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Well well well . . .
Today I would appear to be invisible to birds.
After I dropped my son off at school I went for a stroll up in the hills where it is quiet. I was enjoying listening to the birds and their mad singing when a hummingbird hovered over and stopped right in front of me. It was like my own personal nature documentary. It hung there, looking over my shoulder, then it swivelled around and looked straight at me. Then I realised. It couldn't see me. I coughed (I have a man cold which is Very
Serious) and it looked very suprised and flew away.
Then I started walking down the hill and a woodpecker flew over to a telegraph pole right by me. I stopped to watch it (only about a foot away), expecting it to startle, but again it was calm and still and after looking about a bit started pecking away without a care in the world.
So I am invisible to birds.
As SuperPowers go it's pretty pointless. I probably rank down at the bottom of the 2nd division with BadgeMan and TeaLady. But it's something... It's something.
There now. My album is now actually finished. As I suspected, it is called Magnetic North. I am very pleased with it. It's hard to describe. It's like
12 kids who you would never guess were in the same family until you hear them speaking. See? I told you it's hard to describe.
It will be released (from album prison) on 20th April 2010. I believe it will out in The US and Europe at the same time because I am a Global Sensation.
My plan is to share the new songs with y'all over the coming weeks thus driving you wild with anticipation. I will be very interested to hear what you think of them.
I also plan to do a bit of touring. Not too much because touring makes me fat, but a bit. So far we have dates in Canada and North America but we'llbe adding some European dates soon. Here's what we go so far:
April
26 LA Bootleg Theatre
27 San Francisco Swedish American Music Hall
29 Vancouver Biltmore Cabaret
30 Portland Doug Fir Lounge
May
1 Seattle Triple Door
4 Minneapolis Varsity Theatre
5 Chicago Schubas Tavern
6 St Louis Blueberry Hill's Duck Room
7 Columbus The Basement
8 Philadelphia World Cafe Live
9 Vienna Jammin' Java Music Club and Cafe
10 New York City Winery
11 Boston The Red Room at Cafe 939
Feel free to buy all the available tickets. I promise to be good.
Right then, then.
Off I go to pilates (pure rockand roll) where I pray I won't be the only one that farts when we're upside down.
Love and music and birds,
The Matt
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