Rock star... author... iconoclast... unique Canadian talent...  

1) Gordie.ca: Do you sometimes think that people just don't get your sense of humour? (Much like what Carrot Top goes through.)

Matthew Good: I think the majority of people don’t get a great many things, let alone senses of humor.

2) Gordie.ca: It was written someplace that you are too smart for rock music. Is this the case? Are you too smart for polka?

Matthew Good: I’m not too smart for anything. I am, on the other hand, too sexy for your party.

3) Gordie.ca: The band has seen the departure of ex-bassist Geoff Lloyd and is currently dealing with the departure of guitarist Dave Genn. What's it like bringing someone new into the fold?

Matthew Good: Kind of like putting on clean socks.

4) Gordie.ca: Why do you think that it is so hard for Canadian musicians, who are not sexy women, to crack the US charts?

Matthew Good: I can only speak for myself in saying that we’re just not very good is all.

b) Gordie.ca: Is success in the US important to you at all?

Matthew Good: Here’s a list of goals common to all artists:

- The belief that you can actually take valuables and cash with you into the afterlife. Therefore, you need to make sure you have a gross amount of it laying around at all times just in case.

-The belief that you are only as good as the inferiority complex of your native land says that you are. This, of course, entails becoming some lame musical ambassador for your country and eventually receiving the Order Of Canada for yelping ‘Everything I Do I Do It For You’, which was primarily penned by an Englishman anyway.

5) Gordie.ca: Are the guys in the band, who are not named Matt Good, ever going to stage some kind of uprising over the band's name?

Matthew Good: To tell you the truth, I’m really sick of that question. But having said that, I guess they could give it a go. On the other hand, it’s not exactly that easy to play along to nothing, is it?

6) Gordie.ca: Are you much of a Hank Snow fan?

Matthew Good: Unsure.

7) Gordie.ca: Matt Good: Why so angry? b) Is there any paperwork you have to go through to become a "self-professed asshole"?

Matthew Good: No. You just leave it to the press in a nation where saying phooey is grounds for a good stern booing. That and people hate it when individuals such as myself don’t conform to their own ideas of how I, or anyone in my position, should be. The great equalizer, of course, is that if you don’t really care and realize that your happiness is not linked to your success and the consumer’s part in it, then you’re golden.

8) Gordie.ca: The band's early history includes a couple of instances of record companies merging. How do you think this has affected where you're at now?

Matthew Good: I feel permanently transitional.

9) Gordie.ca: Have you ever stomped along with Stompin' Tom?

Matthew Good: No. Not really.

10) Gordie.ca: Are you guys for or against the unending collaborations and guest appearances of artists on other bands' albums? Anyone you would like to pair with for a song?

Matthew Good: No, no. I’m all for whoring yourself out to do as many sound track free for alls as is possible before the bubble bursts.

11) Gordie.ca: Is there a song from any era, in any genre, that you wish you had written?

Matthew Good: Angie by the Rolling Stones. It’s perfect.

12) Gordie.ca: What do you make of Owen Hargreaves' decision to play soccer for England?

Matthew Good: I would have done the exact same thing if I was in his position.

b) Gordie.ca: Will Canada's national soccer team ever qualify for the World Cup again? 

Matthew Good: Hopefully not. That way we won’t have to listen to Brian Johnson pretend he’s an expert in yet another athletic field.

13) Gordie.ca: Can you please explain your fascination with mechanical bulls?

Matthew Good: I have none really. But I’ll pretend if it gets you off.

14) Gordie.ca: You are hosting a dinner party and have to invite one of each of the following: a current Canadian politician, a Degrassi character, a member of The Guess Who and a professional hockey player. Who would you invite? What would you serve?

Matthew Good: I’d come down with something and cancel.

15) Gordie.ca: You have a fairly rabid online following, even funding and posting at the message board at www.runningforhome.net. Is it important to you to be accessible to your fans?

Matthew Good: Debasing ones self and spreading falsehoods is always a good time.

16) Gordie.ca: Favourite Canadian film? Canadian author?

Matthew Good: Quest For Fire. Dave King.

17) Gordie.ca: Can you think of anything that you would like us to shamelessly promote at Gordie.ca?

Matthew Good: Something other than anything I have something to do with.

[Gordie.ca: We chose to promote www.christmasdaddies.org -- a great cause.]