Last night’s show in San Francisco was a lot of fun. On the way to dinner, Lance and I just happened to run into Ryan and Dave from Apple, so we all went to a local Japanese restaurant and talked shop for a while. Lance, of course, was utterly confused the entire time.
I just got into Los Angeles and will be spending the night catching up with some friends and doing some rehearsing with Pete. For those of you playing the home edition of the tour, last night’s set list was…
Metal Airplanes
Avalanche
Born Losers
A Silent Army In The Trees
Black Helicopter
She’s In It For The Money
Strange Days
Load Me Up
I’m A Window
99% Of Us Is Failure
Apparitions
Encore One
Champions Of Nothing
Moon Over Marin
True Love Will Find You In The End
Encore Two
Generation X-Wing
Advertising On Police Cars
More later when I get some time. For now, just a mention – the war in Iraq is costing the United States $12 billion dollars a month.
PS: Why does the internet in hotels always suck?
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Ahhh I would love to hear you sing Moon over Marin…
Wireless in hotels always sucks… not sure why I think its murphys law
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You have internet? F@#$ I guess I better stop staying at the Motel 6.
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Good to see Advertising in there.
$12 billion? Fuck me.
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It looks so warm there… I can’t wait till summer!
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Because most hotels are highly concentrated with lonely business guys that enjoy surfing internet porn while away from home.
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$12 billion A MONTH!!
My God, why are sick people without medicine or poor people without anywhere to call home in the US? Oh yeah, priorities.
Yes, great, now I’ll be singing a very bad version of AOPC all night. Good thing my neighbours like me (that may not last).
Be safe.
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its cool you are blogging the tour. thanks.
12 billion…arrrggg…the citizens of the US are being duped, while their economy goes south.
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No chance i can convince you that you should play “can’t get shot in the back if you don’t run” when you come to VT is there?
Sometimes i feel like i can’t even read about the cost of the war anymore. My co-worker said it best today when she said “anyone who votes republican this year is a fucking idiot.”
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Matt
Welcome to the ridiculousness of the United States of America. . . You have to be asleep to believe it
Check out the link. . interesting
http://www.globalincidentmap.com/home.php
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$12 billion a month, sure, but remember: “It is also an investment in the future safety and security of Americans and our vital national interests.”
(Two encores!)
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Must have been a good crowd for the double encore.
I knew it was a huge amount but 12 billion. I remember seeing a vid on how they are running out of room to bury the dead in Baghdad. They are converting parks and whatnot into cemeteries.
Matt, as for the for the wireless internet in hotels, its kinda hit or miss. I used to do wireless installs and they usually only get basic coverage. To many people on it and the router starts dumping connections.
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Two encores. My god!! I will be expecting three in Victoria now.
How is the nausea? Remember the ginger tea I told you to drink, well, it kicks ass for the nausea and vomiting too. I tell ya, its a miracle tea. Drink away!!! Hope you are enjoying the begining of your tour. AND, what the f~~k, 12 BILLION a month? For crying out loud.
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1) Moon over Marin - aaaaaaaaaaaaah Niiiiiiice. I believe when I saw Dale Jr. in an interview on Speed Channel a while back, he’d said that is his favourite song right now, right after he said you are his favourite artist!! Right, you probably already knew that.. doh.
2) Two encores? Lucky crowd!!!!!
3) YOU KNOW THE GUYS FROM APPLE? COOOOOOOL.
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5) No comment.
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Quoting T-Lee:
Thats a comment.
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ha ha ha.
right:
6).. I wonder if Lance and I are long lost brother and sis… I’m always completely confused lately… er.. always.
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I’m suprised that figure isn’t higher but if you are successfully going to destroy a country you can’t do it all at once. Start slowly and milk the people for all they’ve got and then when the end comes around you aren’t in office anymore and can blame it on someone else.
…I can’t remember 1989 but id sure like to go back and start again
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Hey Matt!
Welcome to L.A! I hope the city’s treating you exceptionally well and I love the set list you have laid out for us! Without a doubt you’ll have a befittingly stoked audience greeting you in Hollywood tomorrow night!
See you there!
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It wasnt much better then hosamny, just ask John Simpson.
