Delicious wonton…

Colourwater…

Everyone’s got something on top of their fridge…

The matthewgood.org Community Flickr Pool has been updated and now accepts 2 photos per day from each member. As well, one photo from new entries posted each day is prominently displayed in the sidebar on the Community Hub page.

As with any website update, be sure to refresh your browser to see the changes properly.

It’s been a long time coming, but the Nothing To Hide Tour Fan Gallery has seen its final update. Thanks to all who submitted photos, we managed to squeeze in most of everything we received.

The Gallery will remain online until the end of this month.

We’ve been working on the final updates to the Fan Gallery, as well as adding some extra video footage that Pete shot. Sorry it’s been a little slow, but Dale maintains the gallery and was unable to add more photos during the tour due to connection and bandwidth issues. Now home, he’ll have a chance to add the remaining submissions.

Thanks again everyone for taking the time to send your stuff in, we’ve received many e-mails from others who really enjoy having the Gallery. We’re no longer taking submissions, however. The final updates should be added by the end of the weekend.

Here’s a quick rundown of recent updates to the website, and future ones:

Fan Gallery
The fan gallery continues to be updated daily, so check in to see the latest photos and additions for each stop on the tour. Thanks to all of you who have submitted photos thus far. If you have video clips which are of high quality and wish to submit them as well, send them along to admin@matthewgood.org and we’ll consider them for a future update to the gallery.

Shows Page
The shows page while not having any new dates is updated regularly now with links to each show’s photo gallery, and any mp3 or video links for past shows. So check-in to find media relating to tour stops as well.

User Accounts
We’ve done some Fall cleaning, and removed a chunk of suspect accounts which either had registration e-mails bounce back to us, or are obscure and contain non-sensical addresses (xlaijbscs@svlijbac.com). In an effort to reduce spam accounts and prevent abuse we periodically check the status of user accounts and delete those which appear not to be in use, or those that are likely spam-related. If you find yourself suddenly unable to login, we may have removed your account my accident. E-mail discussion@matthewgood.org and let us know, and we’ll re-activate your account.

Audio
The next single from Hospital Music, I’m A Window, is now playing in the A/V Player.

Coming Up
Look for a new on-site gallery for Matthew’s Flickr photos soon on the website, and possibly some new videos.

The ‘Nothing To Hide Tour’ Fan Gallery is now live. In addition to the link here in the post, you can find a link to it regularly by clicking on the Fan Gallery image in the sidebar on the home page, or the same image from the shows page.

At current, the gallery works well across all browsers, thanks to Apple’s .Mac Web Gallery technology. It even works well on iPhones and mobile browsers.

You can browse the galleries in multiple ways, and also download individual photos or whole sets if you choose. Photos are credited where the info was provided.

The Galleries will be updated and added to, and may contain video footage in the future.

Thanks to all who submitted photos to date.
Keep them coming -> admin@matthewgood.org.

Please zip your photo files, and keep them under 1600 x 1050 if possible when you have a lot of them to send
Include the date and venue in your e-mail
Remember to include your full name for credit

We’ve been prepping an addition to the website that will show a gallery of photos taken by fans from various stops along the Nothing To Hide Tour.

If you’re in attendance and have snapped some shots from a show, you can send them along to admin@matthewgood.org, and they’ll be considered for inclusion in the show gallery.

Please zip your photo files, and keep them under 1600 x 1050 if possible
Include the date and venue in your e-mail
Remember to include your full name for credit

This photograph was taken by The Guardian’s Sean Smith. While shooting the aftermath of the attack, Smith was approached by US Spc. Gabriel Vassell, who told him…

“We have people up there in Congress with the brain of a 2-year-old who don’t know what they are doing, they don’t experience it. I challenge the president or anyone who has us for 15 months to ride alongside me. I’ll do another 15 months if he comes out here and rides along with me every day. I’ll do 15 more months. They don’t even have to pay me extra.”

Support the troops? Damn right.

