Kiss The Girls Of Eindhoven
July 19, 2008, Matthew Good It’s 7:30 but feels like 4. Was asleep at 4 though, ate some freezies first. O’clock is a weird word.
Time could be faster. A week could be a year, that’d be fine. Go to sleep on a Sunday and wake up in my 60’s. Wouldn’t be against it, wouldn’t be against being slower to match feeling slower.
I deleted a song before the freezies. Cruel self-editing is one of the perks of being around for so long. One day I hope to be able to edit myself down completely, like a big eraser crossing a page. Strike up the band and smile a little smile. Remember the good times, kiss the girls of Eindhoven.
Lay me out in some old room, sing some old song, then plant me. Throw some dice down with the dirt just in case I gotta get myself out of a fix.
Only minutes have passed. I stare, the words melt, I blink and look left out the window. Left over Chinese food and a film I’ve seen a thousand times. Maybe some shots in the dark, a laugh confused, fall asleep again with one leg off the bed.
No tanks to roll, no parachutes. Just kiss the girls of Eindhoven.
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I’m really enjoying all of the prose writing as of late.
true that a blue freezie can offset a blue day. wierd, that.
You have a haunting way of writing.
(I would kill for a freezie now.)
Be thankful you have chinese food there. I think the only food in my house is hiding in one of the crisper drawers.
Just got the freezies outa the house, now you got me going again.. thaaaaaaaanks.
KET, go easy.. I was a house, that was one of my cravings… EASY GIRL…. EEEEEEZZEEEEEEE.
You could/should fill a book with this stuff. People really feel what you are writing. Because we all know your music so well, I don’t think it is a stretch to assume that many hear these pieces melodically.
[quote comment="58907"]Because we all know your music so well, I don’t think it is a stretch to assume that many hear these pieces melodically.[/quote]
You are absolutely right. I can almost hear them being sung at times.
Make mine Lonneke Engel please
Dear Matt Good;
Your writing makes my soul happy.
You are all that is awesome!
Everyone seemed to nap this afternoon.
I just woke up from a nap and ate a box of Kraft Dinner.
I hope it wasn’t one of the songs I liked.
[quote comment="58907"]You could/should fill a book with this stuff. People really feel what you are writing. Because we all know your music so well, I don’t think it is a stretch to assume that many hear these pieces melodically.[/quote]
I’d buy it.
You never cease to amaze me. My heat is a little less heavy.
heart
I love the white freezies…YUMMY!! But honestly, I can’t distingush what flavor they are!!! So if anyone knows, let me know….lol
Also, for the love of god, I NEED to know what movie you are watching for the thousand time. (For some strange resason) OMG I hope thats not creepy!!! HAHA
Never throw anything away! You need a seperate hard drive or something to put a copy of whatever you think you need to toss. Put it all in one pile and listen to that pile once a year. Trust me on this one, Matt; you will find a gem there one year. Maybe at a different tempo, key etc.
White = Cream Soda
I love freezies… unfortunately all I have is chocolate-covered cookie dough candies..
Eindhoven huh. That’s not too far from here. All I know is the light bulbs they make there though, no girls.
Not all your prose strikes me as lyrics, but this one does. Might have to drop the freezie bit, though ;)
My son can’t stop writing songs (obsessively I think), he must have started hundreds in the last year. I asked him how many he’s kept—a grand total of ten. No point in asking him to keep the ones he thinks are crappy.
Artists are tortured by their creativity to the benefit of the rest of us.
All my life, I was destined for art school. Then, when it came time to move to Toronto and enroll, I realized I was not tortured by my creativity–I was calm, I could start or stop drawing/painting any time I wanted. I concluded I could never be a great artist–technically, I could, but creatively, I doubted it, and went to university for computer science instead.
I could read this stuff for hours ^_^
[quote comment="58943"]White = Cream Soda[/quote]
AHHHHH thank you!!!
What’s a freezie? Must be a Canadian thing. I’d imagine it’s some sort of ice pop?
[quote comment="59003"]What’s a freezie? Must be a Canadian thing. I’d imagine it’s some sort of ice pop?[/quote]
Might be like our slushies? Nothing beats a Rita’s here in the states- Italian ice and custard together. My son is getting back from Canada tonight, maybe he had one, however, I doubt it unless it contained alcohol. His highlight of the trip was getting served in Kingston at a pub at 19 years old. Uhhh :0
^Ah, maybe. I remember going to Canada to see Matt’s shows when I was 19 and being able to have a drink. By the time I turned 21, I had already gotten all the drinking out of my system, lol.
“Cruel self-editing is one of the perks of being around for so long. One day I hope to be able to edit myself down completely, like a big eraser crossing a page.”
how strangely paradoxical that someone who’s laid down such a legacy so many artistic arenas could also long for self-effacement.
[quote comment="59003"]What’s a freezie? Must be a Canadian thing. I’d imagine it’s some sort of ice pop?[/quote]
I am thinking they are like our Fla-vor-ice here in the states… The Popsicle in the plastic packages that you push up to the top to eat or wait till they melt and suck all the juice out of!!! ; )
A Bridge Too Far?
PSV (Philips Sport Vereniging) has nothing on us …
Operation Market Garden. Isn’t it weird how the mind plays tricks, mixes dreams with the streaming to your brain, just at that twilight drift-time between awake and sleep. Beautifully written post Matt…go easy on the editing though sweetheart; you are far too hard on yourself sometimes.
[quote comment="59003"]What’s a freezie? Must be a Canadian thing. I’d imagine it’s some sort of ice pop?[/quote]
The grossest treat ever… unless they’re made by Jolly Rancher.
Yuck.