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Matt, I saw the show at Cafe du Nord last night — just gotta say *thank you* for braving Bush’s America to come play some songs for us. It was a total treat after listening to your music for almost 10 years now, to finally get the chance to come to one of your gigs. And to hear you do stand-up comedy.
I read something in Slate or whatnot the other day that said the Iraq War has already cost something like $3 trillion. Trillion! Yeah, we don’t have universal healthcare or even above average education anymore, the freeways are crumbling, mass transit can’t support itself, and the poor have no recourse, but we couldn’t find anything better to spend tax dollars on than a pointless war against a fake enemy. Ugh.
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man that set list is perfect. end of story
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Okay, I am going to be the first nerd to ask if you are planning to write any new fiction while you are in San Diego…
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Wow, $12 billion/month. I don’t want to even think about how much food that would buy.
Thanks for posting your setlists and pictures, it’s neat getting updates along the tour.
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…and can’t wait until you’re in winnipeg!
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on the topic of iraq, the cbc’s “the passionate eye” was interesting; it featured 4 iraqi high school boys who documented their lives in 2006 and 2007 while living in baghdad… it was a great doc….
it ended at august 2007, and they were saying how bad things were only then… can’t image how it is now and if they’re still alive.
12 billion. i’m trying to picture that amount of money physically. but i can’t. it seems like such an arbitrary figure, but the effects are definitely tangible…
i miss the sun. snow’s cool and all, but it’s annoying…
and cool about the apple guys. what do they do at apple?
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$12 Billion?!? A month?!? Jumping Jesus on a Kawasaki.
Stop right there. Written out, that is 12,000,000,000.
Per day that is roughly $400,000,000.
Per minute: $277,777.78 (assuming 30 day month)
I just can’t get my head around that. That is just too staggering a number. Where could all that money possibly go per freaking minute? For as much money as Uncle Sam bends me over for and takes out of my ass in taxes, can’t the money go towards something more worthwhile?
And here my sister, who is an elementary school teacher (second grade), is required to have a Master’s Degree to teach (currently working on a thesis on children with a.d.d.) and makes MAYBE $30,000/year. She even spends her own money to decorate the classroom and can’t get travel money to take her kids to museums and other educational outings. School districts have also cut WAY back on the number of school days to save money and make ends meet.
There is something SO wrong and warped with this situation. Is El Presidente out to breed idiot copies of himself? A continuously weakening dollar, ever deepening debt, and global resentment. A nice lasting legacy of his presidency.
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12 billion. I think we spent that much at the outlet mall today before heading home.
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Quoting D. Lilly:
LMAO too effin hilarious
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Dammit! I forgot the crazy straws!!!!!
Oh yeah, it was a really great show. Hmm… Something about unicorns and Spectravision..
T-Lee!!! I’ll try to get some pics up. I just got home. %-p
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Welcome to Canada, Eva!! er.. Welcome baaaaaack!!!!
Can’t wait to hear all about the concert!!!!!
Will check your flickr page in da mornin…. night….. glad you made it home safely. Hope you made it to Ghiridelli square.. Everyone always freaking wants that stuff whenever someone comes home from San Fran.. just you watch…
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Well, I did get *some* chocolate. But i think I brought back more wine than chocolate! :D
I’ll probably only get around to putting up the pics some time after I get home from work. :)
Now, I must sleep. It’s after 2AM and I need to get up in a few hours.
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The glare of the window makes it look like you bleached the shit out of your pants.
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Hmm.. $12 billion a month…. I caught that as a scrolling headline on one of the news monitors while waiting at the airport yesterday. I really wonder where the government is going to try to collect that. Print more money? Hah! I don’t think it works that way. :-p
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home edition of the tour???
Whats That?
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I must say I am happy you are consistant in playing Strange Days… (obviously)
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Playing the home edition means “watching” it all happen from in front of our computers at home (I think…) because we don’t have tickets to see him play in the States (or at all). Wish I could have been there in San Diego- an absolutely beautiful place with killer Mexican food….
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sorry- San Francisco (great place to see Alcatraz)
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You’re lucky to get your namesake played there Strangedays.
I never do. (not that I mind. I’m always happy with any MG setlist).
If I want to hear my namesake live, I have to sing it myself with my guitar, which for some reason, doesn’t sound even remotely as good as the original and makes my cat run to the remote sections of my home.
