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Matthew

I never learned to count my blessings. I choose instead to dwell on my disasters...

About Me


Originally from Towson, MD, I'm the guitar player from EastonAshe, an Arizona-based band that was until recently residing in Baltimore. We did a year out east and now we're back out in Arizona to record a full-length record and tour the west coast for a while. Check us out at www.myspace.com/eastonashe or http://www.eastonashe.net or view our press kit at http://www.sonicbids.com/eastonashe
I thrive on creativity and productivity. My art and my creativity make me happy, so long as I have the oppurtunity to do so.
I'm very much a positive person. My philosophy is that we have one life to live, so we might as well live it to the fullest, without fear of ridicule or failure. There's really no point in worrying about things that you can't control. Life unfolds before you and you must take it as it comes. Things have a way or working out. Don't stress in the interim.
Fall is the best time of year.
I've always been amazed and enamoured with the power that music and it's performace has over human emotion. The power to make a person laugh, cry, scared, unsettled, whistful, cower, gringe, elated, amorous, euphoric...
Starting now, if you'd like to be my friend and I can't figure out who you are, you should probably send me a message. I just cleaned house and deleted a ton of people I didn't know. Much love to all.
I can also be found at: http://www.myspace.com/matthewhendersonmusic
There's not much there yet, but stay tuned...

My Interests

Most of my life revolves around music, and my band. I love music and art of all types and styles. I play guitar, keyboard, and mandolin. I'm a singer and a songwriter. I record, produce, and engineer.Other than music, I like to ski (snow) and hike. And I truly believe that green M&M's taste better than the rest.

I'd like to meet:

Bono, Scarlette Johanson, Christina Applegate, Sienna Miller, Elisha Cuthbert, Kate Beckinsale, Rachel McAdams, Jessica Biel, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Mark David Chapman, Robert Johnson, Jimi Page, Eric Clapton, Jack Kerouac, Dr. Dre, George Martin, The Beatles.

Music:

Ray Lamontagne, My Morning Jacket, Matt Nathanson, The Beatles, Porcupine Tree, Thelonius Monk, James Blunt, Phish, Peter Gabriel, The Fray, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Dave Barnes, David Gray, Aqualung, Radiohead, U2, Mofro, Jamie Cullum, Holcombe Waller, Bjork, Phish, Umphrey's McGee, Jason Mraz, Gavin DeGraw, John Mayer, Jeff Buckley, Eric Clapton, Maroon 5, Wheat, the Flaming Lips, the Killers, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Miles Daves, Muse, Brown Couch, Switchfoot, Mark Farina, Talking Heads, Train, Nickel Creek, Daniel Powter.

Movies:

Almost Famous, The Big Lebowski, Big Fish, The Girl Next Door, Wedding Crashers, 40 Year Old Virgin, Dune, Super Troopers, Il Postino, Anchorman, Eyes Wide Shut, Identity, Almost Famous, Elizabethtown, Vanilla Sky, Cabin Fever, Club Dread, Second Hand Lions, Derailed, Van Wilder, Memento, The Last Temptation of Christ, Office Space, Orgasmo, Basketball.

Television:

Upright Citizen Brigade, Austin City Limits, South Park, Family Guy, CNN.

My Blog

A series of odd dreams...

Last nights sleep was perhaps the most restless and stressful I've ever had. I had very odd and unsettling dreams. I kept waking up every few hours. Keep in mind as you read these that they are dre...
Posted by Matthew on Thu, 24 May 2007 03:43:00 PST

Matt's Tour Journal

I've been keeping a tour journal on the EastonAshe Myspace Blog. Check it out at http://www.myspace.com/eastonasheI've just added our week in California. Good times.Prior to Cali, we did 3 weeks in ...
Posted by Matthew on Wed, 16 May 2007 04:26:00 PST

randomness

Let's see....I saw something the other day, that I never thought I would see. I got in the car the other day and the digial thermometer read "137F." Yeah, one-hundred and thirty-seven degrees. faren...
Posted by Matthew on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:44:00 PST

Another weird ass dream...

I grew up in Baltimore, but spent a lot of summers in Massachusetts when I was in college. So I had a dream about Boston last night for some odd reason. More specifically my dream took place in a ve...
Posted by Matthew on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 05:14:00 PST

passion...

I  must say I think people in this day and age are pursueing their passion harder than ever, and with more furvor, tenacity, and persistence.  I think back in the day people would sort of "g...
Posted by Matthew on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 04:29:00 PST

Why am I so sleepy?

Man...I have been sleeping so much lately. I guess the upshot of all that is that I've been having the strangest and most vivid dreams. Let see...Last night I was intensely involved in a travelling ...
Posted by Matthew on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 02:44:00 PST

a pertinent issue in Cave Creek

So Ryan and I attended a city council meeting this evening, as they're trying to pass a noise ordinance in Cave Creek of 70db.  The traffic in Cave Creek typically is 72db.  So basically the...
Posted by Matthew on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 05:06:00 PST

An obstructed path...

Life has become far to hectic to write much lately, but this is just too good not to.  So I live with my band.  5 guys under one roof you can imagine the jocuarlity that insues.Anyway, so I'...
Posted by Matthew on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:24:00 PST

what a week...

So I haven't written anything in a while because the band has been so damn busy, but way too much happened this week not to write about it. So we had the usual Wed, Thur, Fri, and Sat gigs, and then ...
Posted by Matthew on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:30:00 PST

Limeade?...at 3:30am

So here I sit at 3:30am, having to arise at 8:30am to set-up for a show, making limeade. Let me explain. What would possess a person to make limeade at 3:30am? Well here it is...so today the band w...
Posted by Matthew on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:45:00 PST