Matt Marks Music

I’m still undecided about the merits of this bailout, but you gotta love Barney Frank’s smackdown of the Republicans’ whining.

I just donated to the No On Prop 8 campaign for California. I suggest you do as well. This may hit a little closer to home for me since I’m a native Californian, but anyone who has any feeling for the cause of equality should care about this. This is the civil rights struggle of [...]

Someone posted an awesome Stephen Sondheim masterclass at the Guildhall School on YouTube. Good stuff. My Friends from Sweeney Todd

The number one encouraging sign from the recent debate? No mention of God. No pandering to the evangelicals. On either side. I think this is a major step forward for politics in America. Seriously.

I just found out that I have to wait until November until I can get my G1 at the discounted price… Weak. The deal is that you have to wait until you are 22 months completed of a two-year contract or 11 months of a one-year. Normally my impatient ass would cave, but it’s a [...]

Of course you would! :) things have gotten so weird in the music business that high-profile acts are inserting ads into their song lyrics. The next time you hear a brand mentioned in a song, it could be due to a paid product placement. And unlike magazines, songs are not required to point out which [...]

1. McCain has an ad currently running celebrating his apparent future win of the debates. Here’s the screenshot from the WSJ website where the ad ran. 2. Some of the most devoted right-wing voices are showing their frank displeasure with Sarah Palin, regarding her abysmal performance in the Couric interview. 3. And… I’m probably gonna [...]

Ok, I thought I’d just post the full text of the interview, so you can see just how ridiculous it is: Sarah Palin: My understanding is that Rick Davis recused himself from the dealings of the firm. I don’t know how long ago, a year or two ago that he’s not benefiting from that. And [...]

This video of Sarah Palin being kept safe “from every form of witchcraft” is straight messed up, yo. I’m pretty sure that the members of the congregation are speaking in tongues, btw. Charlie Kaufman’s directoral debut Synecdoche, New York gets a poster. I’m pretty excited about this one. Myspace’s new music player actually looks pretty [...]

I’ve been seeing some (totally unsubstantiated) chatter around the internets about the possibility of the election being postponed because of the “financial crisis”. This seems to be firmly in the conspiracy theory state, but it’s kind of making me wonder, especially with recent news of McCain campaign suspension and reports that Bush is to meet [...]