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it was a leg injury sustained at a live show. what shitty timing, i'm so curious as to what direction the video would've taken.

ya gotta break your legs some time man. If people are kind enough to pay attention, it's damn worth it. Just completetly ignore the fact that there is an audience while you are playing (but don't ignore the audience between songs! you need to engage them!).

BM promo poster, pepsi taste tour poster, stickers from various albums, gee-tar picks, some fucking killer digital shots from live shows, the mgbf.c. 'victoy through sheer volume' patch... a backstage pass from the edge electric christmas show at the ACC with moist in 2000, which never got used because the band had left after their performance (curses!)... i guess that's it.

Hey, i was at that show as well! i was in my freshman year, and it couldn't have been a more complete one, with matt playing. He hung around campus in the afternoon. my girlfreind at the time couldn't get in because she was 18... so she and my other friend's girlfriend got stoned and hung around unil it was over... wow, i guess that pretty much sums up where matt good shows fit into my priorities. geez.

I was all about garbage until 'beautiful garbage,' after which i kinda said 'meh' and left it... the music just isn't relevant to me anymore.

I can't believe how many years I'd overlooked this band. I stumbled across them in my sister's shared music folder. My mind has been so completetly blown by the shear magnitude of Jeff Mangum's works. The last time I felt this affected my music was mg or the catherine wheel. Maybe the watchmen. Anyone?

He seems unable to shake the 'asshole' image the media applied to him (and which he later promoted tongue-in-cheek, himself) in the late 90's. Wait, it was more than that... he actually was a jerk back then. But yeah, nowadays, all I get from most ppl in their late teens and younger is 'mmm?' A carefully selected sampler disc usually fixes that. Way off topic, but man, am I ever up on Neutral Milk Hotel.

Hold up, a goddamn WRENCH?

I was quite excited when i found out that Rob Dickenson, formerly of the brilliant Catherine Wheel, had sung on one of the tracks. but i was kind of disappointed when i heard it... and the rest of the album sounded a bit lacklustre. but i have not taken time to give it a serious listen yet. Good to hear they but on a great live show, though.

i would hve to agree with some and say meh.

ending needs work, but a great first go of it.

Thereès something to be said for presentation

do what you do and do it safely. the end.

If at all possible, avoid a festival show as your first mg experience. I had to apologize to a friend of mine a few years ago for a show he played in grand bend, ON.

The best show i've seen this year (so far) has been Danny Michel at my school's lounge night. He's out of Peterborough ON (I think, and he does some pretty damn creative sampling in his live show. Like creating melodies with the keypad of his cell phone and looping/layering with other textures. fun as hell.

Hah, good analogy. Things have run a lot smoother since I quit using it.

"you don't need to fly to understand it... just understand understanding... just understand understanding..." That line easily sold me on the album the first listen through, and sounds just as fresh every time I listen to it. There's just no logic that can stand in logic's place.

Throwing Copper was my introduction to rock music. It blew the budding pubic hairs off my sack. Wazz, I feel the Pillar of Davidson as well. I wondered wtf the title meant for years, until I saw the band in early 2000 on the Distance to Here tour. Ed explained that it's a derivative combination of Caterpillar and Harley Davidson, the two major industries that employ blue collar workers in their hometown of York, Pennsylvania. Ha, whaddaya know... the band is releasing a best of. I guess it really is over. Good thing if you ask me, the last two albums were weak.

Neutral Milk Hotel.

Shatner? ...Shatner.