there ain’t nothing here at all
another month, a year, that’s all
matthew good, suburbia
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Cara Mia Addio (Portal 2 soundtrack)
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this one’s for you, dad. xo
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Matthew Good - 21st Century Living
“Ambition, ambition’s a tricky thing. It’s like riding a unicycle over a dental floss tightrope over a wilderness of razorblades. Ambition can backfire. Ambition means MORE, ambition means FASTER, ambition means BETTER. I wonder if you can—can you supersize ambition? Does that make you ambitious if you supersize ambition? Around here, our ambition hurts more than it helps.”
it’s all right sooner or later
fake lightning flashes over the skyline
a deer in your headlights
so gun it gun it gun it gun it gun it
we’re singing songs about 21st century living
if hate’s in your heart man
you’ll take what you’re given
we’re taking pictures of a tidal wave
on the shore, grinning, a hundred feet away
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You say, “That is not me. I could never be like that. That person is other, is undeserving, a monster.” It’s an old story. It’s how wars begin, it’s how people turn on each other. And you know, it starts so simply too: “I am not you. I am nothing like you.” And it is, each time, a lie. Because underneath all the layers of fear and the protection, we are, at our core, the same. We have the same needs. We carry with us the same capacity for good and evil […] you are … every person you will ever meet.
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I know that I am lucky
I make shit up all the time
and I start to believe it myself
just ‘cause it rhymes
but I’m so inconsistent
my handwriting changes every other word
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matthew good - the fine art of falling apart
a time of darkness
you will look absurd and you will feel it hurt
and you’ll go looking to blame somebody
you see I used to think I’d get over everything
but everything just got over me
I’m certain of it.
But this is not seemly, my lady—on thy knees to me?”
“My lord, you’re not well!”
“Not well? What is illness to the body of a Knight Errant? What matter wounds? For each time he falls he shall rise again and woe to the wicked! Sancho!”
“Here, your Grace!”
“My armour! My sword!”
“More misadventures!”
“Adventures, old friend!
Don’t despise hate. It can keep a person going a long time. And people who have been hurt have got a right to a certain amount of it. It’s a dead end, it’s a trap, but understand that it’s part of surviving, it’s a bridge, it’s a bridge to the future. Hating the person who hurts you is important. Sometimes it’s anger. Women don’t like being angry, women are afraid of anger and we will hurt ourselves rather than be angry with those who are hurting us but sometimes it’s anger that keeps a woman alive.
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01. Remember! Your audience can’t vote yet, so you don’t have to worry about giving them too much to think about.
02 In fact, the less thinking and the more immaturity you bring to the table the better. No shame.
03. If you aren’t sure your dialogue is authentic enough, try the Kevin Williamson Test. This involves reading your dialogue aloud and adding the word “Dawson” to the end of it. ie, “All of this talking about deep stuff weirds me out, Dawson.”
04. Because kids remember Dawson’s Creek don’t they? They’re still into it, right? I don’t know! I’m an old!
05. If you aren’t comfortable with the material you’re writing, reading it aloud in a mocking voice will help.
06. When people ask you what you do for a living, don’t tell them you write young adult fiction. No one takes YA authors seriously. Tell them you are “paid good money” to be a “literary predator [that] comes for people’s children.” They’ll take you WAY more seriously then!
07. Forget everything you’ve ever heard about the editorial process. We don’t do that editing stuff in YA.
08. Also no one judges you in YA! Standards?! What are they? No standards! Only the FREEDOM OF STORYTELLING, BABY!
09. If “fast and loose” isn’t your mantra, it should be. I hope you haven’t read that draft of your book too much! (See tip #7.)
10. No slutty werewolves.
Seriously you guys what is with all these facepalming articles on or about YA surfacing lately? Luckily indignance and spite helps along my writing process otherwise I would be paralyzed by both NOW if you’ll excuse me I have to go work on the 8,000th draft of my fourth book for my readers who have shown me the kind of respect and trust I want to honour and show them in return—just like (gasp) all the YA writers I’ve encountered.
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My theory was that if I behaved like a confident, cheerful person, eventually I would buy it myself, and become that. I always had traces of strength somewhere inside me, it wasn’t fake, it was just a way of summoning my courage to the fore and not letting any creeping self-doubt hinder my adventures. This method worked then, and it works now. I tell myself that I am the sort of person who can open a one-woman play in the West End, so I do. I am the sort of person who has several companies, so I do. I am the sort of person WHO WRITES A BOOK! So I do. It’s the process of having faith in the self you don’t quite know you are yet, if you see what I mean. Believing that you will find the strength, the means somehow, and trusting in that, although your legs are like jelly. You can still walk on them and you will find the bones as you walk. Yes, that’s it. The further I walk, the stronger I become. So unlike the real lived life, where the further you walk, the more your hips hurt.
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Matthew Good - How It Goes [Lights of Endangered Species]
of all the fake they say it takes to make it well I don’t know man
no matter how high you roll you’ll always know you’re just the store brand
no one sings about business/industry weariness like or as well as matt good.
well down on the corner they still talk about you but say they don’t care
baby you know I bruise but being polite never got me nowhere
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so good. on repeat forever.
it is CRIMINAL that it is a bonus track.
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