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A "greatest hits" without "Hello Time Bomb", "Load Me Up", "Apparitions", and "Weapon"? Would be a very odd "greatest hits".

He's lean, he's mean, he works out. And he won't make a mess on the furniture. Easy to like the cut of my gib. (I can't believe somebody came up with a separate word for "castrated cat".) Actually, I'm more disturbed by the balloon nozzle on the front end of Crazy Frog. What was this thread about, again?

Probably should be clarified: afaik, they ALL say "oneoffivehundred". Meaning, there are five hundred copies, and this is one of them. This guy doesn't have the first one, and probably should be called on it.

Yes. But Matt left some time ago.

I thought that was a joke. At least, I hope so. He'll get reamed by anyone paying attention: Artist: Bryan Adams Album: So Far, So Good (Greatest Hits) Released: November 9 1993

Just be aware that MapleMusic has had some past issues with export deliveries. They may have been isolated incidents, but my order from last May (WLRRR & AOB) took almost a month to arrive. And I know a guy in the UK who ordered all of the CDs and didn't receive anything for six months. They eventually sent him the discs and refunded his money, which was cool in the end, but the six months was just absurd. Translated: it's a good deal, and I'd (probably) order from them again. But it might take a while for your order to arrive. Or it might not. I dunno. I heard a bunch of people rave about getting stuff quickly from CDPlus, but I can't vouch for it myself.

I bought Underdogs at Media Play. The Media Play near me has a copy of Avalanche (that they've had for a year or more). FYE occasionally has used copies of Canadian discs. I've seen (and bought) copies of the Canadian BM, AOB (including the Limited Edition), Loser Anthems, and Avalanche there. Most often, they've popped up in the "bargain" or "just in" section. I should note that I didn't see all of them at the same store.

Better yet, Bryan Adams' first GH was called "So Far, So Good". He should call it "Good Times" or "The Good Times", and have a newspaper heading on the cover, ie "The New York Times". Okay, I'm lying, that's a terrible idea.

Thanks, Anton! I thought it was funny - I waited until today to mention that I'd added that bit to the article, then Matt brings back his blog, rendering it useless. Good to see the blog back, though.

Yeah, you're probably right. I kept thinking about it and thinking about it, and added what's there. (Me = ChrisB.) You know, honestly, it's not a bad place to start for papers. Most serious articles have enough users who care about accuracy to keep the losers in line. The main flaw is with subjects where only one person cares and writes something that fits their own agenda.

But that wording's not "factual" - it's harsh to both Matt and the kids. (Even if they both might deserve it.) If you were doing it for an objective article, the most accurate description would be something like: "Good took down his blog in January of 2005 after struggling with dissenting opinions posted in the comments section of his entries. A later private blog was removed the next month following similar incidents on his wife's blog." Note the wording. It neither condones nor criticizes either Matt or the people who posted those comments. It simply says what happened. (Sorry if that sounds kinda "know-it-all"-ish.) Worth adding? I don't think so. Most of the blog drama reads like gossip, completely unnecessary to the general audience looking for information about Matt.

Yeah, cause that crap's relevant to an "encyclopedia" article. I'm sure in Encyclopedia Britannica under Douglas MacArthur it says: "General MacArthur was an egotistical asshole, and yet was too much of a pussy to press into North Korea to wipe out the Communists during the Korean Conflict." /latter part = obscure reference? //sam kinison rules Better? Worse?

Yep, it's not complicated or creepy. Windows comes with a utility that can do it, too. Open an MS-DOS window and type in "tracert" and the ip address. Voila. But that doesn't mean I'm not the person your mom warned you about. Here, have a lollipop.

Anybody can change a Wiki. You don't even have to log in. Fortunately, anybody can change it back. Apparently, the antics aren't limited to Canadians. 69.171.55.155 = Cleveland, Ohio.

I was just glad to see him turn that negativity into something creative. I've been most impressed by what he's able to do with Photoshop. I wish I'd thought to save more of them.

65.94.55.49 is a Sympatico account in Montreal. Can't be Matt unless he's secretly vacationing on Mount Royal.

Man, the last couple of days, he was on a roll. Seriously.

An old program called Streambox Ripper will convert the file to wav. Then you can convert the wav to whatever format you need for iTunes.

