Purge...

[Longroad]

There is (finally) a new post on matthewgood.org, thoughts?

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PURGE

Machined in a madness the blood and brains and hair painting the curtains, meth pressed shotguns and slumped cocaine cowgirls that famous and sick and wanting some ideal sunrise behold heads on pikes, the radio scrambling: Almighty…Almighty. 

Oh butterflies to never doubt you, napalm and cluster cans, champions of the Blood Cult, the bodies of babies yet to speak all ballooned and maggot homed, slumped against refugee fences mothers wrapped in plastic bag maternity gowns, legs apart, daring the stars an explanation, wishing for guns and ammunition, revenge or suicide. 

Purged, you dark wings fell down upon straw, you dim result evolutionary, you faggots and straight mocking things all headed the same place, a cause of some happiness tied down not having run together strangely, as if the head of the horse laid out on your pillow kissing you with invisible Champaign and Israeli - Palestinian porn. 

In the outbound mist a jackal, crowned and in song ancient a steel longing to love, in the leaving dark mocking backward in laughter our heavy metals, our bones from the beginning, eyes of those wolves such to Rome that immortal enslaved itself, chain-linked to fences that without proper consent would cancel the years of the world, no teenagers fumbling in the dark, Carthage to Camelot swept aside, to the woke elimination of history. 

Upriver into the black leaves and spiral vines, intestinal carpentry, “never get out of the boat,” not for the fame, the pussy, the cock, invisible currency that dies as everything else, fucked over dish water, never plotted in youth and so sudden then the concept beyond, that we in caves and small places dwell, lizards, wall things, Moria, the end and the beginning, the alpha and the omega, all set-a-dance to failing music.

 

[MatthewGoodFan101]

He is quite the poet.

[Chris85]

Agreed, quite the poet, but always has been.

[gweeps]

Dark prose.

[Moonlight_Graham]

Dark for sure.

Most men are born out of the womb with the instincts to fight and kill, and then at puberty the urge to fuck everything in sight.  Civilization has been dependent on resisting these urges, and we don't always win.

[IamNick]

i wouldn't call this prose. i... don't know what to make of it. some of it seems obvious - including the overall feeling, but most of this giant twisted mass of metaphor is lost on me. 

Edited December 17, 2021 by IamNick

[foats]

Matt just added a new pic to his website. Could we finally be getting some new music/maybe shows?  Could be a great way to start the new year!

[Chris85]

Anyone notice the Bookings and Inquiries section? Curious if it’s bookings/inquires as in touring and licensing info or media bookings/inquiries to tell his version of things.

[RickDalton]

Gather up some funds for a personal show?

[foats]

I'd pay a good ammt for a live show/streaming show even. Hell imagine if we could make the setlist!!  We could get some Inescapable Us, some Flashdance II, some covers, maybe haven't slept in years.  I'm down for a few hundred US  anyone else?

[Chris85]

Me too. I’d pay a good amount as well.

Edited January 19, 2022 by Chris85

[THE MAN]

An inquiry has been sent for the cost of performances of rico and indestructible...

[Moonlight_Graham]

I ain't paying for shit until I get an explanation of his side of things and some sign of change and working on the self.

[foats]

I can't speak about the other women but by reading Hayley's social media she comes across as bat shit crazy.  If I had to believe one side I'd take Matt's over hers.  Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle but again, she seems bat shit crazy. 

[THE MAN]

On 1/21/2022 at 10:11 PM, Moonlight_Graham said:

I ain't paying for shit until I get an explanation of his side of things and some sign of change and working on the self.

***off the rails debate warning***

 

I mean if that's what you want, that is cool and I can respect it. If you need answers regarding what is now essentially public knowledge I can kind of understand.

But don't you think it seems far-fetched to insist the other party of a business exchange needs to fit an idea of personal progress or self-improvement in order to engage in said business transaction?

That would really grind day-to-day life down holding everything to such a standard. Just because someone plays some chords on guitar and sings doesn't REALLY make them any better than the local cashier working at any store or the owner of the business you may give your money to for services.

Tough crowd around here! I can't imagine we ever see Matt post again but jeez it will be a hornet's nest he'd be stepping into if he ever did haha.

As a music related ending, I still think the Tribus album never sees the light of day... Perhaps it's a sign of near-retirement. Cherry-picked engagements to sustain a certain standard of living and not much more.

[Moonlight_Graham]

On 2/1/2022 at 4:08 PM, THE MAN said:

But don't you think it seems far-fetched to insist the other party of a business exchange needs to fit an idea of personal progress or self-improvement in order to engage in said business transaction?

Well if one party has been accused by quite a few members of the other parties in the business exchange of lying and manipulating them for sex, yes.

[Sly Botts]

On 2/2/2022 at 8:31 PM, Moonlight_Graham said:

Well if one party has been accused by quite a few members of the other parties in the business exchange of lying and manipulating them for sex, yes.

Isn't that what most husbands have to do in order to get it from their wives?    (I'm kidding)

[Idealich]

On 1/22/2022 at 8:57 AM, foats said:

I can't speak about the other women but by reading Hayley's social media she comes across as bat shit crazy.  If I had to believe one side I'd take Matt's over hers.  Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle but again, she seems bat shit crazy. 

I'm typically inclined to believe that the truth is somewhere in the middle as well. However, given Hayley's recent social media posts, I'm now more inclined to see her as a social and political reactionary. Her public posting of misinformation has led me to suspect that her depiction of prior events might not be totally truthful as well, and so I'm becoming more willing to give Matt some benefit of the doubt.

I still hope Matt is doing some personal growth work, and I still think it's totally possible he might be a bit awkward or unskilled in the way he navigates relationships or hook-ups, but should he tour or release more music, I'll likely support him.