Last night I sat down and tried to make a list of everything that I can perform acoustically in the context of a live show. There are, unfortunately, some songs that I wish I could do but simply don’t translate all that well, such as Weapon. There are also a host of songs that I simply can’t remember or that, like Fearless, were penned using an old open tuning capo that I ordered from Nashville years ago that are no longer made. Were I to attempt to tune it properly, it would require me to tune middle strings up so high that they would probably break, so that’s out I’m afraid. I know a lot of people want to hear that song. And even though it’s not one of my favorites, I did try to figure away around the problem. It’s just that it doesn’t sound right to me, so.

Anyway, here’s the list I compiled…

1. Avalanche
2. Prime Time Deliverance
3. In A World Called Catastrophe
4. Apparitions
5. Strange Days
6. Load Me Up
7. Metal Airplanes
8. 99% Of Us Is Failure
9. Born Losers
10. Odette
11. Black Helicopter
12. The Boy Come Home
13. Moon Over Marin (Dead Kennedys cover)
14. I Am Not Safer Than A Bank
15. I’m A Window
16. She’s in It For The Money
17. True Love Will Find You In The End
18. Girl In The War (Josh Ritter cover)
19. Tripoli
20. Generation X-Wing
21. Advertising On Police Cars
22. Alert Status Red
23. It’s Been A While Since I Was Your Man
24. Fated
25. The Fine Art Of Falling Apart
26. House Of Smoke And Mirrors
27. Sort Of A Protest Song
28. Empty Road
29. Blue Skies Over Bad Lands
30. Champions Of Nothing
31. If I Was A Tidal Wave
32. Can’t Get Shot In The Back If You Don’t Run
33. Ex-Pats Of The Blue Mountain Symphony Orchestra
34. Hopeless
35. Buffalo Seven
36. Symbolistic White Walls
37. In Love With A Bad Idea
38. Life Beyond The Minimum Safe Distance
39. The Bright End Of Nowhere
40. Hurt (Nine Inch Nails cover)
41. So Long Mrs. Smith
42. Oh Be Joyful
43. Keira-Anne
44. A Long Way Down
45. Indestructible
46. Born To Kill

Like Carmelina, Truffle Pigs presents a challenge in that it’s drop tuned to a c#, which on an acoustic is very difficult to keep in tune. That would be why, when I started playing Carmelina as a solo artist I changed up the presentation so that drop tuning wouldn’t be required. Truffle Pigs, on the other hand, loses something very important when it isn’t in its original tuning, so I might work on having my Guild set up just for that song alone, which we did for The Fine Art Of Falling Apart last year as it’s in the same tuning, though played in a much more reserved manner and thus tends not to go out of tune so easily (though during last year’s tour it commonly did every night, which is why I rarely bothered attempting Truffle Pigs).

There may also be some new material performed above and beyond the material on Hospital Music as well, it all depends on what I write in the meantime. I have, since being here, already completed a song, and in the months that follow there’s a good chance I’ll write more. Don’t hold me to that, of course, I could spend the next five months sitting on my hands, one can never tell.

Birthday Suit

What is indecency? For those of you that have been fortunate enough to view some of the world’s most renowned art, you’ll know that the human form has been celebrated for millennia, be it through sculpture, paint, or photography.

I have always found it very bizarre that our society has problems with the human form in its natural state. Nudity is often viewed as vulgar, which is strange being that beneath our clothes we’re all pretty much the same.

Lately, because of a few photographs that I was sent and asked to mess around with in photoshop, I have received a fair number of emails from others asking me to do similar processing. I just wanted to say that I’m open to the idea, but I’m not willing to spend time doing it to pictures of your cat, your car, your guitar, or you and your friends partying. If you have something artistic with which I can work, I’m open to working on it. If you’re interested, you can send them to matt@matthewgood.org and I’ll take a look and see if I think something interesting can be created. So far I have primarily been sent modeling shots and asked to obscure them in a way that allows them to be seen as something more than nudity, but rather an expression. I am not limited to doing just that, mind you, but as I said, pictures of your cat don’t really interest me.

I don’t know what to say about this wedding photograph taken by Nina Berman of Ty Ziegel and his wife Renee. There are, of course, thousands of just as upsetting images of Iraqis that have been effected by the war, but when it comes to the reality of war itself, all of them are just as relevant, and should hit our hearts with equal force, as if hammer blows.