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News in Brief
By Matt Good, your reporter in the field.
Google Unveils Google Coach
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (Business Wire) - Today Internet search giant Google unveiled the newest product in its lineup – Google Coach. Designed to be a personal life coach for the internet set, Google Coach will serve as a surrogate frontal lobe for many a sunlight-deprived internet user. It will also help you find the nearest gym, get you to your appointments on time, and pick out what clothes to wear in the morning. One of the more interesting features (appropriately titled G-Plea) will actually scour the web for the perfect apology and deliver it to your girlfriend for you. The new product uses Google’s proprietary search algorithm to probe deep into your darkest childhood secrets and regrets, allowing advertisers to present you with the perfect guilt trip, boosting the ad’s effectiveness. Google’s stock jumped ten percent upon the announcement.
Area Shrub Sues President for Defamation of Character
GREENVILLE, IL (Associated Press) - The area shrub located on the corner of College Ave. and North Prairie St. filed a civil suit against United States President George W. Bush today, for giving the otherwise popular shrub a bad name. “If the leader of the free world wants to act afool on an international scale, that’s his prerogative,” stated the ficus, “but going around identifying himself with peace-loving, NPR-listening plants such as myself, shoot…” The suit calls for thousands of dollars in damages to be awarded to the foliage, as well as a clause asking that the President now be referred to as George W. Smartypants.
Ex-Fed Greenspan Uses Restroom, U.S. Markets Plunge
WALL STREET (Reuters) - Upon reports that the Ex-Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan used the bathroom earlier today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted as panicked investors began a selling frenzy. Stock trader John Contrarian expressed things this way: “Boy oh boy… Watching the ticker today was like watching the toilet water swirl and eventually go down the drain.” Most analysts are confident the movement was an aberration and will not affect the overall economy, but some aren’t so sure. “If Greenspan can just go to the bathroom any time he wants without any sort of warning or statement, what confidence do we have that the bull market will continue?” Studying the situation carefully, current Fed Ben Bernanke reportedly responded by exclaiming, “They never do this when I poop!!!”
Song #13 - I Proletariat. Kindof a departure. Electronics, sorta stream of consciousness lyrics... By the end of the song my voice was starting to wear out, so sorry its kinda bouncy and wobbly sounding. This is the kind of song that would need really tight vox I think, so in any real situation that would be fixed. Check it out.
I Proletariat
(C) 2007 Matthew C Good
i proletariat
i apple pie
i big picture now
i proletariat
pie in the sky
big picture looking small
i proletariat
i blue sky
i middle class now
i proletariat
i secret spy
big picture looking small
(well, its better than none at all)
I machiavelli
I merlin, too
Just who are you?
I tens and twenties
I hundreds, too
how much are you?
I intelligentsia
I bourgeois
I trample underneath
I will to power
Entrepreneur
economic conceit
I machiavelli
I merlin, too
Just who are you?
I tens and twenties
I hundreds, too
how much are you?
ooh I good man
I charity
I deduct, you receive.
I machiavelli
I merlin, too
Just who are you?
I tens and twenties
I hundreds, too
how much are you?
I machiavelli
I machiavelli
Just who are you?
I machiavelli
I machiavelli
Monkey see, monkey do!
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What kinda ending does this song need? I don't know. Any ideas? The typical matt good "add a new track each bar until the whole thing explodes" technique? fade out? or what? Alright seriously this one's a bit different so let me know what you like and dislike about it. thanks for listening.
This American Life, the best show on public radio, period, is now also a TV series on Showtime. For those of you too cheap to buy cable (like me) or too lazy to catch it live, you can stream the first episode off of the showtime site for FREE!!! I hope they do this with all the episodes.
Have I mentioned I want to BE Ira Glass?
#12, everyone! Every week that I manage to pull this off makes me very happy. Okay okay. So to preface this one there's three things that strike me about it...
1) It reminds me of a deathcab song
2) I didn't have time to put in the 12-string guitar solos I was thinking of...
3) I like the lyrics, but I feel like it could use some refining to make sure that whatever it is I am trying to say is clear. Right now it feels like there are two competing ideas that I think are related... just needs a little tying everything together. I also want to make sure it isn't overtly religious. At least not the kind of religious they sell in the Christian Book Stores.
What You Know
(C) 2007 Matthew C Good
Broken spines of hymnals,
Piles of empty journals
filled with all the words
you didn't write
weathered looking covers
just like all the others
mass-produced on
an assembly line.
Most of these books
never get a second look
Empty pages narrate an empty life
Still, we keep them nice
For our self-involved lies.
Maybe one day we'll have something to write.
Battered family bibles
or their picture-perfect rivals.
Tell me now which
would you prefer?
Coming off its binding
red threads are unwinding
The weaker book
has the stronger word
Write down what you know
read for what you don't
There's always someone else you haven't learned from
When its time to make your mark
you won't be in the dark
Put your pen to the page and let it run.
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Shoot I just heard a piano meeble in there that I meant to delete. Oh Well, that's what you get. Quantity, not quality.
No wimpy "strum the last chord real slow and let it ring" ending this time, chase. does that work for ya?
So remember when i said there wouldn't be a song this week? That was a half-truth. Here's one I wrote a while ago and demo'd on my cruddy laptop's mic. It should hold you over at least until monday. Since I haven't really been coming up with actual titles for my songs lately and have just been using the first line instead, this song is called "Friend, If You Won't Listen." This song only sorta counts, because I wrote it a while ago, so its not new this week, like the others are. But it is new to you, so that's something... Isn't it?
