you're already telling me to stop? Who's Matt Good? No, that's all right, I'm used to it when I talk about
music. He's a singer. A songwriter. A guy. A Canadian. We shouldn't hold that against him, though. He's written what I consider to be
the second best song ever. It's called Truffle Pigs. I sent an email to a girl once with that as the subject. She wrote back and
broke my heart. Her name started with K. That's practically a running gag at this point...
One of these days I'm going to write a feature about my top 5 songs of all time. Or about my favorite concert experiences. Or maybe just all
the Simpsons quotes I can think of off the top of my head. Then I'll sit there and giggle. Someday it'll happen. Someday when I'm low on ambition
and motivation, but high on the need to write something, anything. Oddly that point never really approaches. Someday it will. But that day is
not today.
Today we're talking about Matt Good. His songs are great, even the ones I downloaded off the internet which he pretty much discards as things
that were destined to come back and bite him in the ass someday. Yet another cool thing about the dude, he's actually on the internet. The current
site of record is Nation of Cool. There's a message board there. MG even gets online and types up stuff
for us little heathens. He's definitely the most accessible pop dude I care to think about. There's also
matthewgood.net, where you can check out the video for his latest single. Good stuff.
For no good reason other than the fact that I was at work last week, I decided to see if I could find the stuff from his old website. He used to
type up these cool stories and post them once a month or so. Rumor has it he reworked them and made a book called At Last There is Nothing Left
to Say. I can't find the damn thing. If you can, send me one. Much appreciated.
In any case, I found what I was looking for, and I'm gonna post one, because it's fucking spectacular. I had a brief urge to change my mind and
post a different one, but in the end it all comes back to the magic goats. Here's a snippet of what you might even bother to read if you click on the
link I'm gonna give ya:
Why not is the best possible answer that you can give to any question that you are asked. 'Why don't you hijack an Arabian airliner and crash it into Lough Neagh?' Why not. 'Why don't you just smother the smoking - gum chewing little bitch?' Why not. 'Why don't you give that hose you just bought to Fred?' Because I don't want to. See what I mean?
See what I mean indeed. If you don't find that even remotely amusing, then how did you even get this far? Or maybe it's just not as good out of
context. You'll have to decide that for yourself. Really what I'm after here is my own marketing demographic. The Alex. Peeps who listen to
Matt Good and The Mayfield Four, who switch from Gilmore Girls to 24 on Tuesday nights, who practically boycott Baseball Tonight when Ravech isn't
hosting, and who just don't give a damn that their Sue Bird infatuation is silly. I think I've got that covered fairly well.
In any case, enough reading me. Read him. Click
here. Until next time, remember the goats.
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