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Bill Hicks: Patton Oswalt: David Cross: Neil Hamburger: Zach Galifianakis: And though he isn't technically a comedian, John Hodgman is the funniest person in this universe:

He's brilliant. http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=...ifianakis&hl=en

I'm dumb. Does anybody have a password? There was a weird post of a pornstar body-gliding a guy with a superman tattoo and some news about a llama right before it became secret, which is to say Bangkok Rubdown had an interesting future.

Now it's password protected...

It may have been on the setlist, but it certainly wasn't played last night.

I've got three extra tickets to the 2nd show. PM me.

"Backstage With the Moderen Dancers" is my favourite cut from the new record.

He did an acoustic "Oh Be Joyful" on the C-Fox radio show just before "In a Coma" was released. It was nifty.

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Some light reading for the uninitiated: Drunk Pilot Seeks Drunk Co-Pilot Disorientation 5 Things to remember on motion sickness pills You will understand...

Cadence Weapon

I don't know about an opener...It's almost too complex right off the bat, but it's one of the most interesting bootlegs from the Acoustic Tour. I think he only played it a handful of times during it. Great song.

I agree. Most of Daniel's music is on iTunes now, so a person can check it out there, though some of his music is still hard to find.

Matt hasn't recorded this song yet, so if you're thinking that Matt Good has forgotten to sing, that is not the case... As for the original, Daniel Johnston's genius is unpleasing to many people...but if you listen hard enough and consider the troubled soul behind the music, his music is incredible. Kurt Cobain loved it.

Jeff Tweedy hasn't left Wilco at all, though he will have a solo DVD out on Oct. 24th called Sunken Treasure. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is one of my desert island five for sure. Ghost is a great record but YHF is a masterpiece. See them if you ever get the chance. They are incredible.

I think the next record has the opportunity to be more personal and more political than other releases. There has been several songs dealing seemingly with failed relationships (Metal Wings, In It for the Money) and others that have been overtly political (If I Was a Tidal Wave, Black Helicopters, Breath of a Nation, etc.) that have been played live or demoed in the last year. More interestingly, this record is going to include Matt

Witness Cold War II on CNN everybody! At least Canada has nuclear weapons...oh...wait...no we don't. Well, at least we live next to the country with the largest arsenal of WMD's in history. Sleep soundly with a bottle of Jack Daniels...then tomorrow buy as much as you possibly can. If you don't have a credit card, get one. Yep. Watch the perpetual state of fear advance far into the future. Hooray for nuclear bombs!!! I'll buy one too soon....nuclear bombs for everybody!

Garageband seems good at first. I took my laptop out of the box and there Garageband was... "Wow, this thing has got everything...exotic drum beats, lazy acoustic samples, sinister synth tones. This is great," I thought to myself. "I'll be pumping out great recordings in a matter of weeks." It started innocently enough. The recordings were unlistenable to the ear. "The magic will happen later," I would say to myself when my guitar and voice recorded with a built-in mic wouldn't sound natural against the slick, scientifically-engineered marimba samples. So I bought a decent mic... However, before you can interface an XLR input with a computer you need to be a MIDI interface. So I did. The recordings still sounded ridiculous...so I bought a better acoustic guitar, a fancy pants MIDI controller even a low-grade Swedish home organ. The guitar signal needed to be directly injected into the interface to sound better, so I got a preamp. Later that month, my credit card bill arrived in two envelopes. In order to pay my mounting debts I quit my job and started writing music full-time... That was 14 months ago. A brutal downward spiral followed involving drug-trafficking guitar players, drummers that won't leave your couch for anything less than 12 beers, vague, shameful memories of college residence party and not a single decent song. Grim, grim things. Everything has been sold to pay the creditors to avoid lengthy legal proceedings. Garageband ruins lives Ryan44! If you want some good advice, give music up in favour of chemical engineering or lion taming, endevours that likely won't result in bitter disappointment and regret.

I was in the front row stage right of that same nearly pant-escaping cock bulge. The fu-manchu-ed keyboardist pumped his fist without mercy. Oh that Rock Machine did indeed roll. At least it was memorable...I forgot Treble Charger played until I read it in this thread. That Calgary show goes down as my all-time favourite (which says a lot, he tours here often)...It was Matt's 30th birthday. Everybody sang Happy Birthday to him and then he played Strange Days. He also brought a handgun onstage...There was a mechanical bull and a couple of playstations on stage for people invited up from the audience. Good times.

Destroyer, Run Chico Run, Geoff Berner, Frog Eyes, Swan Lake, Sunset Rubdown, P:ano, The New Pornographers, You Say Party We Say Die... Of course none of these artists could be considered "big" in terms of record sales or radio play. But they are good nonetheless...and worth mentioning.

Rumour has it that Peaches and Feist lived in the same shitty apartment building (along with a whole slew of other Toronto indie-greats) when Peaches was recording the classic "Teaches of Peaches."

It's not the Placebo that everybody knows. It was a Calgary punk band that didn't last very long. Maybe because everybody confused them with the English band. Feist puts on a great show.

The Eraser is a departure from usual Radiohead. Not nearly as frantic as I expected it to be. Some of the rare stuff is really good: Jet Stream http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S3WTM7LZ The Clock (acoustic): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bblZAqIAQhc

He's had these kicking around. The first two have been catagorized under "prose" on his blog's previous incarnations. The last one is from the Andy Danger days when AOB was released.

My point is all aspects of music in the current culture milieu are extremely subjective (not a personal knock). These days most folks can't agree on much when it comes to music, especially one musician (like Matt Good, for instance).