Editors Note: Actually, that isn't the first line... If we were really using the first line, this song would be called, "Friend, If You're So Sullen," but it's not, so we're not. Who wrote this, anyway?
Oh and I've been working on coooool things for the pedalboy.net/conrad site. Like a flash-based music player that will let you listen to all the songs from the Song-A-Week project, "The Shortest Distance..." as well as "The Falling Action," if you should desire to do so. I will of course post a blog about it when it is completed. Just letting you know I am not dead, I guess. Here's the song, without any further ado:
Friend, If You Won't Listen
(C) 2007 Matthew C Good.
Friend, if you're so sullen
that you can't do a thing
to make yourself feel better,
do it for me.
Cuz I am floating through my days
I not walking, I levitate
I can't think, can't eat
till you awake
You will lie right to your face
and hide out in your private place
No one else gets in until
its too late
Friend, I know its hard to see
that soft and sweet the lies may be
there is something ugly
underneath.
So hold on
to my hand
Find something
makes you warm inside
makes you come alive.
I'm a jealous person and
I am not one to let my friends
pull away from me
to hurt themselves
Whether or not you like it,
I am going to make you believe.
Cuz I need you more than
you need me.
So hold on
to my hand
Find someone
makes you come alive
happy for a while
I am floating through my days
I do not walk, I levitate
I can't think, I can't eat till
you awake.
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haha... I was just listening back to the song to make sure I had my lyrics right, and i just heard my talking at the end there... Real technical jargon, you know, using big words like "floating stuff." ::Sigh:: oh well, most of you know I'm a dweeb already, so it shouldn't be that much of a surprise.
Also, I've got an idea where I write one song and do an acoustic-and-vocal-only demo of it, then for the following few weeks, I record that same song a few different ways, just to see where I can take it. pretty much the same idea Wilco was messing with that you see in the documentary "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart." Anyone think that's a good idea?
No song guys - sorry. I had friends from out of town over this weekend and had a marvelous time hanging out with them. I will try to post a funny demo or something later on in the week, so if you aren't subscribed to the podcast, you should Do It Now.
IT IS NUMBER TEN. AND I SHALL CALL IT "TEN." No, that's a terrible name. Ermmmm how about I just pick a lyric from the song? Okay... uh, "Let Me Know." That's fine. That will do.
Let Me Know
(C) 2007 Matthew C Good
Do you remember
how I felt?
Dear, I forgot.
Was I a little
washed up,
or was I a lot?
Did it look like
I was distressed?
I don't recall
Did it look like
I had all the time
or had none at all?
Won't you please let me know, let me in?
Darlin.
Where do we start, where do we end?
baby.
How do you know what it's like
if you can't remember a thing?
How do you know it happened?
How do you look in the mirror
if you don't remember your face?
how do you know its you then?
How is that time is unkind?
an inevitable decline
how does it know to hurt you?
Why do you stand in the rain
as if it will wash away
the scars it put there in the first place.
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Yeah, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Had some trouble with the lyrics on this one. It was like 11:00. I was about halfway done with the lyrics... And I still had no idea what the heck this song was supposed to be about. Form is also sorta wierd. Might need to tweak it if I do a "real" version someday. Comment... Let me know if this is cool or not.
This is almost unprecedented!
I have a show lined up in Champaign on April 14th in connection with High Anxiety Records' launch party. I'll supposedly be appearing with a backup band (which may or may not feature a certain high-profile member of the kordix network...) - I'll be playing several songs from The Shortest Distance, as well as a few surprises hopefully.
High school people - It would be great if you could come and I could see you guys again. Rumor has it certain of you will be there. Anyway it would be neet if you guys could make it and see what I've been up to lately.
Greenville people - OOOOOOOOOOH PLEEEEEEEEEASE! I played like ONE show while I was at greenville. you should see me again. I love you all. Its not that far away. Reba, you don't read my blog, so I don't know why I'm calling you out on this. but I want to see you there. Chase.... I want you in my band. ha. i'll message you in case you don't see this. maybe we can work that out.
Those of you I don't know very well... but wanted to - You know those kinds of people? The ones you see and you're like "I could be friends with them." But you aren't for one reason or another? Maybe you're not in the right friend group or you are really at your maximum of relationships or you don't have classes with them or whatever... Well if you've ever thought that about me, I'd like to see you there. Come up to me, say hi. And if you've ever thought I might have thought that about you, you might be right. Even if you can't come, if you're one of these people, drop me an email or IM. contact info should be on my website. I'm always looking for new, interesting people.
anyway, please come. Support Ralph Petrella. And me. And plus it will make me a lot less nervous and stressed if I have some friends there and its not just like 500 drunk emo fans.... who i'm gonna go play some sentimental folk songs about longing and distance to. eeeks yeah come please!
Dan's post was such a great idea that I had to quickly order my thoughts and put together my own version... So here you go...
My top ten desert island recordings:
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That's the top 5. A pretty good list. If I only had those five records to comfort me, they would be enough. However, i would not want to risk playing them so much that they lose their "specialness." And so we add five more...
There's the desert-ten. This was a very very hard list to make. Albums that were close runners-up are listed below... because they deserve some kind of mention.
Lets hope someone else on this friggen island has ten cds of their own...