Born Crazy

Roy worries about me. To be honest, that worry is returned, but in this case he has substantive journalism to back it up, so he wins.

As many of you are aware, actor Heath Ledger died not long ago from an overdose. Of course, that word can be misconstrued, and following …

Buffalo, End Of Tour

The highlight of last night's show is captured in the photograph above - a marriage proposal. Over the last year I have been asked on two separate occasions if it would be possible for proposals to be made on stage during a performance, and I was, on both occasions, …

One More To Go, Daily Reading

Well, here I am at the end of the line. One more show and I'm home. Last night I had the good fortune of actually falling asleep just a little after ten. Of course, given my luck, I woke up at 12 and couldn't get back to sleep until five-thirty. One thing I will say …

Lights Out: Earth Hour 2008

If you visited the website in-between 8-9pm (EST & PST local times), you saw the outage message- matthewgood.org took part in Earth Hour and we shut the site down for the hour.

We hope you all found a way to take part as well. If you want to share the happenings in …

Buffalo, Snow Day

Buffalo - covered in snow as always. But I'm not one to preach. At home, on the warm West Coast, my sunny city by the bay is in the grips of a freak blizzard. Lance and I have decided that we've had enough - we're moving to a Southern State where it's warm and there are …

Behind The Media Curtain

I would assume that many of you have been following what has been transpiring in Southern Iraq recently. Regarding the violence that has broken out, one of the most quintessential articles about it that is an absolute must read was recently penned by an acquaintance of …

"Crimes" of Poverty to Get 20% More Tickets

It's a bad time to be poor in Vancouver. The Vancouver Police Department have vowed to increase tickets directed at

How To Get Away With Murder

To get away with murder in a war zone you have to have a few things going for you. For example...

1) No international body has the power to independently investigate allegations of war crimes, nor prosecute those found guilty under international law.

Thursday Night, Arlington

Tonight's show in Arlington was fantastic. The crowd was fantastic, the venue was fun; it was an all around great experience. I even got to catch up with my good friend, and one time matthewgood.org author, Dan Regelbrugge, who is now stationed at the Pentagon and lives …

Thursday, Baltimore

Greetings from Baltimore. Being that I'm flying to Buffalo in the morning we're staying here by the airport rather than in Virginia, which isn't too far off anyway. Tonight's show will be interesting in that the venue does not sell tickets in advance, so.

I was plagued …

'Holy Shit!' Is Right

Roy sent me a link to this. All he wrote was holy shit! That about sums it up. Ladies and gentlemen of the United States of America, a glimpse at how The War On Terror is being fought...

"Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan …

Wednesday, Philadelphia

I want to take this opportunity to apologize to those here in Philadelphia that weren't treated to an encore this evening and explain why.

I've been playing music for most of my adult life. During that time I have, obviously, had a great deal of success in my own …

Disappointing

In the past the comment feature on this website has been removed for short periods of time for various reasons. I am sad to say that, as of this afternoon, I am seriously considering removing it permanently.

It seems that a small group of people that frequent the …

The Breath Of A Nation

Greeting from The City Of Brotherly Love.

It all happened here in Philadelphia. The formation of the Continental Congress, the first public reading of The Declaration Of Independence, and the Constitutional Convention. It was here that one of the most progressive …

Comfortably Dumb

Removed from a situation, so much so that it has become an informational inconvenience, not to mention social taboo with regards to conversation, how do societies at war deal with the realities of war given the distance from which they are viewed?

With regards to …

Tuesday, New York City

Being that I won't have the time to do it tomorrow, I'm going to post tonight's set list now, about an hour before I take the stage.

I'm A Window

Suburbia

99% Of Us Is Failure

Born Losers

Tripoli

Strange Days

Load Me Up

A Silent Army In The Trees

Black …

Laughter Is The Best Medicine

At least until they find a cure for cancer.

This American history lesson courtesy forwarded to me via Raymi who is celebrating her birthday later this week.

Maybe I can relate to this style of story telling a little too much.

He Goes Off

I'm …

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I'm tired. Too tired to field emails from Christian nut jobs about the entry that I posted earlier today. Frankly, I don't care, and I don't want some theological war sparked in the comments either (I've already had to delete several comments that were left in …