“Come back kitty! I promise to put the instrument away!”
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Set list is AWESOME!! :D
Someone needs to take the “Credit Cards” away from our government. I don’t think we are allowed to consolidate all our debts into one low monthly payment.
Consolidate Debt Today
* Cut Payments up to 70%
* Make One Low Monthly Payment
* Fast one hour approval
* Elimination of past-due collection calls
* Account re-aging
Not going to happen….
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12 bill/month….144 bill annually…hmmm…can they afford it - NO! Is George W draggin’ the country down - absolutely. Does the average american realize this - NO. There is no place for war in this day. This could go donw in history as the biggest mistake ever made by a president.
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Quoting i the throw away:
As in sitting here at home with the setlists plays the songs. hah.
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Playing*
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$12 billion, gosh, what I could do with say, 1/100th of that. Meanwhile, I just saw a gallon of milk go to 7.50.
Granted, it was organic, but I get enough drugs in my drinking water.
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12 Million! Jesus Christ! If they gave that amount per month to the bettering of third world countries or to any single research, we could save a few million lives instead of wasting them. But, of course, the American government isn’t going to do that.
Nice playlist, I’ll definitely make a home ed. with that! Nice to see Advertising on Police Cars too. It’d be great to hear While We Were Hunting Rabbits or The Boy Come Home, though.
I’m still on my toes for Club Soda in Montreal, May 30th! It’ll be a relief to hear Matt after my Organic Chemistry finals!
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hmmm, no new posts from Matty boy, yet…. Hung over after a trek through the city of lights? Hope so.. tee hee.
Inquiring minds wanna know how your night in L.A. was, dude…
Did you check out the Viper Room and say hey to JD?
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I wish i didn’t have to work on the West side until 7, i’m pretty sure i’ll miss the show tonight. Matt, you’re music has guided my life for so long, yet i still have never seen you play live. One day matt…one day… and that day will be glorious.
anyways, thanks for all the years of beautiful music. i’ll see you sometime.
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I went to Sunday’s show- Living in the Bay Area, it was my first (and hopefully not the last) chance to see Matthew Good. It was pretty amazing! I’m more familiar with sound of MGB than Matthew Good’s solo stuff, but I quite enjoyed the acoustic transitions for Strange Days, Load Me Up, and Apparitions. Learning to sing the changed vocals to those was a lot of fun. The crowd was great, and Heather Combs was an energetic and entertaining opening act. We really worked to get that second encore. Thanks so much for coming out to the Bay Area and playing, Matthew Good! I hope the hotel spectrovision was kind to you.
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city of angels, not lights.
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Hope you’re having fun and getting enough sleep!
I just went to a poetry reading at Iota (where I will eventually get to hear you live, barring incidents beyond my control) and it’s such a nice, small venue for an acoustic show. I think it’ll be grand!
P.S. Oh, what I couldn’t do with $12 billion dollars in a LIFETIME, let alone a month. Surely there are better ways to use our money.
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Quoting wsw:
“Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light
Or just another lost angel…city of night”
The Doors - L.A. Woman
Now I’m more confused.. Is he writing about his L.A. Woman in Paris, perhaps?
I have never really thought of that.. I thought the song is about L.A. and that L.A. is the city of LIghts…
Has L.A. ever been referred to as the City of NIght?
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Saw you in San Francisco.
I went with my husband, because he is a huge fan. I cant remember the last time I had goosebumps through an entire show… you were amazing. Being in the front row was well worth the wait in line.
Thanks for humoring our requests for a second encore. I lost my voice screaming for it. <3
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That is quite possibly the best second encore that I have ever seen.
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Quoting Giant:
Yeah, I was also about to comment on what an awesome second encore that would be.
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I think wireless sucks to begin with. I have it and it’s just awful.
I’m counting down the days until you play here in K-W. I’d love to hear Generation X-Wing and Ray Gun live. *crosses fingers*
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Wow what a show SF was! Metal Airplanes to open! Moon over Marin! What a great room the Nord was. Flying down from Calgary was a brilliant idea! Thanks for the Heineken(s) Matt/Lance/Green Room at the Nord! Great hanging with you! Get better…..we all need more…