Strangely, in particular, I've got a personal links page that I uploaded to my website to use when I'm not at my computer. It's been there a couple of years, and it contains links to probably fifty different sites (including a number of popular ones). To date, I've had a few admins click back to it via their referrer logs, but no grabs via bot or anything else. Actually, if Matt wanted to stay off of Google (etc), he could add a "robots.txt" file to his site. But I'm not sure using a universal password would be the best way to manage access. If someone got careless with the password, it'd be difficult to track back who it was. It looks like Blogger doesn't offer private blogs, either, so he'd probably have to set up some kind of access management thing. I guess he could set up something like hosam, but without the without the whole "sticking the CD in the drive" thing. (Oooh... wouldn't that be awesome / a pain in the ass.)

Nope. The bots follow links. If I didn't post links to the files, they would be left alone. I have files just like that on my website that haven't been found by the bots, and my site is getting referrer spammed and "botted" to death. Someone (specific) linked to Matt's blog in the first few days it was back online. I assume that's how it was found by the bots.

I disagree with that entirely. Say I took a batch of MP3s, an album I was working on, and stuffed them in a directory, then sent that link to five friends asking them to check them out. Would I expect those files to be "public", just because they were on the internet? If I didn't tell anyone else, why would I need to password protect the directory? And doing a "blog by email" isn't the same thing. That's pretty much requiring people to read your writing and look at your pictures, rather than simply giving them the option. Private blog = Friends-only LiveJournal. I can't see much of a difference here, save that there isn't any obvious way (that I'm aware of, though I'm an MT user) to password protect a Blogger blog. We can't assume he intended to eventually make the thing public. It became "public" for reasons that weren't intentional, even if (I assume) he knew about them.

I don't believe he went out and invited "fans" to the new blog. It sounds he only invited the "fans" that he's met and knows personally: people more accurately called "friends". I would wager that 95% or more of the people who read his blog before today weren't invited. And now maybe even more. I'm just curious as to why anyone felt the need to mention that it existed. Anyway, I think he was already aware of how people had found out about it. So I'm hoping in the back of my mind that he won't mind people invading so long as its civil. But it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest for the thing to disappear again.

Off-topic, but I wouldn't describe it that way. The record was recorded and mixed in two weeks (save for the minor additions and mixing in later weeks). Kurt's life had been a mess the previous year, but the band was still functioning as a whole. The real "tearing apart at the seams" came during and after the 1994 European tour.

I feel odd adding my two cents here, but here it is. When I read Matt's last post talking about how he was converting the blog into just a "whatever" blog - pictures, politics, music, whatever - I got excited. (Guinness guys: "BRILLIANT!") That was precisely what I went to Matt's site to see: discussions about whatever. As an American, I generally don't get to hear the kinds of political views that Matt expressed on his blog, so it was certainly nice to have that point of view available. Even if I didn't agree with his viewpoint, it was always worth reading. But adding the personal blog gave it a really nice balance. While the political side was often serious, it was great to hear that Matt wasn't all-serious all-the-time. All that aside: the interaction part of it was so completely optional for me. I think I posted once or twice in the comments, and once or twice on the official forum, but, for me, that was just a bonus. To be honest, I read a number of blogs on a daily basis, and I just can't fathom emailing them or contacting them. There's always this thought in the back of my that I'd be invading their turf, since I don't actually know them. I just love reading sites that help me form my opinions on "whatever". Especially when those sites are well-written and when you feel like you can read the writer's thoughts and experiences behind them. Discussing those thoughts with other people on the same site just doesn't really come into play for me - it's more about being able to discuss them with other people elsewhere. At work, at the store, wherever. I almost feel like a selfish prick for feeling like losing the blog is a loss for me. Oh, but I so badly hope that Matt doesn't hand the site to Universal. Seriously, label-run artist sites are the WORST. Ten minutes could be spent making a better official Matthew Good site than the months it would take for them to put something together. This would be better than turning it over to them: --- MatthewGood.org Matthew Good released the following albums [Pics of albums] and hopes you have a good day. --- But, honestly, thanks, Matt, for running the site as long as you did. There are very few sites I feel I should check several times a day, and yours was one of them, as it was always worth the time. Genuine hopes for a speedy return to good health.