So I’m still taking glass blowing classes.  I’m trying to take pictures of everything I make, but I’m behind.  This is an attempt to get back on track.

So here’s the first of 10-ish pieces from the Spring 2010 Hot Glass 201 session.

I made a snowman.  Crappy Blackberry picture.  When I take it back home I’ll try to remember to take a better picture on our camera.

*UPDATE* – here’s the new pic of the snowman.

One show down and one more to go.  And hopefully a couple of others.

Seeing Matt again was great.  He played a bunch of songs, talked in between a few songs, played some more, told an audience member to “fuck right off” and leave (more on this later), and played some more.

The tour is in support of Vancouver so he played a bunch of tunes from there.  He also played a couple of older monsters.  Overall, very enjoyable.

A couple of things that I didn’t like – the drunk people in the crowd that were being assholes – especially the two fuckers right in front of me that left halfway through the show – and the constant stream of people going in an out – I can only assume that it was to the washroom.

If you’re at a concert to see and hear a musician play, I don’t get why you’d want to get drunk.  When I’m drunk I don’t feel good, I can’t concentrate, I tend to forget things, and I have to pee a lot.  Why would I want any of those things to happen when I’m watching Matthew Good? 

And as for the drunk people that shout stupid things from the audience when Matt’s talking – do you know anything about him at all?  He’s got definite political and social opinions and talks about them regularily.  If you’re a Matt Good fan you should know that.  If you’re not a fan, what the fuck are you doing at the concert?  So when Matt starts to talk and goes on for 10 or 15 minutes, it’s pretty much expected.  It’s part of what seeing a live concert is all about.  It’s part of why I was there.  Shouting at him to “shut the fuck up” is not going to get the response that the shouter wants.  It’s going to get a response like the one that Matt gave that night.  He singled the guy out, and basically told him that if he didn’t like the show he should “get up, go out the door, go to the ticket window, get your money back, and fuck right off.” *At least that’s how I remember it* – Matt’s version is here.  As Matt said later in the show, the guy was entitled to voice his opinion just like Matt was entitled to his rebuttal.

So…the show was great.  Matt was great.  The music was great.  The crowd sucked.  Hopefully the people at Massey Hall are better.

Nov 30th I’m seeing Matthew Good in Kitchener. Dec 19th I’m seeing him again – in Toronto this time.

I’m trying to get tickets to a couple of other shows – see below and here.

I told Meg about the other two shows and she thinks that I’m crazy. The 2 shows was crazy.  Seeing 4 shows in less than a month is absolutely nut-bar-bat-shit-crazy.

But I haven’t seen MG live since a concert I went to at Canada’s Wonderland. Treble Charger, Sloan, and the Matthew Good Band. 2000 or 2001 I think.

And I’ve really liked the last two discs.  So this year is the year that I’m going to see him again.  Sweet for me.  Crazy for Meg.

And…I’d have his babies if he asked me right.