Matt Nathanson & Howie Day

I fell in love again last night, with matt nathanson.

Matt makes love to his guitar with his whole body and works up this film of sweat that is just so damn sexy. Then, while slightly arching his left eyebrow his voice will hit a note so beautiful it stuns you. In between songs, Matt is witty, quirky, dorky and hilarious. I swear if I wasn't dating Evan I'd try to get on Matt's shit. He's a hottie. What's so weird is that he is always complaining about girls having crushes on Matt Fish - his cellist, but I don't see how that is possible.

I mean, Matt Fish was completely awesome with his bling bling rings last night, and as always his cello playing was PHENOMENAL!!!!

Immediately after Matt made me fall in love, Howie Day gave a bittersweet performance that was, all in all, a huge disappointment.

Howie Day is by far one of the most musically talented artists I have ever seen. All he needs is his voice, a guitar with some modifiers, and his foot pedals to record and play his live feed back as he's singing/creating melodies.

It's incredible. In fact, the last time I saw Howie it was borderline mystical or religious - it was that good. When I first saw Howie he was super shy on stage and seemed to lack any real confidence, like he couldn't quite grasp why people were in love with his music. He would smile a little and kind of say, "hey" but he didn't talk and he looked awkward. It was endearing.

Now that he's signed with Epic records, he's been touring like the badass he once was and his stage presence is confident and relaxed. In terms of his on stage persona, it was great to see his progress even if I did miss the shy boy from a year and a half ago.

So this time he comes on with a band and sounds a lot like Creed or Live; it's not that this is so horrible, the music is actually good although the lyrics weren't as good as he's had in the past.

It's like Epic took everything about Howie Day that made him unique and gifted and transformed him into a regular rock-n-roll guy. Very disappointing. He finally gets on to do a solo and give some of his old school fans a show, and all he did was fuck around and sing about Pabst Blue Ribbon. It's not like I am against Pabst, but literally every song he sang (old or new) had a Pabst reference.

He played with his foot pedals, but mostly just made unstructured noise and had a good time amusing himself. I'm glad he is having fun on stage, but after he was done I felt like someone had been going down on me for two hours but never let me cum. He teased me horribly; everytime he was about to do something Howie worthy, or something really amazing and great, he would start fucking around again and singing about Pabst.

I think he was drunk.

and I was sad.

and that's all.